The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1870-09-01
GALLIPOLIS, MARTHUR &
COLUMBUS r. R, - a
MACARTHUR, AuBust 70, tofU.
To tie People Of VlltOn and Hoekul0

onward. Can you claim it for Me-
Arthur Old landmarks are wiped
: out new ones are rapidly being intro
duced. Many Of the citizens of Nc
Arthur, and probably other parts o.
Vinton county, can remember when
the shortest and cheapest route by
which they could obtain their supplies
, from the East, was by canal or wagons
to Pittsburg, thence on the steamers
by river to Gallipolis, Ohio, from there
by wagons to MoArthur, occupying
more time and costing more for trans
: portation from Gallipolis to Macarthur
than it now should require to bring
them from New York to your doors by
railroad. Do your present railroad
facilities furnish you with transporta'
tion at those rates, or in the absence oil
any competition do they not require
you to pay such rates Ns to become
almost .prohibitory2 Your town is
beautifully situated in healthy local>
ity, surronndedDn all sides by fine
agricultural country, and in the midst
of one Of tho richest If not The richest
mineral district in the State or per-
haps in the world. Coal and iron ore
of superior quality and unlimited guam
tity a-e all around and under you, elso
lime, salt, and burr stones in vast guam
titles, in some places so easily reached
that all you have to do is to remove the
slight covering of earth that nature
placed over it, apparently to protect it
from climatic influences, and you have
the rich and almost inexhaustible beds
ofiron and coal lying in full view be-
fore your eyes, ready for removal to
any point where they can be converted
into that article which it is SO conve-
nient for all to have, sometimes called
grsenbacks. The gold mines Of CALI
fornia do not present 10 the anxious
miners who have Travelled thousands Of
miles seeking the golden harvest there
awaiting them, anything to compare in
value with Goa, iron, salt, timber and
agricultural produce with which the
whole route Of this road abOunds. At
ter getting about fifteen miles north Of
Gallipolis-I don't think there is one
mile Of the route but what is full Of
coal cr iron or both, and only waiting
for cheap transportation to fill your
pockets with said gIeenbaeks. All it
requires is cheaper means Of trans
portation than has yet been within
your reach, but which is now offered
you in the Gallipolis, Macarthur d Co
lumbus Railroad.
Let US 20 to work and build that,
and it will give you the shortest line
and the easiest grades that can be OBJ
tanned from this section to the Ohio
River, consequently capable of giving
you the cheapest and quickest means OF
transportation that can be had to CALI
polls, from which place it can be shipped
to all points below, ON the Ohio, or on
the Mississippi River, on barges, which
mode Of transportion is the cheapest in
use at this day; and the short tune and
low cost Of freight from here to CALI
polls will enable you to compete sues
cessfully at Gallipolis and all markets
below, with Pittsburg Kanawha VAL
ley, West Virginia, or Pomeroy in the
sale Of coal.
1t is your interest to get your freight
taken to the Ohio River at the cheap
est rate possible, because the less
freight you have to pay the better price
you can get at home, or the more your
property will net you when it reaches
the point Of consumption; and it is the
interest of the citizens Of Galipolis to
have your freight delivered there at as
low rates as is practicable, because the
low rate of transportation to and from
that point would induce more popula-
ton to come and settle in our town.
1t would induce manufacturers with
their capital to come among us and
erect furnaces, foundries. machine
shops, &c, &e., and that capital would
be circulated all along the route for
coal, iron ore, lime, etc.
Then at low rates Of freight there
would be much more rapid Develop
meut Of the mineral along the route,
and great stimulus given to agricul.
ture, all of which would contribute to
the work Of the road, and the quantity
to move would be so great that, at
lower rates Of freight than was eyer
known in this section, the road would
pay larger dividends than any road Of
its length in the State. Then it will
open the shortest route to you, Uia. the
Chesapeake & Ohio II r., that has
ever been projected to the seaboard,
either at Norfolk or the more Eastern
cities. It opens to you ria. Columbus
and Newark all the markets of the
country both for your mineral and ag>
ricultural products. 1t will create
competition between lines of railroad |
which it crosses, that are running par>
allel with each other. Competition
leads to lower rates and general and
lasting benefit would be received by
all through which it passes. The rich
veins Of coal recently discovered in in.
exhaustible quantities in this (Vinton)
county suitable for making iron, in
place of charcoal, would lead to the
erection of furnaces in the vicinity Of
the road and would also find ready sale
both at Gallipolis, and at points in the
interior of the State, where timber
has become too scarce to be converted
into charcoal, and used proEtably in
making iron.
The timber Of many parts of the
country, especially in the Eastern
States, and in the vicinity of cities and
large towns throughout all the States,
is rapidly disappearing, and in many
Of the larger cities has already become
too expensive to use for fuel, and coal
is fast usurping It's place. Indeed
there is no article of this or any other
country Of such vast Importance and
necessity to the citizens of the world
as fuel, and as our timber is so rapidly
disappearing, what have we to fall up
on to supply the immense population
we now have land which is So rapidly
increasingly with fuel. except coal,
with which nature has so bounteously
hlaaaod thia anofion of 0h;o1 poonia