Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-12-19

LEY OF KILLBUCK, FOUR MILES ABOVE
| MILLERsBURG.
Top of hill, gray shale, with f
| hinuey ore -
Gray limestone. ............ 4 feet.
Coal, bituminOus 2 feet.
flre clay ..-........-...... ..3 feet.
Shale .......,.......... so feet.
Blue limestone. 3 feet.
Coal, semi-cannel ......... ) to 4 feet.
Fire clay. ......6 feet.
Shale and sandstone, with O.
thin coal. --.-....-. ..s4 feet.
Coal camel. ............2 2 to feet.
Shale and sandstone. -. 20 feet.
Coal, block, lower seam. ...3 feet.
flre clay feet.
ConglOmerate rock. 10 feet.
Waverly sandstone ..........6 80 feet.
LEVEL OF RAILROAD.
Our observations during the progress
of your surveys, verifies the above gen
eral section, and shows that it is con-
tinuOus with more or less persistency,
and often with greater development for
the entire "A miles to the Walhonding
river. Two and half miles south of
Millersburg your line crosses the track
from mine now working with breast
of seven feet of very pure coal. Sever
al other mines, equally good, are open
and working elsewhere along your
route.
The level of your road being uni
formly below the lowest coal, tracks
can be constructed in all the ravines
and side valleys, down which the coal
can be delivered from great distances
without the use of power to return the
empty cars. Casey's run, for instance,
opposite Millersburg, with its two di-
vergent branches, would afford en-
trance to all those seams known as the
Shrimplin's run veins, shortening the
route to market, with the additional ad-
vantage that the drifts could uniformly
ascend the dip, giving the mines natur-
al drainage. ,..'.-. ....'l 8. '..i' (.
FACILITIES FOR BUSINESS. g.
1t is true that the direction of your
route is at right angles to the course of
general trade and commerce, but it is
equally true that you coincide precisely
with the line between the greatest sup
plies and the greatest demand for your
three specialties, viz: coal iron ore and
lumber, the supply and demand for
which are both practically inexhaust-
ible at opposite ends of your route.
1t is true, also, that You will fill the
gap with the shortest and most direct
route possible, and with the lowest
grades of any road now built or that
can be built by any other route.
In addition to this, you make first
class connections with other roads run
ming east and west, stretching across
them like a great equalizing bar, ready |
to respond to the favorable oyertures of
any-or to protect yourself by means
Of the specialties over which you will
hold an absolute control. -+T
At Coshocton, in the midst of im-
mense coal fields, and surrounded with
mines in active operation, youwill be
in connection with the Pittsburgh, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis, and Marietta and
Pittsburg roads, which with their
branches and allied roads cover all
southeast Ohio, giving access to the
coal fields of Guernsey and all southern
counties. At Oxford and Millersburg
with the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Co
lumbus road, which will develop addi-
tional mines right and left, and create
wholesome competition. At Wooster,
with the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chi
cago route. At the summit, with the
Atlantic & Great Western. At La |
Grange, 20 miles from Cleveland, with
the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
and indianapolis route, which will af-
ford you connection with Cleveland,
which disposes Of oyer one million tons
per annum of coal alone, over grades
no heavier northward than your own
the foundation for an equita-
BILE pro-rata in frieghts. At Elyria,
with both the lake shore routes west,
and the main line to Cleveland; and ut
Black River with the entire shipping OF
Lakes.
Black River Harbor is reputed to be
the best ON Lake Erie, and although not
one dollar has ever been expended in
dredging the channel, it has now
lepth nowhere less than 13 feet, and
most OF the way 90 feet, for distance
Of three and Il half miles from its
mouth, and an average width of about
200 feet, with bold, almost vertical,
banks. Extensive meadows border the
,hannel to width of about 1900 feet to
he low bluffs on either side. These
meadows and their adjacent slopes can
not fail in 4 few years to become the
lite of manufactures more extensive
han anything now known on the lake
shores.
Your location first touches the river
1t point about two miles from the
mouth in direct line, where the bank
shows vertical scarpment of compact
'hale for u height of As feet above the
water line. Here it is proposed to es-
.ablish your main train yard, and to
construct coal dumps, by means of
which vessels can be loaded without
From this point short run
,f about $500 feet upon n grade of one
loot per hundred, brings you to the hv-
Il of the proposed docks, where your
racks can branch in all directions to
meet the demand elsewhere, that will
evidently extend to the navigablc por-
lion of the river.
PROBABLE EARNINGS.
know of no fairer mode of treating
This subject than by comparison with
existing facts on other completed roads,
md would therefore call your attention
10 the following, compiled from the an
nual reports of thirty-seven railroad
all in this State, for the year
1871, covering the result on six thou