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Our Railroad.The following article frcm .llio Steubenville Daily Union, of the 18th insl., will be rein I with interest by uur numerous readers. Wo ure gl.td, (as our realm will be,) lu learn that the work on ilie road is progressing bo finely. Wo trust that our friend Stuart's predictions about the road being completed to Cadiz against next Au'umn, may be fully realized. Things look encouraging. 1'iixli on the work, and let us have, u railroad to Cadi*. But to the Unions article:—The Steubenville and Indiana Railroad—Its Progress.' The completion of this road is looked to I anxiously, not only by the people in this sedition, but by llie public generally, giving as . it will m connection with the Pittsburgh an 1 I Steubenville road, the ahtr:ext mid most di-I rent route between all the large eastern cities and the centre of Ohio and the west. It■ gives us pleasure therefore to slate that tbo , work is poshed with nil the speed that human hands and energetic minds cun acCom-I pltslf.(tn section 0 a bad slip lias occurred 1 which will take some time to remove, but the arch is half turned at Wells' and otherwise the work is nearly completed.Section I will be completed by the middle of January.1 Section 3 is finished down to nrai Cross Creek—a week or two with favorable weath-■ er and it will be completed. The switch from the rircr comes in near the upper end of this section. The iron has been laid on the switch anti the track layers are now working ou the upper end o’( the section, following down iho graders and levellers.Section .'*■ begins with the bridge at Cross Creek. The limbers for the bridge have all I been prepared, and they are nos being j hauled to the ground. U will bo up by ! January, and the grading of llio section,I cnibr icing some very heavy work, will also ; be completed by the same period.Section 3. 4 and 6 will be graded by January 1st. Sections G and 7 are already graded. Seotion 8 will be done by 1st of February nnd 0 by 1st January. 10 is dona 4'11 will be finished by iho first of Februaff12 will bo done by the first of Januaryg* On section 13 is a tunnel 475 feet lr420 feel is already driven. Mr. Urban contractor, is working at both ends, if and day, nnd pledges himself to coot', his wotk by the last of February. The ncl to be arched most of iho way with l»g much of whiall is already completed. ” flection 14 will bo done on the first ot If ruary, nnd IS and IG on lk« first of Ma''1;Soction 17 has a tunnel on it IJStJ*! long. Mr. Kelley ia the contrnctot^i,s. working from both £nds has already it' l,e it 900 feet. Section 18. Mr. Fox poutia^1, has also a tunnel. It is nine bundreu/i” n long und is worked from both ends, anijr‘‘ already been driven COO feet. The sections are comparatively light work, comes section 25, (Mr. SalsLury’s.) ■ is a tunnel 1350 feel long, with a lienv—Croach at one end. But one of the end »tn driven and the hill 1ms been cr 700 feel. The whole of these sections tf 17 to 25 inclusive) will be compli'tetriy' tho first of May—Iho tunnels being xyorked steadily night and day with double Wbts of bands.It is expected that the Iron will be laid i___the roal bo in running order up to section 25 by midsummer It will bo remembered that the lettlnaj tbo above work only took place one M ago. None of the contractors stipulated have their sections done before tho 1st _ the coming June. And tie history of such works shows that they ore never cortplt. until months nfter the time agreed n»n.. The fact that (lie heaviest of these *$ will be completed a month earlier Ilia time agreed upon, shows the oner directory and the steadiness with have kept nn early completion in t At section *6 the Cadi* Branch I It will be about seven miles long, lisement* will soon be issued f salt fui the grading, A c, and the first town put in cu
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The Democratic Sentinel and Harrison County Farmer
Cadiz, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 22, 1852
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