Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-02-24
BY REQUEST.
From the Penna. Inquirer
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL ROAD.
Philadelphia and Northern Penn.

biiadclphsa and N0rthern Penn.
vania.
Mr. Editor see by your paper of this morning
tha, The lower House Of the New Jersey Legisla.
,ure has passed a bill, ,"auhorizing subscription
of $500, 900 to the Belvidere and Delaware Rail,
ROAD sum which in addition to present suoscrip-
lions, is supposed TO be sufficient to complete the
road
Neither the citizens of Northern Pennsylvania
nor Of this city, seem to be sufficiently aware ol
the importance of this movement. The present
road from Philadelphia to Trenton, in connection
with that now TO be made from Trenton to Belvi-
dere l3 miles above Easton], will form two-thirds
of the whole road to connect Philadelphia by rail-
road, with the New York and Erie Railroad
where it will cross the Delaware at Carpenters
Point, in Pike county, abou, IS miles above Bel.
videre.
According TO a statement in pamphlet issued
BY the New York and Erie Railroad Company, in
vindica,ion OF their adoption of the Pennsylvania
route down the Delaware, instead of the more
Northern route through Sullivan county, New
York. that the grades are so nearly level that one
engine can take over the former (Delaware) 307
tons, while il would take four trains to take the
same tonnage the 60 feet grades of the latter
Tor New York; route the same distance; aud that
the Company will save $55s69O per annum in
cost of transportation by the adoption of the Del
aware, and that on 100000 tons only, while they
confidently asser, that they will carry 100000 tons
over their road within five TO ten years after lis
completion.
This saving TO the Company will be equal to 6
per cent. on the whole estimated cost (9,000,O00)
of making single track from New York TO Dun
kirk on Lake Erie.
The grade Of the road from Carpenters Point
through Belvdere and Trenton to this city, is SIM
liar to that above that point, Of which the Compa-
ny speaks so favorably-whe the high grades
lover 60 feet per me) from Carpenters Point to
New York, are, if possible still more unfavorable
to the Company than those which they have avoid
ed in Sullivan county.
1t will thus be seen that Philadelphia occupies
much better relative position for a connection
with the road at the place where it crosses the
Delaware than the city of New York-a fact which
secures TO the citizens of northern Pennsylvania,
at no distant day, choice between t,co of the best
Atlantic markets, for the sale of produce or pur-
chase Of merchandise.
The Company is fully aware that branch from
Carpenters Point down the Valley of the Della
ware, must naturally divert 10 this city portion
of its business. and is at this moment actively en-
gagged at Harrisburg. in endeavoring to force ,hro
our Legislature bill repeating the right of Penn
sylvania to make connection on Pennsylvania
soil, and offering on certain conditions a SUBJ
stituie, connection in New York State, over
Bridge to be erected by the Company at or near
Carpenters Point, in addition TO their required
Bridge. some five miles above. Thus removing
the point OF divergence from our own State TO New
York. and subec,ing the trade at that point to the
control Of opposing interests, well understood by
business men, and TO the risk of two Bridges over
the Delaware, in a section Of country, where, with
in 40 miles of the proposed crossing every Bridge
has been swep, away by freshets within a few
years past.
The citizens Of Pennsylvania generally, and
more especially those Of Northern and North Eas
tern Pennsylvania owe i, TO the State and to their
own interest TO be active in opposing any new
Grant to this Company, which shall forfeit The
right of our own State to have a connection on
Pennsylvania soil-free from the risk of bridges
and fee from the undue control OF opposing in
terests at the point of divergence. sincerely
hope that If our Legislature does not confine the
Company to the point at which they have, by the
last provso Of Ist Section Of the present law stip
ulated for connection, viz "At or near Carpen-
ter's Point" they will at least require the Bridge
offered by the Company, TO be finished simulta-
neously with the one above, and by all means rc-
tain their present right TO have connection in
Pennsylvania, even if its citizens mus: 60 through
the Glass House rock TO reach the road at BUl-
den's Basin C..
The New Hope Defnmct.
The committee appointed TO Investigate the
ofo IL. NJ, Ill., D.,.h n