The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-20

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e Cheap Coal.
!, PAINT PosT OFFICE, ONO,
December 81, 1875.
o EDITOR GAzErTE:-Itw was relief tx
read, in these times of business stag
nation, in late issue of the Gazette
the proceedings of meeting of some
the best citizens of Hillsboro, called
to consider the project of a railroad
connection with the coal-felds ot
Jackson and other counties of East
ern Ohio.
1t did seem strange to many that
while other towns no more enterpris-
ing are alive to the Importance of Sc
curing cheap coal, yours should re
main silent. 1t needs no argument
to prove, in the near future coal will
be necessity, and without a plenti-
full supply of which no town can pos
sibly hope to excel in the march of
business enterprise. And it is equal
! ly self evident that now is favora
BILE time for Hillsboro to make the
effort to secure this great advantage
on favorable terms; for just now the at
tention of the men of commerce,
manufacturing, agriculture, capital
aud labor, of this section, is in this
direction.
There are several such coal-roads
n contemplation, each giving vary
ing assurance of success, and some of
them close to our borders, struggling
in competition with others more re-
mote from us. Although Hillsboro,
and even Highland county, cannot
expect to make the roads themselves.
yet the success of any one they choose
might be assured by thu ir assistance.
Hillsboro can secure, l think, the ad- |
vantage of such road now on very
favorable terms 1 refer to the
Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy
Narrow Gauge. This road is design
ed by its projectors to be exclusively |
a home or domestic enterprise, all the /
capital stock being owned along the !
line and under one management. in
which management Hillsboro might /
share to the extent of her stock,-a
thing she cannot expect to do by tap
ping other roads.
This road is at present intended
to be located along the eastern border
of our county, between Bainbridge
and Greenfield, and a timely effort
might secure its location where a
junction could be made near the
mouth of the Rocky Fork without
the expense of bridging
Paint Greek, and within a distance
of fourteen miles, on or near the
"Mo1ris Survey" a ia maximum grade
of twenty-six feet (as reviewed by
Jacques).
The S., J. & P. Marrow Gauge has
been located from Springfield to
Greenfield, and from jackson to Wa
verify, and the whole line is put under.
contract on terms which is not likely
to exceed $4,000 per mile, finished
ready for the rolling stock; and it is
within the power of Hills
boro to secure a branch by taking
capital stock to the amount necessary
to build the fourteen miles at tie :
contract estimate, say S168,000. Is !
not this worthy an effort on the part
Of our citizens?
Were it not that it would make ,
this article too long, I might tell
your readers of what an effort Chill
cothe is making to secure a detour
by way of that town; and one of the ar
guments used is that Hillsboro will ,
'evive the Paint Valley. project and
De q good customer for coal at her de-
pot. ButI will not atpresent intrude o
lpon your valuable space, only that ,
,he road between Bainbridge and
is not yet located which
las been done everywhere else along G
he line. This certainly squints con- I
as if they are waiting to
lear from Hillsboro.
Of towns it may be said as of in
'There is tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the food leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shadows and misuses" 7
Yours truly, Fl. 5