The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-16

In 1850 the net earnings amounted TO S5eA35 p5, In
1851, 81 So The third year 1852 would hare shown
greater increase, but for the extremely uns vorabe
winter The almost total failure Of the corn crop nd
joining the road the of portion OF the re-.
duction in receipts The road is now being opened to
Easton.
The line of this road is admirably adapted to traffic
The route is by ferry from New York to Elizabethport on
Staten Island Sound twelve miles, where the requisite
grounds for dpots shops yards &c. have been pro-
cured at reasonable rates. From this point the road
passes with few deyiations from straight line and for
half the distance singulary favorable country
through the thriving towns and villages of
Westfeld, Plainfeld, Bound Brook, Somervic Clinton
New Hampton, Asbury, and Bloomsbury to Phipsburg,
opposite Easton at the Junction of the Lehgh river with
the Delaware The length Of road is 63 miles; making
the distance from New York to Easton rs miles. Here
the charter terminates but that of the Delaware Lehg
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad authorizes the
bridging of the Delaware at this point and the construc-
ton Of railroad in direct line up the Lehigh Valley 40
miles, TO Parryvie, where connection will be made with
the Beaver Meadow Railroad II miles long, leading to the
Legh coal fields The directors of the Lehigh road ex
pect to have it under contract within year, and COM
pleted within eighteen months The distance from New
York to these mines will then be reduced to l2S miles
The extension Of the Lehgh road from Parryvlle to
Railroad from this point to Catawissa, AZ miles; the
building Of the remainder Of the road from Catawissa to
Wliamsport As miles and the building of the Sunbury
and Erie Railroad from Wliamsport to Erie 24O miles
the whole of which enterprises appear reasonably
certain to be speedily competed-wil give additional
length Of road of 347 miles, and line will then extend
fem New York to Erie, Lake Erie, 462 miles, in
direct course, and with most favorable grades.
The quantity of certain articles imported into San
Francisco during the two weeks ending the 18th Of May
was Annexed
Butter hhds. tierces 90 casks SO Arkins; barley
1G7c7 bags Chill containing l7o2 500 lbs. 4SO bags
Dutch 1O4 452 lbs candles l42 boxes coal $40 tons
from Eastern ports ITO from Oregon and from
foreign ports cement $50 bbs duck 100 bolts; -four
LOIS bb 90 cases from Eastern ports 700 sacks from
Oregon and 3S half and 200 quarter sacks from Chilli
gin $50 pipes from f'reign ports hams, 81 terces AZ
casks, and bbs iron boxes $50 sheets 60e bars IS
plates lumber $500 feet Eastern 900 feet Caifsr
MA 10000 feet Oregon. 120 600 Eastern and Oregon
shingles lard kegs 300 jars; nails 400 kegs; oats
23l9 bushels from Eastern ports 100 bushels Oregon
rice so bills and 200 tins from Eastern ports and S9S
mats China 129 bbs Is eases from Eastern ports
and II 600 lbs from Lahaina
The Lake Superior Journal May 80 printed at Sau Ste
Marie. contains the following article:-
COPPER FROM New MIYEs-The S. B. Baltimore, Capt
wilson returned from her first trip to the copper region
on the oath inst with sixty two tons of copper in bar
ing 259 lbs from the Phoenix mine at Eagle river and
the first shipment under the organization. This
promising NINE sprung out OF the OLD Lake superior Conn.,
pany which of the distinguished pioneers in the
mining business, and noted for its silver and copper
and the richness of it's stocks which offered
at the moderate sum of 5000 per share, Under
economical regime and the able management of Mr..
Mendlebaun it promises to take rank among the
paying instead of the promising mines the lake The
propeller Manhattan arrived from 'above' the 2Sth
inst with fine cargo Of "copper" there being ~ lbs
from the minnesota 57I3S lbs from the North Ameri
% $50 lbs from the North West and 525 lbs from
the Aztec mineall the above shipments being usual
in masses stamp and barrel work, with the exception of
the last which consisted of two and fourteen
casks of barrel work This ia the first copper sent down
from the Aztec mine and fr beginning for the short
time the company have been ut work and the small
force they have employed