New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-17

eottc tho aWaut,v 9, ceai l,us IN tho wyoniur Val
lr, IN another wA, tho coal Geld is ri,iy feet thlch
AND Ia thirty m,les lens aud 'hrco hrVsd
lie dlacrvnt ,cus eslsfrr that s, como a. tho sur
is,A A. intervals alcra Che edcs " che mouutnlnu
tNus Nc Rnh, ~ lowret vein esisn'ps NJ Nmticohc,
crrc.lte Gel co.'s housc che ,our,h a the baltimore
t.urSnN'a mime, and thc second two miles below.
You viii soon BE- able ~ Judge toe ,ourrclf OF the
quality Vt thc coal as we'll a. W che thickness NJ THE bod
axe blocks fom each vein have iuat reached Now
NvsA Mr exhibition ~ thctrstal Palace. Audit" ,"u'
Nssstt tiitoT, whose hearts are 81 kccniy a'' '"
The development ei the rcsourccs ci the kcpnhh' np'
thc easi ncN sting at the specimens IN the mnr"n%'
cal department viii be the noble column o coal 'aN"n
rem tic uiuc IT tho baltimore Coal Company +" ~
in three or tour pieces, hut when put togotnor ~
stood In the ,riu IL viii he thirty cc high 'hr'c oV'
bread and five thick. IL wiz excite moio 70
rmoti,ns within YOU, thinh. IMAM tee K"i" quar-" VI
California am, the nuggets at Australia
nu,ine m, sta, IN Nilkcsharrc, have visited sc'.
,rsl ot the most important mines The BALTIMORE ~i
C,nraus have by far the largest. ihc! nave n''"oa
slyhtuh M SlhOUOO In lands and machinery, and VIII
his ,oar mine from the thirty feet vein about WOVU
inns of coal They find market in Baltimore. 10
costs the Company, have been told, about W cents
,un 10 Get cut their coal raise il TO the surface, aud
deliver il AZ the canal-a halEmic distant from the
mine TGss sat for al tie same place about ~ %, so
si fke yreRI EpoR h6 10000 fRas they produce IS db0m
S6V UUU. tOltrahe per ceniagc upon their capital!
The COMPANY il was remarked TO me, returns
hrir capital TO the stockholders every two or three
" wears. suppose lis w uc true vi "H '"O "'''i
minirg companies in the valley.
Development is what this coalproducng region
needs aud development, | trust IT Will soon have.
From table published by the Board OF Commerce In
Philadelphia, learn that three hundred and twenty
III, usaud tuus of coal sent 10 market from the
Wyoming valley. in 1852. The mining companies
could lust as well have mined three times the quantity
il the demand at Baltimore and in the ifon,manulac-
turing districts had not been so limited. New-iork
and FhilsdeI hia are as yet closed to them
The North Branch Canal 20 be finished in the spring,
which follows the Susquehanna up to Athens and there
mites with the Junction Canal, which viii, however,
open 10 the miners of Wyoming Valley market
thr, ughout the whole of the western part of the State
TIE demand from this region will, IN two years, have
10 doubt, twice as much cOa TO be mined irom
The veins of which speak, now is mined Besides,
a railway is now under contract, to be butt IN TWO
years, which running down the susquehanna will
lead directly 10 Philadelphia This will open another
outlet TO the valley
Direct con munication with New-York by means Of
i railway is, however, the only method by which the
resources of Luzerne County can be thoroughly de-
veoped Until this be established, its coalnnes must
lie ior the most part unproducye, and its landbolders
rensn comparatively poor Ii is, however, unable to
build railway. without assistance from abroad And
| would therefore direct the attention of kewYOrk
merchants to the feasibility and Importance of rail-
way from the Valley OF Wyoming TO that city
The Only practicable route for such a railway would
be from Wilkesbsrre 10 the Delaware Water Gap, and
thence to New-York by the Morris and Essex road.
The distance is only hundred and forty6ve miles
go miles TO the Gap and s. to jersey City. This
is longer than an air line by about seventy miles The
road would rise LIS feet, at grade of 63 feet to
mile, the summit, little than eighteen miles
from Wilkes barre and then descend fifteen sixteen
hundred feet 10 the Delaware Water Gap, at
age grade of forty feet.
The cost Of this road would be probably
Sixty miles at $500 mile. 80 ZOO
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