Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1871-05-17
NARTaU VNT0N COUNTY 0T0 WEDNESDAY, MAY u 1871 1 5
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land run thepeeltO your city
and Dayton, though | think
such crossing is not yet decided
upon. i a
BY reference to- your maps
you viii find that a line from
Scaryg to- this point passing
from here South Of Centreville,
Iin Rapcoon township, Gallia
county, to a connection with
the Hillsboro road, via Symmes
Greek, and thence to your city,
is the shortest route that can
Ibe found and has light grades,
and can be cheaply built; then
10y this foutethe Chesapeake
and Ohio Company would have
Eng outlet by .our8oad to yCo-
|lpth busA thehesb the lakes,
|tb4 noit4tE%s%!Syc. gAad BY
our road, in connection with
the HillSboro road, your city
,Rohh1E riaKeS opened to them
the mineral field, ofaaJaekson,
Vinton, Hooking, Peytj and
Athens counties, " a Shorter
route than anything yet open
ed To- themA by vhidh they
wohldleceiy immense amounts
of coal and iron, besides other.
products Of that region, most.
al of Which is indispensable to
the comfort and Prosperity of
your citizens. '1 81 ..
Z We Started an engineering
party yesterday afternoon to
ran q Y line from. here Ito, Mr..
Tiimble's a .Hillsboro line on
Symmes creek, 10 get the dis
tance Or the shortest practica-
bic route, and to- get an esti-
mate Of the cost Of building the
road i had an interview } with
Mr.. Huntington of Guyandotte,
,lastweek aud he, gave me all
the encouragementifor a con-
nection with their road at this
point that we could reasonably
expect in the present situation
Of our enterprise. He says
they want to reach Memphis
through Kentucky and also
want to reach your city and st.
Louis, and also through the in,
terror Of our State to the north
west via mouth of Kanawha, at
this point, Would not this be
their best point for crossing the
river, and from here reaching
Columbus and the lakes via our
road and your city via the
IillsbOro line, the first 10 to
Is OF 20 miles from here run
ming over the same track ?
1t would certainly be the short
est route by many miles, and
cost much less money to con-
struct the road, furnish more
business, and nothave the COM
petition they would necessarily
have on the river line, espec.
tally for heavy freights. And
to become a link in a great
through road like the Chesa.
peake and Ohio, the road
should be as short as practica.
BILE, and the shorter between
given points, the less curvature
there would be, consequently
the faster they could run.
[ will take the liberty of
sending you a report Of @. B.
Shaw, G. E. (of 1852 in which
you may find some facts of in
terest. You will find on the
first and second pages his re.
marks on the route from here
to Symmes creek, at a point
about where Mr.. Trimble now
strikes it, with his Symmes
creek survey; but l think we
will get a practicable route by
the present Survey to that
point from l to 3 miles shorter
than be makes, via the Rodney
route he speaks Of in his report.
I have always thought, and
yet think that to your city, the
Hillsboro road would be al
most invaluable, if run into the
mineral belt of southern Ohio,
to a connection with our road
that will run 40 or do miles