New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-02-16
The New.Xork md Erie Railroad Ca. .nx .. =.
Southern tier of Connffe.
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4 docamen, Of singular interest has reoes.lv 49,
placed in nv hands exhibiting in an entirely a.
light most important question connected with \.
rights Of portion Of the citizens of our STAT.
say in new light for believe the mas, Of IL.
community, like myself have been utterly 1, =.
dark concerning IT, !, is a speech By Hon. W..
b. Wright now member Of Assembly, On TIA a.,
Jet ct the location Of the Newyork and En-. R,S
road. through the County cf Sullivan. a.Bv.r.SI.
fore the Board Of Commissioners Convened .,use
ucello. in August last who were .pno;n,.a H. ~
last LEGISLATURE 20 survey and decide wha,l...
practicable monte FOR the Enc Rosa coul3 d IL
through that County IL has generally been r,S,.
stood by the Stockholders Of the New Yorl a..
Ere Railroad Co in this City that the Con,.v -
Sullivsn presented insurrnountsble difscnlns. !,
the construction of the Road. thar heavier graz.
snd greater expense required than wer. NJ, -
In other Counties of the Southern Ter ana IT,, .
public necessity existed for avoiding ,hi. cor,,r 80
running the Road into Penusyivani, Thi. IA. w., -,
been the impression with the stockholders and our cid
gems generally (how derived 10 probably s,.~,,,
saw but even Director Of the COMPANY no, ion, 60,
when the subiec, was incidentally reut op~d .,,,.S :,
me that the Road would cost over 81 600 ono yno,s -
con'ruced through sullivan Co 'h.n II would through
Pennsvlvanis. Now. VIVA, the facts Of IN. e.s.
brought ont by the Of m. co,n,nis.o,.r. 80
detailed In the speech OF Mr. Wrisht, Rr,ssv g..
The highest grade In the County 10 a. feet nor mi.
which IL ~ feet less than grades q. o,h., o..,. -
route West Of sullivan from 70 10 Is a., -. ,s
grades Esst OF Sullivan through Orange ana pol,.-s
Counties which locomotives and ears are now rr
ming daily
The highest grades In the County s.csps,. so..A
West from which direction the bs~seW losas wtnn.
transported are only IS feet per mile No, SnQls Oh
struction 10 with In passing through the County a.
the cost of construction goes that 10 with
TO the same or much greater extent in every coaa
ty IN the Southern tier decidedly better route VII
be exists through THE County than other
Counties both East and West Of H. The gh-s' GRADES
are IS feet per mile less than the srsdes On the Wes
(Bos ton and Albany Rosd over which immerse loas
are now being transported. This 10 the Sullivan Co
route which have al slong supposed was irrrscucs
bic. We have in fact given sanction to les'sstc
based upon this iooss kind Of information which hn
possibly doae irrrpsrsol- wrong 20 secluded ard
industrious portions OF the citizens OF this STATE Tia
bill of last Winter appointing the Commissioners and
comforting upon them the powers under which they
have decided against the interior route framed aud
passed in utter ignorance of the character Of the rout
before the surveys wsre completed and under On In
preston that there were impssssble barriers N The
County. The Commissioners assembled after the
veys were completed and the shove facts were ecsi
and deferring their decision under SEINE strange lnts
euce their engineers 10 survey route In the Dor
ders OF Pennsylvania They next assembled ~ Noet-
cello after this latter survey had been completed and "a
this occasion the speech Of Mr. Wright was made hr
ing become then fully known that the design was roth
settle the question Of the prsctcabity OF the sulvn
route but to institute comparison between that rcut
and the route in Pennsylvania. This comparison vS
accordingly made. contrary. ss Mr. Wight oon'endedb
the spirit II not the letter OF the law and the Penn
vsnis being found IN the opinion OF Tour o1fd
the Commissioner better than the sulivsnrcsr
was by majority OF one adopted.
The evidence before the Board Of CouirnissionssS
regards the Pennsylvania route. was m follows Va
distance about two miles less thanthroush suvm
go miles The FOar Hundred IAotssns Doars
more than through SHraa considerable portion OF the
grade lower. and portion was higher, than TIE
highest grade Of the interior route the Delaware river
had TO be bridged In two places beside another onas
across the Lackswsxen all items Of expense notn
CURED on the interior route In The face OF tnn er
dence the decision against the County OF sullivan
The whole OF the determination Of the Company
locate in Pennsylvania out In Tho course OF hs
invcstgat and asserted by Mr.. Wright to oe On
interest in the coal beds Of Pennsylvania Can any pei
son examine the state Of things here presented without
being struck with surprise that community 90 deeply
interested should have long been kept In ignorance
concerning III
shall ere long recur to this subject again, and snow
that the other Counties In the Southern tier are sbouw
be subjected to similar unjust policy
A sTOCKH0LDER
Ofthe New. York and Erie Railroad 20