Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-12-18

For the information of our readers we insert
below the report of Colonel Irwin Camp, copied
from the Mahoning Register of the 9th inst
The surveys and estimates have been made
with care by gentleman of great skill and
| experience in his profession, and the facts and
| figures presented by him may be implicitly
relied upon by the friends of the enterprise:
Report of Colonel Irwin Camp TO Henry
Hubbard, Esq., orr tho Survey of the Line
from Youngstown TO AshtabuIa.
On Monday, the Goth of September, Colonel
Irwin Camp, in company with Henry Hub,
bard, Esq, of Ashtabula, went over the pro
posed line Of route for the railroad between
| this city and Ashtabuln, reaching Youngstown
on the evening Of the 22d. After delay of q
few days, on September Both Col Camp, with
full party and complete surveying imple
ments, commenced the survey of the Ashta
bula and Youngstown route, by both the pro.
posed lines, viz: BY way of Crab Creek, and
also by way of Brier IIill Squaw Creek and
Church Hill Railroad. After careful and
exhaustive survey of the whole line, the worl,
was completed at Bristol on Thursday, Nov
10, "a days having been given to the Brier Hill
and Bristol lines, nine days to the Ashtabula
division, and six days to the Bloomfield con-
nection the.whole including one day lost by
bad weather, one day on the road, and one
day returning home.
Since that day Colonel Camp has been pre-
pairing his report, estimates, statements, pro-
files and maps, On Friday evening, in com
pany with number of gentlemen from Ash
tabula, Col. Camp visited our city and read
the report to meeting of our capitalists.
We have seen the report, and publish herewith
extracts of nature likely to interest the
public.
GENERAL DELINEATIoN OF TIE WHOLE LINE.
This line commences at the bumper end of
track, at depot of the Lawrence Branch of p.
Ft W. and G. r. r., at lower end of Youngs.
town thence curvlng through lands of Hine,
on the face of the east slope of Crab Creek,
and gently ascending grade, reaches flats of
bank near water-tank of the Hubbard Branch
Railroad; thence on line east of and 33 feet
nom the boundary line ofsaid Branch Railroad,
and parallel Herewith TO near tho Hubbard
Road, where IL crosses said Hubbard Road and
Hubbard Branch Railroad and Crab Creek, 10
the foot of the west slope of said bank From this
point, with gradesvarying from AZ to AZ and 40
feet per mile, II reaches the head of Crab Creek,
and soon crosses the Liberty and Vienna road
short distance south of the Liberty and Vienna
township line, at a distance of about 9 miles,
at an elevation of 572 feet above Lake Erie
thence, with undulating grades, passing about
40 rods west of Vienna Center, and through
the west end OF the village on the lands of San.
ford, at distance of about IL miles, and at nm
elevation of 574,7 feet above Lake Erie, being
the higest elevation reached between Youngs.
town and Ashtabula Harbor; thence over fiat
but elevated lands dividing waters of Sauaw
Creek and Keunedy's Branch of Musketo
Creek, and by the valley of Kennedy's Branch,
with descending grade of 81 feet per mile for
three miles, to north corner of Vienna town
ship, at distance of about t4f miles: thence
over elevated Hat between Kennedy's Branch
and Big Creek TO near bank Of Big Creek,
where the descending grade of 81 feet Is again
resumed and carried on down the general slope
Of the eastern hillside of Musketo Creek.
crossing Its several branches, Big Creek, Con-
fusion Run, the A. and G. W. r. r., about !
of mile below Baconsburg and Walnut, inn
mediately thereafter, till grade touches bottom
of Musketo Greek al the south line of Mecca
township, at distance Of 201S miles, and an
elevation Of 307 feet above Lake Erie thence
crossing MuslSeto Creek. with about an S,feet
maximum I'LL for about 400 feet of level grade
to foot Of west slope of creek thence, with a
grade Of 20 to s2 feet per mile, we rise to top
OF west hill slope at or near the crossing OF
the north and south Mecca Center Road Al