The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-06-15
Alessrs, R. R Porter aai 2LeAaad Lee, Commission
Pilt.burgh. canton q chleago II. r


A. McGREGoR, Ed. STARK Co. DEMocRAT
Dear SIR We wish TO inform the
public through the medium of your wide
y eircnlstsa paper, chat the above enter
prise has assumed a more tangible form.
Mr.. C. P. Manning recently of the Pitts
burgh and Connellsville Road has taken
charge of the Corps of Engineers locating
the above project. Perhaps we ought to
say in this connection, Mr.. Manning is an
old engineer of large experience, having
had several leading roads under his inlme-
date charge which were all completed to
the entire satisfaction of parties concerned
We therefore may consider ourselves for
tunate in securing the services of one so
eminent in his profession "a. -
We have been trying to make your
readers aware that new railroad running
from Baltimore to the city of Canton and
on to Chicago was a fixed fact We feel
happy IN stating that at present few are
left to doubt. Present indications con-
vince the most skeptical Yet there is
much to be done in the way of raising
means to cover the cost of construction
The city of Canton has done nobly, but
she does not feel quite able TO carry the
whole road through herself Real estate
! owners, merchants, mechanics, farmers,
and all Others interested, will please as
sist in carrying forward this grand and
noble enterprise. Mr. Tonner, the Secre-
| tary and Treasurer of the Company (by
| the way most afiable, courteous, and
| intelligent gentleman, Will be happy to
take your names for any amount Of stock
you may want There are several
reasons why We should willingly take
stock in this enterprise. 1st-It gives us
a new outlet for all our products both East
and West. 2nd-It secures to us way
direct to inexhaushble mines of coal and
other minerals. 3rd-It is much nearer
to tide-water than by any other route
and is over fifty miles nearer to the ma
tional capital As this road when finish
ed, will be inter-oceanic, running from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, It must become
one of the great thoroughfares of this
continent, therefore one of the best pay
ing roads in the Union. Our advice would
be to capitalists, trustees, administrator.
and all others who wish to place money in
a sure way for realizing large dividends
to invest in the stock ot the project head
ing this article There is not first clas:
through road in the Union with stock M
der par Knowing this to be the fact
why not invest liberallv. Your properly
will be doubled and trebled, and in many
instances quintupled in value beside.
We do not wish to say q word 10 the
people Of Canton. They have almost to
man acted the man in connection witl
this grand undertaking Few enterprise
started in any section Of the country Sc
out with more fiattering auspices than tn,
one We write Of We hope to see it ad
vertised for letting ere many months rol
round, and if all Interested along the lin,
OF the road viii grant the rightiof way
and subscribe literally toward the cost 0
construction, that end will be aocomplishe,
as we wrote you on former occasion. i-
The citizens of Canton understand tn,
great value of this road to them. The,
care not for the names of the towns thro
which this grand trunk road may pass
They care not whether it strikes this tow
or that city on the way to their place
Canton people know their contemplate,
road commencing at Baltimore and run
ming through by way of Canton to Chica
90 is the shortest route IRON tide-wate
Ito the Great West. On this they rest sat
isfed, and are fully determined to bull
the road and. that in the shortest possibl
time. INDEX.