New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-18
a RISING DISTRICT.


RISING DISTRICT.
The Allegheny River rises partly in the Coun-
ties of Allegheny ,Cattaraugus and Chautauque,
n. Y. and partly in Erie, Crawford, Warren, Pot
ter and Union Counties, Pennsylvania, running
devious South Westerly course toPittsburgh,
vheret unites with the Monongahela, from the
South West to form the noble Ohio. Small
steamboats, ascend the Allegheny in high stages
of water as far as Franklin, the shire-town of
VenaDgo County, and have assembled to War
rem. the shire-town of Warren County, some
ten miles south of the Chautauque County
line Practically, however, the Allaghany is
nayigable only for the immense RATS of lumber
which have for many years descended il during
it's fuller stages, and for the arks or rude boats
wherein Pig Iron is hoated down TO Pitts.
burgh. The small steamboats, already men,
toned are only familiar to its lower half, aud
are of no great practical account
The Allegheny Valley is perhaps $50 miles
long by an average of 100 in breadth. Its
eastern edge is ragged and mountainous, aud
most Of the remainder is diversified by high
hills and steep rayines, but its soil is generally
fertile and much Of il still covered by q heavy
growth Of primitive forest, whence the Pine
has mainly been cut out, sawed up and rated
away. The whole Valley has till recently been
difficult of access, and is still thinly peoplei.
1t would support many times its present popu-
lation by Agriculture alone.
But il is not destined to thrive mainly by
Agriculture. The upper part Of it is best
adapted to Grazing, though il produces Grain
very fairly, and will do still better st it when
the last Pine shall have been cut, sawed and
RATED away. But the soil of this Valley is
rich in Coal and Iron; the former btuminous,
the latter easily mined and smelted The i'm
pedlments TO transportation have hitherto
been 50 great as to limit the Iron business, es-
pecially during the low prices of the last two
or three years; but the new prospects for
Iron ard the new channels Of intercommunica.
ton have opened brighter day for this hither-
TO secluded region.
The first impulse TO the Allegheny Valley
since the development of Iron-making at Pitts
burgh was given by the construction Of the
Erie Railroad. This trayerses the upper por-
ton Of the Valley, just north of the State line,
for some sixty or seventy mies, bending
Northyard from Olean 10 strike Lake Erie at
DurkiTk. Olean is smart numbering village,
near the head Of the North line, so Ear as as
certsned Of the Allegheny Coal basin, but il
is highly probable that further explorations
ard discoveries will carry both Iron aud Coal
considerably further North than they have yet
been found
1t never rains but IL Pours.' The frs, Rail-
road piercing the Allegheny Valley was only
effected through great exer,iOn, perseverance,
ard sacrifices on the part of its projectors and
friends; but this is destined to be rapidly fol-
lowed by others. A Railroad from ClevelandtO
Pittsburgh has been some months in operation,
and VIII soon be part Of an unbroken line from
Cincinnati 70 Philadelphia; while the SunSury
Railroad, stretching from PhiladelphiA 10 Erie,
VEL soen traverse the Allegheny Valley diago-
nally through two-thrds of its extent Then
Pittsburgh ard Rochester have resolved on a
connection by Railroad through the whole
length Of the Allegheny and Genesee Valleys
And beside these, a strong Ohio and local inhu.
ence is now at work 10 construct a Railroad OF
siI.feet guase due West from the bend of the
Erie at 0lean, By jamestown, n. Y. Meadville,
Pa, Warren, Ohio, &c, 10 form part Of great
East aid West line from New-York TO st.
Louis and ultimately to San Francisco. We
are assured that this line, Ike the others above
recited, is destined not only to certain but 70
. prompt construction.
When these lines shall have been completed,
tie Allegheny Valley. no longer secluded, VIII
be practically the heart of the Free States,
rapidly becoming the focus OF lis Mineral and
Manufacturing industry. No longer depend
ent on the eapricious navigation Of its rivers
il viii be within q days ride OF New-York,
Philadelphia. Cincinnati, Cleveland Detroit,
Buffalo, &c, with inexhsustible beds of Iron
and Coal, its villages vii rapidly expand into
cities, and its forests be transformed into fruit
ful fields and gardens. Olean may very prob |