The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-09-01

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above mean tide. - IS ss a A
At the Delaware Waite Gap, 80 miles from
tidewater, the low water mark in the river is
! 223 feet above tide.
AT Carpenters Point, Port Jervis) 100
miles from Trenton, the water level in the Della
ware and Hudson Canal is 455 feet above tide
From tidewater at or below Trenton, therefore,
the elevation to be overcome by lift looks to Car
penter's Point, in distance Of 100 miles, is 455
feet, or Only about 81 feet per mile! And as
! the profile of the rivers bed is series of levels
and inclined planes, the first comprising pools
and the latter rapids the sites for the dams are
| plainly indicated by. nature, while the eleya-
! ton and steepness of the banks would prevent
excessive damages from back-water
The dams upon the Lehigh Navigation be-
tween Easton and Mauch Chunk, are from to
l6 feet, and between Mauch Chunk and White
Haven, from Ii to 80 feet, varying according to
the descent of the river and the adaptation of To-
calities for dam-sites. Along the Lehigh be-
tween Easton and Mauch Chunk, As miles, the
lockage is 36l feet, or Il feet per mile between
Mauch Chunk and White Haven 26 miles, the
lslockage is 500 feet, or % feetper mile; total
distance between Mauch Chunk and White Haven
y miles, total lockage 96l feet, average lockage
| permile Ii feet E@
The Schuylkill Navigation is 108 miles long,
and the lockage between tidewater at Fairmount
Philadelphia, and Port Carbon, inthe Upper
Sehuylkill is $40 feet or 81 feet per mile
s. The Delaware and Hudson Canal at Homes
dale, in 963 feet above tidewater on the Hudson
River; between Carpenters Point on the Della
ware river, and Rondout on the Hudson river
As miles, the ascending lockage is 80 feet, and
the descending lockage from the summit in .Sulli-
van county New York, 535 feet, being of course
80 feet greater than the descending lockage from
Carpenters Point to tidewater on the Delaware
river at Trenton.
Rondout is 85 miles from the city of New
I ork,. by a free river navigation; while Trenton
IS II miles from New Z ork, of which distance
81 miles are canal navigation and "a miles are
tree navigation. New York city, however, while
1t IS great market for the consumption of coal,
is not place for the re-shpment of coal Nei-
Their is Rondout an eligible shipping point for
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company have
purchased and are now improving II acres of
land at Weehawken, opposite New York, by the
erection ofpiers, whence to ship coal Neither
is Elizabethport, on Newark Bay, a satisfactory
coal shipping port, but in substitution therefor
1t IS proposed to extend the New Jersey Cen
trail Railroad to Bergen Point on New Y ork
Bay, whenever the necessary authority can be
obtained from the Legislature of New Jersey.
And this brings us to the consideration Of
Ana6oy on Raritan Bay, as an entrepot for the
shipment of Lehigh and Lackawanna Goals,
IN sea vessels A short Branch would connect
Amboy with the New Jersey Central Railroad.
shortllnk, the construction of which has been
determined upon, will connect the Camden and
Amboy Company Is railroad terminating at Am
boy, with its railroad terminating at New Bruins
wick and Civa fbair RoIx;do,o Da1a - II
road, with its advantageous grades, sea outlet
at Amboyl Boats, too, which now pass from
the Lehigh region via New Hope, Trenton and
New Brunswick could be towed direct to AM
boy Amboy, consequently, might be made to
accommodate the coal interests which now ship
from Trenton and Elizabethport, because, for sea
vessels, it is most eligible spot, whilst from its
piers to New York city, coal could be carried
certainly as cheap as from Elzabethport, and
cheaper than from Trenton and Rondout.
Assuming, therefore, that Anaboyis the best
port for shipping Lehigh and IIackawanna Goals
in sea vessels, from the New York waters. the
question naturally comes up-Are not the adj
vantages yet attainable sufficient to warrant the
improvement of the Delaware river as a slack.
Water navigation, from trenton to Easton, if not
to the Delaware Water Gap or Carpenters
Point
Would not the State OF Pennsylvania and
New Jersey be immensely and UNNECESSARILY
benefited thereby? Between philadelphia and
every town upon the river there would be a
cheap steamboat communication and from the
south end of New Jersey at Cape May, to its
north end at Carpenters Point, there would be
two hundred and fifty miles ofsteamboat navi-
CATION @
But this would not be the only nor the chief
source of revenue upon which the Slackwater
Navigation Company would rely for interest of
the outlay to be incurred the coal tonnage
which the slackwaters route would command,
would be immense. and Amboy would become
for the Lehigh and Lackawanna regions, what
Port Richmond is and will cohsinse te' be for
the Schuylkill region.
This programme would. at once supersede the
proposed extension ofthe Pennsylvania Coal Com
! pany's Railroad from Hawley to the Hudson
river, for by the extension of their road from
Hawley to the Delaware river, in the vicinity
Of the Bushkill, where their projected line eros
ses, they would at once be put into direct COM.
munication with Amboy, byya water navigation
of large capacity, and perhaps, too by contin-
uous railroads for it is not anticipating over
much to assert that there may occur condition
of affairs which will result in the extension OF
the BelYidere Delaware Railroad, or the con-