Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-06-07
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEoRoETowN
CONVENTION.

invitation.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, Nay 26th, 1851.
3. II. HOWELL, Esq,
Pres. of NJ. & w. r. r. Co.-Dcar Sir -
| have received your kind invitation to al
tend the Susquehanna Rail Road Conven-
tion to be held in Georgetown, on the Sd of
June, 1851.
Feeling a lively interest in ali those i'm.
provemens which are sure 10 add 10 the
wealth, as well as to develope the resources
Of our Commonwealth, ii would give me
great pleasure to be present and take part in
your deliberations, but the demands of the
Public business compel me to decline its ac-
ceptance. Yours truly,
WIN. F. JOHNSTON.
On motion Of Mr.. Higgins, the President
appointed the following Committee to report
resolutions, viz; Charles W. Higgins, David
G. Barniz DR.. G. B. Weiser, Ed. A. Part.
ridge, D. Montgomery Boyd, J. G. L. Shin
del, Samuel Faunce.
On motion the Convention adjourned until
one o'clock, P. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention was called to order, and
the Committee reported the following reso.
lutions:
Reso'Ued, That the immense trade and
travel between the North West and the AT.
lantic Seaboard, will render every direct
line of communication intended for its ac.
commoda,ioR profitable to the stockholders
and that the proposed railway from the ter.
minus Of the York and Cumberland Raj
Road, along the Eastern bank of the Susque.
hanna, to Sunbury and WiIliamsport, com.
pleing direct line Of road between the
Lakes and the Chesapeake and Delaware
Bays is a project entitled to the most favora
! be consideration, and of great local interest
and national importance.
! ResolUcd, That the Mahonoy and Wisco
nisco Rail Road, intended to form par, of the
line of railway along the valley Of the Sus
quehanna, and. connecting with the New
York road, now completed 10 the harbor o
Dunkirk, and being the avenue 10 marke, fol
the vast coal beds of Shamokin and Maho
noy, will be most profitable investment o.
capital, and yield an ample remuneration.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Con
vention, the tonnage which will be thrown
upon this road by the Trevor,on and Maho
noy railroad, now nearly completed, ant
forming an outlet for the coal Of Mahono,
and Shamokin, would alone justify its con
structiou but the fact, that in its extension
! southwark, it will successively receive the
coal of the Lykens' Valley and Dauphir
mines, by roads now made, while by its ex
tension norihward 10 the road from the Mid
die Coal Field to Sunbury, and the Williams
port and Elmira rail road, the iron and lum
Der, and the agricultural products of a large
and fertile region, as well as the trade anS
travel 10 and from the Lakes, will become
tributary 10 it-proges that it must be one o
the most profitable roads in the Union,
ResolUsd, That we, who live in the Sus
quehanna valley, and know IFS vast resour
ces, mineral and agricultural, will show ou
confidence in the projected roads by a hearty
cooperation in their construction TO the ex
tent of our ability,
ResOlred, That an executive Committee o
fifteen be appointed to act in conjunction
with the Executive Committee appointed b,
the Convention held at SunbuTy, on the 2Oll
ult, to further the projected roads,
After these resolutions had been read, Da
yid G. Barnitz, of York, Pa, rose and said
it was always a matter OF astonishment I
him why the improvement of the valley @
the Susquehanna had been 40 long neglected
It contains such an abundance and variet
of wealth as no valley in this Union ca
boast Of. Along the eastern banks from In
town of Dauphin 10 near the New York line
rise in their majesty her mountains Of anthIa
cite coal of every variety, from the sem
bituminous or transition 10 the purest an
hardest anthracite. On the opposite side
buried vein after vein of rich iron ore. U
the West Branch are the inexhaustible bed
OF bituminous coal, and iron ore lying almo'
side by side. The streams of her trbuts
ries water valleys whose generous product
prove the richness of the soil and the indu
try of her hard-handed sons Of toll. HI
mighty forests send down their yearly lTil