Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-11-03

f. The SUBJECT OF the eshihSiou
and Ohio Railroad has recently been
presented to the people Of Cincinnati.
The Chamber of Commerce referred
the matter to a committee, and that
committee on Wednesday last, made a
very favorable report. The report
says:
The Washington & Ohio Railroad, as
projected and surveyed to Poiat Pleas
ant. on The Ohio river, when CON
pleted, will tend TO the development
and support of certain projected and
existing improvements in which Gin
cinnati aud other Western cities are
mutually interested. When brought
to this city, it will give a more direct
communication to st. Louis and other
Western cities than they now have, to
the sea-board. Chicago will continue
her existing relations with this city, be
cause it will give 8 more direct outlet
for her products than a be had by
any other route. 1t will give the short
est railway Communication between the
Ohio river and the tide waters of the
Potomac, at a point that is of mutual
Importance to all the country interest
ed in the water line, commencing at The
mouth of the Kanawha river. At the
month Of this stream. the great bulge
of the future business Of tha West on
the nsriqable streams Of the same will
be coacentraiec and t Is important
that u main trunk line railway should
be built from this point to the Atlantic
seaboard. Nature has placed them so
commercially as to give all these points
in an almost air line, and in a central
position to the whole country. st.
Louis, Cincinnati, Point Pleasant-in
other words, the Mississippi, the Ohio
and the Potomac-will be connected
and linked in business relations BY the
building of this road, on a line mutu-
ally beneficial to all.
Col. Trimble, of Hillsboro, addressed
the Chamber on the subject. He
said
100000 had already been expend-
ed on the line from HiIisboro to Jack
son, and $500, 900 more would prepare
it for the iron. This line, extending
from jackson to Gallipolis, will make
for both the Chesapeake g. Ohio, when
its branch to Allipolis is, built, and for
the Washingssl@ Ohio road, the short
est and best line to Cincinnati that E, er
can be had, as it will be to Cincinnati
the line of shortest distance, lowest
grades and best system of curyatures
of any line that can be laid down to the
mineral belt of Ohio.
The rights of way and releases of the
work done on the line from Hillsboro
to Jackson have, with but few excep-
tons, been obtained.
Stock subscriptions are being OBJ
tanned, and, with The exception Of the
completion of the line through Pike
county. he had a rightto say the prep
aration of the line for the iron was as
sured
The interest which Cincinnati has in
the connection with the G. d o., and
Washington & Ohio, and with the min
eral belt, would justify him ia asking
the citizens to contribute 100000 in
aid in the completion of that part of the
line. He was authorized to say if the
Chesapeake & Ohio Company adopt
the line, as he thought would be the
case. that company would iron and
stock the road on liberal terms.
There can be no doubt that this
route, of which Col. TRIMBLE speaks,
offers the shortest and much the cheap
est line TO both the Washington and the
Chesapeake roads, for their Cincinnati
connection. These impartial consider
atoms ought to settle the question of
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