The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-19


the so,,as 00mme,os and transferred to the s
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written after consultation and upon information derived
from your Office or from persons interested Had the
writer limited his remarks to what properly refers to
own property he had ample materials for urging your
delinquent shareholders to pay the balance due upon their
Of your shares manestly his purpose Had done
this NO one would have had cause to complain. / GER
tainly would not have done so.
He, however, has made statements comparing your
lands with those in which am interested, erroneous
to make my imperative duty to reply and address
myself to you because this not the only instance in
which have suffered grievous wrong at the hands Of per-
connected with your company and because his state
ments are calculated, II unanswered, to do much
injury, and wantony erroneous and uncalled
that II is your duty man and Christian, situated
you are TO exert your influence TO correct them and to
prevent their repetition else to renqush your pre-
sent ocal relation to persons capable Of such conduct
The writer attempts to the lands in the north
eru end Of the fields with those Wesernpor in
which am interested, and asserts that yours more
valuable than mne because have the ten foot vein
under the greater part your land which, he says
have not He asserts also that the companies occupying
the northern end Of the field Of which yours one
supply, at Cumberland, an the coal which can be
carried the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at charge for transporta
tion Of fifty cents per ton less than the cost of transport
ing our coal from Westernport to Cumberland. He
Sorts ALSO that the canal will transport three ourths of
the COAL that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
win make their double track further than Cumberland;
that the fall in the river and the danger from freshets
above Cumberland great that the State hatac
count would not extend the canal to Westernport.
You will that these statements, If true would de-
onstrate that the coal lands Westernport are
compared with yours, of but little value You will also
zee that they are of such character as to deserve the
censue false and that If false they deber
ately and wlfully so.
Now you know that near westemport the Potomac and
Georges creek cuts through and drains all the coal veins
enabling to work ut least four feet and that
mines worked at comparatively little cost without
shafts any expense whatever for dranipg whereas,
on your land you must incur great outlay for shafts
and drainage you work more than the ten foot ven
You know, also, that the Maryland Mining Company,
who then owned your road and worked best mines
nearest to Cumberland faed and that their entire CAPT
tai land and all sunk in competition with other
companies in the same end of the coal fields, who paid
thirty cents for transportation to Cumberland. How,
then, am u to characterize the statements made in the
communication referred that you deliver your coal
at Cumberland for fifty cents per ton less than
when know that the whole charge for transportation
from Westernpor to as given in the printed
tariff of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
Is but nineteen cents ton being eleven cents per ton
ess from Wesernpor than was paid by the other compa-
nies from your end of the coal fields.
You know further that your ten foot vein is eleva ted
than thousand feet above Cumberland and that
your coal carried over grade SO steep as to make
vein is only about three hundred feet above Cumberland
and carried descending grade of about ten feet to
The assertion that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will not make double track beyond Cumber-
land is equally venture to assert that
one who has reputation worth preserving will deny
that the Wesernport district about the centre of the
coal basn that the railroad company will look to that
ported their road And know that 80 far from in
tending to suspend their double track at Cumberland,
that company pledged to furnish all the transpora
ton may require and that there many influential
persons who believe that the company will not only make
double track to WesernPor but to the Ohio river and
that such will be the demand for trans portaon and
such the saving of expense that will be the interest of
the company to purchase the canal make slackwaer
the river and lay down double track the bed of
the canal, with descending grade 10 Baltimore.
am told, by one OF the most accurate and best in
formed directors Of that company that the ranspora
ton costs the company only seventy cents per
from Cumberland to Baltimore, and that the cost upon
the proposed descending grade win be less than half
that sum- that instead Of paying, a. you now do
about dollar and seventyve cents per ton you NAV
deliver your coal Mt Baltimore at cost of y cents per
ton for transportion from Cumberland.
refer to the assertion that the State deferred
from making the canal beyond Cumbcrland,by the rapid
y Of the and dangers Of fehets to show further
the character of the communication upon which com
ment because is notorious that the work suspended
at Cumberland not for the stated but because
the company had exhausted its funds and s resources in
doing so This fact did not answer the purpose OF the
writer because he knew that funds may he obtained
and his purpose to create belief that the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company would not and that the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company could not, furnish
of transportation and that therefore, the lands
near Westernport are comparatively yaueless.
repeat that your lands of great value that there
occasion to deprecate the value of mine that the
statements therefore wanton and uncaed
Tor and the culpable because this Ia not the first
the least injury have suffered at the hands of
Of your associates. Can you, an honorable and
Christian lend the sanction OF your and character
10 such user With due poet, your ohedcnt
want, DUFF GREEN