Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-03-04
From the Painesville Telegraph.
Railroad Meeting at Madison.

Pursuant to notice, meeting was held at
the Town Hall in Madison, Feb. 25th, prelim-
mary to the organization of Company to
construct Railroad from Painesville HarbOr
to intersect the Ashtabula, Youngstown aud
Pittsburgh Road ut AustinDurg, aud connect
with the Ashtabula and jamestown Road ut
Jefferson.
The meeting was organized BY the appoint
ment OF w. w. BRANCH, Esq, Chairman and
l.. ii. KlMBALL, Sec'y. Remarks were made
by gentlemen from Ashtabula, Austinburg,
Harpersfield, Trumbull, Madison and Paincs-
vile, and the following statements were
clicied
Two miles of water front at the mouth OF
Ashtabula river, and eighty acres Of land,
have been secured for the two Railroads from
Ashtabula TO Youngstown and jamestown
and an appropriation of $30,000-now being
expended in the improvement of Ashtabula
Harbor-undcr the direction of Majo w. w.
MCFARLAND, will give thirteen feet of water
in that harbor.
Assurances have been given by the managers
of the Lake Shore Road, within the past
month, that the Ashtabula and Jamestown
Branch will be completed by that Company
at an early day and that portion OF the old
Ashtabula & New Lisbon Road which lies be-
tween Niles and Ashtabula has been transferred
by the Stockholders, and conveyed by deed,
to the "Ashtabuia, Youngstown d. Pittsburgh
Co." which new Company has an understands
ing with the Penn. Cen. Co., and expects very
soon 10 execute an agreement under which
the Penn, Cen. will complete stock, and
operate the Read from Youngstown TO Ashta-
bula,
1t was stated that a Railroad can be built
from Panesvile Harbor to Austlnburg, 90 or
90 miles, where it would intersect the Ashta-
bula & Youngstown Road, without single
bridge, and requiring few culverts, that the
grades would be light, with few curves and no
deep cuts or high embankmenis; and although
the distance from Painesville Harbor to
Youngstown, by way of Austinburg, may be
five or six miles greater than by Cnardon, it is
claimed tina! train can be run cheaper and
quicker by the Austinburg route than by the
Chardon route by reason of the lighter grades
and fewer curves; and it is said that pre-
liminary survey will show that new road
can be built from Painesville harbor, by way
OF Austinburg 10 Youngstown, cheaper than
by way of Chardon, even If the work already
done between Chardon and the lake was do
mated to new company.
From Youngstown to Ashtabula harbor 1t
is 10 miles; from Youngstown, by Chnrdon,
to Painesville harbor, "a miles. by Austinburg !
TO Panesville harbor 20 miles.
From Pittsburgh by Alliance to Clevelandit 1t |
Is l4l miles, from Pittsburgh by Youngstown
to Ashtabula, it is only 1873 miles, and only |
1873 miles by Ausinburg to Painesville.
The connection with the jamestown branch |
at Jefferson will open route between the oil |
regions and Cleveland, by way of Austnburg |
less than 80 miles from Jamestown while the |
distance as now run by Girard Is 141 miles; |
and 1t was predicted that very soon after the |
Ashtabula u jamestown branch was complet-
ed, second branch would be built from Will |
iamsfeld to the Brookfield and the Vienna
coal fields.
The distance from Meadville, by Jefferson
and Madison, TO Cleveland, is less than ninety
mi vrl.i Ia mail 1AfiIl
TO Cleveland. And 1t was sug-
gested in case the New York & Erie r. r.
Co. ever secured direct connections with To-
ledO and Chicago, that that company would
haye road from Toledo TO Cleveland, and
would then, in order to compete with the l..
3. d Penn. Gen. railroads, build across from
Cleveland, by way of Madison and Jefferson,
to Meadyille, thereby shortening the distance
between Cleveland and New York over 80
miles, and avoiding the heavy grades and fire.
quent curves between Cleveland and Mead
vile On the present rodte by way OF Leavitts
burg. And this route would not only shorten
the distance from Cleveland 10 New York
and the Oil regions by more than 80 miles,
but II would also open, at Painesyille Harbor,
a new point on the Lake, in every way equal
to Cleveland for the refining and shipment of
oil, and sixty miles' nearer the oil region by
rail than Cleveland now is.
Should the Penn. Gen. or the N. Y. & Erie
Coniphhy Dullu u rohu along the Lake Shore, |
great benefit would result therefrom 10 the
towns along the Lake in the way of cheaper
freight and cheaper fuel. Manufacturing of
oil kinds would speedily follow; tire popula-
lion would increase rapidly, and products Of
every variety would command better prices
by reason of cheaper freight or shipments, and
more consumers at home.
II was urged, in view of all these considera-
lions, that the citizens from gainesville to JEFF
Ierson should without DELAY, 0tesniEc n r. II
Co., make q preliminary survey ct OnOs. and
the iacls to the several II, r. |