From the Cortland Standard of Cortland, NY
Tuesday, July 30, 1872

   And now the fare on the Midland between Cortland and Utica has been reduced to $2.17. The 6:25 a.m. on the Midland arrives in Utica at 11 a.m. and no change of cars. Returning, leave Utica at 6 p.m., arriving in Cortland at 10:50 p.m. The trains that leave this place at 2:50 p.m. arrive in Utica at 8:50 p.m. Ties are laid down into Lansing and Cayuga County.

   Since the withdrawal of the third train from the Ithaca & Cortland R.R., the work of ballasting has been pushed forward with much energy. They have the steam shovel of the Midland, which makes quick work in loading a gravel train. It is at present at work in the gravel bank below McLean. It will not take long at the present rate to make the road bed as smooth and solid as any new road can expect to be.