The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-06-07
ERzEElos 4ND cH4NeE or xAME.

2hilFrom the Cleveland Leader of May 26l G
Since the cuyahoga Valley railway project was
INST asiated some four or Ave years ago, there has
peeh llue II any practical interest manifested In
the SUBJECT OF betteran increased railroad com.
municallon between this city and the vast coal
ana iron regions lying directly south of here The
hrst company that was organized with Cleveland
capital and brains was, as everybody knows.
switched of to Black River, which is now receiy.
ing ifom three To six shiploads Of coal day While
mo second scheme although long organized and
IN 4he hands has yet been successfully car
rled out and Cleveland remains az far from the
bestsnd cheapest coal aud iron IN the State as
ever. ~
IN tne meantime, however, her energetic rivals
On al sides, have blen stretching forth eager
nands into the very Yitals Of the great coal and
iron nelds which are her legitimate resources The
harDors OF Painesville, tshtabuia and Black River
nave all been put in direct connection with this
region since the Valley road was first talked Of,
while Columbus and Toledo, ever since the panic,
have been building supply liBeH to the same place.
The firht city has flushed TWO railroads during
the time and 80 perfected hersystem Of roads that
now she has tenof these great arteries of com.
meroe leading out from her TO all parts of the
State, Toledo, having completed the Atlantic d
Lake Erie road, with which she is already boast.
| ing loudly that she will supply the Tuscarawas
Valley with the mixing ores OF Lake Superior, Is
now negotiating and figuring TO secure another
line through The magnificent coal seams of Perry
county and the rich corn valley of the Hooking to
the Ohio river at fomeroy. .I
Such is the picture It's not pleasant one for
Cleveland to contemplate. gainesville and Ashta-
bula tap the coal in the Mahoning valley; Black
River has possession of that of Tuscarawas Pitts
buTgh has cutGhed the trade of the three counties
of Stark Carroll and Columbiana; Columbus and
Toledo are reaching for everything in the Hook.
ing and Muskingum valleys. The trade Of the
four last mentioned districts legltimatey belongs
to Cleveland at least. President II. B. Dennis, of
the Cleveland, Canton, Coshocton & straitsville
Railroad Company, thinks IL does, and proposes q
plan to secure 1t. -
Todo this the Massillon & Coshoeton Railroad
Company, which has now q line in course OF &C.
tive construction from CoshoctOn to Beach City
on the Tuscarawas road at meeting held yester-
day at The Forest City House, changed It's northern
terminus to Cleveland instead of Massilon, and
| its southern to StraitSvile In the Perry county
coal region, and adopted resolution to change
the name OF the company, under the proper statute
to that Of the Cleveland Canton, Coshocton d
Straltsville Railroad. AT the same meeting Judge
Underhill, of Canton heading delegation rep
resenting the interests Of that city in the enterprise
showed maps and profles of the proposed route
from Beach City 10 Canton, which was reported
upon iavorably by Mr. r, B. Dennis, president of
the company, who had just ridden over the sur
vey Thursday with its directors and a couple Of
Cleveland newspaper representatives.
According to this estimate but fifteen mnes of
road with comparatively light grades would be
needed to complete the line through Canton to
Coshocton, from whence a road is already built to
New Lexington, within ten miles of Straltsvie,s so
that In rea ity but twenty five miles of entirely
new road is required to place Canton in direct
communication with stratsYille, in the Hooking
valley, and GAINESVILLE in the Muskingum valley,
and Cleveland in the same manner, as soon as the
road from here to Canton is opened.
| omuch for the proposed route. Thenextques.
ticn the public will ask is: VIII itbe putthrough2
Aspear as a Leader reporter could find out after
thfee days of digsnt investigation along the line
| nom Cleveland to Beach City via Canton and
Massillon, it Is very likely that it will. At the
meeting yesterday the most satisfactory assurances
were received from the leading men of Canton
as to what they would do for the road, and 1t was
decided that the final surveys and estimates of the
| fifteen miles from that place to Beach City should
be made as soon as possible, At the same time
President Dennis expresses it as his opinion that
when the right moment arrives not the slightest
difficulty will arise in building the ten miles from
Straitsyille to Moxahala the center Of the Perry
county coal fields.
AS for the forty miles from Coshocton to Beach
City, 1t is foregone conclusion, and they will be.
gin laying iron on 1t during the next few months
Should the Cuyahoga Valley road be completed
within the the next fifteen months, this company
would probably send its freight from Canton to
Cleveland over that line; If not other means to
reach Cleveland will have to be found, -lI
rof the importance of this new enterprise to
Cleveland, too much can scarcely be said, Every
argument that has been made in favor Of the Val
ley road holds good with this one, Within sixty
miles Of Cleveland are the two fine manufacturing
towns Of Akron and Canton, with their SO,-
900 inhabitants and insufficient transportation IA
cilites that would be brought within an hour
and a half of this city, The cheap coal thirtyfve
miles south of here would almost roll into Cleve-
land, by Its gravity. South Of Canton and on to
CoshOcton is the finest grain and dried fruit dis
trict of the State, which Is now entirely at the
mercy of Pittsburgh and Columbus Beyond
Coshocton are the magnificent valleys of the
Muskingum and the Hooking rivers, with their
great corn products and cattle resources to say
nothing Of the Goals and ores of Perry county, the
section that in the near future sto consume more
Lake Superior pig than any place in the country.
III View Of these and mahy other eogent reasons
that Gould Be mentioned II space would allow, II
will be well for the business men Of Cleveland to
watch this project with a careful and sympathetic
eye. '99m g az a3h..2D efal "HluiJl'