The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-05-28
FOR THE ENQUIRER
OUR RAILROAD.


say Il few words in regard to oul
railroad-thc Gallipolis, Macarthur
and Columbus route. There seems
to be a disposition on the part oil
some persons to forestall every
movement made for the building OF
this road, just because they can't
all be Presidents and Directors,
and labor under the delusion that
they could have created more SYM
pathy and good will than the pres
ent gentlemen in charge. / speak
disinterestedly-am an entire stran-
ger to Mr.. LANGLEY, and own no
property along the line-but urge
cooperation, because it will add
money and improvement to every
town, hamlet and farm from Logan
to Gallipolis. What is now com
paratively u barren waste. so to
speak, would soon be crowned with
enterprise and wealth by the build
ing Of this road--giving us an out
let for our coal, and iron ore.
Build the road to Macarthur, or
through to Logan, and then tell
me, two years hence, the incalcula-
bic benefits that our town will have
derived from it. Instead of bleak
and dilapidated business and dwell
ling houses, tottering fences and
snail-pace fogies, there would spring
up new stores, new dwellings, large
furnaces, factories and mills, and
the hum of machinery and clank of
the hammer would echo on every
hand,and the snail pace fogies would
give place to HUe, energetic per-
severing businessmen.
From the tenor of Mr.. LANGLEY's
letter, in the last issue of the En-
QuIRER, he is determined TO build
the road, and only asks = reasona-
BILE demand to put through the
work. | believe he has made an
honest statement in regard to the
application Of the funds thus far
coliseted; and has pushed the work
as rapidly as rhe means at his COM
mand would warrant, He seems
Inquest in this matter, and Why
withhold your mneRey and influence
from a corporation that will yield
yep in return an hundred fold. Do
the aspirants for the Presidency
imagine that they cap build the
yoad without money any more than
Afr LANGLEY II takes money to
huild % 'roads, as also q will and
. dotermiuot,,>u, and the latter quail
we believe MI LANGLEY
to possess.
Now, looking from my s'Aa'-
if the people Of McArL.N
and the citizens along the line de-
sire II railroad, they must go to
work and help by their money and
influence to build it. If you con
tinue to snap and snarl at every
movement your President makes,
you will never get the coveted
prize.
There are some people SO self
and knowing that they
would find fault or pick a flaw
with the best man in the world.
AS / said before, this road does
not concern me in the least-it will
not benefit me M cent, except, per-
haps a small saving of fare from
here to Columbus and return--but
| desire to see Macarthur prosper
and grow, and become a prominent
manufacturing town, which it will
be destined to become so soon as
The locomotive passes within its
limits.
In conclusion, let me urge all to
unite upon the resolution to build
the road-to work, talk and pay
money for it's construction, and in
less than one year the shrill whis-
tie of the locomotive" will be sound
ing within your town. Agood pull,
strong pull, and a pull altogether
will secure the object.
AS you can't all be Presidents
and officers of the road, don't wait
for a new election, but march to the
work in earnest, fully armed and
equipped, and let come what will,
determine to have the road.
A CITIZEN.
Where is j. A. FELTON,?