The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-06-16
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Some Of the Works of the Day,

AS business and enterprise, looking to
the future interests of the city. are pro-
jecting important Improvements in this
quarter, it may not be amiss to look
around, and see what our neighbors are
doing to the same end. The great con-
Meeting railroads are the feeders of the
city's prosperity, and, upon their perfec-
ton and their superior facilities depends
success in the competition between ex-
isting centres of trade and business
Philadelphia has been expending liber-
ally Of late years, to perfect her business
connections, and provide facilities for the
increased trade which this foresight war
rants us in expecting. But, though she
has been busy, other cities have been
equally active, and some of the works
they have projected are magnificent in
their proportions. The New York Cen
trail Railroad, the most formidable rival
to the Pennsylvania Railroad, is prepar
ing to build an extensive freight and
passenger depot at Albany, with beau
tful and costly iron bridge over the
Hudson river at that point, with a view
of connecting the Boston and Albany
Railroad, the New York and Hudson
river Railroad, and the New York and
Harlem Railroad. A spot has been Sc
lected on the river, in the centre of the
business part Of the city, reaching from
the Hudson River to the Delavan house,
and covering an area Of about 500 feet
long by 800 wide. Upon this is to be
built the freight and passenger depots,
so as to centralize all the business of the
road, and promote economy by having
all the convenences to be centered at
one spot. Wharves by the side of the
depot accommodate the largest river
steamboats,, and the whole business of re-
ceiying and discharging freight and pass
engers is provided with the best facilities
for doing it expeditiously and with The
least cost. The iron bridge is opposite
the depot, and is on the same scale of
magnifieence. These works when COM
pleted, will cost, it is said, 50, 800, 900.
The New York and Erie Railroad is car
rying out work which, in magnitude
and extent, will exceed anything of the
kind in this country. They are prepar-
ing to build a depot, storehouse and
wharyes at Jersey City, on the Long
Dock property. This, it is said, will in
volve an expense of from four to five
millions of dollars, for the purchase of
whalyes. building Of freight a. nassen-
ger depots, storehouses. aLd % con-
struction of a tunnel through solid rock
a mile and quarter long, for double
track road. When this work is complet-
ed, it will be one of the most complete
arrangements for railroad business in the
country. Another work, closely connect
ed with the business interests of New
York, is the ship channel which is about
to be opened from the Hudson to the East
River, opposite Hurlgate. New York.
though now possessing dock room for her
ships twenty miles in circuit, still feels
the want Of additional space for the ac-
commodation of her commerce, and
hence this new enterprise Of opening a
channel to the north for the accommoda-
tion, Of the largest steamers. and along
which channel docks will be built its
whole extent, The estimated cost of this
great undertaking is not given, but $780,
900, 900, it is believed. will be the out
lay to effect it. These are some of the
works which are projected for the bene-
fit of the trade and commerce of New
York City, They are conceived in a
spirit of true metropolitan liberality and
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