Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-11-27
THE RAILROAD.
Letter from ]. G. swotland, Jr.

1ne WoIK aJ JnlS pOlnU is not
quite finished. We then passed
up the road to Jas. Mills, a dis
tance of q miles. From this
point to Evergreen Summit the
road is nearly ready for the ties
and rails with the exception of
about 1000 feet. On the Sum-
nit everything is finished but
the removing of a small quantity
of rock. At Mr.. Peney's, a short
distance from the Summit, we
left our carriage and took the
track on foot to Harper's Sum-
NIT, a distance of about four
miles. Along this distance the
road, as at other points, where
finished, looks well; everything
seems to be done in the best
kind Of style, smooth, broad fills,
and with cuts carried down in
such a shape as to prevent the
falling in on the track.
Wherever rock have been used
in rip-rapping, the utmost care
has been taken in having them
tightly and nicely fitted to their
places.
From this place to Raccoon, a
distance of four miles, the work
is not all finished, though nearly
so. One of the abutments for the
bridge over the creek is compile
ted, and is truly a fine piece of
masonry. The other is now un-
der construction, From this
point, (Vinton) to within II
miles of the Vinton county line,
the work is nearly or about all
done, needing only the finishing
stroke, thus nearly completing
10 miles of the grading. There
are at present 65 teams and 100
men EMPLOYED on the work.
The books of the company
show the cost Of the work al
ready done on this 10 miles of
grading to be only $4S,242.84,
being about 33 per cent. less
than the same amount of work
has cost any other company in
the State of Ohio.
These being the facts, why
stand ye Of Vinton county grasp
ing your pocket-books as though
you expected never to see an
other dollar as long as you lived,
and that if you invest a few dol
lars for the purpose Of assisting
your county, your neighbor, your
self, and your future posterity,
that you are going to become
bankrupt and destitute of means
wherewith to dehay your funeral
expenses? Never fear that!
Help your county and she will
help youl If it takes so much of
your means to build the road
that when you come to die you
haven't sufficient means to de-
fray funeral expenses, your
county will then have means
within herself to pay them for
you, and give you a decent bu-
rial. But, there is no necessity
for all this-the road once built,
every citizen in the county will
feel the benefits derived from it,
and we will be enabled in a short
time to take our position among
the wealthiest counties of the
State, Then we say, if you wish
to help yourselves and your chill
dren !; if you wish to hear at an
early day that longed for, the
shrek of the iron horse in our
little county seat, shell out the
greenbacks you have already
promised TO furnish, and you
that have not already done so
and are able to do it walk up
and take stock, and you that are
not able to subscribe stock, for
G0ds sake, ana not so much Tor
His as for your own, don't fail to
come up and ratify with your
ballot-the letting Of the CON
tract to work out the twenty-five
thousand dollars tax already vo-
ted in this township, as soon as
you shall be called upon to do
so, which will doubtless be in a
short time, and if we fail in this,
God help us, for Gallia county
will not So, retard no longer
the work, but shove it right along.
Yours truly,
j. G. SwETLAND, JR.
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