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The building itself, the most elegant and one of the most commodious in the city, is built in the Norman style, and is 46 by 96 feet, and contains 92 pews. The spire, which is in- tended to surmount the tower on the north-easterly corner will be 120 feet high. The interior of the church is ceiled un- der a steep roof in the form of a gothic arch, and, as well as the walls, is neatly frescoed. All the interior wood work is of beautiful butternut-wood varnished, which, with the stained glass of the windows, and the grave colors of the walls, im- parts a quiet mellow light in harmony with the place.
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This church is pleasantly and centrally situated a few steps from Cherry street, and cost with the lot, about $14,000.
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The history of this church, is briefly this :- In 1833, a Pres- byterian church was organized in Toledo, and had for its El- ders, Samuel I. Keeler, Merceno Fox, and Sylvester Brown. In 1841 it became a Congregational church ; soon after which a portion of its members went back to the Presbyterian form. In 1844, the two churches which had grown out of the original Presbyterian church, were re-united and formed the present church, which was soon after connected with the Maumee Pres- bytery, which relation it has continued to hold up to the pres- ent time. It now (March 1858,) numbers one hundred and fifty-nine members. Its Deacons are, Mavor Brigham, Hud- son B. Hall, and Salmon H. Keeler. Its standing committee, is composed of the Pastor, the Deacons, and David Smith, C. Waggoner, and D. E. Gardner. The Trustees of the society are, Matthew Brown, M. L. Collins, George Spencer, D. E. Gardner, and Wm. E. Parmelee. The present Pastor, Rev. Wm. W. Williams, has sustained this relation since 1853. The church edifice is on St. Clair street, between Jefferson and Madison streets.
TRINITY CHURCH, PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL.
Located south-east corner of St. Clair and Adams streets. Rector-Rev. H. B. Walbridge. Services 10} A. M., and 7} P. M.
BETHEL CHURCH.
The Bethel church, is a neat brick gothic structure on Lynn street. It was built by the Western Seamen's Friends Socie- ty, from funds chiefly subscribed by our citizens. Rev. S. D. Shaffer of the Methodist denomination, is at present the cler- gyman. Services 10} A. M., and 7} P. M.
FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
Located north-west corner Superior and Madison sts. Cler- gyman-Rev. Joseph Ayers. Services 10} A. M., and 7 P. M.
AMES CHAPEL, (METHODIST.)
Located Lagrange street, between Superior and Erie, east side. Clergyman-Rev. G. W. Collier. Services 10} A. M. and 7 P. M.
GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.
Located Huron street, between Walnut and Locust, north
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side. Clergyman-Rev. Sebastian Barth. Services 10} A. M., and 7 P. M.
GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH.
Located north-east cor of Scott and Allen sts. Clergyman- Rev. Henry Ashmeyer. Services 10} A. M., and 7 P. M.
ENGLISH CATHOLIC CHURCH. (ST. FRANCIS DE SALES.)
Located on Superior street, between Cherry and Orange, N. side. Pastors-Rev. William O'Conner and Rev. Charles Sedley. Services at 7, 9 and 10} A. M., and 3 P. M.
GERMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. (ST. MARIE'S.)
Located on Cherry street, between Ontario and Michigan, west side. Pastor-Rev Charles Everard. Services at 10 A. M. and 3 P. M.
FRENCH CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Located north-east corner Cherry and Erie streets. Pastor -Rev. Charles Everard. Services at 12 M.
GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Located on Huron street, between Elm and Chestnut, north side. Minister-Rev. Johann Dorfer. Services at 10 A. M. and 7 P. M.
GERMAN LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Located on Erie street, between Adams and Oak, south side. Minister-Rev. Charles Markscheffel. Services at 10 A. M., every Sabbath.
CEMETERIES.
Forest Cemetery-Between Lagrange and Elm street, west side of the Canal.
Catholic Cemetery-Tremainsville.
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TOLEDO.
TOLEDO.
