New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-13

The Pennsyivania Road b graded for double track
IN Oh tne tunnels and rock cuttings and much OF the
earn work; the masonry In all cases. Is consfrdctd
for double track - miles of the mountain division.
and Immediately east Of it, i, Is proposed 10 lay with
double track AZ once and tins Of the hne there
viii be sdings every FIVE miles
The sBpersucture is of the most substantial charsc-
ter Inc croes ties Of white oak by inches, s tes
long, placed 2 feet apart inbedded in ballast of
broken stone ~ inches in depth The rails weigh o. Ds
y yard, except on the steep grade of the Allegheny
Mountain where 76 b rails are to be used hebuiid-
ines are connections and substantial From Altoona 70
miles there only two wooden bridges,
sacn OF ABOUT io feet span all the others being con-
Is believed that the road and It's sppurtenances
througntu ut viii compare favorsby with any work OF
the KIND In America While very fre has been ex-
pended IN unnecessary ornament expense has been
spared which was required substantial excel
lence.
Bituminous coal abounds on the western part Of the
Road rom Piitsburgh to the summit Of the Allegheny
Mountain, dlstance of l04 miles, the Road passing in
this distance through numerous veins varying from
10 10 feet In thickness The extensive coal Geld at
Broad Top Mountain 10 within Is miles of the Road
at point l55 miles Of Pttsburgh and 90 west of
Harrisburg; while in the valley Of the Susquehann.,
the Road Is IN the immediate vicinity Of the Anthracite
coal region
At Harrisburg commences the Harrisburg and Lam
caster Railroad, SO mes long. leased and worked
BY the Pennsylvania Railroad Company This Road
intersects the Columbia Railroad at Lancaster complet
Ing the Railroad communication the city of Phlsdel
pnih urtaDCc HUH 1ArrlsOurg 10 Fnutaelpuia Is
l06 miles bat improvements now in progress upon
the Columbia Road which will save about four miles,
making the whole distance from Philadelphia to Pitts
buTgh $50 miles.
At Harrisburg the line of Railroads leading to Bals
more and Washington also commences. Tbs distance
from Harrisburg Baltimore Is IS miles and from Pitts
burgh 20 Baltimore, by this route, 3J3 miles
The above eastern and southern connections are COM
peted-
Pittsburgh the western terminus of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Is a most important manufacturing city. and
has been appropriately styled the Birmingham OF Amer.
lea" Its popu alton, including that of the suburban
towns s about 100000 The position of the city, the
Ohio at head of navigation for rs,-cass
IT, Il rough the Mississippi and its tributaries with
the South and West by several thousand mss OF con-
tnuous steamboat navis CATION, which alone will draw to
Il sufficient business for transportation TO and from the
seaboard TO insure the success OF the Pennsylvania Rail
road But this navigation Is subject to Interruptions
from low water regularity of intercourse. as well as
direct connection with the interior and the lakes seemed
demand railroad facilities TO secure the control OF tho
travel and carriage Of valuable freights to this route.
The railroads and canals hitherto constructed to
commodatc the population OF OHIO and Indians, have
generally north and south direction connecting the
fertile central region with the Ohio River and Lake
Erie Within few years the importance OF more d.
rect Eastern communication with the sesboard has been
appreciated and several great leading lines have been
projected and commenced to secure this object That
which has made most progress Is the Ohio and Pennsy
vana Railroad commencing at Pittsburgh, and extend
ing westwardly through the most fertile and populous
part of Ohio to the new called Crestline the
Columbus and Cleveland Railroad, distance OF $50
miles From Crestline railroad is completed to the
city of Cincinnati the Ohio River another has been
commenced to Fort Vague, in Indiana, which Will De
extended to Chicago, Lake Michigan another will
be completed In the coming twelve months from Crest
line through Bellefontaine and Indianapolis to Tcrre
Haute the boundary of the State OF Indiana
distance of 275 miles. The extension OF this to the
city Of ST. Lou the Mississippi ITO miles farther has
been commenced Of the completion of this entire di-
rect continuous railroad from Philadelphia to st Louis
n-e H. ha
no doubt The region traversed by this route Is equal
in fertility any portion OF the globe, and Is inhaoted
by people who have the sagacy and enterprise to i'm
prove snd draw from all that the bountu hand OF the
Greater has designed for it.
The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad completed
to Massilon, l04 miles. At Alliance, "a miles from
Psbur gh 1t intersects the Cleveland and Pittsburgh
Railroad which IL completed from that point to Ceve-
land making direct railroad communication between
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, 40 miles long. From Csve-
land the City of NewYork by way OF the Pennsylvan-
ia Railroad the distance Is 40 miles shorter than BY
the New-York and Erie Railroad and must consequently
command the travel from the Western States TO that
commercial emporium.
The Pittsburgh and Steubenville Railroad will
meet this line with the Steubenvile and Indiana Rail-
road, and accommodate the center Of Ohio while the
HemIfed Rsiroad from Greensburg, 30 miles east OF
Pittsburgh, to Wheeling, will connect II with the south
portions of that State through the Marietta Chilli
cetbe and Cincinnati road upon which line an unbro-
ken gsuge Of track may be secured to ST. Louis These
form the eastern communications In Ohio already al
uded TO and 10 tnese, ana especially the ONO ana
Pennsylvania Road all north and south lines from
Cleveland Sandusky, Lexington, Louisville Evansville,
&C. viii become tributaries, concentrating the trade
ard travel of the great Mississippi an, and pouring
the Peupsylv ania Railroad the main trunk con.
meeting the commercial and manufacturing interest OF
the East with the Iich agricultural regions OF the West
Calculations Of the of transportation and trav
ell that will pass overths great Highway appear In view
Of these facts to be superfuous All its rivals nfe
rior in cha acter expensive to work and encum
bered by dsproportionate debt 1t has therefore
thing to fear from rivalry, either the north or the
south and it, business will only be limited by the
pacity OF a fret class doubletrack railroad
In It's present incomplete condition, it yields net
revenue Of more than eight per cent upon the capital
expended in irs construction, and has attained tun
mage ere it has reached its western terminus nearly
great be carried with regularity upon single
track road.