Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1853-02-03
Delaware & COhps Gap Railroad.

NC ElgluccIS arc HOW making d Caic
full survey, through the County, with the
view of finding the best route to locate
the Road; !; it is, however, generally un-
derstood, that either the Brodhead's
Creek" or the g. Pocono route" via Bar
louisville, will be adopted; each route is
to be thoroughly examined and the right
of way obtained, before proceeding any
further with the project. Iwould remind
the people of Monroe county, that some
two years since certain gentlemen sub
scribed to the Capital Stock of this Com
pany, an amount sufficient to secure the
charter and organize the Company. But
this subscription is insufficient to build the
Road 1t will require at least one mil
lion dollars more and the question is,
where is this money to come from; and
the charter expires within twelve months.
The engineers are engaged at the expense
of few individuals, who alone are re-
sponsible to them, and if the project fails,
the loss is their own.
For the last thirty years, this great
thoroughfare has been agitated, and thous-
ands of dollars expended by liberal indi-
viduals, in obtaining charters, in explor-
ing and surveying routes, and every pro-
ject failed, while other enterprises, with
less merit, have succeeded.
tits now the determination of the friends
of this enterprise to make one more grand
effort, u,,der certain circumstances, and if
they fail, to abandon 1t. Citizens of Mon
roe county, ask you, shall this last eff
fort be made! If you say so, commit
tee will call upon you, to ask you to cede
the right of way, and if you do the fair
thing in this case a grand effort will be
made at once, to see if one mitliOn dollars
can be raised, and if the project fails, it
will not be laid at your doors. You are
all invited to contribute your mite, let it
be ever so small it is desirable that eve
ry individual of Monroe county should
take an interest and be its friend. The
Road is for you and your posterity, and
you are invited to assist, and not call it
Monopoly.
You will now be called upon for the last
time, to manifest your good will, the Com
pany only want the ght of way and land
for depots, at proper places, for your ac-
it is hoped that no land
holder-from selfish motives-will raise
the cry that his farm is ruined by the
Rail Road going through it, when the fact
is, that it only takes so much land, and it
is only the land that he loses. This cry
is usually raised by ungenerous men to
impose upon company, and when the
is done, the value of their
is doubled.
If this great enterprise can be carried,
the farmers will have a market near their
doors. 1t will not be necessary for them
to spend the whole winter in carting their
produce, at great expense, to distant
market. Monroe county will no longer
be that lonesome and isolated place, your
sons a1ad daughters and men Of enterprise
will no more leave the homes of their an
,cStOrS, for homes in other parts; and when
you are asked, "where is Monroe County"
your answer will be, ''it is situated about
IN the centre of all creation" that you
are on line of Rail Road that takes you
to the Atlantic Ocean on the East, and
to the Inland Seas of the West, and to
nearly everywhere else. All this you
,an truly say, and is this not worth one
more grand effort, before it is too late
Let every generous man have his mind
made up, properly, what to do, when
,alled upon, as there is no time to be lost.
MONROE. /