. Toledo is situated on the west bank of the Maumee River, four miles from its mouth, and ten miles from Lake Erie, in latitude 41° 30' N., longitude 83º 20' W. Its population is about 15,000, showing an increase of about 390 per cent. since 1850. The river at Toledo is over half a mile in width, and forms a very ample harbor. To the eye of the stranger, the well defined headlands, extensive wharves and warehouses, the masts of the shipping, the railroads which cross the river and stretch away in various directions, present a scene in which the elements of commercial greatness are harmoniously blended with the richer beauties of landscape, forest and city. Sum- mit street, the principal business thoroughfare, is laid out par- allel with the river about two-thirds the length of the city, and stretches along the bank a distance of two miles. A part of this street is very compactly built with brick buildings, three and four stories in height, and exhibits at all times an active business appearance. The city was laid out upon the most liberal scale, and covers more territory than is actually needed for its present wants ; as a consequence, portions of it are but sparsely built, giving it a ragged and somewhat unpromising aspect. It has been not inappropriately likened to an immense skeleton, which needed but the flesh to give it form, beauty and power commensurate with its size and capacity. During the past five years this defect has been gradually disappearing, 32
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and the fair proportions of the full-grown city are agreeably foreshadowed as the work of improvement progresses-the streets are being filled up, the unsightly knobs of earth have yielded to the grade-tax, the mud-holes have been covered with stone pavements, and substantial residences are uniting lots and sections long disjoined for want of settlement. When completed, in accordance with the designs of its founders, To- ledo will be one of the most beautiful as well as convenient cities in the Union.
The opinion that somewhere at the western end of Lake Erie a large commercial city would spring up, is not of very modern origin, but no particular locality was selected for it, until during the period of real estate speculation, between the years 1834 and 1837. The excitement of that period, not unlike, in its effects, the excitement of a later period, that led to the rapid settlement of California, directed the attention of men of all classes, of the Eastern States, to the West. A glance at the map disclosed the commanding position of the mouth of the Maumee River. Hundreds flocked to it, and under the impression that a city of great magnitude was destined to grow up, speedily, public opinion became divided as to its pre- cise locality between the several towns of Perrysburg, Maumee City, Manhattan and Toledo. The obstinacy with which the inhabitants of each locality persisted in advocating its superi- ority over the others, was the occasion of permanent injury to them all-and to this prolific cause may be traced all the prejudices that so long have existed against the health of the Maumee valley-prejudices, but for which, Toledo would num- ber to-day at least double its present population. This spirit of rivalry, happily for all the interests of the valley, has sub- sided, and while, by general consent, Toledo emerges from it as the fortunate contestant, it has not been unaccompanied by favorable results to the beautiful villages of Perrysburg and Maumee.
The growth of Toledo, since the cessation of this local strife,
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has been proportionately greater than any of the other Lake cities during the same time-a fact which goes far to prove that it needed only this freedom from home warfare, to have long ago possessed many of the commercial facilities that have clustered lovingly around it since. As soon as it was generally understood that Toledo was the fortunate locality for the great city, the work of improvement commenced in earnest. Rail Roads were extended and projected, and no point in the West so speedily became the acknowledged focus of a more extensive commercial system. The transformation from an humble Lake port to an active Rail Road city, was effected with great rapid- ity, and the progress of improvements since, has almost defied calculation.
