The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-07-28
A New and Important Rail-
Road Project.

Road Project.
An important railroad project has come
to our knowledge within a day or two,
and one on the consummation of which
depends, in preponderating measure,
the future wealth and development of this
county, inasmuch as it will open up some
of the richest mineral and farming districts
of this and the bordering counties, besides
giving new importance and usefulness to
the great thoroughfares already completed
and in course of construction north and
south of US. We give below, as nearly
as our time aud space will admit, the
route and plan of the project. 1t is pro-
posed to tap the Sunbury & Erie r. r.
at or near the mouth of Youngwoman's
Creek in Clinton county, and following
the course of that stream to its headwaters
in Stewardson township in this county, it
will strike the waters of Kettle Creek near
Oleona and follow the main stream to its
headwaters, where it will cross to the
South Branch of Pine Creek, which will
be followed to the main stream, and fol-
lowing that to the mouth of its West
Branch, and along the course of that
stream and its northern tributaries into
Sweden township, where it will cross the
summij and strike the waters of Mill
Creek, and following that stream to Cou-
dersport it will strike the Allegheny River,
and following that, tap the New York 4
Erie II. r. at Olean.
1t is said that this route is not only
feasible, but that it will be moderate
grade and of easy construction, with the
exception of couple of miles at and near
the summit which divides the waters of
the Allegheny and Susquehanna. Our
informants are men of great wealth, hav-
ing business connections witch will in
fuence ample capital, in Europe as we'll
as in this country, to successfully carry
out the project, and having interests on
the line of the road which will incite them
to energetic efforts for its consummation.
They have lately travorsed on foot the
route from Youngwoman's Town to the
headwaters of Kettle Greek, and had pre-
viously examined the route thence to this
place; and they are so much impressed
with the Importance and feasibility of the
route, that they have determined on ask
ing for a charter at the approaching ses-
sion of the Legislature. The entire length
of the road will be about 90 miles.
The vast coal fields which underlie the
land through which this road passes, and
for whose products it will open two im-
portant markets ; the beds of iron ore said
TO exist also in our hills, and the vast natu-
raj facilities for manufacturing the ore
into metal, and the opportunity the pro-
posed thoroughfare will afford for getting
the metal to its legitimate market; the
increased facilities for getting the almost
inexhaustibie lumber products Of this and
the neighboring counties to eastern and
western markets; the increased emigra-
ton and wealth it must necessarily induce
along and around its line, and the rapid
ity with which our forests of hemlock will
disappear before the axe of the determin-
ed farmer, and the consecr9tion of the
rich soils they over-shadow to the uses of
husbandry-all these considerations must
deeply interest the entire sections through
which it passes, as we'll as the great lead
ing lines Of railroad with which it inter
sects at either terminus, in its early con-
struction. Few railroad enterprises of
the current time present better opportu-
mites for the legitimate employment of
idle capital, than the one under notice,
and if energy, perseverance and wide
spread montary influence can procure
the construction of the road, we feel con-
fdent that those having charge of the
project will effect it.
Literary Notices.