The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1906-02-02
What the Interurban Has Done
THE COLUMBIA, BUCKEYE LAKE &


NEWARK ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
The Columbus, Buckeye & New
ark electric railway has recently been
extended from Newark toZanesville.
Reports from thatsection show that
the value of properties in the villages
located on the line and farms along
the road have increased enormously.
Farm lands have changed hands
at the enormous increase of 100 per
cent, and are difficult to secure
even at that increased price.
FROM WELLINGTON 10 oBERLIN
Along the electric railway be-
tween Wellington and Oberlin,
when the same connects with the
Cleveland & Southwestern, land has
increased in value $40 per acre and
upward for distance of two miles
on either side of the road. The
price of milk has increased a dollar
per hundred since the road is in
operation. The right of way for
this road was furnished free to-
gether with a subscription for bonds.
Mr.. l.. H. Wadsworth, one of the
leading citizens of Wellington,
Ohio, says that the road has been
the making of the towns and town
ships, and that the electric railroad
has been of the greatest possible
benefit to that community.
THE COLUMBUS, BUCKEYE LAKE &
NEWARK ELECTRIC RAILWAY.
The Canton & New Philadelphia
electric railway, running through
the villages of Navarro, Beach City,
Strasburg to Canal Dover, where
the same connects with the Tus-
carawus traction company through
to New Philadelphia and Urichsville
has shown its influence on land
values along the line to remark
able degree, Resident properties in
the villages along these lines are in
great demand, and those for sale
are commanding high prices. Beach
City, which prior to the construc-
rAi9n of the road, could not support
b,ptel, has now most splendid
)yd hotel; besides it has secured a
! taendid manufacturing plant re-
moved there from the city.
In the village of Strasburg the
increased volume of business has
been wonderful, the people coming
a distance of ten miles to do busl-
ness at that place. 1t now has one
of the largest stores in central Ohio;
itM General store larger than
sS 1.-the city of Canton.
The people in the villages and
along the line have been benefited
so much that the farmers residing
near and the people residing in the
villages of Wilmot and Wlnesburg,
are now organizing to build an cleo
trio railroad to connect with the
Canton & New Philadelphia line at
Beach City through Wilmot, dis
lance of about ten miles. Exam
pies of this kind could be gwen
/lXhout limit, in Ohio alone.
\ Icdhe reasons for this wonderful
and astonishing increased value of
lands along electric lines, and resi-
dence and business properties in
the towns through which they pass
are so obviously apparent that even
the most stupid need not have them
pointed out to them.
NORTHEASTERN OHIO.
A very important electric railway
now in course of construction in
northeastern Ohio, is the road from
Warren through Cortland to Jeffer-
son to connect with the Jefferson
and Ashtabula railway, distance
of about thirty-ive miles. The
people along the above route fur
nished free right of way in addi-
ton to large subscription and
large subscription for stock and
bonds.
The Canton-Akron line, connect
ing \Akron and Canton, running
through the town of Uniontown,