Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-07-25

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But in the latter year, which is the epoch Of her
communication with Lake Erie, her wealth and
population began rapidly tn augment. In ten
years afterwards her population was nearly dou
bled and the value Of her real and personal estate
had swelled from 100 millions to 2is millions of
dollars. being an increase of II per cent. per an
mum From 1885 to lsil her aggregate capital
continued TO advance, notwithstanding the losses
incident to a most destructive con1agration and
notwithstanding the great monetary crisis which
overwhelmed our own community with effects
which were felt over the American Union. The
rate of increase even during this eventful period.
made total average advance in capital of % per
cent. per annum, from the year 1926. Since the
year 1sa1, when her career was arrested by
connection of the Boston railway with Albany,
we have to record her retrogade and decline Her
population has only advanced II per cent, and
her wealth has been actually diminished = per
cent. in every year
"But, in the proportion that New York has re-
ceded since is41, Boston has advanced In the
four years intervening from 1871 to lsa5, her
population has increased from % 900 to Is 900;
and the value Of her real and personal estate,
within the same period, from SOS, ZOO, 900 to
sl35,0o0,o00 being an augmentation Of per ct.
per annum since the completion Of her enterprise.
New York and Boston derive annually, from
their connection with the lakes, a revenue of
many millions Of dollars"
Now if Boston is thus triumphant, with rail.
way Of 400 miles. and grades Of so feet per mile,
fed by canal frozen up by long winters, why
should not Philadelphia interpose, and triumph
with but GAG miles, and moderate grades, fed by
a great railway, open at all seasons Of the year
The railroad from Elmira to the West Branch
and Erie Railroad, at Williamsport, would ine-
vitably receive a large portion of the persons
and property passing eastward from Buffalo.
| Twenty five miles Of the railroad from Williams
port have been in daily use for several years, lea.
ding through rich deposits of bituminons coal
and iron ore, which would be given to New York
in exchange for her salt and plaster, forming a
most profitable reciprocal trade. Not long
since, an engineer surveyed the short space
| from the northern termination Of. that TWEEN.
| ty-fve miles to the BIossburg roailroaG OF
forty miles, extending to Corning, and reported
its feasibility at cos, of $4,000 per mile, and
length Of only twenty three miles. Either this
line, OF that to Elmira, would conduct TO the
valleys Of the West Branch and SchuylkiIl, much
Of the immense commerce OF New York and Bos.
ton, and assure it to PhiIsdeiphia
If Baltimore would profit 20 largely by attrac-
ting portion of the Pittsburgh trade, rs to call
up the formidable array against her, let our grea,
city open her right eye, and survey the incaeu-
liable benefits she would receive from consumma.
ting her right of way into the centre of the State
Of New York. From Maryland she can obtain
nothing by 23o miles of railroad to Pittsburgh
costing 40 or so thousand dollars per mile, by
the estimate Of the engineers from New York
she can obtain and exchange immensely. by con
structing so miles across two intervals, and 4C
miles down the West Branch, costing less than
90 thousand per mile. There she will reach sub
stantial and permanent sources of wealth ant
production, rapidly augmenting, TO which thu
Juniata route is a stranger, and forever must sc
remain.
at is estimated" (says the writer already
quoted, in Atkinson's Evening Post,) "that 4 .OOt
bushels Of salt annually 6nd their way by tn,
valley of the Lycoming to Williamsport, unde
the most discouraging conditions Of transporfa
tion. 1000 tons Of bar and zig iron are returne,
by the same channel, at the cost Of SIS per ton
(for transportation) Lime would become fruit
ful source of revenue. The salt works alone, o
that state, would require large quantity of bi
| n,, ~C,l %
estimated that the products Of the country to b.
sent over the railroad south, Ito the West Branch,
will amount annually to above 100000 tons
while that sent north cannot be less thu $50 600
In 1889, Elmira was stated to employ Is forges
and to require III 900 tons OF coal castings, salt
&c. II such was the amount of commerce i
1886 and 1889, how would il be appreciated wer
continuous railway constructed to Sunbury-
distance Of about lis miles from Elmira,-o
which 25 are completed
The subject Of this division OF our addres,
this branch Of the Erie railway, has appeared c
such importance in its consequences, of such &
cility in its execution, and so clearly and cogen
ly exhibited by the Phladelphia address tina
we have given to it greater space than was pr,
= viously intended.
HUGH BELl.AS.
EBENEZER GREENOUGH,
, ALEXANDER JORDAN,
! EDWARD Y. BRIGHT,
n GIDEON Markell.
GEO. &. WELKER,
WM. ]. MARTIN.
July 25.' 1916.
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