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


struction of some other railroad, along the Della
WARE river to the New York and Erie Rail
road, at Carpenters Point. ds 0
Indeed, it might become question whether
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
would not find it to their interest to lock out
boats at Carpenters Point, to be passed thence
via the Delaware Slaekwater and Delaware and
Raritan Canal route, direct to Amhoy, thereby
it is true, in such cases, losing the toll on As
miles of their canal but, at the same time, get
ting portion of their coal to the piers at Am
boy, for shipment thence in sea craft
From Carpenters Point to Amboy the dis
tances via Rondout and the Hudson river, and
via Trenton and New Brunswick, are as fol
| lows:.
a8 gfaHa ~ Miles.
Carpenters Point (P.Jervis) to Rondout 48
/ Rondout to New York city IS
New York to Amboy m 81
Total from Carpenters Point, via Rond-
out to Amboy ~ a LEG
Carpenters PIT to Trenton by slackwater 100
Trenton, via. New Brunswick, to Amboy,
say fg III
Total from Carpenter'ssPt, via. Trenton,
to Amboy IA eoa tlnf 267
From Hawley, the present terminus Of the
by canal 100
Rondout to Amboy, by river and bay 112-
/ Total, Hawley to Amboy, via Rondout PIP
From Hawley to Delaware river, at Bushkill,
say 80
Bushkill to Amboy, via Trenton and New
Brunswick no
Total from Hawley to Amhoy, via. Trenton ITO
Difference in favor ofroute via. Trenton 40
By railroad from Trenton to Amboy, the
distance is about 35
The Delaware, Lehigh and Wyoming Rail
road, surveyed by J. w. Allen, ESQ.,, Civil En-
gineer and reported on, by him, under date
Bordentown, August 5, 1853, if built from
water, in the vicinity of Brodhead's creek, above
the Water Gap, would put the Wyoming coal
region upon an equal footing with it's northern
neighbor region, in the general tidewater mar
ket sa 6
The Delaware Lackawanna and Western
Railroad is built upon ground which was sur
veyed by Ephraim Beach, Esq. ;, Civil Engineer
whose report dated December 81, 1881, is now
before US. Captain Beach reported the eleva-
ton of the summit between the Susqnehanna
and Delaware rivers, at 1866 feet above the first
named river at Pittston, and 1899 feet above
the last named river at the Water Gap Of
this elevation he proposed to overcome 700 feet
on the Susquehanna slope Of the Moosc noun
tain, by three inclined planes, and 855 feet on
the Delaware slope on the Pocono mountain, by
three inclined planes. It was proposed to ex-
tend this road, which bore the corporate name
of Susquehanna and Delaware Railroad, along
the bank of theriver to Easton, and also across
the Delaware river to the Morris canal The
location of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, without inclined planes was
made by E. Mcneil Esq, Chief Engineer, and
in June, 1853, the contracts for work upon the
line between Scranton and the Water Gap were
allotted. The road, between these points, was
opened in May, 1856, at which time, Also the
Warren Railroad was put. into operation. =
Whether the Managers of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad, who are gentle
men Of great sagacity and large experience,
would put a part of their coal tonnage on the
Delaware, if made a slackwater, would doubtless
depend upon close calculation and considera-
tions Of policy. Il
From the Lehigh Valley a large tonnage
would undoubtedly pass upon the slackwater
improvement in preference to any other COM
muncation because, from the mouth of the
Lehigh to Amboy, there would be only 164 feet
of descending lockager being less than one-half
the lockage between Easton and Mauch Chunk.
Then, too the wide locks ofthe Lehigh Naviga-
ton would for the first time be available, for
large boats of more than twice the capacity of
any boats that can now reach tidewater from the
Lehigh, would pass through the locks of the
Delaware slack water To the Lehigh Naviga-
ton Company, per consequence, and also to the
Lehigh Vally Railroad Company who could
empty their trains of cars into boats of two hum
dred or more tons at Easton, the improvement
of the Delaware river channel is proposition
full Of interest and promise = and so likewise is
it to the States of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey, to the operators in the Lehigh, the Wyom-
ing and the Lackawanna coal fields, of the con-
sumers and buyers Of Goals in the New York
markets. and to the indwellers of the Delaware
valley from the ocean to its upper waters
la A correspondent ofsthe Boston journal sends
thefollowing amusing "reminiscences from Milford !:
-" Some years since an old revolutionary sol