The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-02-10
borough Highland County, Ohio Thursday February TO- 1876
Railroad M tiers.

meeting, published in another
column, it will be seen that the cred
itors of the Southern Ohio R. r. Co
have generously agreed to surrender
nearly half the amount of their
claims, reducing the whole amount
to little less than $4,000. This
debt is now the only obstacle in the
way of the legal and final dissolution
of the old Co. and the formation of a
new one, to prosecute the work of
constructing a railroad to The Jack
son coal region. We hope measures
will be adopted without delay, to
raise this amount by voluntary sub
scriptions from the friends of the
enterprise, so that we may be ready
either to join hands with our Cler-
mont neighbors in building their
narrow gauge road to the coal fields,
through Hillsboro, or to finish a
standard gauge over the old road-bed
east to jackson.
1t will also be seen by the letter
from Williamsburg, read at the meet
ing by our townsman, Mr.. ]. S.
Black, that a reconnaissance of the
route east of Williamsburg towards
Winchester, is probably being made
this week. This shows that there is
no time to be lost, if the citizens of
Hillsboro desire to prevent the new
road being built south of us, and
drawing off a large portion of the
trade we now have with that region.
We trust the committee appointed
to confer with the people of Cler-
mont, will be on the alert, and as
soon as an opportunity presents
itself, will meet the committee hav-
ing charge of the clermont enter
prise, and lay before them the facts
in favor of the Hillsboro route, which
we think cannot fail to convince
them that it is their true policy to
adopt that route in preference to the
one talked of by Sardinia and Win
chester The latter route, besides
being much longer, must be a far
more expensive and difficult one, and
we cannot think that the people of
Clermon will be so blind to their
interests as to give it the preference,
when all the facts are fully laid be-
fore them.
The distance from Williamsburg
to Hillsboro is only about 80 miles,
and from Hillsboro to Bainbridge,
to which point the Springfield &
Pomeroy Narrow Gauge road from
Jackson is now being built, is only
IS miles Thus it will only be neces
sary to build about Is miles of road
east of Williamsburg to give the
Clermont people direct connection
with the best coal region in South
ern Ohio. By the other route talked
of, by way of Sardinia and Winches-
ter, the coal fields cannot be reached
in less than from 80 to 100 miles,
and east of Winchester, much of the
route would be through hilly coun-
try, where q railroad would be hard
to build and very expensive.
The editor of the Batavia Courier,
in his last issue, speaks of still anoth-
er route, having Portsmouth or Gal
ipolis as the eastern terminus Of
their proposed road, but the distance
to either OF those places would be
much greater than to cambridge via
Hillsboro, and no good coal could be
reached by the Portsmouth OF Cali
polls route, in less than from IS to
leo miles distance from Batavia.
We hope these important facts
will receive due consideration from
our Clermont friends, and if so, we
think they cannot fail to decide the
question in favor of the Hillsboro
md Bainbridge ronte.