Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-09-09

tram Oh MS ROAD, out ne thought one car
only wonld be used, and that would not
pay. Now look--there is a blackberry
train All this ntercommunication is a
great fertilizer-all sorts of people are
brought to knowledge of each other, and
knowledge of the business of their own
country and the world The birds used
to have the blackberries all to themselves
nobody wanted the one-t -thousandth par,
of them. l say nothing of the whortle-
berries which now come by rail, and are
on the tables of everybody. And the
lands near the railroads are growing more
valuable every day, and they are in course
of cultivation aud improvement, and with
out the railroads they would not have been
reached this century, and hardly that.
The benefits 60 with the roads. One i'm
proves the other with a rapidity which re-
sembles that Of the trains which glide
through the lands.
Mr.. Judd observed that be was not Ger.
| tain that there exists much much opposi.
tion to our railroads among our farmers,
nothing near as much as there is in this
city to the Broadway Railroad Some far
mcrs are interested in their opposition,
but at large, the farmers have subscribed
literally for railroads. Many have tried
to get the roads to 90 through their own
farms.
Prof. j. J. M,pes.-This subject has
been treated SO ably by Mr.. Solon Robin
son, that can hardly add to it anything
important; however, can state that be-
sides their immense utility in the ;ranspor-
tation Of cattle, they now carry from our
cities into the heart of our country very
large amounts Of the fertilizers-guano,
the spent ashes of the soap boilers, pot
ashes, bones of animals from Cincinnati,
and particularly, common salt, for manure
All these are spread By our railroads far
and wide, which would have remained at
home for want of freight trains. In New
Jersey We have two railroads, both Of
which are still opposed by many. As to
the stock being owned by farmers, it is
chiefly owned by Wall-street and Europe
an capitalists. Our Hudson River Rail-
road was opposed by almost every farmer
on its line. The cost of freight BY the
roads is rapidly diminishing. Soon we
shall have suitable pieces of ship timber
shaped in the Green Mountains, Ito render
So more porraole) brought to our ship-yar,!s
BY railroads. Tue naturally curved pieces
are already scarce. Blanchard has set his
remarkable inventive genius to work. He
can now take the timber green in the
mountains, Of eight inches Cor larger if
required, as for futtocks, for large timbers
only require large curvatures) square, bend
it to the desired curve, stay it there, and
send it by railroad to the sbip-yards.
Hitherto, a tree containing only few nat
urally curved pieces has been valued at
s25. A great saving Of expense and a
superior strength in ship frames will be
the direct result
The cost of freight by the railroads of
Belgium, is much less than with us, al
though their roads are more expensively
built than our own. When first construc-
ted, their prices for both passengers and
freight, were greater than those of this
country, but the increased amount of bu-
siness consequent upon reduction of rates
has enabled them to declare larger divi.
dends than the average Of American roads
roads during the same time.
The fruit trade of the Camden and Am
boy railroad is much larger than is gene
rally supposed. Two years since the Lon
don Tines contained an estimate of the
amount of fruit consumed in Great Britain
during year, giving the amount imported
from the continent in baskets, quintals,
&C., all these l reduced to the size OF peach
baskets, and that the amount c,' peaches
carried into the city IF e.N.g Yoss, ocer tie
An,boy Railreo3 ts a single ,ccek ,cas
greater tha@ the total amount cf fruit con-
sumed IN Great Brttuin ia one year. The
freight for one day at an average Of
cents per basket for peach baskets was
sll00. Ninety thousand BASKETS of straw
berries were sent over the Coartland street
ferry from New Jersey in single day.
Blackberries and whortiebe:.ies are re-
ceived by the Car load, and add materially
to the health of the million occupying
New York and its. environs. But yester-
day observed at Jersey City, I large cars
laden with milk, and similar quantity is
brought by that road each day. There are
many milk dealers who employ large
amount of capital in the sale and purchase
Of this article. Railroads will soon render
the whole Of Monmouth county capable OF
being used as market garden, and in this
free soil where one horse can draw plow
as easily US two elsewhere, this business
NAV he nursred with hiph Drotit and the