The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-24
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.
CantOn's RailrOad-The COnnOtton Valley.
OF the three railroads which Canton
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Cantons RailrOad-The Connection valley.
OF the three railroads which Canton
possesses the COnnOttOn is pre-eminently
her own-nOt in the sense of pecuniaTy
interests but in that Of location. AL
though projected and completed under
the direction of outside capital, fair
share of the latter has found its way to
Canton and settled here. The Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago and Valley
roads are enterprises which we could
not well dispense with, but in this re-
spect the COnnOttOn has much more of a
hold upon our citizens. The general
offices of the COnnOttOn Company are
located IN Canton, and all the executive
officers, save one, are residents of Can
ton. Canton has the finest depot
of any along the COnnOttOn line and it,
with many other improvements, directly
or Indirectly caused by the COnnOttOn,
have done much toward increasing the
beauty of the city. With the general
offices of the company comes a large
amount of miscellaneous business of
which our various tradesmen derive the
benefit. COnnOttOn employees residents
in the city, have added nearly two hun
dred people to our population, and a
class to which is profitable to the bust
ness community. When the COshOctOn
q Straitsville division of the road is COM
of the three arms of the Y formed by the
three lines of the road, viz: Canton to
Cleveland, Canton to Dell Roy, and Can
ton to Straitsville. This will be another
business boom for Canton. The COnnOttOn
has already opened to Canton the nearby
but hitherto hardly known country dis
tricts about MOgadOre to the north and
CaTrOlltOn to the south. Before we had
the COnnOttOn, MOgadOre trade was
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the nearest city to CaTrOlltOn was
Cleveland. The CoshOctOn & Straits
Vile line will make Canton the market
Of a series of villages, the trade of
which is now parcelled out among a
number of small country towns. Ma
vaTTe, Beach City, Dundee, BaTr's Mills
and their surrounding country will
find Canton an accessible and profitable
market for their produce and an equally
good place to make purchases. In the
way of outside trade the COnnOttOn road
has been the leading feeder of Canton
and as such is deserving of The support
of all our citizens and business men.
CoNNoTToN IN CLEVELAND.
The Cleveland Herald of Tuesday,
says: The COnnOttOn Valley now
fairly belongs to the list of Cleveland
railways. On Saturday there was
landed at its docks the first cargo of
1000 tons of coal, consigned to MilWau-
kee. The coal was brought through by
the company from the mines at Dell
Roy. Yesterday the first barge load of
lumber and lath were received at the
cOmpanys docks and will be carried
down the road in the same cars that
brought the coal. The line is now con-
structed to SherTOdsyille, below Dell
Roy, where the New HazeltOn mine is
located, which has a production of
500 tons of coal a day. On the Straits
Vile branch grading is in progress all
along the line, and track laying has be-
gun. The line, when completed, will
extend from Cleveland to BOwerstOwn
or DennisOn, on the Pan Handle Rail
road, and from Canton to Athens, in
Perry county. AS yet the management
of the road have made no effort to bring
passengers directly into Cleveland. They
expect, however, to extend the line and
have passenger depot erected at Com.
mercial street by the middle of next
January. At present Cleveland passen-
gers are transferred at Hudson to
Cleveland and Pittsburgh trains. Some
thing handsome in the way of a pas
senger station will be erected at Huron
street, the terminus of the line in this
city, but work on this structure will not
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spring. The Company now has ten loco
! motives at work. Over a year ago an
| order was given for thirteen more. II
is expected that three of this order fol
thirteen will be delivered next week
two freight and one passenger. The
Company has an entirely Independent
telegraph line, operated by the COnnOt-
ton Telegraph Company.
STEUBENvILLE, CANTON Il CLEVELAND
Readers of the DEMOCRAT will recOllect
the project formed by number of citi-
| Zens of SteubenYille last fall to have the
| COnnOttOn line extended to their city
A company was organized under the
| title of the Steubenyille, Canton 81 Cleve'
land Railroad. Speaking of a meeting
of the directors of this company the
| Steubenyille Gazette says: We are au
| thOrized to say that Steubenyille now
has an opportunity to secure line Of
railroad competing with the Pennsyl
vania system such as was never before
offered, and this, too, at a comparatively
slight cost. We do not believe that Oul
citizens, when the proposition under
consideration is offered, will hesitate
one minute In availing themselves of it
Notwithstanding they will be required
| to furnish a reasonable amount o
money to secure the road to this point
| SPARKS AND SMOKE.
The Valley road is to be relaid will
steel rails from Cleveland to Boston
1t is probable that the entire line ma.
be so treated ere long.
George S. GriscOm will retire from tn
position of Superintendent of the East
ern Division of the Pittsburgh, For
Wayne & Chicago railroad on the 1st o
| December.
The work of changing the grade o
the Painesville & Youngstown road to
standard gauge has been commence
and the ties are being distributed alOnI
the line of road.
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