Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-29

Inc loHoVng communication in reference to the
plans OF the Atlantic and Great Western Railway
contains many pCints of interest,"
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. q, 1865
ED. PHLLADA. EN0UIRER-The scheme of the At
lantic and Great Western Railway Company TO CON
struet broad gauge railway through the interior Of
the State OF Pennsylvania has already been llustra
ted IN the columns of the Inquirer Much has been
the project, and some recent Developments induce
me to ask your renewed attention to subject which
Is, beyond d0uot, one ohdrect interest to every mer-
chant' raVeier. and citizen of our Commonwealth.
WHERE THE MONEY Is TO COME FRoM.
There is no doubt but that the Atlantic and Great
Western Company can procure unlimited supply
OF money for any work which it may undertake. At
meeting, of the stock and bondholders Of the cor
poratlon, held at the London Tavern on November
Ath, Sir Morton Peto made the official statement
that the enormous sum of Jorty-ssrea MILLION dollars
was the capital OF the company to meet outside con-
tracts Tor construction and the cost of the Inc and
a that 1T there 6 was on hand additional margin of
built were hundred and t,renty-Sr thousand soren
hundred @nd ffty do1Grs per week. AT the same
meeting Sir Morton informed the parties in interest
that no more money was 'equired.
MILLION sUBsCRrBED
AS one oil the hrst steps twards the construction of
the SIX feet guage road though our wild interior
the corporation called the ''Iewisburg Centre and
Spruce Creek Railroad. of the Getting links
subscribed one million dollars towards the compile
uon OF the road, and gave notice tha he would take
an the remaining stock that was notwanted by resi-
dents along the line.
A POWERFUL ALIIAXCE
An alliance has been formed hetweel the Atlantic
and Great Western and Baltimore ad Ohio Rail
ways, and the two corporations have greed to COM
plete at once a through line" between Cleveland
and Washington, %. Co. passing through the west
ern i1 Part OF pennsylvania The route md distance
Cleveland to Youngstown, (Ohio.)67 lilies. Built.
Youngstown to PittSburg, Pennsylvania 66 miles
Built. '''-''' 90 'iiiie'
Gonnelsyille to Cumberland. (Marylant) 80 miles
Cumberland to Point of Rocks, 11O mics. Built.
Point of Rocks to Washington. IS mills. Total,
Cleveland to Washington, 4S7 miles.
BY this alliance our State secures the completion of
Railroad" which developes the counties q Fayette
and Somerset. has been held that if this road was
finished, the trade of those counties land tEsr mine
raj resources are valuable) would go to hltimore
instead of coming to this city, This may behe case
but it happens that the residents have no outlet at
present to either place, and they argue,wih some
force, that any railroad matter where its truinus
may be. will increase the wealth of of the
State in which they live.
A NEW IDEA.
1t is stated, by those who are conversant viii the
subject, that not only will the Atlantic and Great
Western Company NY use SIX feet gauge, track from
track of the guage of four feet eight and half hches
over the entire State and the Great West. Tn, OBJ
fes Se 9 oc oo of bc @ nd 70 rea 5
and MahOning, Catawissa, and other narrow gage
roads that they have leased; and second. to allow
cars from western fOauS come through
the seaboard without break of bulk. The wide trad
as well as the narrow, however. will come to Phih-
delphia. I
THE TERMINAL POINTS.
Upon the completion of the whole programme tht
actual eriae points of the Atlantic and Great West
ern Railway will be as follows:
On the East, New York and Phiadelphia.
e., On the West Pittsburg, Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland
Chicago and Cincinnati.
At Philadelphia it is intimated that depots will be
constructed fog the shipment of feights and grain
new ocean line of steamers and that this point
from its superior manufacturing facilities and easy
access to coal and ron will be the site of the extend
cd snnGns for the supply ofrolling stock.
The locomotive works. already in operation within
our limits, would probably not refuse the orders ol
new machinery, thereby giving employment to hun
dreds of additional mechanics. Mr.. McHenry who
is Phiadelphian is too well acquainted win OH
manufacturing ADVANTAGES to pass them by unno-
ticed At Cleveland large body of land has been
secured for the storage of Pennsylvania coal, Lake
Superior iron and copper etc, as well as frontage
on the lake. At Cincinnati the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad also six feet guage connects direct for St
Louis
TRADE FROM CANADA
Philadelphia has never had any portion of Cana
dian trade But by the completion of the direct line
from here to Buffalo, she will be in position to com
pete with New York and the East. A writer from
Erie states thai since June 1s 1865 twelve million:
Ct feet of Se have saGhed 81 hs The BPh
Gt; vngeS are enormous. In return for those com
market for her coal an article Which does NOT esiif eS
in Canada. At Buffalo an international bride is fc
be built entirey with English money! by which the
with the Grand Trunk and Great Western lines Of
canada the latter one of the best roads in the world
~, THE NEW ROUTE TO PTTTsBURG,
Inc CIeyeand Heratd says" Pittsburg and Phila-
delphla will be so connected that new and compe-
ting route will be opened between them 10 their
manifest advantage thus giving Philadelphia choice
mineral and farming lands of the central counties TO
the markets of the two cities. PHlLADELPUTA