Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — RAILROAD MATTERS. [ARTICLE]

RAILROAD MATTERS.

[The following paragraphs are extracted from a letter to us not written for publication:] Friend Davies: The.railroad article in the Gazette three weeks ago contained two errors of fact; and inasmuch as any misstatement of railroad matters, whether in relation to “Air-Tight” railroads or others, is apt to breed distrust in the Jasper people, I take the liberty to correct them. In Order to correct the error in regard to the connection east' of Tiffin, which is said to be at Lake Erie with the New York Central, and also for the purpose of showing in what estimation our roads are held by the New York people, I copy the following from the money article of the New York News of Jan- “ Railroad activity is being resumed; we have to mention two projects Which have taken decided hold, the first, General Ward’s project, called the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company, of which he is President. It extends from Little Valley, op the Erie Railroad, forty miles from the Dunkirk terminus, south-west across the State of Pennsylvania, to Crestline, in Ohio—(.’restline being the centre of a great many lines. This new line is an extension, practically, of the Erie Road from. New York. “The other new project is named the American Central Railroad Company, to run from Salem, on the Atlantic and Great Western Road, due west, to New Boston, on the Mississippi, opposite lowa State, forty miles south of Davenport. One hundred and twenty miles, o it of one hundred snd fifty six, of this rbad are already graded and ready for the iron,, and some thirty miles of ties have been delivered. At present there ara thre& companies, One in each of the three States through which the road runs. “R. C. Schenck, formerly member of Congress, and once our Embassador to Spain, is , President of the two companies in Illinois and Indiana, and R. G. Pennington is President of the line in Otiio. “The Atlantic and Great Western Road is being built by English capital. Theground has been surveyed by an English engineer, (Mr. Lunard,) in company with an agent of the London capitalists; and Mr,. Lunard returned home in the Asia, on Wednesday last, to render his report. One half of the line is already graded.” The Tiffin and Fort Wayne Railroad Company aj-c not not laying iron between Tiffin »ad : Fort Wayne, as stated! in the Gazette, but afe engaged in grading a portion of the line, east of Tiffin, between thatplace and New London, <»n the Cleveland. Cofnnibus

and Cincinnat i Railroad, and which, it is expected, will be extended to Salem, on the Atlantic and Great Western Road-, a 6 stated above; or rather, it is hoped, that the Atlantic and Great Western Company will run their road down to New London, and there Connect with our road, Mr. Redfield is now in New York, and has been for several weeks. He is to meet Mr. Schenok there, on the 20th. The railroad looks favorable, I must confess. If energy will do anything toward it, your people may as well consider it a fixed fact.