Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-12-02
LET US HAVE THE
RAILROAD.
THE ENTERPRIsE REVIVED-A
GOOD PROSPECT AID A NEW
Project.

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GOOD PROSPECT AID A NEW
Project.
As viii be seen by the minutes pub
lished elsewhere, a meeting was held O.
Tuesday evening at which the work c
completing the necessary subscription
to the Mt. Vernon Railway was agail
taken in hand. and. we are glad TO say
with hattering assurances of success
So confident indeed was the meedn,
that its purposes viii be carried out, ant
the conditions precedent TO securing tn,
road complied with. that a COMMITTEES
was appointed to wait Immediately upor
President Hurd, at Mt. Vernon, and as
sure him that the remainder of the re
required subscriptions would be certain
ly raised and rendered.
A committee was also appointed to
commence canvassing for subscriptions
at once, all present at the meeting at the
same time voluntarily increasing theirs
to a considerable amount. The aggre-
gate subscription required IS $4,000.
of which but So. 900 yet remains to be
raised. Can we afford to lose this rail-
road for $4,000?
1t seems almost mockery to ask such
a question in view of the extent OF our
resources, the advantages the road will
confer and the comparative insignifi-
cance of the means necessary to secure
it. We have in Delaware county, by
the tax valuation, nearly fifteen millions
of property, the value of which will
surely be enhanced by the building of
the road. at least as much per annum,
we may safely say, as the income on
that amount at the highest rate of inter
est money will command. Yet by in
vesting but $4,000 of this fifteen mil
lions. and that in marketable bonds
with reasonably certain dividends, we
may secure, without labor or risk, this
large income on the whole property of
the county, In all reason. therefore,
why should we not make the investment?
Let it not be said that the road will
only benefit those whose property it
or whose fortune will justify
large contributions. In the impetus it
will give to trade, the business and man
life it will impart to the com
and the markets it will create
both for produce and labor, it will bene-
1T all classes and citizens of the county,
whether contiguous to the road or not
These propositions are 50 obvious that
heir discussion seems unnecessary.
When shippers get cheaper freights,
such as this road would secure, farmers
get better prices and receive more of the
of life in exchange for what
hey have to sell. AS long as we are
dependent upon one line of railway |
solely we shall surely pay tribute to a
monopoly which will dictate its own |
erms and put in its own Golfers that
which should go in the pockets of the
classes and remain in our
lome channels of traffic.
These considerations have often here
ofore been pressed in various ways up
N the public mind, and have stimulated
forts which it is gratifying to be assured
re about to be crowned with success.
And while, as we hope, we are about
o secure the eastern route 4ia Mt. Yer
ION and Millersburg.
AD0fHsar E3roEs 81
5 being agitated, to obtain an extension
f the Baltimore & Ohio Railway from
Newark to this point and thence 97a
Iarion and Kenton to Lima. where it
fould- connect with the Fort Wayne
Dad direct to Chicago, and thus form
he only connecting link now missing in
n air line route between Chicago and
Baltimore. In Licking county. and in
be contiguous part of Delaware, we are
old that meetings are being held and
made to build this exten-
ion by way of Mt Gilead It's more
iatural and equally direct route is by
1ay of Delaware to Marion and thence
. Kenton and Lima. as above stated,
nd if the people on the route west of
$ will heartily cooperate with those of
ur own county it is believed this exten-
ion will be built
With its completion northwestern
Dhio would acquire new. direct and
line of communication with
be Atlantic seaboard at Baltimore and
and also place itself within
asy access to the rich coal fields of
outhern and southeastern Ohio. With
advantages we of Della
ware county would additionally obtain
irect communication with Chicago, to-
,ether with access. almost direct, to
Toledo. Detroit and the great lumber
narts of the Northwest
Will the capitalists of Marion, Ken
on, Lima and intervening points unite
With US in securing this mutually ad-
-antageous improvement If 50 the
ime for action is at hand. and DISPOSE
ion for united, cooperative effort should
,e signifed at once. A committee has
,een appointed to sound the business
northwest of US on this
subject We hope the response may be
hearty and immediate.
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