As we propose briefly to examine the claims of Toledo as a commercial point, we will notice in chronological order the various improvements of which it is the fortunate possessor. First, in point of time, is
THE WABASH & ERIE CANAL,
a history of which, in the narrative of Major Stickney, we have already given the reader. This great work furnishes an uninterrupted water communication between Lake Erie at To- ledo, and the Ohio River at Evansville, Indiana, traversing a distance of 460 miles, through the fertile valleys of the Mau- mee and Wabash Rivers, and passing through the towns of Defiance, Fort Wayne, Wabash, Peru, Logansport, Delphi, Lafayette, Attica, Covington, Montezuma, Terre Haute, Port Commerce and Petersburgh. The value of the lands through which it passes, and for the productions of which it furnishes an outlet in the States of Ohio and Indiana, at a very moderate estimate, exceeds one hundred millions of dollars. Of the 53,000,000 bushels of Corn raised in Indiana in 1850, more than one half grew on farms that are traversed by or tributary to this Canal, and yet, less than one-fourth of the territory bordering upon it, in that State, has been cultivated. One- seventh of all the Corn that found its way to tide-water in
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1848, was the product of the Wabash and Maumee vallies, and transhipped at Toledo, to which port it was transported by the Wabash and Erie Canal. The immense business opened with Toledo, by the completion of this Canal, was the first practical illustration furnished to the public, of her commercial facilities. Great as these were, in comparison with like facilities, in ports far in advance of her in population and general importance for several years, they either escaped appreciation, or were only noticed to be overshadowed by the fears of those who had been taught to regard our city as the abode of pestilence and death. Business, however, steadily increased, our forwarders and ware-houses increased in number, and our harbor, during the season of navigation wore an active appearance. Grain buy- ing grew into a strife-buyers went early and late to the towns along the Wabash, and crowded our docks awaiting the arrival of freighted boats. For several years previous to the comple- tion of the Miami and Erie Canal, Toledo derived her princi- pal commercial business from this thoroughfare, and since that period, though other connections have been established, and the trade and commerce of the city have greatly increased, it is gratifying to know that the first improvement is still the leading one in commercial importance, and in the magnitude of its results. Next to this we name the
MIAMI & ERIE CANAL,
which is a part of the same commercial system. This canal unites with the Wabash and Erie Canal, nine miles above De- fiance, and after passing through the flourishing towns of Del- phos, St. Mary's, Piqua, Troy, Dayton and Hamilton, termin- ates at Cincinnati. Its length is 247 miles. It was completed in 1845. It traverses the most fertile valley in Ohio, and furnishes a lake outlet to one of the finest corn-growing regions in the world. One-third of the sixty millions of bushels of corn grown in Ohio, in 1850, was the product of the Miami valley, a large portion of the surplus of this immense crop annually
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finds its way to tide-water through the Miami & Erie Canal, via. Toledo. The aggregate of exports and imports, by canal, at this port, after the completion of the Miami & Erie Canal, was increased about one-third in quantity and value, and this ratio, in relation to most articles, has been preserved ever since.
COMMERCE OF THE CANALS.
The entire trade by these canals is proportioned to the de- velopment of the country through which they pass, and in- creases pari passu with that development. This increase equals twenty-five per cent. per annum-duplicating itself every four years.
The falling off in receipts and shipments during the last year, is attributable to the great crisis in financial affairs. The ma- jor part of the crops of wheat and corn of last year, have nev- er been forwarded, but will be doubtless, during the present season, and make up in addition to the exports of the present, what they are deficient in the exports of the last season. The same will be measurably true of imports, though not to an equal extent.
The aggregate tonnage, for the seven years preceding 1856 has been as follows :
1849, 134,777. 1852, 322,381.
1850, 183,971. 1853, 327,893.
1851, 237,361. 1855. 208,296.
1854, 335,517.
The following table shows the comparative receipts and shipments for the past two years. These are generally smaller than they have been for any previous two years, since 1850, but in many of the leading articles they show a steady increase. This is the case with corn and merchandize.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT
Of the principal articles transported on the Miami & Erie Ca- nal to and from the Port of Toledo, during the fiscal years of 1856 and 1857, to Nov. 15.
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ARRIVED.
CLEARED.
ARTICLES.
1856.
1857.
1856.
1857.
BARRELS.
Ale and Beer
4
2
171
136
Beef
10,669
6,276
52
Flour
116,306
84,629
497
415
Fish
97
293
3,390
1,641
Oil, (linseed)
506
327
51
110
Oil, (lard)
1,736
716
143
137
Pork
32,134
9,991
84
Salt ..
75,340
72,775
Whiskey
11,569
19,093
488
550
Oth'r domestic Sp'ts BUSHELS.
3,412
444
271
27
Barley ...
1,302
61,133
8,377
Corn.
2,258,069 1,005,351
5,451
58
Coal, (mineral).
1,166,432
7,530
Meal
1,276
180
Oats
76,941
62,188
9,509
Potatoes ..
569
717
6,134
6,189
Malt.
1,493
50
Nuts, (U. S.,).
428
Seeds, (clover,)
364
289
Seeds, (other grass,)
8,000
20
4
Seeds, (flax,).
1,826
Rye
13,636
2,960
2,815
4,424
Wheat.
