Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-12-08
Vienna X. Il. Matters.

EDITOR X. Survey j
is the heading Of an experimental route
surveyed, las per CHRONICLE Nov. 18th,
1862 beginning at the freight depot Of
the A. & G. w. Railway at Warren, and
termini in Hubbard, which appears TO be
Warren's proposed direct road to Vienna
and Sharon Why they propose to go
around, or across, by the way Of Hubbard,
Is a question Vienna is not able to solve.
From Warren to Hubbard is seventeen
10 miles, from Hubbard to Sharon SIX
l6) miles-total, twenty-three OBJ miles.
From Warren to Vienna o shaft, nine
~ miles; from Vienna coal shaft TO
Sharon eight (S) miles-total, seventeen
~ miles. Saving by the Vienna and
Brookheld six (6) miles. The maximum
grade OF the Hubbard branch is fifty
TWO (52) feet per mile. After a careful
examination we are satisfied that a much
lower grade may be had on the Vienna
and BroOkield line, (say about forty feet
per mile on the eight miles from Sharon
70 VIENNA without increasing the dis
lance This line runs through the CEN
ter of the coal district Of Vienna, while
the Hubbard line is over two miles south
of the main body Of coal. What is the
difference to one o company in Brook
neld which is now shipping to Cleveland
about three hundred tons of coal per
day? The Brookfield line is fou miles
the shortest, at two cents a ton per mile, !
eight cents per ton. One days work
three hundred tons; adherence of TWEEN
ty-tour dollars per day. Add to this
three other mines equally interested, be-
sides the new openings that will be made
IN a year or two, and you find a hand
some profit saved TO coal Operators
We say enough on this subject, as we do
not expect ever to AVE a railroad from
Warren to Vienna, ANY shorter than by
the way Of Niles and Girard. What we
do expect, and feel confident of having in
a year or two, is a railroad from the
Pittsburgh depot at Youngstown to Ash
tabula, directly through the center of
Vienna, on the line lately run, with a
maximum grade not exceeding thirty
feet to the mile. And we expect also a
r, r. from Sharon to the center of Wen
ma, connecting with the Ashtabula road.
The distance from Sharon to Ashtabula
is, to wit: Vienna center nine miles, to
CORTLAND eight and q half miles, to grade
in Bristol six miles, TO Ashtabula thirty
five miles; total from Sharon to Ashta-
bula nfty-eight and a half miles. Now
suppose We drop III interest n go by
Warren. From Ashtabula to Bristol
thirty-five miles, Bristol to Warren elev-
en- miles, Warren by the Holiday line to
Hubbard, seventeen miles, to Sharon six
miles; total siXty-nine miles. The
saving in distance by the CORTLAND, ,
Vienna and Brookfield line ten and a half
miles. From Youngstown to Ashtabula
through Warren, siXty-three miles, from
Youngstown to Ashtabula, through vi
enna and CORTLAND, sixty and One-half
miles. Saving two and one-half miles.
Last weeks Constitution speaking of
the object of the road managers to COM
mand the most and best business insists
that such a line to Vienna and Hartford
is found very nearly in the vicinity of
Warren. That we think is about equal
to going to Liberty and Hubbard to get
to Vienna and Sharon, 1--WE agree to call
them event. We cannot see what the
shipping from Youngstown could lose
going through Vienna, neither can we
see what the shipping from Sharon would
gain by going ten miles around to go
through Warren. And when we look at
the business connections of Youngstown
and Cleveland we see that the shipping
from Sharon to A~shtabula and Fairport
will of necessity be much mort from
Sharon than from youngstown, and that
the Sharon road cannot gain anything in
coal freight by going around by Warren,
and the nearly exhausted coal. mines of
Hubbard and Liberty, which coal is
already contracted for or sold to Cleve-
land, and must 90 there. Sharon has 3
large trade that must find its way TO the
Lake. By the Pittsburgh and Erie road
/: is seventy-seven miles to Erie; and by
the Mahoning o eighty-two miles TO
Cleveland. BY the proposed road it will
be fifty-eight and q half miles to Ashta-
bulA; twenty-three and a half less than
70 Cleveland, apd eighteen and a half
miles less than to Erie. Now II is easy
TO see the advantages of the Ashtabula
road to Sharon and east Of it through ten
Fnflna of thu haGf oOal in NraGtarn Pam
~sylvsnia, seeking a market on the lake.
The Of coal and other freight
passing through Vienna TO the Lake, no
doubt, in a few years, will far exceed
thAt which now passes through Warren.
VIENNA, Nov. q, 1869. S.
EDITOR CHRoSICLE:-Much has been
said respecting the late survey for the
v. r. r., and all, or nearly all, fail to see
the consistency of running a road through
the most uneYen portion OF tho town,
striking the corner of Weatherstield to
interseot with the coal fields on the Arm
strong Stewart farm, when there eau be
a shorter route found on nearly level
land, and passing through nearly all the
coal nOw proven in Vienna, by going
east from the Rowland saw-mill, passing
through the farms known as that OF the
late James Mackey, and those of Dunlap,
NJ. X. Mackey, Mrs. WillmOt and others,
crossing the north and south center road
some 90 or g rods south Of the center,
thence in G south easterly direction on
nearly level land to the Armstrong
Stewart farm. The citizens Of Vienna
would be pleased to point out this route,
and are satisfied that 1t would be pre-
ferred to other routes, n require sev-
srsl thousand dollars less expense to
build a road. VIC. |
vienna, Nov, 1859.
II is aaid tha Cnbana have another eX-