Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-06-05
Office of the G.. McA. and
!. G.. II. R. Company.
GALLlpoLIs, May 27, 1877.

To the StootlotdeS Of sdtd company;
4 GENTLEMEN: The work Of
construction on your railroad
is progressing as rapidly
as circumstances will
Justify. Messrs. Bailey and
Cherington are working ener.
getically, and with a small
force making a big show on
their portion Of the work
Messrs. Ingles & Co, Messrs,
Rodgers and Switzer, and Evan
Jones are all progressing stead
lily with the. work, and making
a good showing, Twas inform
ed yesterday that Mr.. Jones
had nearly or quite rock enough
quarried for the abutments cf
the bridge of Big Raccoon, at
Vinton; and several other par
ties are ready to commence
work at short notice, whenever
the company is ready for them
to do so. Which will be just
as fast as there is meney in the
treasury to paw them. Your
Superintendent, j. d. Kirk
patrick, had to leave the work
to attend to some private balsi-
ness at Urbana, which he ex.
pected would detain him from
ten days to two weeks, for
which place (Urbana) he left
on Wednesday, May 22d, leav.
ing the work in the hands of
good assistants, in charge of
Mr.. Banty, Mr.. Kirkpatrick's
foreman on other work, he be
ing an experienced railroad
builder, and he, with the assis-
tants referred to above, is push.
ing the work vigorously, hav-
ing yesterday about Ito hands
and forty-fve teams at work.
And / believe for men with no
experience in railroad building
there was never a better set of
hands of the same number to-
gether; all energetic and anx-
ious to have the road built,
and nearly all citizens of our
county; and there are daily ma.
ny applications by others for
work, and as fast as means are
furnished to pay them they
will be set to work, and [ do
not think any stockholder can
reasonably ask more, but when
you have provided the means,
if your officers do not put more
men at work, then you will
have just cause for complaint,
and will do your duty to your
selves by removing them, and
putting more competent and
energetic men in their place. Z
At 8 orlyck, A. NJ, last
Thursday morning I received
a dispatch from Dr.. Wayne
Griswold, President Of the
Corporators Of the Farmers
and Miners Railroad, asking
me to meet him at Macarthur
that day, where he was with
Mr.. Anderson of Circleville,
on a prospectingtour, and with
a corps of engineers who were
making a preliminary survey
of a route for their road tc
connect with our road at OF
near Macarthur. / started
same morning, reached Near
thur att P. NJ, met and had
some conversation with those
gentlemen and citizens there,
and found they were to have
a railroad meeting that even
ling. The citizens gathered at
the Court House in large num-
bers at s o'clock and were ad-
dressed by Di. Griswold, Hon.
Mr.. Anderson and Hon. II. c.
Jones. DR.. Griswold spoke
of their engineers near ap-
proach to Macarthur, (being
within 15 or II miles of that
place. of the favorable nature
or appearance of the route, of
the advantages the two roads
connected at or near that point
would be to the citizens on the
route; then stated that Picka>
way, Madison, and Champaign
counties were each moving,
either by county or townships,
to appeal to the people for aid
in building the Farmers and
Miners Railroad by a levy of
tax under the late railroad law
authorizing counties, cities,