986,732
727,223
46,855
12,097
Shorts & Ship-st'ffs. POUNDS.
80,036
Butter ..
81,070
108,932
Burr blocks.
8,000
Baggage and Furn't.
119,997
35,129
Broom-corn
2,176
43,427
Bacon & Pork, bulk, 6,314,906
374,469
Cheese
474
Coffee.
8,062
1,722
17,785 387,232
52,729
Cot'n Y'ns & Batt'g
2,102
2,736
10,814
640
Carp. & Join. Work
14,520
76,419
Candles.
19,563
2,790
335
210
Clocks.
1,695
6,180
Crockery .
763
1,300
282,011
27,451
Eggs
...
14,309
82,507
Fruit, (dried,).
771
1,900
114 3,000 100,545
128,744 17,776
5,823
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TOLEDO.
ARRIVED.
CLEARED.
ARTICLES.
1856.
1857.
1856.
1857.
POUNDS.
Fruit, (undried,) .....
3,580
23,350
17,453
4,120
Feathers
1,925
1,981
Furs and Peltries
14,202
6,248
Grease
366,264
Grindstones
355,735
102,042
Glass & Glassware ..
9,252
235
57,925
19,047
Hides and Skins.
689,783
117,683
5,860
3,050
House Goods
58,517
21,226
Hair.
655
4,210
2,566
Gypsum
21,000
146,300
Hay.
14,000
Iron, (pig or scrap,)
649,800
140,320
42,591
11,283
Iron, (wrought,) .....
354,426
947,370
826,489
380,130
Iron, (railroad,)
117,457 29,624,186 1,621,486
Lard
2,427,266
509,907
2,260
Leather
50,224
32,850
123,178
21,403
Machinery
89,548
55,164
205,957
92,307
Merchandise
289,727
494,045
4,756,903 3,961,646
Marble, (unwr'ght,)
2,615,630 3,678,813
Marble, (wrought,) ..
7,860
10,981
27,245
917
Molasses
691,868
96,246
316,917
13,930
Nails and spikes. ...
345,243
189,354
467,451
14,470
Oil Cake ...
5,925,547|4,655,057
1,055,138
647,035
Paper
2,700
55,652
5,603
Potter's ware.
198,219
16,746
15,213
Powder
2,700
257,317
485,275
Pot & Pearl Ashes ..
385,822
323,324
Rags
20,049
25,700
Rice
738
2,784
Sand.
80,000
Slate Roofing. Saltpetre
12,440
Soda Ash
88,683
Sugar
773,936 1,228,419
207,815
1,215,945
43,896
Sundries
196,748
Tallow.
270,191
201,898
Trees and Shrubs.
62,976
Tobacco, (not man'f)
648,942
401,095
121,191
Tobacco, (manuf'd,)
26,527
33,896
5,802
Wool
150,178
37,912
492,566
3,372,998
150,816
Ore, (Iron,)
262
TOLEDO.
ARRIVED.
CLEARED.
ARTICLES.
1856.
1857.
1856.
1857.
POUNDS.
Wooden Ware
13,840
820
27,376
8,308
White Lead.
6,989
7,805
1,850
Railroad Chairs.
65,898
Brimstone
Hams & Shoulders ..
573,629
9,319
NUMBER.
Barrels, (empty,) ...
3,203
4,826
717
308
Brooms ..
5,460
3,132
108
48
Hoop-poles.
5,008
53,000
48,000
Brick
125,000
20,285
68,000
Posts and Rails
2,240
Staves & Heading ... 2,393,091 2,004,452
20,200
Shingles
14,000
3,760,500
Lath
10,400 4,805,350 3
4,530,750 6,817,456 67
Wagons, &c.
FEET.
Lumber
2,404,126 1,128,035 6,022,989 11,140,646
Timber
63,161
13,210
210,448
PERCHES.
Dress'd & r'gh Stone CORDS.
3,385
1,173
18
20
Wood ..
2,416
2,751
44
Shingle Bolts.
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M. BRIGHAM, Collector.
LAKE TRADE.
The following table, kindly furnished us by MR. DENNETT, Deputy Collector of this Port, exhibits the Lake trade of Toledo during the past season-a season more adverse to Lake business than any since 1836 :
LAKE COMMERCE OF TOLEDO, FOR 1857.
