The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-06-23


does not produce than those which the
Railroad Company owns, and is mining
Their immense machine shops, coal break
ers, and everything is on the grandest
scale, and appears to be we'll managed.
I understand they have on their road six
teen of the largest class locomotives, with
passenger cars, and eighteen hundred coal
cars, carrying each five tons, and now en-
ployed in Transporting coal to the West.
The Superintendent informs me, that by
the time the other end of the road is ex-
tended to the Delaware, they will have
two thousand cars ready to move-capa-
Bile of carrying six tons each, and all made
at their own shop. Few persons have
any idea of the cost to be encountered to
stock coal-carrying road.
1t is wonderful to see what has been
accomplished at this place in a few years.
A town of four thousand inhabitants has
grown up from the wilderness; one of the
greatest iron works, and with facilities to
make iron superior to any other establish
ment in this country; they have made the
railroad iron that reaches from that place
to Lake Ontario, and are now making
mile a day of iron for some of the Western
roads.
conversed with a geologist at this
place, who has been examing the coal
'eins in the valley, who informs me that
the coal lands owned and controlled by
this Railroad Co., and their friends, COM
prise the cream of the valley. Their coal
is visible to the eye, and generally above
water level, not broken up, and is easy
to mine; unlike, in these respects, much
of the coal in other places, especially that
about Wilkesbarre, where the veins are
deep and expensive to mine, and the
coal at Pittston prrtake, in a measure, of
the character of Wilkesbarre region
There is no end to the coal in the Lacka-
wana valley.
There has been considerable excite
ment about coal lands the past winter and
spring, and every kind Of speculation,
with all kinds of Rail Road projects, got
up for the purpose of enabling speculators
to sell their coal lands, and they haz&
their drummers in all the seaboard to-
crying-cheap fuel, grand routes, u
eral charters.
Now reader, let US leave tho
the West, take places in tho
easy seats, and splendid cars at
ming House, and pass five miles o.
west through that passage in LeggeS@
Mountain, called Legget's Gap. The
cuts, over one thousand feet high on
either side, are covered with emerald
shrubbery from them passing distance
of twenty miles, through highly cultiva-
ted section in Susquehanna Co.; here the
road passes under the Tunkhannock
Mountain, through tunnel twenty two
hundred feet long. This tunnel was made
by the Company to avoid any grade ex-
ceeding 81 feet to the mile in going west.
and the time has proved they we're right
AT this place you enter the valley of Mar
tins Creek, small stream enclosed by
mountain on each side, in many places
over one thousand feet high, and nearly
passing up this narrow
gorge, the remarkable distance of nine
teen miles, with no grade over twenty one
feet to the mile. Arriving at New Mil
ford Valley, lovely place, you pass down
it nine miles to the Great Bend on the
Susquehanna, to the New York and Erie
Road, from which point you can go every
where, you have the money and the will.
L have endeavored to describe plainly
these wonderful passes through these i'm
mense mountains and gaps, lying as they
do in direct line from East to West, and |
the most remarkable and beautiful pass
up Martins Greek; with the immense coal
and iron formations in the Lackawanna
Valley; these all look as if Providence
designed it to be great opening for the
coal to pass to the East and to the West,
to warm and comfort his people, chance,
lnbeliever, could not have made it.--Nca0.
zrk Sentinel. MONROE.