The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1854-11-03
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If we adopt the mode olestmatlng the proportion
of The sum paid last year by the Peunsy yyanIa ksei-
road Company State Tor the oi the Portage
road, The receipts for tue Main Line will be mereas-
ed 81 ,l27 III 81 OF an excess et $l3B,
7I5 IS over the sum received the last year. the
receipts from the Delaware Division are large as
compared with last year, and whether th!s ercun-
Will tend 10 defeat sale OF the Work we can
not tell. There are circumstances connected with
the Delaware Division Inch are favorable 10 sale,
which 40 doubt will be considered by the Legislature.
The Lehgh Valley Railroad will be finished The
coming season. which will enable all the shippers OF
coal III upper waters OF the LehiSh TO take their
coal 10 NeW-Iork without tTaBshipment. This will
reduce the business OF tue Canal 10 that furnished by
the l.ehish Navigation Company alone The Canal
too we apprehend, wIll soon, Ii mol now, require a
large expenditure OF money put II III good order.
rhis statement Is exceedingly gratifying, because
the predict ions OF Jealous rIehdS, VINO favor a sale
OF the public works without much regard 10 The price
to be obtained conditions 10 be iWpossed nave not
been realized. The public led 10 believe, when
The eels ature adjourned the works would not yield
euongh 10 pay expenses; but the figures teA very
different story. the receipts from the Delaware Dl-
vision and the North Branch VIII be very large, and
we rejoice al this fact. The suggestions made by
the Ledger, in regard to The sale OF the Delaware
Division, Is worthy OF considerable The c9mple-
ton OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad will undoebed-
iy create rival 10 the Canal, but II Is by no means
certain that the former compete with the latter
Tue whole subject however, should be carefully CON
sdered, aud that policy adopted winch wili best sub
the public interests.
1t nav be safely predicted that the North Branch
canal will the ensuing season, do very large bust
hess and consequently produce TO the Treasury a
handsome Thus canal, we fear, Is not fully
appreciated by the public, who reside at distance
from It's location. 1t extends from Wlkesbarre a
long the Susquehanna river Athens, which about
four miles from the State line. Here the ChemHHg
river minges IT'S waters with the Susquehanna, and
The canal continues along the western bank
OF the former, TO Elmra in New York, and at that
point unltes with the canal OF that State. comp
any was formed, under New York charter, to con-
stIuct the canal from Athens 10 Enra. Il Will thus
be seen that the North Branch canal has northern
terminus IN the great State OF New York, and that
boats laden with coal from the Wyoming valley can
pass up our canal and into the New York canals, aud
from thence their place OF destination, without
transhipmeut. Heretofore the only outlet Tor the
coal OF this fine valley was souih-down the river TO
Harrisburg, Columbia, and thus TO BaitJm6fe OF
through the Chesapeak canal 10 this city. This Will
longer be the case. All western New FORK Is the
uarkel opened by the completion Of thfs canal
for the coal OF the Wyoming valley Great pFepaia a
lions are being made by miners and others, next
years business, and wish them all success.
The policy OF finishing this canal was strongly
urged By GOV. BIGLgR, and although he viii not
share The honor, officially, OF the revenue derived
lherefom, nothing dyest him OF the glory OF
Eaying contributed Iagely to lis completion. This,
consider OF the croISniHg acts Of his admins
tration, and the people cannot fal to remember him
with gratitude. We have no hesitation in saying
that this portion of the public works should rot be
sold. The public should II N order that the
common Treasury may receive all the benhts from
its large PeuRSyic1Hi4H.