New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-28
CHEAP RuEL.

letter from some one interested the proposed extern
sion Of the Liagets Gap Road eastward to the Della
ware ultimately TO connect with this City. We
have mislad this letter but understand that the e.
tension above indicated is fully resolved on and either
has been or soon is to be put under contract. Such
Road will be Of great value to cur City, well to
the region through which it passes and We trust waI
be speedily built and prove amply remunerating.
TIE following letter indicates another important con-
necton, about to be perfected
ALLENTOWN Pa, April "a 1850.
observed in The TiLvne Of Saturday an editorial head
ed Cheap Fuel in which earnest appeal is made 10
capitalists unite in furnishing New York with Cheap Fuel
Are you aware Sir, that New ork has opportu.
nifty Of only reaching best Pennsylvania coal beds
but also of drawing herself the whole trade the richest
agricultural districts of our State
BY means of the Delaware and Raritan Canal the Trea
and Bevidere Railroad the Morris Canal and the New.
Jersey Central Railroad YOU have easy and cOnsan, con-
muniCaon with the outlet of Pennsylvania trade
the mouth OF the Lehigh River
Now what we have been doing for you on this side
Of the Delaware River From the mouth of the Lehga
River land connecting with the above named improve
ments have the Leigh Valley Road running along The
west bank of the Lehigh River 20 Mauch Chunk Thn
road alone gives 10 the whole Lehigh Beaver
Meadow, IIaZeton and other oabeds Of that region q
also to the Wyoming Coal Basin by finished Canal aud
Railroad 10 Wlkesbarre.
But this is not all Az Lehighton six miles below Maach
Chunk it will be Joined By Railroad leading into the very
heart of the Schuylkill Coal Region
Al this place il will be Joined by Railroad leading from
Port Clinton on the Reading Railroad in Sehuylkl Coun
ty connecting these with Road which, running through
the Lykens Valley Coal Basin ntersects the Pennsy vsn
Railroad above Harrisburg and by another sill. from
Reading via kutztown to this place connecting with the
Lebigh Valley adhere and passing down your
CITY While miles below At Shimersyle there comes
in still another Road designed TO divert this immense trade
TO Philadelphia but which is altogether too low down to
effect that purpose ard which will rather add than d.
mnish the tide of trade that will fate set in TO-
ward New York
Now glance over the map and for yourself what in
store for your city You have your choice of all the
coal in Eastern Pennsy vania You will have the trade Of
the weahet valleys in the State viz the Lehigh and the
Schuykll You have two routes tn the west, very many
miles shorter than your New ork and Erie Railroad You
have wanting short link road via Allentown Reading
Lancaster and York 10 Washington. thence away down
South" by as as direct line can be drawn While the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroads that connect with the lower part Of
the Lehgh Valley Railroad, and by means OF with the
roads and canals leading toward New York through jersey
nerec and tan the two finest roads that into Phade
pha TO wit the Reading, and the Pennsylvania Railroads
PHILADELPHIA might thsa change IN the upper term
nus of her Philadelphia and Cobb's Gap Road would do
but that Company not to see the matter as we do
ard will not perhaps until il Is too late Yours truly, W.
Having given this communication in full, We shall
doubtless offend the writer by remarking that, while the
prospect he opens is cordially welcomed, it does not
fully meet the want that mpeed to open the subject
We have no faith in the practicaby of supplying our
CITY and neiehborhood with Coal at prices materially
reduced by such tangled web of Railroads End Canals
as he sets before u.s. 1t may be that Mauch Chunk,
Lggetts Gap or some other point is the true terminus
Of the great Coal Road that our City pressingy needs
though our own impression hvors Wilkesbarre, or
some point very near it. This, however, is question
for Engineers and Geologsts-not for Editors. What
we desire is, first, strong Company formed in our City
70 bud feet doubIe-traek Railroad to the nearest
;ob GAL in ahu
can be cheaply obtained; secondly, survey by compe
tent and upright engineers, with single eye to Cheap
Coal; thirdly the building of the Road exactly where
such survey shall show that it should be built whether
ifs terminus be Mauch Chunk, Wilkesbarre, Scranons
or any other fourthy the running OF as many feeders
as YOU please from the said Coal Road to all parts of the
Coal Region of Eastern Pennsylvania and i You please
Of the Iron region of New.Jersey also Give US the
cheapest Coal the primary consideration all beyond
will naturally clystalize around it, fthis Road is to DO
run TO favor any bdys coabed, or build up any village
or raise the stock of any existing Railroad it will be i'm
possb To make citizens take any interest in il ex
conf as speculaon; but let it be certain that Cheap
Fue is the object faithfully adhered to, and we may
fairly appeal to owners OF Real Estate, of Steamships,
Iron Works and all who use Coal in large quantities, to
come forward and fill up the stock even though the
nrospect of great dividends Immediately should not be
fatterng.
One more suggestion: We need great Coal Road IN
order to shield our City from the danger OF short sup
ply Of Coal We recoect that near the close Of 1851
the winter set in quite early with unwonted severity
vhereupon Coal suddenly rose here to $40 per tun.
Again in 1896 T. it to 81 per tun, and stood
there good part Of the winter. Again, some TWO or
three years ago, when, quite early in the autumn
great storm seriously injured the Schuylkil Canal and
some other opening to the Pennsylvania Coal Region,
Coal rose dollar or so per tun in our City at once ana
took its own time for coming down again: The man
reason was, our dependence on water communicates
to bring our Coal bither from Philadelphia or Rondout
whereas great Coal Road of the amplest capacity
stretching directly from City to the heart OF the
Coal Region, would have measurably shielded us from
such exaction With such Road need not loch
ND heavy capital in Coal mined in summer for use the
following winter but could mine as we needed-veV
much of it in winter when Labor is cheaper and thou
sands standing idle because little work is going on
Fellow Citizens let resolve and act with single
eye to an ample supply of Cheap Coal
The PEOPLE NOT AUTHORIZED TO LEGIsLArE-Ine
Supreme Court of our State (Justces Grdley, Allen
Hubbard and Prat its late term at Oswego distinct
" affirmed the unconsttutiOnaty OF the Free Schoo