The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-11-18
VARIOUS MATTERS.
CANAL TO TIDE.

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In the Susquehanna Canal Company, fur
|nishing as it does the gratifying assurance
aof the energetic and successful progress eff
Ithe work in question. The laboring force
which has been maintained on the line of
the Canal during the past and present sea-
son has comprised from $500 TO 1000 eff
cient men, and we are warranted in saving
That greater amount of work has been
done on this than has ever before been ac-
complished on any other undertaking in
the same space of time. There are several
Ipoints on the line which were liable to
more or less damage from ice during the
Spring freshets, but it win be seen that the
works at those points have been so vigo-
rously pushed as to place them beyond the
reach of injury from this cause.
The assurance that continuous applica-
ton OF the measures now employed win Sc
cure the completion of the Canal by the
/ Spring of 39,-only ls months hence
will, we doubt not, incite the Company to
employ all available means to effect so de-
sirable an issue. Pennsylvania has an inn
rnense interest in the earliest completion of
work which is, in fact, but prolonga-
ton of her own long line of Canals, and
which will open to her people short, di-
rect and continuous channel to market
. Maryland, also, has great interest in the
work, Constituted as she will be the receiv-
er Of the many millions worth of produce
which it will cause to be poured annually
into her borders. The City of Baltimore,
as the nearest commercial mart to the At
lantic termination of chain, of Canals,
which stretches to the State of New Y ork
in the North, to lake Erie in the North
West, and to Pittsburg in the West, has
also her interest in Fastening the compile
ton of the short link which will livet her to
this noble chain. With so vast and so di-
I rect an interest as is involved in the Canal
to Tide, connected with the infallible GER
tainty that twill command, as soon as open
ed, trade 10 the full extent Of its capacity,
! its construction by the time referred 10 can
not be doubted. .-Balt. .4Nterican
A CARD.
To the Stockholders of the Su8quehan-
ma Canal leading from Columbia, Pa. to
tide aCGter.
The undersigned, composing the Board
of Managers of the Susquehanna Canal
Company, feel great qualification in being
able to congratulate their constituents upon
the rapid progress which the work under
their charge has made within the last six
or seven months. A large portion of the
! excavation is approaching a completion;
and the heaviest sections on the line, which
. lie in positions most exposed to the action
of currents and ice, are as far advanced as
TO ensure their safety from injury through
out the approaching winter and spring
and we have full confidence in the assu-
rance of our Engineer, that the whole
prism of the canal will have been excava-
ted, and the rock sections ready to receive
the lining early in the Spring. We be-
lieye few works of equal magnitude have
been prosecuted with more vigor or better
effect. The contractors in whose hands ii
4 is placed are active, experienced and capa-
BILE men and do their duty faithfully and
well; and we are further of opinion from the
details of the work exhibited to us, that
4 the whole expense of construction will not
erceed,. if it do not materially fall short ol
the estimate.
We have also the cohfdent assurance oi
our Engineer that, if funds shall be provi'
ded as rapidly as required, the entire work
can be completed, and will be in operation
in the Spring of lS39--a much shorter Pc
riod for its accomplishment than the warm
est of its friends anticipated at the time II
was undertaken. The promptness with
which the demands Of the Company here
tofore have been very generally met, added
to the improved and improving state of the
business and money concerns of the coun'
try, give us confidence in that event:
While on this subject we beg leave to
tender our acknowledgements to the Cor
porate authorities of the city of Baltimore
for the opportune advance Of portion ol
her subscri ption, which enabled this Com
pahy TO go vigorously forward under
pressure OF circumstances upon individuals
which checked the progress of almost eve
ny other public work Of magnitude in tho
country.
We have thought it our duty to afford tc
those associated with us in the prosecutor
of this great work the same qualification
derived by ourselves from a statement o
the foregoing lacts-and we submit then
without comment for their consideration.
JAMES HEPBURN, President
SIMON GRATZ;
f.. COLEMAN,