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CHAPTER XXXII
RAILROADS IN ERIE COUNTY
The report of the Board of Public Words of Ohio, of January 16,
1838, shows the following named railroad companies then chartered and
receiving subscriptions by the state to their capital stock: The Ohio
Railroad Co., the Monroeville & Sandusky City Railroad Co., the Painesville
& Fairport Railroad Co.
The board in its report of February 9, 1838, slates that the estimated
cost of the Monroeville & Sandusky City Railroad Avas $56,000, of which
the amount the company was entitled to from the state if the Avork was
completed Avas $18,666, and the amount of credit already loaned was
then $14,667.
In addition, the report SIIOAVS that applications had been made to
the board from the following railroad company, of Avhich the plans
and estimated cost of each work had been approved by the board as
follows:
The Ohio Railroad, estimated cost $1,975,413
Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad, estimated cost.. 1,200,000
Little Miami, estimated cost 596,060
For these the anticipated loan of credit if they should be completed
Avere:
Ohio Railroad $658,371
Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad 400,000
Little Miami Railroad 198,686
To the Mad River & Lake Erie $100,000 had been paid by special law.
On the 5th of March, 1842, the commissioners of the canal fund, in
a special report to the Legislature, stated that the folloAving amounts
had been advanced by the state to railroad companies:
Lake Erie & Mad River , $270,000
Monroeville & Sandusky City 33,333
, «Painesville & Fairport 6,182
Ohio Railroad 249,000
Little Miami 115.000
Vermillion & Ashland 44,000
These six Avere the first railway enterprises in Ohio receiving aid
from the state, and four of them crossed portions of the Firelands. The
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