Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-03-29
would produce the most benefit to the greatest

Wouiu prouuce tne most benCht TO Tie greatest
/ numbers.
! The Danvle e. Po,tsville Rail Road, also
the Cattawssa Rail Road, have been located
and partially constructed from the Schuylkill
the dividing ground between the waters of
those streams on quite elevated submits, tha, of
the DanviIle g. PJttsviIc Rail Road about eight
hundred and ninety feet higher than Mt Car.
bon, (the terminus of the Philadelphia, Read.
ing and Pott.ville X. Road.) and the Ca,,awis.
sa road. II located on the route surveyed by Mr.
.Ioucure Robinson, in 1s2S, is still one hundred
and my one feet more elevated, according TO
letter from that gentlemen, nddressed TO Mer.
rtt Candy. E-q., dated Nov 10Th, 1885, and
quoted in the report Of the President and Man.
ayers OF the d & p. Il. r. Comp,ng, OF 1879,
as follows in reply to your inquiries have
to observe that the summit, or dividing ground,
between the waters of the Schuykill and those
OF the SuSqnehanna, on the line of the Rail
Road between potisville and Sunbury. is low
or ihan any other route surveyed by me. in
ISIS, and one hundred and fifty one feet lower
than that Of the CattaWs.a route"
My examinations of the South descent Of the
Broad Mountain. from the proposed tunnel on
the line have surveyed, have been too limited
to decide winch is The most practicable route 10
communicate with the main line OF Rail Road,
leading to Phllsdelphia. On the South de-.
trot 1
'c'blc, but will leave it for future cxamina.
ton to determine which should be adopted. nud
IN the present report conine myself to the route
marked on the map, which (as will be seen bv
reference 'her"to) is proposed to JOIN the road
with the West Branch Of the vi. Carbon Rail
Road. two and one.tourth miles from M. Car.
bon and from said junction, with an ASCENDING
grade. in meandering North West direction,
bass Oak hill by deep cut or perhaps a short
tunnel. pass throunh the gap at Mineh.l at the
West Branch of the Schuylkiil, and ascend the
valley OF that stream. between Minehill on the
South and Broad and Picket Mount ins on the
North, to the West-wcst Brarch of the Schuvl.
k'lI, pass through the gap in Picket Mountain,
at that pace, and ascend the valley of the lat
named stream, about one mile, and there pass
through The Broad Mountain by thirty seven
hundred feet of tunnel, To the head of Deep
creek. Then it n mrnndcring North East di.
rec'lon, with descending grade, aonp the
North slope of the Broad Mountain. and c-oss
Nahonoy valley and creek soon after that
stream leaves the Nlhonov Coal region From
there. with mn ascending grade, in r circu'nus
Westerly direct on a'org the South slope nf the
Mahonoy Mouninin TO Biz run. tho-e pass
through the gan in tho Nahonoy Mountain.
and ascend the valley of Bg rom. through the
Mahnnuy Coal regien, 10 the Locust summit
And from there, with = descending grade. in r
Northwest direction, through the gap m tho
Locust Mountain. and descend the valleys nj
Locust and Shamokin creeks, Quaker and Coal
runs, the junction, with the Western division
o' the DanviIe and Po'fsvlo Roll Road. at
Shamokin, eighteen and soven-righhs miles
from the Susquehanna, al Sunbury.
BY this Route the road would pass the BroaG
Mountain through the proposed tunnel nt an
elevation of seven hundred md seventeen feet
higher than Nj. Carbon or one hundred mud
seventy three feet lower than the summit L.
vel Of the DanvIllr & PuIisvlp Rail Road, AMI
three hundred and twen'y-iour feet lower han
the Catrawissa rnnte, surveyed hy Mr. Robin
son, in lS2-. the whole descent, from the
tunnel Ia ~her" the road will cross the Maho
noy creek. is tour hundred and fifty teet. The
Whole ascent from the Mahouny level To the
Locus, summit, is three hundred and seventy.
tour feet aud the whne descent, from the In.
Gust summit 10 the Junction, with the Western
DIVISION of the ID. &. T. r. K at Shamokn, j.
i've hundred aud twelve feet Tnese SUBMITS
are overcome by grades and lengths of road, as
noted IN the following table, commencing al NJ.
Carbon aud proceeding toward Shamokln, as
noted Uy letters \, i, C. &c, IN re.er,uce Ia
The map. and showing tie elevation Of those
/ points aLove Mt Carbnn