Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-02-14
Rail Road Meeting at
TTrh1na

UrDana.
Some Kind friend--President w. II. Langlc,
wesuppoSe-ha, sent us copy Of the Urban
Citizen and udsefs containing an account of th
railroad meetngin the interest of the Farmers
d Miners Railroad, held at that place, on Tues
day, February 6tA. We here give the accoun
ofthe meeting lnfuli,as our readers all want b
, hear the "news about the lailroad"
The largest Rail Road meet
ing ever Held in our City,. wa;
held at the City Hall, Thursday
afternoon, in the interest of the
Farmers 81 Miners Rail Road
Co. City Hall was densely
crowded, literally packed
with people, all intensely
interestedin the work. Hon.
W.H.Langley, President of the
Gallipolis, Macarthur e Col
umbus R.R.Go., was present,
being accompanied by Mr.,
Griffith, an Eminent Geologist,
with large lot of specimens,
of Coal and Iron Ore, taken
from the line of the F.& M.
Rail Road, running through
Vinton Comfy and also along
the line ofthe G.. McA. & G.
Road.
The meeting was addressed,
first by MI. Smith, the Secrta.
ry Of the Incorporatores of the
Company, who gave important
statistical information ofthe
wealth and resources of the
several counties through which
the Road runs and the advan.
tages the counties of Champa-
ing, Madison and Pickaway,
would realize in opening up a
new, and almost a home mar.
ket, for theirimmense supplies
Of produce and provisions. DR..
Wayne Griswold, the President
of the 1ncorporators of the
Farmers 6 Miners Rail Road
Company, next, in a most clio.
quent, argumentative speech
addressed the meeting for
about one hour and a half. The
meeting listened with 1nusual
interest to the array of facts
and arguments, presented one
after another by Doctor Girls.
void, until every one of that
large meeting, was fully convin.
ced of the positive necessity of
making the Road. The Doctor
is a good speaker, and thorough
ly alive to the project of
building this Road, and with
the vim and spirit he manifest.
ted, there can be no failure.
Mr.. Langley, then addressed
the meeting, giving history
of the Road he is building, and
the circumstances leading to
an extention of this line from
Macarthur to Urbana, with the
prospect Of its further exten.
tion to Fort Wayne, and then
to Chicago, and as we'll, a line
to Toledo. Mr., Langley, as
we'll as DR.. Griswold and Mr..
Griffith, refuted and corrected
the false statements that have
recently been made in regard
to the value and in terest to the
Coal fields and Minerals Of
Vinton and Gallia Counties,
by interested parties, with the
evident design to damage the
Farmers and Miners r, R..
project, and thereby to help to
build another Road to another
place. He believed, if the peo.
pie along the route would unite
cordially in the work, that the
Road would be speedily finish.
ed, and that.the local business
in coal, iron and the products
of the country along the line
cf this Road would make it
one of thedbest paying invest
ments in the State, not except.
ing any one; that no fears need
be entertained'in regard to that
fact, as itwoutd develope' a
high state sof prosperity to the
people along the line in dis
tributing cheap coal and iron,
which ufonScan build up ex-I
.pensivs Manufactures, not on
ly Of Agricultural Implements
and Iron and Steel wares, but
of Cotton'and Woolen Mills,
and Machinery of every kind.
He spokedf the direction Of
this Road traversing the State
from a South eastern point to
the North.W estern, crossing
nearly all of the East and
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