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Oil City to Ashtabula by Franklin Branch of Lake Shore and Michigan 
Southern Railway. 
| Above 
ocean, 
Oil City, | uUxXecep ted elevation i. et ceaen eects ch tre ene 1008 
Stoneboro’... | 160 |Above Oil City by L, S. & M.S. profile (IGOR ais, 6 1168 
sf é | 1171 ss ocean x (CS Sag sue 
v2 op Roe cen ed i LW eg? rg by N.C. G FB. Sod) Pe (EXSY) Stes! ee 
oe a PCAG 3 Too high on LS. & Nr. 3 baaweal gion chy eageke 
SS ed| 3 | ING (CGR P SAR Mar mek whose <r 
Salem Crossing.) 184 Below Stoneboro’ by i. s 8. & M.S. profile (XII)... .} 954 
re ) | 987 ‘Above ocean A CSU) aay ON 
% sf 982 | by ae & G. W. * (IX) 
> or 8 |Too high on L. S. & M.S i 
a = 91 low .* Al & GW. a 
Jamestown... 3 Above Salem Crossing by LS -&M, S. profile (1D). 987 
es oc ally CED & ocean ee XII). 
i Bin fot Pate) oes ce E. & P. =f (XID 
He are 3 |Too high on L. S. & M.S. Wy : 
zt 2: S| bere LOW ae» ae Eni auel> rs A) ee. 
Ashtabula ...| 342 Below Jamestown by L.S Ss. & M.S S. profile (XID Son h (ee 13) 
we ...| 648 |Above ocean Fe fi a0 
oe RES 3 |Too high on “ a ue (b) : 
(a) The two depots here are not on precisely the same level, but there 
certainly cannot be 11’ difference in their elevations. The E. & P. ap- 
pears to be wrong wherever we check it. 
(b) These levels, according to profile, run into Ashtabula at the proper 
elevation (74.52) to agree with the levels of the main line which are ac- 
cepted as correct. But itis hard to explain why the Franklin Branch 
overruns the A. & G. W. at Salem Crossing, at Franklin, at Reno, and at 
Oil City, while the same levels of the L. 8. & M.S&., taken at Erie Cross- 
ing and Carried to Union City by the P. & E. Railway, run under the A. 
& G. W. at that place. The P. & E. levels from Erie to Union City were 
re-run but no error could be discovered there. We have no ground for 
charging the whole mistake to the A. & G. W., for their levels, as will be 
seen in another place, bear every evidence of more than ordinary precision 
from Salamanca to ete It would appear as if the Franklin Branch 
of the L. 8. & M. 8. had been started from a higher point than that given 
on the main line as Mara But this, of course, is an inference only and 
may be entirely wrong. f 
From Pittsburgh to Stoneboro’ by Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago 
to Homewood, New Castle and Beaver Valley to New Castle and Frank- 
lin to Stoneboro’. 
Above 
ocean 
| 2 i = Es earns ot MESS 
Pittsburgh. Accepted Sle VATIONS, sunk. Shi ita bdelameet aude > ue Sioa otcee a caine | 745 
Homewood.| 204 |Above Pittsburgh by P. F. W. & C. profile(XVI).....| 949 
New Castle.| 147 Below Homew ood by N.C. &B.V.5 “ (CVO SE ee | 802 
“ “| 809 |Above ocean by E. & iee * (XIII) (a). 
Ae ss 7 |Too high on we 
Stoneboro’.} 3868 |Above N. Castle by he CacaBe Romie (OXGV))iy espn eens | 1170 
ce LEON EE O. City by L. S. & M. Ss. profile (XID) accepted (b),.) 1168 
ee By) lila |p ocean a 
ve cal NG. eee ING (OR ee 1s fe (CINDY eo alg 
es . 2 | Too high by lev els br ought from Pittsburgh....... 
ie . 3 on L.8. & M.S. profile Sinel vious), “elles ‘elie Seem eee 
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