Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-11-30
BELPRE RAILROAD.

w e are glad to see that renewed effort
is being made to secure the making of this
important Railroad. We know of no pub
lie Improvement at this time, that would
be of more permanent interest to this
county than the building of this road; lead
ing as it does, through the best coal and
iron region of our State and giving it di-
rect Western communication through
Xenia Dayton and so on to all the great
| Western thoroughfare, and a connection
with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to
Richmond, Va, and the Atlantic passing
through one of the finest mineral regions in
the world.
Ifever we have town of much wealth,
business and population in our midst, it
will be made so by means of the estab-
lishment of manufactures, and, to this end,
it is necessary that we have easy access to
the coal and iron regions, and this is feast
bic through the construction of the Belpre
Road then is not the consummation Of this
object worthy of being looked after by the
people of our town and county?
| Other places along the-line are equally
interested in this work, and are waking up
from their long slumber to its Importance,
and we hope they and the people -of-eur
town and county will never rest until this
magnificent project is accomplished. A
meeting ofsome of the friends of this prof.
ect is to be held at jamestown, Greene
county, this evening.
Col. S. N. Yeomen, and probably others
from this place, will be in attendance. At
ter this meeting is held, we will, perhaps,
know more of the feeling of the people
west of US on this subject, and we hope to
hear from our friends on the subject along
the eastern portion of the proposed road.
The following paragraph on the subject
is from the Xenia Torchlight.
Prof Orton, of Antioch College, is one Of
the exploring party sent out from Dayton
to investigate the proposed coal road tc
Symmes Creek. In this connection We
would suggest to the enterprising business
men of Dayton, who have this matter il
charge, that after they have made thor
ough examination of the Symmes Creel
route, they might find it to their advan.
tage to run across here and join with ou
citizens and those of Fayette County, il
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and then having both routes, their adYan
tagcs and disadvantages before them, make
theirdecision. In the construction of
! road on the Belpre route to the coal re
gions, we feel authorized in saying, tha
our business men will join most heartily
That this route is the best, the shortest
: and one upon which a road can be bull
: at the least cost we have no doubt; an
:. then it is one in which the people of tn
IL L -
{ es are. greatly interested. From Dayton t
< Zales1i, the center of the coal and iron re
gionS. is only about one hundred miles, an
from Xenia to Washington the old bed
= the Belpre r. R. is about finished, or so nea
L. it that but slight expense would fitit read
d for the ties and iron. In the mean time woul
o it not be well for our citizens to have meet
to ing and appoint committee to confer wit
the business men of Dayton, and at othe
4pOints east of this?
le7 Upon this subject we find the followin
n from jamestown corresp poT1dcur OF ii
y, Xenia Torchlight of the 22d:
'e THE BELPRE RAILROAD,
le concerning which much hassbeen said witt
in the last few weeks, by the people of Da,
ton, Xenia, Jamestown, Washington, &C..
% have not spacein this correspondence to di
d cuss the advantages of this route over al
Il pti5er route from Dayton to the coal regior
10 East ofus, butI will say that believe O.
&c people are. at present, more favorable to Il
.oi movement tthan.they havebeen at any tin
m, since the failure ofthc old company, and tn
y if any organized effort was now made
- along thu line upon basis that would S
H cure the people against another failure
~ complete the road, they would respond
ice such a manner that the road could be ma
er- a certainty in a very short time. Thereto
IL l say unto such as have brains and capt.
~ organize!