Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-11-18
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Organization ofthe conneIIsviIIe and Southern
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
OnThursday P. NJ, November 10, at No. 238 South
Third street, Pennsylvania Railroad Buding) the
stockholders OF the Connellsville and Southern Penn
sylvania Railway Company completed their orgnni-
cation by the election of President and twelve d.
recrors, to WITT
President, John A. Wright, Directors, Thomas
A. Scott, Josiah Bacon, John NJ Kennedy, Wistar
Morris, Edward G. knight, S. L. Russell, George
W. Cass, D. R. Davidson D. E. Small, j. D. Boddy,
Ashbe Green, A. K. Mcclure.
The capital stock of the company is ten millions
ofdollars; and as one subscription was for 1922 900
shares S5l00Oo0 being 900 shares 500, 600, ma
jority Of the whole number Of shares and the whole
amount ofcapal stock prescribed inthe act Of incor
porotion it is clear to discern to what interest the
new road is to be made auxiliary and tributary And
in this fact is the corner stone Of the new enterprise
which is to open an ron-way from the southwestern
counties to the markets at the seaboard for the new
road has only to be built and opened to existing
roads now in use to tidewater to assure cheap and
direct communication from those of the southern
tier of counties that are now without railroad fac
ties over connecting links welded in one interest,
and harmonized in one grand undertaking to move
tonnage and carry passengers.
railroad that shall cross the mountains and close
the gaps in Southern Pennsy ylvania, by mainstem and
branches, is more than want it is necessity And
to supply this desideraum is the transit mission and
chartered prerogatiye of the Connesvlle and South
ern Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
For more than score Of years !'the frosty sons of
thunder," the name by which the male issue of Som
erset and Fayette counties are known at Harrisburg
have been trying to drive locomotive across the
Allegheny and down into the vale Of Wills Creek
but having always hitherto sought allies in the direc
ton of the Potomac and the Patapsco, they have in
consequence suffered that "hope-deferred which
maketh the heart sick' But having at last realized
that their interests identical with potential or
ganzation within the State-a Pennsylvania nstitu.
ton for the succor Of communities that kept apart
by interposing mountains and water sheds-they now
look longingy and hopefully more towards the east
to the Susquehanna and the Delaware
To the new Railroad corporation, too, the south
counties west Of the Susquehanna river open am
ample area FOR the sweep and scope of comprehen-
siye policy and broad working plan
And that the Legislature anticipated important
diversified results from the cooperation of the local
interests in the southwest counties with the great
carrier which is also great power in the control of
capital and the command Of influence, is manifest
from the extraordinary privileges granted to the
connellsyille and Southern Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, which, among other concessions, is en-
dowed-
With power to construct q railroad from Con-
nellsyllle to the Maryland State line at such point
and by such route, to the directors may seem
most advisable; and to connect the same with any
road or roads authorized by the State Of Maryland
and 10 connect the same with the Pittsburg and
Conneisyiie Railroad, any other road at or near
Connellsgille, now constructed, or that may hereaf
ter be construeted andto construct a road from any
point said line, to connect with any road or roads
IN the Susquehanna Valley, or west thereof and with
power to make such branches the directors may
deem expedient and necessary, in the southern tier
OF counties Of Pennsylvania, with power to extend
any or all Of said branches to such point or points,
as 70 the said directors may seem advisable, and
connect all or either of them with any road roads,
now constructed, that may hereafter be construc-
seq west Of the Susqaeh anna ver and tina. the said