New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-15

rect route from TINS lily 70 flttsourgu
is by way of branch Railroad from Olean
or some other point on the Erie Road down
the Allegheny through a fertile and well
timbered region, Astounding in mines of Bit
luminous Coal and Iron; but that will not
probably be opened for some years yet.
But nearly every road hereafter construct
cd or completed west of the parallel of
Syracuse will be feeder to the great Erie
Road. while mines yet unopened and lands
unimproved will rapidly contribute 20 swell
its receipts. The transportation Of Live
Stock alone-a business hardly yet consid-
ered-may within three years be made to
support handsomely one line Of railway
from New York to the Mississippi When
the roads are completed and suitable ar
rspgements made, Cattle may be brought
from Indiana and Illinois to our City for the
value Of the flesh lost by driving and half
the expense of the present mode Of transit.
There is no fear of lack of business for
any well planned and well managed road
Of adequate length, the great defect or
chief misfortune with the Erie will be a
want of capacity. Itneeds double track.
throughout, this day, and will be compelled
to commence one within year. 1t may
worry along for few years by doubling its
track for hundred miles or so in the center
but we believe l56 will see it completely
doubled from the Hudson to the Lake, and
then blessed with more business than It
knows how TO dispose of. If it does not
pay ten per cent. per annum on It's cost
within three years, it will be because it re-
iects custom which would gladly be givenit.
Substantially, this great work isnow hn-
ished. 1t will need new track, additional
cars, equipment, &c. for years, as its bust
ness steadily expands; but the South West
ern Counties are no longer a secluded dis
trict.' They are on the great highway from
the East to the West, and will be traversed
daily by hundreds if not thousands of emf
grants, traders, western settlers returning to
visit their New England relatives, &c. &c.
Already Binghamton, Owego, Elmira, have
felt the genial impulse of new tide OF pros
perity, which their more western sisters are
now to share. Steuben and Allegany
Counties-hitherto rarely visited but by
land agents, duns and sherifs-will soon
be az generally known as Ontario and Erie
now are, and will receive great accessions
of population and wealth No better region
for Cattle and Dairy Produce can be
found anywhere than in the counties thus
brought out into the sunshine by the COM
pletion of the Erie Road, which will double
their annual exports within three years.
Their Timber is excellent and by no means
exhausted; so is their Soil, which, if devo-
ted in good part to Grazing, should main
tain IT'S original fertility. and even improve
it. The career of Southwestern New
York is Just beginning.
We trust oBr citizens who devote a
few days or weeks to recreation by travel
during the ensuing Summer will not forget
the region traversed by the Erie Railroad.
Its scenery is rarely equaled-now rugged
end wild, then gentle and beautiful, with
wealth of waving wood and dancing water
elsewhere unknown. A hundred miles Of
it resembles the toughest parts of New
England; then comes hundred more like
Ohio OF Belgium; then hundred of newer
fesher, rolling but not mountainous cOun-
try, and so on. The Central line cannot vie
with it in interest; if you doubt us, try both
and Judge for yourself. Let those at least
who have labored and wished for the Erie
Road make a point of passing over 1t at
some time during the Summer; 1t will as
sure them that their efforts have not been
unworthily bestowed.