Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-27
From the National Aateligsnesr.

: ws Law before our readers the following in
.,.t;ng comparison of the relative cost of trans
ar,,tio1 on the Railway and Canal of the Lee
i;yh navigation company
'Tbs economy of transportation on the forty
= m,es of Canal and River navigation, but
Nv Canal. is to ourselves surprising, though
.'.tIr ;mputable to the great width and depth,
vsrv enlarged volume of the Lehigh Canal,
"b;cb il sixty feet wide and five feet deep.
.rbe Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has the same
,,;Jth. with the greater depth Of six feet.
The expense of transportation on the Maunch
Churk Railway, is moreover, without any charge
Interest on the capital expended in construct
,;n, the road &c.-rhe one cent per mile being,
- we understand, designed to defray the expense
,frepairing the Railway.
The cost of tolls on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal cannot exceed for any commodity, two
sent, per ton per mile. and if the transportation
=. i most certain) shall cost less than one cent
nor ton per mile, then three cents per ton per
mile will be the highest expense OF carriage on
mi. Canal: an expense chargeable,it Is presumed,
on those commodities which can best bear such
cost The cheaper products of lumber, coal, lisle,
SC. will of course pay less toll than merchandise
Of great value.
From the Leiigh Pioneer of .AprH Is.
RAIL ROADS.
We have observed with no ordinary interest, the
,,,s accounts of the Rail Roads. from Liverpool as
,rsI ,,other parts this globe of ours. The faci-
,;as If communication are evidently greatly i'm
nroyedby Rail Roads. The complete success of the
Novelty in her experiments for few hours on the
Liverpool Rail Road, is IN evidence OF great i'm
movement in her boilers, SO as to make her a
tgbter Engine than ever was before applied to To-
,om,rion. Her saving in-fuel is also considerable
Only requiring eighty-four pounds coke per hour
her power being equal toabout ten horses 1t would
.,, al twenty five cents bushei for biiuminous
coal, say but fifty cents an hour for fuel. aud as
he cost Of food for horse perday is thirty cents.
would pay for the keeping of twenty horses,
allowing her to work twelve hours each day. Bat
the Engine goes faster than horses, and would
mike her fuel about equal to the food of Nurse
power. She is therefore as cheap power as hor-
ses, provided an increase motion did 40, materi-
ally increase the wear and tear of Engine, Wa
yons and Road
As the Mauch Chunk Company have been in
practical operation with thei' Rail Road nearly
three seasods. and have had evecy facility at
tending Company's operations on Rail Road,
and also, in making and repairing Wagons and
road, every advantage which could be natu-
a.y expected has been possessed. there be-
ing a foundry on the ground belonging to the
Company, aud fuel cheap and water power IN
abundance for all these operations. Ali these
facilities combined, would, we apprehead, result
in producing the minimum average of the cost of
using said road. We have therefore sought and
procured an average statement of the work done
during the said three seasons. LII IS as follows:
On transportation of 81 .0s9 tons of coal.
Cost per ton-Cents.
Wear and Tear, and Repairing Rail
Road Wagons, ................ .....S.94S4
Oil for do. ................2293
Break ropes for do. ......'.... ........''O.1
Total expense of wagons, .............1l,5 74S
Hauling up to Summit-Hands& team, 7.4S7S
d. down from do. do DO. ISIS
S6.S754
The distance from the Mines to the Summit is
three tourhs of mile, and ascent fOrty-six feet;
distance from summit to end Of road eight and
quarter miles, and the descent 767 feet-making
the total distance nine miles:=S6 cents, Is four
cents ton per mile The wear and tear OF the
0ad is estimated at one cent ton per mile
IN, making tie total cost of transportation on
tbs Rail Road Exclusive of interest account
FIVE cents ton per mile.
At this time the same Company are noac paving
&4atip and find the boats from Mauch Chunk
10 EastOu. It is taken at present in rough arks.
composed Of four or five sections, carrying alto
seher IS tons Of coal, and the cost for the whole
distance of 46 miles is 81 cents ton.
The ark cost l55 dollars, and being made
non n will last, say twenty trips only, Is trip
TO which add s., is 58i=46 miles mills
one third ton per mile-being ONE SIXTH the
GoN per ton per mile of the transportation on the
Rail Road.
MARRIED.