RECEIPTS.
Ale, Bbls.
526
Brimstone, tons.
253
Coal, tons.
13,881
Fish, bbls.
2,277
Glass, boxes
2,715
263
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Horses, No .. 465
Iron, (Railroad,) tons
3,767
Iron, (bar, &c,).
266
Iron, (castings, machinery, &c.,) ..
485
Lumber, feet.
29,170,000
Lath, No ...
9,154,000
Marble, tons ...
2,708
Merchandize, tons.
25,458
Nails and spikes, kegs
5,928
Plaster, tons
401
Powder, tons.
287
Salt, bbls.
119,881
Salt, bags.
104,300
Shingles, No
10,049,000
Sulphur, casks.
165
Water-lime and Cement, bbls
6,027
Wagons, No.
125
SHIPMENTS.
Ashes, Pots, casks.
1,565
Ashes, Pearls, casks.
371
Beef, tierces.
10,711
Butter, bbls.
101
Butter, kegs
1,330
Cattle, No.
21,207
Corn, bush
1,295,346
Eggs, bbls.
1,023
Flour, "
186,798
Furs, bales
128
Hams and Shoulders, tierces
4,411
Hides, (dry,) No.
10,804
Hides, (green,) No
9,069
Highwines, bbls
5,613
Hogs, No ..
34,360
Horses, No.
65
Lard, bbls.
1,587
Lard Oil, bbls.
1005
Leather, rolls
393
Lumber, feet.
8,674,000
Oil Cake, tons.
2,487
Oats, bushels
109,038
Pork, bbls
16,185
Rye, bushels
15,600
Sheep, No.
18,272
Skins and Pelts, bdls
565
33
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TOLEDO.
Square Timber, cubic feet.
399,000
Ship Knees, No
2,072
Staves, No
6,304,000
Tallow, hhds.
408
Tobacco, hhds ..
608
Wheat, bushels
1,303,720
Whiskey, bbls.
9,289
Wool, bales
4,860
NUMBER OF VESSELS
Entered and cleared at this port, during the year 1857, with the aggregate tonnage of the same :
Number.
Tonnage.
No. of Men.
Vessels entered from Canada ports
45
7,792
379
Vessels cleared for Canada ports, ..
40
8,279
387
Vessels entered coastwise, ..
..
1,412
504,615
18,698
Vessels cleared coastwise, ..
1,374
496,086
18,392
Total
2,871 1,016,772
37,856
With these views, our object being to render this sketch as brief as will be consistent with the magnitude of the subject, we take leave of the Canals and Lake Trade.
Toledo is the grand centre of an extended and wisely loca- ted system of Railroads, now, in its arterial lines, rapidly approaching completion. These Railroads are eight in num- ber, and consist of the following :
Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana.
Air Line & Chicago.
Toledo & Jackson.
Toledo, Monroe & Detroit.
Cincinnati, Dayton & Michigan.
Cleveland, Norwalk & Toledo.
Cleveland, Sandusky and Toledo.
Toledo, Wabash & Western.
We propose to examine these in the order in which they are named.
The Southern Michigan & Northern Indiana extends from
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Toledo, on a circuitous route, to Chicago, and, as indicated by its title, passes through portions of Indiana and Michigan- and from Chicago, under the name of the Chicago & Rock Island Road it pushes on to the Mississippi, which it crosses by a bridge, and continues to Iowa City, on its way to Council Bluffs-thus having its location in the four States, first born of the ordinance of 1787. It crosses the peninsula formed by Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron and Michigan, passing through some of the most flourishing and beautiful villages in Michigan and Indiana, and furnishing the finest wheat-growing region of those States with speedy access to a Lake harbor. The coun- try tributary to this Road is under high cultivation, full of fine water powers, many of which have been extensively improved by the erection of some of the best mills in the Union.
We give below a brief statement of the business of the Road the past season, which is to be considered with all due allowance for the effect of the financial embarrassments, and and general depression in all classes of business .
The No. of tons transported over the M. S. & N. I. R. R. during the year 1857, was 234,804, composed as follows :
Products of the forest, tons
48,941
66 66 Animals, "
15,148
Of vegetable food and other agricultural products, tons 67,132 Manufactures, tons 17,488
Merchandise,
75,207
Miscellaneous.
