Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-07-02

Wutu tHt iHduo tuSil SHUsClittIous
An Injunction has been applied for,
and the Supreme Court, on meeting at
Sunbury, will decide upon the legal rights
of the Companies.
From the Warren County Mail, June Sd.
SunbuEy s. Erie Railroad.
Mr.. EDITOR: l observe in Philadel-
phia paper, the following:
I'VE learn that at the etockholders' meeting
of this company. held on the l2lh inst, the iol-
lowing resolution was unanimously adopted
HeS0lued, That the course of the Board OF
Managers in obtaining legislation to authorize
the Construction Of road down the Susquehanna
10 inteIsect nth the Pennsylvanl Railroad, ETC..
is highly approved by this meeting, and the
Board Is requested to have the road located on
the most favorable line as early possible, and
to put under contract the grading and bridging
from the Psnnsy lvania Railroad to The City Of
Erie as soon as practicable, after the subscrp-
items shall have reached one third OF the es una
ted cost Of construction"
Now, sir, l would like to be informed
by whom the meeting of stockholders al
luded to was composed? What notice was
given that meeting of the stockholders
Of the Sunbury IL Erie Railroad Company
was to be held, to take into consideration
the propriety of the conduct Of the Board
Of Managers in obtaining legislation to
authorize the construction of road down
the Susquehanna to intersect the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad ? What information had
the stockholders at large that the Mana
gers had bus!ed themselves TO procure such
e2islation! or, IN fact, that such .cgJsla
tion had been procured By giving tins
information, If in your power, You vii.
much oblige many stockholders of this
county, as we'll as the subscriber.
l believe 1t was understood 10 some ex-
tent that bli! had passed the Legislature
authorizing the s. l. Z r. Co. TO connect
with any mi.ar work extending Eastward,
or III the direction Of Philadelphia. Bat.
it was well known that Company had
been incorporated, at a former session of
the Legislature, to make Railroad from
the neighborhood Of Harrisburg, by the
valley of the Susquehanna, to Williams
port. 1t was also matter well noted in
Pennsylvania, that the Catiawissa Railroad,
partly constructed, was to have its Wes-
tern terminus at Williamsport. Thus the
Sunbury & Erie Co. was to be met at
WllIiamsport by two roads, giving from
that point in this connection two entire
lines of Railroad to Philadelphia, and
relieving it from the necessity of construct
ing the 40 miles from Williamsport to
Sunbury, originally expected of it. The
probability of both those roads being made
by the time the s. g. E Road could be got
through to Williamsport, was most en-
couraglng, and matter Of congratulstion,
amongst the stockholders of the latter
Company in this region generally. They
supposed it might be necessary to have
some legislation to enable the s. & E. Co.
to connect with them for purposes of con-
venience and mutual adyanantage in the
transaction Of business upon them. And
such believe they supposed to be the
object and sole intent of the legislation in
question.
l do not believe that it ever crossed the
mind of stockholder, in the West, at
least, that the road under that legislation,
was to be extended 40 miles beyond Sum
bury, and by driving out those who had
Charter and proposed building
it up the Susquehanna to Williamsport,
saddle the s. l. E: Company with the S2,-
600, 1000 it will cost, before knowing when
or how an adequate sum was to be had
even to make it from Erie to Williamsport.
Nor do [ imagine that the subscribers of
the Million and a Half of stock in Erie
and the counties along the line, have had
any comprehension of this, or, when they
had any idea, that their money
Or any part of it was to be expended on a
Road beyond Sunbury. On the contrary,
hey hoped and expected to have to 90 no