The New York herald., 1845-02-03
NEW YORK. MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8 1915

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very favorable for the application Of water power 70 mills
iron furnaces Three of the have been
az great cost one complete with its furnaces and
ae iur metng with anthracite and has been
successuiiy used another is complete in all cxcent
ana no. ar pipes and the third nearly as lar
% r & ros assured me that each furnace could
asHy iurhish 2ooo tons OF iron yearly max ne tcg eth
....:....'".. 600 TONS and requiring
70 maSe 'nem. .'..."... ..l2,ooo iron ore
90 ..I2 900 ' anthracite coal
10 5000 " lime stone
| waxing IN oil. :. 80 600 tons,
to be carried along the Canal besides supplies of other
KINGS and what the Inhabitants require He that
Wa ae furnaces in work. stanhope alone ought to give
Canal il cannot exist.
We passed through Andover, where iron was
smelted previous to the revolution Much anxiety felt
ere Tor the Canal and the place will afford considerable
trsfhc Hackeus Town is more considerable place
also oording trac; and farther west passed through
the villsgss Of Post Golden Anderon Washington and
New Village all situated in rich valley ell greatly de-
pending upon the Canal and likely to increase with its
Westward of the summit level we examined six of the
eleven INCLINED planes one was good deal out of order
out II VIII he repaired with little outlay.
stream on which Mr. Green founds his right Even, then
Contained very little water in the dry the qnan
ty Is still less and il plan could be adopted Of ascer-
tanning the average quantity adds to the Canal during
the same his privilege might remain without preiudice:
sut as he takes off not what the gives to the Ca
nal put wnat ms mills want, and heis rich diff
ncu 10 deal with It has been contemplated to give him
hs sreamet back altogether which could be done for an
expense Of about $4,000 e would be very glad to sell
ms property, which consists of two mills boat yard
store and dwelling house. and huRdred acres good
land for all of which he asks $50 900, and perhaps he
may have annoye the late Directors to drive them into
the purchase At Eaon the boats by the Lehigh Canal
oy LOCK pass from 1t to the Delaware river, that
e SIDE where one Of the a boss On
csves its load and dragged up into the Canal the
way described, page After the enlargement of the Ca
pvilI hao
Of cargo but each boat of the Lehigh Canal will
in half sections to be reoned it's fellow top and then
the same dsuncton, ascent, and rejunction is gone
through and so on at every inclined plane till the org
posite New York
Mr. Coryell and his son have calculated that the whole
line OF Canal may be rendered fully available for said
and son being engineers they have peculiar facilities in
doing their work cheap and to avoid error would add
solid enlargement, repairs OF planes, bridges, sc.
The Canal in its present dimensions is as follows =
length from Jersey City, the Hudson Easton the
Delaware one hundrea and one and half miles Depth
Of water four feet height Of banks FIVE feet width
towing tn ten canal at bottom twenty
width otcanal at surface thirty.two feet
To fit to carry boats of fifty your TONS the fol-
lowing dimensions are required viz feet depth Of
water six feet height Of banks, twenty five feet width
bottom, forty feet surface
In many places Of the Canal along its course al
ready wide enough and deep enough in others the add
tiona depth be given by throwing up material from
the bottom on the towing pah others the round
boats to turn is all that required and the Canal ge
ne,aliy n throughout s course cngs to the side Of
hills, the bermbank or that towards the HILL not only
needs additional elevation supplies good msterial
where wanted on the other side.
The original locks (of which eighteen east OF
all of nine feet m eight feet wide in the clear and
feet depth Of water They have all been rebuilt eleven
water, so as to carry sixty TONS
The old boats of twenty five upon an average
400 dollars each and when loaded draw two feet six inches
water The boats of the Lehigh Canal in sections art
of different construction costing each boat of two
tons 360 dollars they ZEN and half feet wide at the
gunwae, and draw when loaded three and half feet
water Iron boats would be great Improvement botb
in point ofdurablity ond because they would themselves
weigh less and consequently would heavier load
Beside the breach mentioned at page four there
one at Pompton feeder, requiring an outlay Of say
200 dollars; there are three others Beaver Town
about two miles west Of Pomp,on feeder requiring 70,
breach Of emhankment to be repared at Rockaway,
quiring say 300 dollars; and, fact the Canal though
with these end some other slight exceptions in fair
dition would go to ruin unless employed. Hence
The policy of letting year by the receivers, though
the low rent Of only 5000 dollars 10 Mr. Corye Be-
sides the above repairs be will have spend say - 600
dollars in clearing out the Canal and repairing the banks
will suffice to put in working order for the old twenty
five ton boats, which all that pretended for this year
or until the foreclosure ID Effected
Easton is thriving OF about twelve thousand in
habtants Along Bushk Greek alone there fourteen
grst mills, and the ac between it and the places aons
render the Canal profitable investment re
gsrd must be had to the Coal Mines along the
the Lehgh River and Canal Considering il of
Importance to ascertain the state of those mines visited
the coal reg accompanied by Mr. Corye who is
Of the Managers of the Hszlcton Coal Company. We
visited Maunch Chunk where the coal Of tire Lehigb
Company comes down, and where the Beaver Meadow
Railroad brings down the coal of the Beaver Meadow
Company, Of the Hazeton and Of the Sugar Loaf Per
hars from 900 TO 900 tons of Coal upon the
wharfs ready Tor being boated down the Canal and
boats waiting to l0ad but very little had
then been shipped all the companies being nearly para
yzed for want funds to pay their workmen They had
all suffered roay by the food Of January lS4 he great
known since the settlement country which had
swept the whole valley Of the Lehgh nurng the Canal
to the extent OF perhaps dollars and
property of the Beaver Meadow and Hazeton Companies
to the extent Of say So 900 dollars EACH The Canal
however, had been again repaired far Maunch
Chunk where ii meets the Beaver Meadow Railway,
that the of conveyance down Easton again
complete. In fact they were the 10th July last
from which date to the end Of the last year l43
03S tons OF coal had been brought down. To prevent
Of the accident guard banks mounds
of earth have been erected from the overa Of the dams
the river to the high shores either sde to be
above all floods These precautions deemed sufficient
to prevent any similar disaster in future
Mr. Coryell's estimate OF Coal to come down the lie
high this season is as follows viz -
From Lehgh, alias Maunch Chunk, say 100000 tons
Hazleton. 4n,OOO
Beaver MeadoWs. oOVW
Sugar Loaf and other Mines ..... i. $4,000
In ALL - . ss5 900 tons
possibility this year OF so large production With cap
a and supposing that the consumption Of anthracite
increases has done since 1899 from 365 tons to nearly
900 tons yearly doubt he entertained of the
capacity the coal fields along the Lehigh to furnish
very great supply for centuries 10 The extent OF
the coal fields is computed at l52 600 and the coal
from this region preferred for the Of man ufscories
and steamboats, had not time to exomine than the
Hazeon but that alone possesses coal enough to afford