The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-06-29
| From tie BcIridcfe LheHieencey. !
The Warren Rail Road.

! This important enterprise is progress
ing RAPIDLY. We learn that j T. Blair
Esq, the President of the Road, has with
in the last sixty days procured nearly the
whole land for the right of way, aud has
also let the entire Road The great tun-
mel, Of twenty eight hundred feet long,
through the Nanness Gap, or Oxford
Mountain, is let to Rutter & DuPuy, who
have just completed the Great Tunnel on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and are bring
ing their steam engines, with their whole
organization hcre. The Vass Gap, on
the Delaware, is let to Mr. Shelton, of
New York, who expects to tunnel it with
his Boring machine; an immense struct-
ure weighing one hundred and eighty
thousand pounds, and which borcs a hole
| s feet in diameter. It's operations will,
no doubt, draw thousands to witness it
this summer, and our Belvidere Hotels
are making ample arrangements to ac-
commodate all.
For several miles shanties are erected
already, and hundreds of men are at work.
The Vass and the Vanness Tunnels are
both manned with workmen. The Vass
Tunnel is now being prepared for the
Machine, and will be ready within thirty
days.
We have called this an important en-
terprise, and well it may be SO called, ia
king in view that the Road is but eigh-
teen miles long from the Delaware to New
Hampton, on the Central Il. r. of New
Jersey, and will cost over One Million
Dollars, with its two Tunnels. No road
has ever been undertaken in this State
that cost SO much money for the same
length. 1t is the determination of this Com
pany to have no grade over twcnty-one
feet to the mile, which is nearly dead
level, in order that this road may be uni
form in grade with the Southern Division
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Il. r., and with the the Central road
these having no grades exceeding twenty
one feet to the mile going east, from the
Summit at Scranton, Pa, at the Lacka
wanna Coal Fields, to Elizabethport or
Jersey City. These roads are all to be
graded and bridged for double track,
and to be completed within year; which
will place Warren County on line of
Rail Roads reaching from the Atlantic to
the Mississippi
Belvidere is to have connection with
the Warren Rail Road by means of
branch; and the Belvidere Rail Road will
connect with it, which will make a direct
route from the Northern Lakes to Phila-
delpbiar as well as to New York.
We trust our citizens along the line
will do all they can to encourage and
help on the enterprise. We sometimes
hear the cry of Rail Roads running farms
and cutting them up; but we have never
known of case in which the farm would I
not bring much more after the Rail Road
passed through it, than it would have
sold for before,
The stockholders in the Warren r. R
ire guaranteed 7 per cent. nett, per an
lum, on the stock, payable half yearly.
This certainly is an excellent investment
or those OF our farmers and others hay
ng money to invest; they are certain of
per cent, and the stock is not taxable
There is now no doubt that in June,
855, the Iron Horse will pass through {
he County of Warren, the Delaware Wa
er Gap, over the Pocono to the Far West
We advise all those who intend visiting
he West at that time to embrace the op
ortunity of passing over this new route,
Thich will be one Of the most interesting
the country, having FIVE tunnels, be- ,
ldes several mountain passes made by $
ature WARREN