Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-07-07
DELAWARE AND PEHNsYLVANIA
STATE LINE RAILROAD.


We learn from the proceedings of n
meeting Of the Board of Directors Of the
Delaware and Pennsylvania State Line
Railroad Company, that the Berks and
Chester Railroad Company have COM
pleted the surveys for that portion Of their
proposed line extending from Birdsboro,
on the Reading Railroad, to Springfield,
in Chester County, that the road is about
to be put under contract for that distance
and that it is in contemplation to goon and
locate the line southward from Spring
field in the direction of Wilmington, with
view to its early completion.
This information is received with great
satisfaction by the Board, who see in this
action of our neighbors OF Pennsylvania,
an evidence of the strength of the local
interests involved and an earnest of the
success of the enterprise they have in
view. Attention is thus forcibly called
to an undertaking, the local interests oil
which are thus shown to bo moving to
secure the construction of part, and no
inconsiderable part, Of the whole line
which it is proposed to build.
The interests of the city of Whining
ton, of the manufacturing districts of New
Castle County, aud of the agricultural
regions Of the State Of Delaware are all
equally involved in the completion of the
line thus commenced. II forms link OF
communication between the coal, iron,
lime and lumber producing regions Of
Pennsylvania, Oh the one hand, and the
waters of the Delaware River and the
ocean, and the railroad system OF ouI
peninsula, on the other. When it is re
membered that this railroad system, ira.
versing the entire length of our State, and
adding so much to the prosperity Of every
portion of it aud the whole peninsula be
tween the Chesapeake and Delaware
Bays, is likely soon to receive a new de
velopment, in its extension southwark
and connection with Norfolk, and tina
this road will thus form an intermediat,
link between the southern sea board ant
the great west and northwest and north
its Importance can hardly be over-esti
mated. Under these circumstances ou
duty seems to be clear, to lose no oppol
: tunity Of seizing the advantage thus he'll
: out to US, or at least of showing ourselve
ready to appreciate and appropriate i
and with this view the following resolr
u tions were offered and unanimously adopt
! ed by the Board
Resolvsd, That for the sake of maxim
e known our readiness to cooperate wit
). any and all parties and interests seel
Z ing an outlet to tide water by way
> Wilmington, or desiring to make raj
> road connection with the road propose
is to be constructed by this company, it
If expedient that we should at ono
IT proceed to determine by actual and in
4 partial surveys aud estimates, the bes
- route for railroad from Wilmington
a point in or near the valley Of the Brand
wine, best adapted to make connectio
with road or roads going by way of eth,
Coatesville or Downingtown to Birdsbor
r. on the Schuylkill river.
2 Resoired, That the committee of co
= ference heretofore appointed be a
thorized and directed to make arrang
lg ments for speedy, accurate and imparti
i'll survey of the country lying between "
be mington and the point of divergence
the Coatesville and Downingtown lin
above described aud to make report, Ell
'e' bracing -
We lst. The character and costs of t
he several lines proposed aud deemed praC
10. cable.
v,s I'd. The probable amount of busiu
over the lines respe ctively.