Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-10
RAIL RoAp WATERS.

BAIL ROAD MATTERS.
The A. Y. u r. starts of with very fat,
tering passenger traffic. The business, both
through and way, Is better than was looked
for In the crude and unfinished state of thihgs
in which II was opened. In the absence Of
stations aud station agents. box car attached
to each train Is impToylsed into ticket office.
The road is unballnsled and In some portions
a little rough, but notwithstanding these con
slderations, passengers End their way Into the
cars. The sight Of one on two well filed cars
is an almost everyday occurrence. Freight,
too, is pressing upon the road, but no couyen.
irnces are at hand for either receiving or dis.
charging II. The Company, however, are
pushing things, and providing rs fast as posi-
ble for these DEFICIENCIES, and they give sa:isac-
tory evidence that we shall not have 10 wait
long for their supply. This end Of the track
Is In good running order, and very good time
Is made In running over II. While this state
of things is pleasing and encouraging to the
Company, the people along the line are not a
little elated AT the fact that the long agony of
hope deferred, of vexation and disappointment
is over, and gwen place 10 the unquestonable
and positive fact of the existence of q road,
| furnishing them the means of getting out
| from their isolations into the world. This is
a happy state of things when all parties are
pleased Morgan, whose citizens have been
the foremost aud most steady friends of the
enterprise, are not disposed to let their devo.
ton to 1t flag, now that it is built and in running
order. They are still enthusiastic TO make the
most of IL, This is shown not only in their
conversation, beams in their faces, glows In
their hearts, aud provokes generous efforts 10
open broad, ample and pleasant avenues TO the
station. Something like a half mile of such
road has been opened of "a feet width, which
| is to be worked up into suitable shape as soon
as the moisture shall dry off and admit of its
being done TO advantage In fact the satsfac.
ton of being railroad town gives an impulse
to their thoughts and actions, and the dignity
of the thought is 10 be made apparent upon
the place and its appointments. May THAR
shadow never grow less.
THE TOTAL EARNINGS of the L s. s. NJ s.
road for the year 1872 were 1881 ,692
and the net earnings 5,752, ,103
The net earning of 1871 were 9,779 ,s06
| The earnings of Ashtab1la station
for 1879:
Passenger traffic, were seq, ,606, 80
Painesville, for same time, 33,O67, $50
Thus, while Painesvilie takes the palm in
the passenger business. she has to yield il in
the freighting business The figures stand for
Ashtabula, $12 1868 .203
Pdinesvilc, 11,460. .494
H. Aeh ,J>,,1, NJ
stands next, at $7,7s0,9s1
The work on the "Harbor Branch of the
y. s. g. NJ. s. road" is moving along with
Macs usual vigor, and promises TO be com.
pleted within the land d.contract limit-about
the middle of June. The elevation of the
bridge over the creek, at the ELM tree" we
suppose, will soon be seen in progress
The officers of the L. $. 6 NJ. S. Company
declaret that they have not definitely deter
mined To remove their repair shops from
Cleveland, and no overiures have been made tt
any parties for supply of land, &c. for their
accommodation. The haste, therefore of som,
of our neighbors for an early removal, seems
to have very little undcrpinnng to it.
THE PEOPLE AND THE RAILRoADs.-Th
war promises to be long and as bitter as i
is long Thus lar the farmers seem to hav'
mtde but little headway beyond organizing
and drilling their forces. The railroads have
bealen them in several suits before the courts
and so far have prevented them from gettin.
any law passed through the Legislature OF Ill
inOis--the State where the patrons of Hus
bandry" are the most numcrous--that vii
avoid the constitutional objections OF tn
courts. But the people seem To have enistet
for the war. They seem to realize that the,
are the lawcOnstruing as well as the law max
ingpowcr. Thy can make the courts as easil
as they can Legislature. and the indication
are that they intend TO "work from the groun
up"