The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-03-28
POTOMAC RIVER.

boa, carrying 25 tons bur,hen, will BIO
grabbed to go up the river course, with
the same facility she goas down the
| navigation on the canal will be always
good, except when C losed BY ice. The
present condition of the navigation on
Potomac river, has heen explained. and
the difference in these Important respects
is too glariog TO requieS additional COM
ment
| In order TO see the immediite effect
OF cutting canal from tide water to
| Cumberland, 1t is necessary to ascertain
the amount OF tolls now taken on the
roads leading from and through those dis.
lricts OF countiy,.which will avail them
selves of the cheaper conveyance by ca
nal, as from I,eesbnrg to Alexandria and
Georgetown, and from Uniop,own bv
Hagers;owu, Boonsborough, frederick
town, &c. TO Baltimore and Georgetown,
the tolls now taken on these rUads and
also at the Great Falls of Potomac, NAV
be 5 or 3 times increased in the amount
of the canal and still in conse quence of
the great saving i'll freight, as above STA
led and exemplifed IL the cost of trans
portation to The owner of the produce
or goods, will be greatly eheSpsy than it
now Is by the road.
but by far the greater part Of the toll
received on canals generally, and like
wise on this canal, viii accrue on those
articles, which are too bulky TO be trans
ported TO any considerable distance by
roads or the present navigation fhe
use OF these necessary, although cheap
articles, is now almost wholly denied 10
large inland population. and such as
the ioterior affords, excluded for the
seabosrds; among these are fuel, the
materials for building, and certain arti
cles OF food for domestic use to witt
Goals, cordwood, and charcoal, lime, SLATE,
arble, iron, timber, potter's earth, and
and tanners bark (; Indian Germ, oats,
barley. sailed beef, pork, cider, fruit,tar,
lurpsntine, &C. The supply OF these
ar,ieis= 50 t-gs-.hls-is,-Ss ss--5s, ts,tSai5s8za
OF the Potomac and its branches, are
| literally inexhaustible, tor which there
| will he growing demand. These will
constitute articles entirely new to the
commerce, between the interior and the
seaboafd.
The chief articles al present eXChang,
ed by the interior with the seaboard-
are flour, hemp, fax, wool, bacon, lard,
"hiskey, tobacco, ginseng, taliow, bees
YAK, pearl ashes, live cattle, hogs, and
horses
The productions for which will be
created market altogether new, and
those of the seaboard and of commIIce,
for which the demand will inCrCass ~
consequence of opening canal, arc,
plaster OF paris, salt, tish-oii, fish, alt the
other productions OF The river, and every
kind of foreign merchandise.
The fisheries on the rivers emplying
into the Chesapeake, will be doubled IL
value the coasting trade of the Chess
peake will be increased, ship building
will be promoted and in fine, the states
will feel the beneficial effects Of such an
improvement IN every quarter and ex-
tremity of their territory.
The article of coal, which is found in
such profusion in the vicinity ofthe North
Branch OF the Potomac, of quality C.
quail TO the best Liverpool coal, in The
event Of the completion of the canal,
may be afforded in Georgetown for 90
| cents, making full allowance for freight
and tolls, at the same rates as paid by
grain and more valuable articles; and if
on such cheap bulky articles of the first
necessity the freight and tolls are ratea
bly lowered, as would be polite and rea-
soHable, it may be furnished az 16 cents
or less. The price may be thus ascer.
tanned surprising ton or 2, 240 lbs. TO
pay | cent freight and one cent toll per
mile, and where The pits are OF o miles
| emoved from navigation, as is the ease
of those near Cumberland, and the coal
have to be carried THAI distance to tie
canal in wagons, the price will be
For wsgening bushel 10 miles 6 cts.
Price and digging bushel Q
Freight for 100 miles 6
Tolls for the same distance 6
90
The usual load of wagon on our
turnpike is stated at s tons a boat, one
man, boy and horse, will be equal for
transportation then, TO more than wa
CONS, men and 30 horses, each travel
ling at the same rate Of distance in equal
time. A ejaculation is hereto annexed
mar ked ID which shews that taking
into view the daily expenses, interest on
outfit and wear of the wagons, men and
,orses required 10 transport 25 tons,
and the same expenses, interest and
Sear Of boat. man, boy and horse, re-