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’■lie .Hl’W Hallll d)'.The sui veyors of the new railroad to run from sonic point on the Lakeside and Marblehead railroad to Fremont, Tiflin, McCutchinsville and Cepei Sandusky will have the line iul»through to Upper Sandusky this week,and within the next ‘JO days it is expected that the work of securing the right of way will begin in dead earnest In fact considerable in that direction has already been done. The originalroute contemplated was front Violet, a point on the Lakeside \ Marblehead road about J miles east of MarbleheadJunction to Fort Clinton and tbenc* southerly through Bay township on the line recently grailed for the Fort Clinton Short Line toward Fremont About seven miles of grading for that roail has already been done and nego tiations have I men pending between the new company and the Short Lineparties for the purchase of the latteiVright of way and graded line as far at* parallel with the new line, but we nnd erst and that nothing has been accoinplished in that direction and that the new companv is now negotiating to leave Port Clinton oui and ran the new road direct from Marblehead Junction along the hayshore to Mud crc»*k where the present line passes and thence to Fremont andsouth. This woo Id shorten the iimand give a moie diieet route betweeu terminal points, l’lie charter stock*holders of the Tiflin Fremont U. li.Co.. as it isoflicmliy termed, are liIJaves, a sen of ex Fn sideiit Hayes, fS. White, Cfias, TilloUon, K. II. Buck land, of Fremont, an«t Mr. J. O. Sloan, of Lakeside. These gentlemen art well known of high standing. Tht new company has ample tlnanciai backing and there will be no lack of the money needed to construct I hino d if the people along the hue do tin fair thing. The road crosses no lesr than ten different railways between Marblehead and Coper Sandusky and will b.^ about t*~* miles long.
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Sandusky Daily Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 16, 1888
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