Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-02-13

The following article, from tho pen SF the
President of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon
Rbad was prepared for the locality of Warren
shd Youngstown, or the region about the
southern end Of the line, and having found n
place in the Warren Constitution. and sptd
upohits GRAND there, its publication at home,
II is thought will prove a source of graiifica-
tion, If 1t secures no higher end. We, there
fore, cheerfully make room for it the present
week:
New Lisbon and Ashtabula Railway,
sec by the pa bets orsyoat'city, Is teA as
those of youngstown, that the railroad waters
are very h1ticn BertIr6ed, and IN the agitation
thereof the sedmcnt ofself-interest hasIso riled
them that tic people who, are o party con-
cerncd are at a loss TO Know what may, COME
of it Mybelbf is that If the Eieat resources
and dormant wealth of tile 1tahohIng valley
and the country connected Herewith BY asys-
tenn of railro9ds, are to be fully developed, that
more liberal policy should be sdQpted 10
promote the gTehtest good Of not only your
section, bat the country at large. NO SYSTEM
\ of internsls improvements calrbc permanently
| prosperous and useful witbo9t the good will
of the community whose interest they are .ip-
tended to promote, and that Of the parties d-
| rectly interested as Nen. Now let lis fake a
cursory view of the situation of affairs bearing
upon the railroads, as well as The resources of
your section Of country, than which nQIpart of
Goods earth is more highly favored Yqu
have the Cleveland and Mahoning Road, which
is lasting monument TO the intelligence, tile
enterprise and integrity of IFS projeetoh, and
must always command a large traffic, front the
| fact of its connection th The city of Cleve-
| land From Youngstown there is a branch of
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, which
gives you connection with Pttsburg by rail.
| Not haya n ppnnrafian nj IIav ~ gbnrQ will
! the A. and G.. W., now the Erie, which affords
| you broad gauge east aud west: still yOurSys-
tenn of railroads rs not what il ought TO be to
keep pace with the wants of your country and
deveope tts great resources. Your growth
and enlargement requires the completion of
the New Lisbon Railway to Niles, or some
pOint east or west of it--such as may best
subserve tho interests of the whole line-and
then n continuation from that point to Ashta-
bula Harbor. notwithstanding att all from
the importance and usefulness OF tho Glove
i land and Mahoning, a road may be completed
consummaton, let us for moment consider
some of the advantages itwould secure to the
Mahoning Valley, and the country made tribu-
tury thereto by the New Lisbon Railway, which
is soon to bc completed. AS 10 the distance to
Ashtabula IIarbor, il is from five to seven
milcs-the exact distance not recorded LESS
than to Cleveland; and of the route there is
an air line of thirty miles, SO, level that train
of cars might be run upon it by laying the
rails upon the natural grade, and from the
center OF Bristol to the Lake most OF the grad
ing, is done. The harbOr; with its mile and
half Of navigablc water almost entirely unoo-
cupiod, is to have an entrance of twelve feet
| In depth at the low stagc-if the report of the
Chief Engineer is to be relied 'upOn-by the
expenditure of the present. appropriation by
| the Government. ...g...'.. .i"f
Your Iron masters will a. once appreciate
| tha adj of lnu- frIrrhts wi
constitutes large item i'll the cost OF their
Lake superior Iron Ore, and 1t is'a fact that
| Lake lrclShtS often vary 50pCr cent IN q sea
sou. Win The use 81 the territory now unoc-
eupled at Ashtabula Hafbor they can take adj
vantage of low frelghts and lctthcir orercmain
at the landing To Jitb tlicir convenience in ta-
king 1t away Another point OF economy
would DC III Llc expense OF Dockage. L Will
vtntnRc to say thai lO per cent. of the amount
of money paid by tho G. Il NJ and A. IL g.
W. Kali .sond companies for Dockagc Mt Cleye-
Lnd would secure more territory at Ashabula
Pdrbor for handling Goal and Iron than is oc-
cupied by those roads ut that place for that pur-
pose. Another idea is suggested in this con
nection and that is the comparative prices of
\ frcights by water on Coal and Iron from these
| two Points. To illustrate this.it is NECESSARY
to static that the moving of Coal and lrOnupon
tho Lake is doneby the sail Vessels, as tho
cheapest mode of transit Vessels in the upper
Lake trade, either take in ballast at the point
OF departure (Which is cNpensyc) or Coal at
moderate rates from some coal depot on the
South Shore Of Lake Eric. If the detCrmina-
ton Is to take coal. Ashtabula would be the
point most easily made from Buffalo or any
point below. With tho prevailing westerly
winds there is on an average, twenty -four hours
in time IN favor of making Ashtabun llarbor
and when loaded ut the end of the pier there
very little difference if any in making the
mouth of Detroit River bound 10 the upper
the track of all Vessels passing up The South