The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-08

for 1859, OF the Lake Erie & Louisville Com
pany, from which We tako the following sacts:
The 81 miles between Fremont and Findlay,
now in operation, cost 81, 100000 In addition
to this, the following named amounts have
been expended in right OF way grading, &c.
Between Findlay and Lima, 81 miles $3.50, 900
" Lima andSt. Mary's, l0miles 100000
Union and Cambridge, 80 miles 295.25O
Cambridge and Rushville, q
miles 100000
Amount on unfinished sections s1.l45,2SO
The Board says; 1.-The entire distance from
Findlay to Cambridge City, which remains to
| be ironed, is one hundred and sixteen miles,
more than one-half of which is graded. ready
for the superstructure. The part not graded
| is on the table land or summit where the
waters divide to North and South, and con-
sequently there are no rivers to be crossed
and no heavy grading to be done. It is con-
| fdently believed that sufficient aid can be OBJ
tanned from the inhabitants along the line of
the Road, which, with the negotiation Of ST.
| 100000 securities, would enable us to open the
entire line Toledo Commercial.
Below is the article referred to in the above
and as Fremont and Sandusky county entire
is much interested in the completion of the L.
Z. & L. r. R., the article will be read with,
avidity.
This community watches with increasing
interest the rapid development of Louisville
as a railroad center. Few cities have embark
ed larger amount Of capital, corporate and
private, in railroad enterprises, and none with
results more generally locally useful. For
obvious reasons our first and greatest efforts
wero directed to railroad connections with
Frankfort and Lexington, and to Nashville
and Memphis, resulting in a very valuable
railroad system which has since been extended
by the construction Of the Cincinnati Short
inc and the Lebanon and Elizbethtown
ranch es.
Upon the other hand, our citizens have not
been unmindfl of the important communion
tons north and east, tho proper complement Of
existing lines South and West The commu-
nications become more important as the Ohio
river bridge approaches completion. Three
railroads (tra Jeftersonville aud Indianapolis,
the New Albany and Chicago and the North
Vernon, nearly completely already converge
to this bridge from the northwsrd, and the
construction Of the fourth (the st. Louis Air
Line) is regarded as simply question Of time.
wo additional routes, materially improving
present communications with Detroit and Lake
Erie, have recently been presented with an
earnestness which fairly indicates the increas-
ing appreciation abroad of Louisville as the
leading railroad center Of the Ohio valley.
The two routes referred to are the Louis
vile and Sandusky, and the Lake Erie and
Louisville railroads. The officers Of the frst
named have been for some time in correspon-
dence with the Board of Trade, and il 1t is
understood they have arrived in Louisville in
furtherance Of their enterprise.
ne 4ho genond the Lake Erie and TonisvfIlp
we have been more directly informed in the
oficialpapers ofMessrs. Rawson andMedbury
President and Chief Engineer, who, with Mr..
Herring OF the same interest, have already
visited the city and presented to the Mayor
and several leading citizens the merits and
claims of their road. 1t Is in word the ex-
tension of the Rushville and the Cambridge
CITY branch of the Jeffersonvillc railroad
through Northwestern Ohio TO Lima and Ere
mont, connecting at Lima with the Michigan
railroad, and securing to Louisville probably
the shortest and best connection by rail with
Toledo Detroit and the Canada roads. The
distances from Louisville are given by Mr..
Medbury to Union City, 220 miles; to Fremont
287 miles; and to Detroit 3j2 miles. There
are now completed and in successful operation
upcn the proposed through line 81 miles from
Fremont to Findlay, in Ohio, and % miles as
before stated, from Rushville to Cambridge
City, in Indiana, leaving an unclosed gap of
ll6 miles vet TO be completed.
Ofthe unfinished sections the grading is two
thirds done upon IS miles, and the residue is
said to be of generally light character. The
official reports dwell upon the highly Produc-
tive country traversed BY the road, and its
favorable character for the chief construction
of first-class road with easy grades and curves,
with no heavy excavation or embankments or
large streams to cross, and full supply Of TIM
ber The reports further state that the road
will be easy to operate, and when completed
that it will be the shortest connection between
the falls of the Ohio and the nayigable waters
of Lake Erie, with the leading connections
thence eastward. Aletteri is appended from E.
D. Mansfield, Commissioner of Statistics for
the State Of Ohio, confirming the engineersre-
port in regard to the character of the country,
the inportance of the improvements, the esti-
mated cost of construction, and the future busi-
ness prospect Of the road. There is also let
ter from Hon. James Guthrie, written i'll 1862,
very decidedly commencing the enterprise,
which, at that time, seriously engaged the at
tention Of Louisville and the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, butfr well known events
the enterprise was suspended, and sections on
" have since been prosecuted.
To bring these facts properly before the |
business public a committee from the officers
and friends of the road have recently called |
upon the Mayor, officers Of the Board Of trade, |
and several of our leading citizens. They
dictinctly stated that they company asked no |
public aid from the city, but depended upon
local resources and their own efforts for the |
ultimate completion of their road. But at
future stage OF the work the viii ask the CO.
operation of connecting companies or of citi- !
zens interested from business considerations
in the enterprise. The impression made by
this committee has been favorable, and their
papers have been examined with more than
passing interest from the importance attached
this route promises.
We are not yet in possession Of data to do
full Justice to the proposed Louisville and
SandusSy railroad, but further reference will
be made to the subject when the requisite In
formations is obtained