New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-24
FROM MNORTH-EASTERN PENNS " VANIA.
Of The " Y. Tribune.

Correspondence Of The " T. Tribune.
IIAwLEY Wayne Co., Pa, Aug IL, 1854.
This icing prominent point in North Eastern Penn.
sylyania in coal operations, politics, &c, thought
letter might not be unacceptable to you at this me
This village which has sprung up from the next thing
to nothing within five years into population Of about
$500 owes its Iise and progress almost wholly to the
coal business of the Pennsy lvaDia Coal Company this
being the eastern terminus of their road from PttstDn
and where the coal is transhpped from the to the
boats on the Delaware and Hudson Canal; also, the
location of their foundery, machine shops &c., the
works here giving employment to some 2DO men.
The Company have thus far fallen short some
2 CO tuns this season in their shipments of coal to
market, compared with the same period last year
owing to the scarcity of bOatmen caused partly by the
strike last spring. and partly by the high prices OF pro-
Visions horse feed &c But the recent liberal ad-
vance made by the Company the freight OF coal has
brought all their boats into use and the prospect
is that the amount Of their shipments Of coal will yet
equal if they do not exceed those of last year. They
are row loading IS or 40 boats day-between 1000
ard s. GO tuns.
As the canal below this point is now greatly crowd
ed-n fact occupied to the utm st capacity it will
bear and especially in such severe drouth as
We are suffering under in this region, cutting
down the supplies of water TO the canal, which are in
great measure dependent reservoirs on the small
streams far up the cOuntry-the necessity for railroad
hence direct to Jersey City, or some point opposite
New-York, on the Jersey shore becomes apparent,
aud the investment OF capital in such enterprise
speculation especially when We see the increase Of
tie demand and consumption annually outstripping
that OF the supply.
The present road of the Company is capable, prop
ery equipped of running one million of tuns year
a similar road hence to Jersey City would do the
same probably more, it is believed it would re iure
considerably less stationary power such a road in
proportion TO distance than the road hence TO Pitts
ton. These gravity roads with their stationary power
planes (etber steam water( the only coal roads
/ hat lr.u in tAIfh hair lnxz
cost OF construction and equipment, and runDing as
compared with locomotive roads-such for instan
the Reading-apd exemption from the peculiar wear
and tear and breakage, necessarily incident 70 the To-
comotiye road gives them most decided preference
for getting coal and all other heavy cheap loading to
market.
A gravity road from the Pittston mines Off through
Monroe aud Pike Counties, Penn, thence through
New-Jersey, understand is talked Of by the Penn
sylyana Coal Co., and some preliminary surveys have
already been made, or are about being made. learn
that rough estimate has put the cost at 80 000 0J0
but say $1,000, 60 OF $4,000 900, the stock am
quite confident would be better than their present
stock II could be made to to New York 800 900
tuns Of coal year, besides other freight of iron nm
ter &c, TO the amount Of 500 600 tuns. This in con-
nectiOn with the present road and ofthe Delaware
and Hudson Canal for about months in the year
running to market some 60 900 900 tuns would
enable the Company TO do heavy and lucrative busi-
ness, outstrippDg all competition in the coal market OF
New-York City, except perhaps that Of the Delaware
aud Hudson Canal Co.; and this being comparatively
limited by the capacity of their canal, would be nothing
serious, and hardly worthy taking into the account
Within half mile Of this village the Wallenpaupack
enters the Lackawoxen river, and falls (in a
sion of broken fas) three iundred feet in dis
tsnce Of two miles from It's mouth Here is a water
power far exceeding that 1t Lowell Mass, offering
every facility at tding cost of being applied to any
required extent to either overshot or breast wheels
TleIe is site in the country, quite sure, more
| in Enr
woOlen and other manufactures on q large scale The
cost OF building materials here would be IS per cent
le's than anywhere in the NewEngland States even
in New York think. Fuel so important torn in ;he
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