. The railway library . ie port, providing the new companywere given the old roadbed as it stood and the people of CarroUtonsubscribed $45,000 in stock. Public meetings were held and greatenthusiasm prevailed, with the result that in 1874 the CarroUton &Oneida Company donated its track and right of way to the Ohio &Toledo Company, receiving no return therefor, so far as known,and the people subscribed $32,000 in stock. After many tribulationsand failure to collect much of the stock subscription, the Ohio tS:Toledo, of which Gen. E. R. Eckley, of CarroUton, became president,succeeded in getting
. The railway library . ie port, providing the new companywere given the old roadbed as it stood and the people of CarroUtonsubscribed $45,000 in stock. Public meetings were held and greatenthusiasm prevailed, with the result that in 1874 the CarroUton &Oneida Company donated its track and right of way to the Ohio &Toledo Company, receiving no return therefor, so far as known,and the people subscribed $32,000 in stock. After many tribulationsand failure to collect much of the stock subscription, the Ohio tS:Toledo, of which Gen. E. R. Eckley, of CarroUton, became president,succeeded in getting a narrow-gauge track in operation betweenCarroUton and Minerva and extended it south into Dell Roy. In1877 E. G. Livermore, a New York banker, invested in the roadand put N. A. Smith in charge. Smith put the road in first-classcondition, extended the tracks to Sherrodsville, and eventuallysucceeded, after a bitter contest, in ousting the Eckley interestsfrom the management. Thus General Eckley, to whose efforts. —Courtesy of J. JV. Hclfrich, CarroUton, of the W. & L. E. R. R. 28 The Railway Library the people of Carrollton owed the fact that they at last had a realrailroad, found himself out in the cold and out of pocket. Many-lawsuits against the railroad followed, and on November 27, 1878,under an order of court, the road was sold to the highest bidder,the Cleveland Iron Company buying it in the interest of the Smithparty, who extended the line to Canton under the name of theYoungstown & Cannotton Valley, which was afterward changedto the Connotton Valley. In 1879 the first telegraph line wasstrung along the road, and Will J. Baxter was installed as the firsttelegraph operator at the Carrollton station. In 1881 the road, nowcontrolled by Boston capitalists, acquired pieces of track leading fromCanton to Zanesville and set out building connecting links. In 1883the main line was extended to Cleveland, and shortly afterwardto Coshocton, and on June 25, 1885, th
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