Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22
Rail Road Matters,

AN ENGINE from the Pittsburgh, IT. Wayne
81 Chicago road, with train of flats. n gang
OF 30 track.layers and other lab0rers, reached
this place on Friday of last week, and It's
! presence ut Hilchcock's crossing, and the
blowing Of oil the whistles in town, was tue
occasion of quite a gathering Of our citizens
TO greet the strangers and welcome them 10
their destination upon the A,Y. & p. line.
Work has been begun in earnest, in track lay
ing, and we arc Informed that when this gang
of tracklaycrs get fairly warmed to their
work, they will span a mile day. The ex.
pectntion, therefore. of friend l.. B. AUSTIN, 10
pay Ashtabula n visit over the rails, on the
coming 4lh, is very far from being chimera
The rail is already laid and run over by the
construction train TO within some four miles
| of Austinbuag, & for the completion of the bal
anco there still remains nearly fortnight
The hauling and piling of daily.nrriving iron,
and the distributing OF this and other material
along the line, makes the aspect IL little lively
Then the energy With which the grading is
going on near the Harbor. where a heavy
force is engaged, and which is TO bc increased
hy daily additions, really look like determined
skeptcism about the intentions to REDEEM
plighted faith MS TO the carly building of the
road and improvements of the territorial area
OF the company about The Iarbor. The old
embankments of the New Lisbon company,
in sight ofthe bridge at the IIarbor, are 1einr
settled some II feet below the former levels,
as the whole line TO the summit is To be-
making occasional grades greater than was
contemplated by Engineer Hale. The work,
is, we understand, to be begun along the side
Of the bluff in front Of II. Hubbard & Co.'S
yellow Ware House, and so on to the beach,
as soon as some further prelimnarirs are set
tied about contingent questions connected
with the right of way. We congratulate our
fellow citizens and our Austnburg and Nor.
gan friends, upon the outlet they are TO have
both north and south, by the early complt-
tion of this important work
With regard otthc jamestown, there is lit
and the whole line is'run over. The putting
on of the through passenger and freight
trains, and full use of the road will proba-
bly--as we are informed by Assistant Hep
BURN, be deferred until the 1st of August
In the meantime, work on tile Mahoniny Coal
Co.'S line is being pushed with vigor.
Engineers Of the A. Y. & p railroad open
ed an office in this city, says the Warren
Chronicle, a few days ago, aud work COM
mcnces this week all along the line from
Miles TO Bristol.
OuR Pninesville cotemp' rnrcs rciteratc the
assertion that the nurrow gauge enterprise is
certainly to be completed, if tho citizens of
Pnincsvillc will only comply with certain
overtures from Youngstown parties. 1t has
usually been found that Youngstown is more
willing to supply business for railroads when
built, than 10 supply the means of building
1t is on this account that there is little skcp-
ticism about the intiatory being taken by
Youngstown, place slready enjoying, or
about to enjoy, some three connections with
the lake II, therefore, orr contemporaries do
rot insist upon it, we would rather wait fur
ther developments before giving full credit TO
stories in circulation.
The railroad from the Smith Iron Mine al
Escanaba has been finished and an outlet Sc
cured for the inexhausible and valuable de-
posts of that mine.