Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-03
gainesville NarrOw Gauge r. R.

gainesville Narrow Gauge r. z.
The Painesville Advertiser reports the
situation of the P. Y. & P. R, R, to be
as follows:
Since our last issue twenty-five or
thirty laborers have been employed uDon
the gainesville & Youngstown Railroad,
and more men are wanted, and being
employed as fast as found. As the Conn
pany has dispensed with boy help, and
call for full grown men only, it is more
difficult than before to secure the force
needed, and will take more time. The
rolling stock and other property of the
road at this end of the line have been put
in good order, and arrangements have
been made at the site OF the depot to
facilitate the progress of the work, such
as the changing Of switches, etc. Two
gangs of men are at work near the rail-
road bridge, one a rail gang, and the
other a road gang, removing the earth
that has washed upon the road during
the winter and made It impossible.
During the week members of the Con-
struction Company have been in town
to ascertain whether the stockholders in
gainesville will eAeend the time for the
completion of the road to Youngstown
six months, giving the Company until
July 1st, 1873, to construct it. If the
time is extended the road will be built
as speedily as possible. If the extension
of time is not granted the finishing stroke
will have been given, and the road is
dead beyond resurrection. The gentle
men representing the interests of the
company who have been in town have
called no meeting OF the stockholders
but have held private interviews with
those who have subscribed most heavily
for the income bonds of the p. d Y. r.
R., and the result has been favorable
They have generally expressed their
willingness to extend the time. The
same success is being met in Geauga
county, and the completion OF the road
seems to be fully assured.
The extension of time is made neces-
sary by the immense amount of work
to be done at Swine Greek, between
Chardon and Warren, and again just this
side of Youngstown. The work cannot
be comDleted before the first of January
without enormous and unnecessary ex.
pense.
The Chardon Republican also says:
We are at last enabled to assure our
readers that, with proper action on the
part of the people most interested, the
speedy completion of the Pa Y. r. r.,
may be regarded as a certainty. Mr.. q.
Cleveland, President of the road, who,
by the way, is a well known old Geauga
boy, and Messrs. Wick and Bonnell, of
Youngstown, representing a strong
company of business men and capital
lists of that city, who are largely interest
ed in the project, and are to have practi-
cal control of the work of construction,
visited this place on Tuesday of last
week, and had a open conference with
a number of our citizens. Their appear
ance and statements were such as to in
spire the utmost confidence in their dis
position and ability to fully meet the
Just expectations Of the public in regard
to the road. They are gentlemen whose
personal characters and home interests
are an ample guarantee of good faith, 1
and it only remSins for the people along
the line of the road to reciprocate the
spirit in which they approach the work
before them. Their requirements are
and reasonable, being no more
than the people have already virtually
pledged themselves to comply with, and
be promptsnd cheerfully accept
ed. When this is done, the work will
be at onc resumed, and prosecuted to
the earliest possible completion.