The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-07-01
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be wide awake or those Yankees
will get ahead OF them. The road
is to be made, and Mr.. Garret, the
President, says it will be commenced
within two or three years-and the
question is, with a number Of towns
and cities, where will it be located?
That Wooster, as well as Akron,
means business in the railroad cam
gaign, may be judged from the i TACT
that a committee of citizens OF IilaU
place. consisting of Hon. Geo. Rex,
Harvey Howard, Esq, and Mr.. Geo.
b Smith. accompanied by Hon.
Martin Welkcr, left that place on
Monday evening for Pittsburgh on
business connected with the prOpos
cd railway. The Republican says
| that in ali probability they will visit
Baltimore before their return.
The Salem Republican Of this
week in a leading editorial, after re-
capitulating the doings Of the rail
road meeting held here on the Sd
inst, puts the thing in plain language
rs follows:
Our Akron friends mean business,
and most certainly the people Of
Salem and vicinity cannot be insen-
sible to 5hc great Importance of Sc
curing this great through, trunk-line
road, by their doors.
Understanding as VIC do that the
Baltimore d Ohio Railroad Company
owning and controlling one of the
strongest and best lines Of railroad
eminating from the Atlantic sea
board, having determined not to be
outdone by any of their great rivals
in reaching for the trade and bust
ness of the great West, are at the
| present time canva sing for the
most eligible route for an extension
to Chicago, which point they have
determined to reach in the shortest
practicable time. Our people should
make a proper effort TO secure this
important thorough-fare without de-
lay. We know they will
Our interests are indentical with
those of Akron, and we think our
people are equally alive to the re-
quirements of the work, and most
fully appreciate the obligations they
are under to labor for success.
There are several routes proposed
and strongly advocated by their res
pective friends. Let the people
along the Salem and Akron line be
wide awake and active, also.
The above we clip from the Ak
ron Beacon. 1t indicates clearly that
the towns named are satisfied that a
road will be built under the auspices
of the Bait. & Ohio R. R. Co., ere
long, and they are straining every
nerve to secure the location. And
the remarks of President Garrct, Of
that road, at 4 recent meeting of the
directors, indicates clearly that such
is the intent. So far as the interests
of Fremont are concerned, it would
matter but little which route should
scure the location, if she herself
we're only prepared to take advant-
age Of the present golden opportu-
nifty by a sufficient offer to secure
the location of the road here. If
the route by way of Salem and Akron
is determined upon, the cooperation
Of Fremont, Norwalk, Medina and
intervening towns with them, would
we doubt not, sec ere the location
over q shorter and more direct route
than if nothing should he done and
the road be allowed to pick its way
as it chooses; for then the Clinton
Air Line" chimerical in fact though
prominent on paper, would most
probably be chosen, and our Tifiin
neighbors, with their Fort Wayne
extension reap the benefit of this
great trunk line. Should Canton, |
Wooster, Ashland and Plymouth Sc
cure the location, a direct line to |
Toledo, would carry the route
through our city, always provided |
that sufficient stock or other con-
sideration was held out to overbal-
ance the persuations of other locali-
ties. IfFremont does its duty to itself
it can secure this road anda pros
porous future. If it does not, and
allows it to cut its way through the
territory south of us, its only hope
of future prosperity will lie in pro
noting manufactures, and making
the most of the advantages already
and these, we think, are
not sufficient to protect against the
inroad which will be made upon the
territory which now comes here to
trade, by the building up of other
towns and the rapid improvements
of those already built through which
the road will pass, if, by, supineness
and apathy it is permitted to pass
south Of us. These are considera-
tions which every holder of real es-
tate, every banker, every business
man, ofwhatcver branch should pom ,
der, for every one is equally inter
ested in preventing loss to themsel-
yes by depreciation in prices, or de- +
cline in trade. BY a generous effort !
his can be prevented; and values +
nay be enhanced and business in
creased and extended, by judi
,ious Investment. 1t remains to be
seen whether the business men and !
owners, of this city viii ,
make the investment.
Ifit be asked, as it has been, what :,
positive benefit will the road be to
)ur business men, we reply. fit :
simply enables them to retain their ;.
present business against another /
cute which would curtail their
rade, it does them a positive good.
But it will do more than that. Com