The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-10-25
Local and miscellaneous.

.sUnIted States Railroad and Mining Register:
This road the Bedford Railroad) begins al
HopeweIl, where the Huntingdon and Broad
Top Railroad terminates, 81 miles from the
Pennsylv ania Railroad at Huntingdon. and
ends at Bedford, 90 miles from Hopewell and
81 miles from Huntingdon. About 9 miles,
of the Bedford Railroad aare graded these
miles are TO be trimmed up and three addition
al miles are 10 be graded inside Of go days; so
that the superstructure can be put down on II
miles, and the road opened that distance by the
lst of FEBRUARY next These ~ miles Will car
fy the rail line from Huntingdon to one mile
west of Bloody Run and within miles OF Bed
ford; as Bedford is the seat OF justice OF al
old county, and fashionable watering place
besides, ways and means will doubtless he de-
yis,d to extend the rail line to that ancient
B1rough.
From Bedford west, another link twenty
two miles ,ong, will carry rail line 10 the ex-
treme northeastern angle of the fltlsburg and
ConneIlsviIle RarIIoad at WIils Creek, where
ria Bedford there would be established be-
ta.cen Huntingdon on the JGnIata and Cum5er-
laad on the Potomac, a direct and continuous
IIai communication. Aad all this land more)
will be compassed, we have no dou5t, before
B,dlord is content, for it is laudable ambl-
ton in a county town to strive alter railroad
facilities
That portion OF the Bedford road now soon
to be put into oppeEa'ion, runs through an
IRON region celebrated for hemalite and fossil
ores, which IL Is said abound near the lice Of
the 70 .d; hitherto these ores have been haul
ed to L-Ma5s a1d Bedford fJTges, distance OF
II miles.
B-aofJ, nj seems to us, may yet succeed m
making herself point 90 a South PenHszf-
Uaaia rail route 5etwsen Hurisburg ami Vhee-
rng: indeed this she will accomplish via Hun
,iagdon and Cumberland so soon as the distance
between Bloody Run and Wills Creek Is Gov
cred with iron rails; but more direct route,
and the one to which we more particularly al
lude, will be secured by a connection OF the
Plttsburg and Connelsvile Railroad with the
/ Cumberland Valley Railroad; and the former
of these two roads with the Hempield road,
now in use from Wheeling to Washington.
Wheeling is the capital of the new State Of
Kanawha: and the Pan Handle and Cape Hed-
~ extremitIes of old Virginia are certainly
very far apart in the war for boundary line.
In truth, il is not probable that Wheeling and
N"rfoIk will very soon aoaIn con'eea them
selves constituent parts OF one Commonwealthi
hence Wheeling, since her interests are now
cast with Pennsylvania, will naturally urge
the construction of such links of iron line as
will give her communication with the sea-
| board cities north of the Chesapeake; and as
| the interests of The counties Of Southeastern
| Pennsylvania in this matter are identical With
the interests Of Wheeiirg, it will be strange in-
deed if, in the progress of events and IN the
/ fluctuations IN the tide of circumstances, ''some-
thing" does not ''turn up' which will serve as
a basis for operations 10 a plan for South
( PennSyl Uania Railroad from Harrisburg to
Wheeling, via the valley OF Cumberland aud Of
the YoughioghenY. Or, If this involve too
large an outlay, then via Huntington, Bedford
Bridgeport, ConnelisvIlIe and Washington.
We confess belief that close upon the compile
ton of the Pittsburg and ConuellsyIe road to
Wills Greek, will follow the construction of a
connecting link between it and some one Of
the roads now terminating in the Pennsylva-
MA Railroad.
On the 9Th October, instant, trains began
[ IN IN ha tfSb md 10 Rail
aoad from the corner Of Ross and BTpcknridge
streets, Filtsburg, over eleven miles of new
road opened TO Brinton's at Turtle Greek,
where hitherto, the Pirsburg and Connel!s-
vile Railroad terminated IN connection WITH
the Pennsylvania Railroad. From PittsOurg
TO Connellsyille the distance is 90 miles, and
between these points the road is now operated
without using any portion Of the Pennsy ylvania
Railroad.
On the road between ConnellsviIle and Cum
berand 81 miles, work was suspended in
October, 1857, and has not since been Iesum-
ed. Th,rty-three miles west of Cumberland
IS the Sand Patch tunnel 4,650 feet long, on
which 100000 have been expended in driv-
ing the tunnp-headng, which Is within 900
feet of completion. From Bridgeport at the
mouth Of Little Wills Creek, on the Pitts
burg and C9nnellyvil!e Railroad II miles from
Cumberland, read will doubtless be made to
3 dsoJd. v ch Is only % miles distant from
Rrdger5c The distance from the PrnnsyI-
vania Railroad at Huntingdon to the Puls-
burg aud CunneIsvil!e Railroad at Bridegroom,
1873 miles from Huntingdon TO umberland,
via Bedford and Bridgeport, the distance is 80
miles.
-. The next House Of Representatives will
consist OF 43 Straight Democrats, SO Strag ht
Republicans, 10 Democrats elected on Union