Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-01-05
Internal Impray .ncNtS.

So rapid has been tie multiplication Of
works Of internal Improvement in the United
States within very few years, that rroba.
bly, very few of our readers have any thing
like correct knowledge of their cxtcnt.-
The following extracts from report Of the
Committee on Internal Improvement to one
branch Of the Legislature of Tennessee
TOWN. session, will give some idea ofthem.
"Thc rcc,i2ts of the Erie canal, which
extends from Bufa'o to Albany, distance
e three hundred and sixty three miles,
were for the year 1885, one million seven
hanlrcd and sovcn:y-.wo thousand, three
hundred aud sixty.four dollars. Since 1888
tn, rates Of toll have bcca reduced twenty
five pcr cent; Yet the increase in the re-
c,ipts has cxc2cled the proportion Of for
mer wears. The committee remark, that
from the reports Of the tolls Of the present
year, there is no dcub, that tho receipts Will
considerably exceed two millions of dollars.
The COST oE the work was nine millions,
,v2E.v.s ,rc:i thousand, four hundred and
;:;v.s;y dollars. 1t is remarkable fact
c.21nsc.ol with the trade on this artificial
ch?nagl, tha: the tonnage employed on II, Is
c!;,al l., the waole tonnage, both domestic
~! i,Grti,a, which annually crowds the
l.-:yyr O., XIV York. Results of this
c,.a.ac::e., wen predictions at first were
r;oolo.. and foreboding, hail the friends Of
Iu.arGal Inprovcnlemcnt with cheering gra-
tiIa,ion. In addition to the Erie canal, the
o,har improvements Of this kind in New
Yor.k arc, the Champlain, the Oswcgo, Del
aware ana Hudson, Hacrlem, Chittenango,
Sofas. Cayuga and Seneca, Chcmung,
Crooked Lahc and Chenango canals
mss. Of which constitute a part of the sys-
Ten; Of inlp-2Yo,s.c.lt adopted by the enlght-
ca2l no!icv oi this nourishing State.
Canals, lev yar, have in New York, as
every where else, given place to rail roads.
iii tie new works of Improvement arc OF
this last description. The cost, the rapidlty
Of commune l;ioa, their capab!Ety Of being
1,scd during the whole year, give 10 rail
roads all indisputable superiority. The
rail roads tlnlS1cu In Kew 10TH dIS tae
Mohawk and lIu1soa, the Saratoga and
schenectady, the Ithaca and Oswcgo, the
New York and Haerlcm, tho Rensselaer,
and Saratoga, the Catskill and Canaloharle
the U,ica and Schenectady, the Buffalo ano
Black Rock, aud the road from Rochester
to the head Of navigation in Genesee nyer
Works in progress in the State of New
York arc more numerous and extensive
than those completed. Among these are
the New Ic!H and Erie Rail Road, nearly
four hundred miles in length, the New Yorl
and Albany Rail Road, the Hudson an'
Delaware, the Brooklyn, Jamaica and Lon'
IsIaod. to cx:c.,l from New York two hun
,jrod and twenty-five miles. The who'll
distance of these four roads, now in prog
ross is between eight and nine handrc
miles. In addition to these, in the State Q
New York alone, are moro than thirty "a
roads under charter, the roctes surveyed
mud preparations in progress Tor tae'F con
struction.
So superior is rail road COMMUNICATION
that from Albany to New York, even along
side the broad and beautiful bosom OF to
Hudson, where STEAMBOATS, ply every day
and with remarkable rapidity, u rail way
in proeress, connecting points betweel
which nature has spread one Of the mobiles
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