Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-05-19

wholly to particular branches of Machinery
needed in this country.-Messrs. New
BURY have an Iron Foundry in the sams
vicinity, about q mile from the River
Operations of this kind we'll carried out
can not fail to benefit the whole commu
nifty, the operators not excepted. There
may not have been New Englander or 4
New Yorker engaged in commencing any
of these establishments, yet the aspect Of
"matters and things in general" remind
ed US strongly Of the practical, busy, in.
telligent character of a small Yankee
inland village.
One of the New York company, which
has contracted for large quantity of Ore
and other lands about the Mills, is here
prospecting, and we hope to finish the con-
tract. A Furnace, Rolling Mill, &C., is
contemplated, We believe, by the Company.
Many fine and large specimens of Iron Ore
have been picked up in this neighborhood,
(aithough the parent bed of the best ore is
not yet discovered,) whose sharp corners
and bright PARTICLES show that they have
not been rolled from a distance. If not
so,sn, as the Yankee "sowed is field with
gold" which be wished to sell, the rich
veins will ere long be found; and the en-
ergy and capital of the Company, will con-
struct Works which shall give this end of
the county new life, retain our redundant
population, and afford means to develop all
our resources.
By-the-by, the White Deer people claim
that the best route fol Railway from the
Sunbury & Erie to the Central, is up White
Deer Creek into Sugar Valley; and that
the way-travel and transportation from that
region, would be greater than on any other
proposed route Here is a new competitor
for public favor. The Lock Haven & Ty-
rone-the White Deer & Sugar Valley
the Lewisburg- Milton e. Brush Valley
the Lewisburg, Centre & Spruce Creek
the Winfield, New Berlin & Lewistown-
and the Selinsgroye & Mifflintown- Lewis
town, are routes sufficient in number and
variety TO furnish one sure to be con.
structcd. We guess that in this instance
" truth lies between the extremes" and
tha. the Lewisburg & Center will be found
not only the most central but in other re-
spects the best route.
On this trip, we heard one charge
against Lcwisburg, which we could not
deny, and which-individually and col
lectively-we hope may not long be true.
1t is, that with over twice the population,
Lewisburg does not pay as much State and
County Tax as Kelly
HAPPY KELLY TOWNSHIP!
with no mountains-not an acre of waste
land-lead ore unmined, coal equal to that
of New Berlin at least, untouched-opcc
the abode Of mastadons whose giant tusk
found on Howard's farm evincc that they
found the "tallest grass" in Kelly, the
garden Of Buffaloe Valley-with but one
tavern aud two stores-broad fields Of
Wheat at s., and other productions abun-
dant, and fading ready understanding
off rich farmers, whole families, to the
West and elsewhere, every year-indus-
trious and economical, all......no wonder
her taxes are higher than those Of Dor
ough whose citizens are mostly mechanics
and day-laborers. (And yet, we are not
sure but our mechanics, dwelling in small
houses, many rented at that, and living
" from hand to mouth" arc as contentcd
and happy as many of our rich farmers
Yes, in taxable property, one man in
Kelly is worth three in Lewisburg, and t,co
aud a quarter in White Deer and East
Buffaloe and Bufaloe arc equally rich in
proportion. But Lewisburg, as well as
Kelly and East Buffaloe, is entitled to one
commendation-year after year the Coun-
ty Statement shows no County or State
Tar unpaid against those Districts. BE
the same greater or smaller, they "rendcr
unto Caesar the things which are Caesars"
in Grst-rate time and good money. W.