The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-05-19
Railroad Meeting at HlIIsbOrO Ohio

HILLsBoRo, May 6, 1870.
The final action of the meeting yester-
day indicates something of the earnest
ness and determined energy of those en-
gagged in the enterprise of constr uctiDg
a railroad from this place eastward, to
connect with the Chesapeake and Ohio
road.
Colonel VIM. H. Trirlble followed
Mr.. Thompson in some remarks highly
approving the enterprise. 1t was im-
portant to remember, he said, that the
line had been engineered by BENJAMIN A.
Latrobe, the great Baltimore engineer
and in order to accommodate Cincinna-
ii with cheap iron and coal transpor-
tation, he laid the grades from the Jacks
son coal mines to Cincinnati at not over
thirty-nine feet to the square mile. All
other lines now made, or proposed to
be made from Cincinnati east in the dis
rection either of Baltimore or the
Chesapeake and Ohio road, had grade
of at least eighty feet to the mile. It
was probable that no line could be
built with grades as light as this o.
thirty. .niDe feet to the mile.
And another consideration that would
tend to make this not only the shortest
passenger route to the Atlantic coast, but
the great freight line also, was the fact
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad be.
ing more southern, and not liable to be
blocked up in winter with snow, as the
Baltimore and Ohio and the PennsylVas
MIA Central
The truth of the remark of Mr.:
Thompson that our local troubles are
over was questionable The people Of
Hillsboro still felt thelinjustice that had
been done them. They had invested
sixty thousand dollars in the road from
Loveland to Hillsboro, under the pledge
of the road being continued themes
to Marietta; but they had been swindled
out of it. Cincinnati, also, had one
hundred d thousand dollars in it; and Be-
tween them, this interest, as it was not
yet altogether annulled, might enable
them to make good terms with the Ms-
rietta road fora connection to Cincinnati
NCoRPoRAToRs.
The charter was signed by the fol-
lowing named gentlemen;
James H. Thompson, ]. L. Hughes, J.K. Mar.
| lay, VIM. II. Trimble, John Dill, H. II. Clayton,
Be wv S GosT fBSgSdey Bogd u HsS. BSe
land county W. T. Washam, Thomas r. Clews
ers, B. Kahn, Lewis Davis, Of Jackson county;
Patterson, II. W. Sargent, OF Pike county.
COMMITTEE ON SUBSCRIPTIONS.
The following named gentlemen
were appointed to solicit subscriptions
of stock, &C., in their respective Ooun1
ties.
Highland county-samuel Husband, W. W. A.
7 REYNOLDS, 7. N. WickerhaIn, Joseph Bell, James
Gall, Walter Pugsley, Samuel Patson, Esq, DR..
| Layton, James W. Spargur, John L. Hughes,
| Campbell G. Dick, Allen West, n. N. DelaplaineC
! Thomas Higgins Peter Hatcher, John A. Patter-
son, John II. Jolly, Col. VIM. H. Trimble, Chas.
Evans, James H. Anderson, b. V. Pugsley, DR.. d.
S. Gurthrie, Wm o. Collins, Daniel Z. Scott Z. 9.
Ferris, Jacob Miller, Capt Cook, w. B. Creed,
| II. Miller, James Richards, Henry Strain, VIM.
Scott, John A. Smith, Jacob Miller, John Dill,
| j. II. Thompson, j. NJ. Boyd.
! Gallia County - Joseph Bradbury, Simeon
! Nash, f. s. Aleshire, Lewis Bear, w H. .LangleyS
| Joseph Hibbard, John Smithers.
Jackson County-B. Kahn, w. 7. Washan,
| Levi DUNCAN, John L. Long, Davis MaclIley,
| Peter Pickre, w. s. Williams, A. B. Monahan,
! Charles Green, T. II. Clewers.
Pike COunty-Presly Talbot, George Hauks
George Head, Gorden Cocren, VIM. Penisonf
| Mark Ellis John James, Samuel Given, Jo6i
! Moore, George Cormie, j. j. Green, John Blatns
| John Corwine, Samuel Talbot.
The appointment of committe for
Cincinnati was laid over until suitcable
names could be had. The meeting
then adjourned.