Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-31
TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 81, 1881.
CANALS AND RAIL ROADs-No. I'LL.


renee that The friends of Canals ground their
confidence in the superior advantages of this
mode Of Internal Improvement In the Ohio
State Journal ofthe 18th inst.the following short
account Of the Ohio Canal Is given:
awe understand, that on that part of the OHIO
Canal which has been finished, a very active
commerce is now carried on. An immense
amount Of the surplus products OF our fertile
soil was deposited on the banks of the Canal dur
ing the last winter, for the purpose OF being
transported to market, and although the boats
have been busily engaged for about month past,
in carrying it off, the quantity in store at the Sc
veral places Of deposit is very little diminished,
If at alI so rapidly is it still brought in from the
country. The quantity of produce IN store for
expectation, at the opening of Canal navigation
this spring, was supposed to be more than equal
to the total amount exported during the Whole
Of the last year.
1--WE are informed that large quantity of
Orleans sugar has been conveyed in steamboats,
up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to Marietta;
thence up the Muskingum to Dresden in keel
boats, and from thence on the Ohio Canal, to
Cleaveland on Lake Erie: where it was delivered
nearly as cheap as it could have been purchased
IN the city of New York. This branch of trade
will be much much facilitated by the completion
of the Canal to Portsmouth. Thus we see that
the predictions of the friends of the Canal poll
cy, "that the Ohio Canal, when completed, will
serve as part Of great channel of inter-commu-
uication between the north aud the south, open
ING a commercial intercourse, west of the Allie
shany mountains, similar in extent and impor-
lance to that carried on between the northern and
southern States east of the mountains, By means
Of the Atlantic is beginning to be verified
1.-The business on the Canals of this State is
increasing from year to year with great rapidity;
and the increase during the present, bids fair to
be vastly greater than that OF any preceding
year. 1t will probably fully equal the anticipa-
tons of its warWest friends"
The State OF UAO may well boast, as her sister
New York does, Of her Canals. These CONNER
cial veins and arteries circulate throughout her
borders the life blood of wealth and prosperity;
they are of more value than mines of gold and
silver; time will but increase their beneficial re-
suits.
We find the annexed notice of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal. in the New York American:
60 Deia,care and Hudson CdndL-The trade
on this Canal has, this season, thus far exceeded
the anticipation of its friends. For the week
ending On the 18th Of May, there arrived at I'd
dysville. 1.-THE tide iock,) ia boats; al of which
were laden with coal. During the same period,
there arrived IS RATS, and cleared LOG boats
Up to the 9TH of May, there had passed over
the Company's railroad $4,000 feet of lumber;
and up to the 18th of May, H. 800 tons of coal.
Merchandise has passed this season by the
route of this canal, to Wilkesbarre. and its vci-
nifty, Pennsylvana; and it is supposed that much
Of The trade of that section of country will be
done through this Canal.
..Since the opening of the Canal, the Company
have been actively and steadily transporting coal
from Honesdale, the head Of the Canal, to tide
water; thus far the tolls collected, exceed the
freight Of the coal, and all expenses incident to
the business"
The last Cincinnati Republican states. that
the amount of tolls received on the Miami Canal,
from the opening of navigation ON the 4th of
March, to the S6th Of April. is fourteen hous-
and ffiy-iaoo dollars and Ten cents.
The readers of this Gazette have already, this
spring, oeen put in possession of facts connected
with the prosperity of the Erie Canal--the Che
sapeake and Delaware Canal-and the already
thriving trade carried on BY means Of our own
splendid national work, the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal. 1t is not deemed necessary, at this
time, to recapitulate them. Of this last grand
enterprise we intend to speak hereafter more at
large. We conclude this number with the fol-
lowing account of the Lehigh Canal, containing
an interesting fact to which we invite attention:
.sThis great link in the internal navigation of
our country was yesterday tried with its full COM
plement Of water and tonnage per boat cores
pOnding with the size of the locks, SC,
1t is we'll known that the canal is 45ft. bottom
6Oft. water line and SIT. depth of water. and the
locks 22ft wide and loot. long to correspond
with the Delaware & Chesapeake canal. 1t was
estimated sufficiently capacious for carrying boats
OF $50 tons cargo.
The two first boats passing down the canal
were made to coincide with the magnitude of the
canal and locks; they were S4ft long and loft
wide; boats of tins description pass through the
Lehish canal side by side, and on arrival at the
Delaware Canal they are to be separated and
pass through these locks singly. The trial boats
we're No. Is & IL, and the cargoes weighed toge-
Their ISIS ton cwt of cos. The crew was of
the usual number as adapted to 25 ton boats,
viz 2 men and boy, and the animal power APP
piled was two small mules; and to prevent all
misunderstanding of their magnitude were weigh
ed, the weight Of the two together with their