10,888
Total
234,804
Movement and earnings of above :
MOVED. TONS.
EASTWARD. EARNINGS.
MOVED. TONS.
WESTWARD. EARNINGS.
Through freight .... 11,207
$54,052 64
40,414 $241,737 42
Interior to termini.68,438
186,694 70
29,638
80,824,81
Termini to interior 7,578
20,740 06
34,747
150,167 69
Interior circulation.20,803
39,833 68
21,979
28,459 95
108,026
$301,321 08
126,778 $501,189 87
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RECAPITULATION.
TONS.
EARNINGS.
Eastward.
108,026
$301,321 08
Westward ..
126,778
501,189 87
234,804
$802,510 95
We have not the means of contrasting this with the state- ments of previous years, but it is necessarily much smaller, as are also the passenger statistics, which we append, when sub- jected to a similar contrast :
PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR 1857.
First class Passengers transported. 491,545
Second «
66
13,470
Third 66
66 66 29,534
Total 534.550
Of which there were-
GOING EAST.
Through Passengers. 54,621
Way 66
182,347 --- 236,968
GOING WEST.
Through Passengers 105,390
Way
192,211
-- 297,581
Whole No 534'550
No road in the west has done a larger passenger business, or returned to its owners a more liberal interest on its cost. Its freight business is large and increasing. So rapid indeed, has been the annual increase of its business, that its managers deemed it expedient to build another Road from Toledo to Chicago on a more direct route, traversing a different section of the country, but of equal fertility, which is called the
TOLEDO AND CHICAGO AIR LINE.
This road connects with the S. M. & N. I. R. R. at Goshen, Indiana. It reduces the distance between Toledo and Chicago to 231 miles. In every particular it is the model road of the west. No grade on it exceeds twenty feet to the mile, and
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TOLEDO.
coming eastward, the direction of its heaviest freight, the great- est grade is ten feet. It is built upon an air line for the first 78 miles, and the curves on the remainder are very few and easy. The road bed is prepared with a view to a double track, as soon as the travel demands it. It is the speediest route be- tween Toledo and Chicago-and now that the Toledo and De- troit Road is completed, opens a new route between the latter city and Chicago, which can be traversed as quickly as the route by the Central Rail Road, which it does not much ex- ceed in distance, but greatly excels in speed and safety. It has the same termini as the former road, running to Chicago on an almost due west line, and in consequence of the rapid divergence of the M. S. & N. I. Road to the North, is so wide- ly removed in its location, that its local interests do not in any way conflict with that road, but penetrate a new section of country, which already furnishes a large and profitable local business. The great point sought to be attained in the con- struction of this road was to bring Chicago and Toledo together on the shortest practicable line -- and this has been accomplish- ed on nearly an air line. The extent and character of the travel between the Northwest and the Eastern States, and the competition which was growing up through Canada and De- troit by the Great Western and the Central Michigan Railroads rendered the construction of the Air Line necessary to the re- tention of the vast tide of of travel.
The equated distance through Toledo and her line of roads to Chicago is less than over the Michigan Central. This fact will have its influence on travel. It was by forced marches, saving time by minutes, that Napoleon gained his great victor- ies, and the temper of the American people seems to be of the. same character. The route that will save 15 minutes time, will, other circumstances being equal, command the preference.
An important branch road, connecting the main trunk of the S. M. & N. I. R. R. with the Michigan Central, is known by the name of the
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TOLEDO AND JACKSON RAIL ROAD,
which extends from Adrian to Jackson, and is to be continued ultimately to the mouth of Grand River. Besides furnishing a new connection with Chicago, and opening to trade a very im- portant section of Southern Michigan, this road gives us ac- cess to the inexhaustible beds of fine mineral coal, recently discovered in the city of Jackson and vicinity. This coal has been tested, and found to possess superior qualities for manu- facturing purposes. It can be afforded at Toledo, at rates that render the expediency of engaging in manufactures of all kinds, at this point, no longer a problem. This road is but recently opened, but it promises to become of immense importance in the future local prosperity of our city.
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