Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-05-12

that for the purpose of strengthen
ing themselves they ought to say
that they were running to Ironton.
This was true; they were running to
Ironton by the Columbus and Iron
ton Railway. But Ironton had this
railway of her own, and it would not
do for them to interfere with it.
They could make their connection at
Jackson. The line from Ironton to
Jackson would pass all through the
iron region, by some eight or ten
furnaces. There were on the Ports
mouth branch of the Marietta road,
| fifteen miles below Jackson, three or
four other furnaces. There were all
these branches clustering at jackson
with twenty-odd iron furnaces upon
three prongs. If this was not a
cluster of rich grapes that no other
road could present, he was mistaken.
| Where else could be found in the
United States, the stem of road
supplied by three branches, all hung
with twenty-five or thirty furnaces
upon their prongs, and surrounded
with black coal? ALI that was to be
done now was to build the stem of
this road some sixty odd miles in
length. 1t could not be believed
that there would be any hesitation to
build this stem, sixty odd miles,
from Hillsboro to Jackson. The
speaker concluded by urging very
earnestly the Importance of building
the route, and expressing his con-
viction that with little exertion it
could be accomplished.
Colonel William II. Trimble re-
marked that he believed Mr.. Thomp-
son had omitted one or two of the
most important considerations con-
nected with the proposed road
One was that the line had been en-
gineered by Benjamin FL. Latrope,
the great Baltimore engineer, and in
order to accommodate Cincinnati
with cheap coal and iron transpor-
tation, he laid the grades from the
Jackson coal mines to Cincinnati at
not over thirty-nin feet to the
square mile. All other lines now
made, or proposed to be made, from
Cincinnati east in the direction
either of Baltimore or the Chesa-
peake and Ohio road, had grade of
st least eighty feet to the mile. 1t
was probable that no line could be
built with grades as light as this of
thirty nine feet to the mile.
Another point overlooked by Mr..
Thompson was that this line when
completed and brought into connec-
ton with the Chesapeake aud Ohio
Road was destined to be the great
freight line from Cincinnati to the
Atlantic coast. The grades on the
Chesapeake and Ohio would be
easier than those on the Baltimore
and Ohio or the Pennsylvania Cen
tral. The distance would be shorter
and on lighter grades, and therefore
transportation would be cheaper
The speaker believed that the stock
holders still remaining in the Hills
boro and Cincinnati road would have
sufficient interest at least to enable
them to obtain good terms from the
Marietta road, so far as running from
Hillsboro to Cincinnati.
THE CHARTER.
The proposed charter was then
read by the Secretary, and unani-
mously adopted:
s'We, the undersigned, hereby GER
tify that we have associated and do
hereby associate ourselves together
for the purpose of constructing
railroad in the State of Ohio in ac-
cordance with the laws thereof, as
follows:
"The name and style of the COM
pany hereby created for the purpose
shall be the Cincinnati, Gallipolis and
Pomeroy Railroad Company.
"2 The termini of said road shall
be the city of Cincinnati in the Coun-
ty of Hamilton and State of Ohio,
and the village of Gallipolis in the
County of Gallia in said State, and
the village of Pomeroy in the County
of Meigs in said State, on the Ohio
River. Said railroad shall COM
mence in the corporate limits of the
city of Cincinnati, and run through
the counties of Hamilton, Clermont,
Brown and Highland in the said
State, to the corporate limits of the
village of Hillsboro, and thence
through the corporate limits of said
village and the counties of Highland
and Pike, to the corporate limits of
the village of Piketon, in said State,
and thence through the corporate
limits of said village, and the coun-
ties of Pike and jackson, in said
State, to the corporate limits OF
Jackson Court House, in said State,
and thence through the corporate
limits of said village and the coun-
ties of Jackson and Gallia, in said
State, to the village of Gsllipolis, in
said State, with the most practicable
branch road from said main line
through the county of Meigs, in said
State, to the village of Pomeroy, on
the Ohio River. The amount of the
capital stock of said company shall
be the sum of one million dollars, be-
ing the estimated cost of construc-
ton of said railroad.
"3 This certificate is made by the
undersigned for the purpose of Or
ganizing and becoming body cor
porate in accordance with the stat
utes of Ohio for the purposes herein
before stated
"In witness whereof, we have here
unto set our hands and seals this 5th |
day of May, A. D. 1870"
The charter was signed by the fol.
lowing named gentlemen:
James H. Thompson, J. L..
Hughes, j. K. Marlay, VIM. H. Trim
BILE, John Dill, H. II. Clayton, C. S.
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