The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-01-12
The LilIputlan Railway.

2 A company has been Incorporated
with capital of $4,000 for the con
struction of railway from Piqua to
Celina, distance of forty-four miles.
The corporators are Hon. J. F. Nc
Kinney, member of Congress elect
from Miami District; VIM. Scott,
Esq., one of the oldest citizens and
President of the Piqua National Bank;
Joseph G. Young, Esq, also an old
citizen, and Cashier of the same Bank;
Henry Flesh, Esq a Merchant
Prince Of Piqua and California,
charles G. Clute, a veteran railroad
builder, of New York City.
herailway is to be built after the
model of the Welsh narrow guages +;
tse track will be only thirty inches
wide; the rail twenty pounds to the
foot; the locomotives six tons in
weight; the freight cars will have. a
capacity Of from one and a half to
two tons, and the passenger cars only
large enough to seat fifteen or twenty
persons. These cars will be arranged
with seats along the side like an ON
nibus-Or through the centre. Only
one truck of four wheels will be used
TOR each car, and that placed in the
centre, will enable the cars to 90
around much sharper curves than the
ordinary cars.
The peculiar advantages claimed
for this narrow guage, is that the
expense of construction is greatly
reduced, not only by the use of rails
of one-third the weight required for
wider guages, but because a rising
grade of one hundred feet to the mile
will be no serious impedment to the
operation of the machinery. The
locomotives will readily move a train
of from ten to twenty loaded freight
cars. The work on this diminutive
railway will probably be commenced
about the first of January approach
ing, and it is anticipated that it will
be in running order by the 1st of
July next. 1t will direct its course
from Piqua to CeliDa, touching first at
Newport thence following the canal
to Berlin, thence to Minister, Bremen
and st. Mary's, where it will leave
the canal, and skirting the Reservoir,
make Celina its northern terminus
This route is easy, requiring but
little grading, and only one bridge at
Newport, all of which not only lessons
expense, but insures rapid work.
This is a very important enterprise
in connection with the development
Of the comparatively new country at
the north of us. The demonstration
of the fact that there is such thing
as a cheap raito0oy, which will do ali
the business required by the country
through which it passes, will stimulate
enterprise in the construction of mar
row guages, where heretofore, the
railway, on account of its cost, was
considered an impossibility. It will
be placing the iron track within the
reach ofmoderate means. and seeur-
ing its absolute ownership to the men
who take the stock. The 'frst
mortgage" which in most cases gets
the railway, and sinks the entire
capital stock, need not be a terror to
the stockholders of the twenty four or
thirty.iHeh guage. Farmers especial
ly, after the successful working of the
diminutive railway is established,
may have comfort in assurance that
it can be constructed and operated at
profit to the stockholders as we'll as
to the great advantage Of the country
through which it passes. That while
the stock brings a revenue, the rail
way will enhance the value of their
lands, 80 that the investment 81 made
to work we'll both ways Dayton
Journal.