The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-20

| From comparison of the description which
is given of all the works, both in Pennsylvania
and Maryland, with the surveys which have
been had here, it cannot fail to be seen, that we
have few of the same difficulties to overcome,
which are found in those States. The country
here, is less broken into deep and precIpItous
inequalities of surface, the elevation is no where
so great for like distance OF way upon any
proposed route for a road, the earth is OF KIND
more easy of removal and graduation, and ma
terias are both more abundant and better suit
ed to the construction of the tracks The
courses of location, also, are, in the general,
more direct. 1t would seem, too, from the In
formation furnished us, that the work, even
there, may be constructed at a rate, having re-
gard to the character of the ground, as low as
the estimates which have been made with u.s.
Iron for the rails has actually been obtained at
less cost, and some contracts for excavatlng
and removing earth and preparing the way for
the rails, have recently been entered into, at a
price below the allowance in the estimates OF
our own Engineers. These latter Circumstance
es are particularly deserving of note, as FORTH
flying the reliance which may be placed upon
the sufhciency of fermer calculations tor slml-
lar works in this Commonwealth.
In the prosecution of the inquiries to which
cur attention has been directed, we have been
called to receive in astonshment, the accounts
which are given, of recent experiments IN
England, upon the capacity and adaptation of
steam carriages as self-moving power over
Rail Roads. This invention promises to pro.
duce a new era in the business and arrange
ments of society. The effects which are to
result from it can hardly be comprised by the
anticipation of the most sanguine. Distance
is lost in the application of this power to the
purpose of conveyance. A rate of travelling
with a velocity Of from 90 to 80 miles the hour.
is fully demonstrated to be within the capacity
of these engines, and the ease, safety and econ
omy of this mode of despatch are made equally
apparent. Thus will intercourse OF every des-
crption be facilitated. Places of market here
tofore considered too remote from each other
for REORGANIZATION, will be rendered easily
accessible The labor bestowed upon transpor.
tation will be spared to purposes of production
and that diffusion of wealth which is the fruit
of trade extended through city and country,
! from the mart of commerce to the field of the
! husbandman's culture, and through the work
shops of the mechanic and manufacturer, will
| be richly experienced. Whenever the time
shall arrive for the introduction of the machine.
into the United States, the inexhaustble beds
of coal which have been discovered will supply
abundant fuel for the engines, while the ways
over which these move, will render the facility
and cheapness of that supply, the strongest in
( NuOCmCHS W bllcH use. eHllTS COnH
dence to the accounts Of the experiments to
which we have referred. we deem it proper to
offer TO the Legislature, as part of the informa.
ton which may be expected from part of this
Report, various extracts from periodical publ.
cations in Europe, to show greatly the advan.
tages heretofore proposed from Railways, are
increased in prospect by recent discoveries
! The Directors are not aware, in conclusion
that there is any thing for them to add to the
Report of their Committee, which, in connex.
ion with the communication of Colonel Long
the extracts before referred to, together with
the foregoing remarks, will present all the in
formation of which they are possessed, upon
the subjects of inquiry proposed by the orders
of the Legislature, and in compliance with
which, the same is respectfully submitted.
LEVI LINCOLN.
NATHAN HALE.
| DAVID HENSHAW.
GEORGE BOND.
THOMAS w. WARD.
WILLIAM FOSTER.
ROYAL MAKEPEACE.
Boston, Jan. 10, 1890