Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-24
TWO NEW RAILROADS
starting from Lake Erie and Heading This
Way.

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Way.
SpsciaI 7elsgrdn 10 Lts Register.
COLUMBUS, o., March 23.-None 81
the incorporators and none OF the pYo-
jectors of the two companies organized
with the authority of the Secretary OF
State yesterday, to build railroadS be-
tween Cleveland and Steubenvipe, are
resident here. The articles OF incor-
poration do not lay down thefroutes to
be taken with satisfactory complete
ness, bnt from them the following facts
are secured:
The Grand River and Mahoning Rail-
way Company makes the mouth or
Grand river, where it empties into the
lake in Lake county, near Mentor, Gar
fields old home, its northern terminus.
The object probably is to make harbor
there and to establish, with the railroad
and a line Of lake vessels to be operated
by the same company, a big coal trade
in Eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania and west
Virginia coal with the Northwest. The
capital of this road is million dollars.
The incorporators are said to be Cieye-
land men, and it Is also said that
Cleveland wealth will build
the whole road. These incorporatOrs
are James Richie, Thomas Deering, Z.
J. Blandln, z. Upper and William c.
Rice. Blandin is lawyer and has
been on the Common Pleas Bench. He
is a Democrat, but somewhat erratic
and secured some national notoriety
three wears ago as the leader Of the OPP
position In the party to the election OF
Calvin 5. Brice to the United States
Senate. The others are capitalists or
moderate means and are supposed 70
represent the real prospectors OF the
road. That the company means bust
ness is indicated by the fact that the
capital is placed high and the lncorpo-
ration fee, 81 900, was paid TO the State
in bond. The mouth Of the Grand river
is twenty miles east Of Cleveland, but
the main offices of the company are to
be located in Cleveland. The fact that
the company makes no attempt to Sc
cure terminal facilities in Cleveland In
dicates that no attempt to secure pas
senger traffic is to be made.
The road is to run through the coun-
ties of Lake, GeaUga, Portage, Trum-
bell, Mahoning, Stark, Columbiana,
Carroll and Jefferson. What cities and
towns are to be touched by II can only
be guessed, as the articles Of incorpora-
tion do not state this.
The other company, the Ohio River,
Smithfield and Lake Erie road is incor-
porated with a capital stock OF only
$4,000. This is probably merely nomi-
nal. OF course that sum could not
build much railway, and it Is probable
that II will BIZ increased as soon as the
company has fully determined upon its
PURPOSES. The incorporatorS OF this
line are also Cleveland men. They are
the following: Hugh Hammond, Evan
II. Purviance, VIM. Hammond, George
w. Doty and Lewis McCleayer. They
are also capitalists, but not known as
railway builders.
They propose TO build road from
Cleveland TO Steubenville also, and to
pass through the counties Of Cuyohoga,
Summit, Portage, Carol, Harrison and
jefferson. The chief Offices are to be In
Smithfeld, jefferson county.
From the lines as laid out in the arti-
Giles of incorporation it is probable that
the Grand River and Mahoning road
will pass through Freedom, Ravenna,
Atwater, Belot and Bergholz, no at
tempt being made to reach the larger
cities.
The other road will probably touch
Cadiz junction, CarroltOn, Minerva,
Louisville, Kent and Hudson. These
are only SurmiSes, however, after look
ing over the line as described on State
map.