Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-11-24
! The P~ainesriIIe, Vienna, &C., z. R.

The Painesville Telegraph Of last week
has an article ON the railroad subject,
from which we take the following ex-
tract:
The people ~hereabouts started out with
the PROJECT OF securing the most dllect, and
therefore the shortest, line from Chardon to
the coal of Vienna, expectinz that sharon,
Youngstown Warren uT any other points in
the MahOning Valley interested in securing
cheap freights for coal, ore and iron to and
from the Lake, wOdld meet Us at that point
and furnish all the feeders necessary. Thaf
chief feature we do not wish 10 be lost sight
OF Cheap iretghts are the main dependence
of the proposed road, and hence IL must seek
these not alone from RnY one point, but by
aiming at Il central point that will
date the largest amount Of freight for all the
interests involved. If more freight can be
accommodated by r~unningdiTect from Char
don to Warren and Youngstown tina by
running TO Vienna. then we say go in that
direction. We are after the largest amount
Of business. n where tina can be secured,
there we hope the road will be built, no mat
"Star."
But while We write this. we frankly say we
are by no means a convert to the Warren,
youngstown air line: a. because the line
itself from Warren to ChardOn IL utterly inn
! practicable, running over some of the worst
surface IN al the Ohio; 90 becduse any
practicable route touching Warren ind Wen
ma Will increase the distance from NOungs-
town to Fairport over the Vienna route, and
80 because II will destroy the independence
of our road, making IL n mere to be
kicked about by the &iahoning and other
roads. We must build a road TO the coal and
be free and independent of other and rival
interests; and hence VIC say, GO rs straight
for the Vienna coal as possible"
tits uncomfortable how the T~e5egr1phar-
rives at the conclusion that the 'line from
Warren TO Chardon is utterly impracti-
cakle," DC, inasmuch as no definite line
has been run or established, and when
it says that a line from Warren to Char
don is imprscticable, and runs yer
some of the worst surface in Northern
Ohio" it virtually condemns the practi-
cability Of a line from Chardon TO the
Vienna district, because a line from
Warren, intersecting in Bristol the line
surveyed from Chsrdon TO Vienna, is
notmerely practicable, butofeasy grades.
And as there are no serious. impediments
between here and the point of intersec-
ton in Bristol, it follows hat the
impraeticable portion of the route must
be somewhere between Bristol and Char
don. Rut we believe that the Telegraph,
more than once, has assured the public
the entire line is feasible. 1t seems to us
that the objection made is not well
founded.
1t is not PLAIN how the building of
another line OF railroad down the Ma
honing Valley will necessarily make "it
a mere football to be kicked by the
Mahoning and other roads" The line is
TO be built as a competing road for the
coal and general business of the Valley,
and as such it cannot afford to indiffer-
emily pass by the business that Niles and
Girard will be able to furnish. OF course
cheap freights is the great d~esideratum,
and every body but the old railway COM
panies wants "cheap freights." But you
are net going to get them by putting a
road on a line inaccessible to the princi-
pal business points of the region it trav-
erses.