The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-08

the river Pequest, and win afford fifty feet head and
fall and Is equal to ITO horse power and if applied in
the best manner for manufacturing would be sufficient
to manufacture 900 barrels of -four per year.
Oxford furnace also possesses valuable water power
which is applied to and grst mills and iron works
The product ofthose works yearly is three hundred
tons OF stove plates and five hundred tons Of pig iron
and Is rapidly increasing The Muscanetong also sup
plies very valuable water power at different points
besides those furnished by its tributaries
There is within three miles of Easton including
south Easton which has grown up within the last
years and Is rapidly increasing in wealth and impor
lance eighteen merchant and grst mills four mills
three oil mills two tanncries three foundres four dis
'ueres two furnaces rolling mill and wire factory
three blast furnaces, and cotton factory, all in success
iul operation At South Easton there is vast water
power sufficient to greatly increase the number Of ma
nuactores besides which, the Lehigh has fall Of two
hundred feet between the Water Gap and Easton, II
distance of twenty-five miles which would admit of any
additional water power that might be required. The
surrounding country is exceedingly fertile and well
adapted to raising all kinds ofgran which is the princ
pal product The Of -four over and above the
home consumption that Is sent to market annually from
Easton and its vicinity exceeds 10000 barrels, and 5O
600 barrels meal At Easton alone there Is manu-
featured 10000 barrels of -four $4,000 barrels Of whsey
1000 tons Of pig metal and 800 tons refined IRON And
In Northampton and Lchgh counties 100000 barrels of
Hour and $4,000 barrels Of corn meal annually.
The county of Northampton, in Pennsylvania which
bounds the Delaware, for great distance, has lsl
stores so Touring mills which manufacture upward Of
7500 barrels of flour and meal for market yearly
There also in it oil mills 10 tanneres distleries
blast furnaces, FORCES, trp-hammer mills, and
IF
Gus saw mills bark and country grist mills clover mills
and various manufactures of sadery hats &C. &C. The
amount of merchandise received at Easton for that place
and the adjacent country annually exceeds 81 o00
and the exports in butter, lumber castings, bar IRON
slate machinery, &c &c., very considerable it also
exports upwards Of tons of pork annually besides
arge amount in fat CATTLE sheep, &c The exports Of
Northampton may be fairly estimated at 900 tons and
her imports also very considerable, amounting in
plaster salt and fish Alone to 5000 TONS besides the
rous articles Of merchandise demanded for its consum
ton.
The completion of the Whites Haven and wilkes
barre railroad, connecting the Lehlgh with the Susquc
hannah river has opened field of trade, Of vast
Importance to this road This connection unites the
three anthracite coal fields together and with New
York city by a shorter route than any other known
When tho North Branch Canal shall form junction
with the New York State line at Athens Tioga Point
and the western end Of the New York Erie railroad
Rhall have been completed continuous line Of canal
and railroad communication will be formed to Dunkirk
on Lake Erie seventy-ve miles shorter than any
other route thereby rendering the most favorable and
must eventually very large proportion of the
trade and travel to aud from the lakes and great
By this route btumnous coal DO transported from
Towanda, in Pennsylvania to New York, cheaper than
by any other The three coal fields united above,
estimated contain $50 600 of land
and 5000, 900, 900 tons coaln
THE Delaware, Lehigh, Schuykill and Susquehanah
railroad chartered in l846 when completed will become
great auxiliary to this road tits route passes through
Northampton and Lehgh counties and connects Easton
with the valley of the Schuylkil the Pottsvllle coal
fields, well the Mauch Chunk and Hazleton coal
fields, and the Susquehannah valley by junction with
the Beaver Meadow and Catawissa railroads There Is
in this rich agricultural district through which this
road passes thiryseven Touring mills within five miles
of the line OF the road. exclusive Of those within ten
miles of Easton capable Of manufacturing 300 900
barrels Of flour annually besides various oil and grist
mills
Should the company deem it cxpedient to go mnledi
atey into the COAL the profits would be
greatly Increased at 1t IL confidently believed that
the transportation Of coal alone this road would
pay handsome dividend its cost without the aid Of
receipts from passengers and other reighs Contracts
can be made With responsible individuals for much
coal be transported oh the road as it
completed to Easton
The Morris Canal would be put completely hors du
combat by the extension and speedy completion Of this
road and the Inducements for the construction Of the
line at overwhelming that nothing to
prevent an immediate subscription for tho full amount
required 1t is very extraordinary circumstance that
this city has been 80 long shut out from direct
communication with the northern part of Pennsylvania
feasible route than the alluded to above does
not exist, and for trhing amount open very
large trade with of the most extensive agricultural
districts In this section of tho country As invest
ment It will be equal to any other railroad in the con-