The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-07-06
correspondence.
THE PITTSBURGH, CANTON 4 CHI
CAGO r. X. COMPANY,

Ouietly, though steadily the great enterprise OF
| the above company moves forward, and before
Janaary 1871 IL is not improbable that over 800
hands now engaged on the Pittsburgh & Connells-
Vile Railroad will be transferred west OF on the
time the grading and bridging will be completes
| from Pitts burgh TO Ft Wayne. No one can imag-
inc the feasibility Praeticabiity and & great a. aonn-
perior article Of COAL ore and stone, richness OF
soil, denseness of population, and enahuty OF
this unsurpassed line The chief engineer, Mr..
Manning, a day or two since took trip about 20
miles northwest OF Canton, and ABOUT SIX miles miles
northwest of Fulton to hIs utter astonishment
he found the representations made as 10 the
character Of the route more than reallZed, Tor n
distance of about 20 miles the coal fields stretch
along on both sides of the contemplated line,
mines open and in working order, any three of
them producing at this time over 1000 tons per
day of most excellent coal Tor transportstlon the
greater part Of which is shipped by canal and rail-
road from Fulton to Cleveland, thence 70 Toledo
and other western places on lake Eric 5 shores.
The cost Of transportation, shipment commits
sion and re-shipment from Fulton TO Cleveland Is
about 81 per ton, thence to Toledo about the
same costs have to be incurred, the distance from
Toledo The shipping facilities on Black river
outlet into lake Erie are of the highest and most
Cleveland, and the distance from Fulton about the
same III, . ..
New London, on our contemplated line, viii keep
thirty mines near Fulton constantly and continu-
ally engaged to supply the wants OF consumers,
busy than the above company can furnish on n
mere single track. Add to this the coal and ore
mines east of and reaching within short dis
tanee of Canton. Then again calculate and imag
inc these same trains re turning, laden with all
kinds OF lumber timber, lake Superior ore, wheat,
Oats porlz and an kinds of agricultural products
from the west and northwest eastward bound.
The timber, lumber and ore being anlIoaded all
petition with Pittsburgh will conflict and may sue
cessfully rival its sales and market
The agricultural products passing along snip
ped to Baltimore at cost of at least from 20 to 80
per cent less than it can possibly be done to pay
Then again TO OF & Hew ~, i15k; Pm
shortened distance line to - tIEtae on TINS
national metropolis from the west and northwest,
extending to the Pacific, Arithmetic, algebra
and mathematics fail to aid or assist IN making
satisfactory computations ,.,--..-.-
the Pacific from the Gulf of Mexico to Maine, OF
the same distance was or will ever be construct
ed at as low n figure, with less grade, passing
and Eos,eronS as the above line Of the Pittsburgh
Canton and Chicago Railroad Co., and the line
from New London to Ft Wayne and Toledo.
The idea of constructing a line on the western
extension of the Pittsburgh & Connelsville via
Salem Akron, Medina, as compared with the ad-
vantages of the line OF the company named, Is
simply absurd, and will never enter into the re-
fecting organs of such railroad men as Garrett
Latrobe Hugot, Page, and the directors OF the b.
4 O. and p Rel RR. And further, the line from
WampuHn on the Beaver river via Canton TO New
london to Ft Wayne Toledo is from to 10
miles shorter than by Salem and Akron to the
same points named, also the grading and curves,
one train will more than carry all the freight
between Salem and Akron per week, Mlddlebury
sewer pipe not included. Cast your eye along the
desired line of our Akron friends from the east to
the west line of Ohio. and after you have done so,
pass it along the line of the Pittsburgh, Canton
Chicago via New London to Fit. Wayne or Toledo
if Won please, then make the great difference Of
such an overwhelming distinction. Our Akron
friends know and see this, our Baltimore & Pitts
burgh friends If they have not yet, will ere long
find IL out and if they are guided and governed
in their actions and decisions by the same rules
and principles intelligent and judicious railroad
operators are actuated by, there will be, and is
no doubt the Baltimore Ohio, Pittsburgh Con-
r. r.. companies, might almost say,
irrespective of our more than anticipated sub
scriptions to the enterprise, our line will be the
line selected by those companies through our
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