Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-12-15
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10000
F'iI~U,OI.
Ad' for Bridge and connection
with N. c. r. W. ct sunbury, 10000
Total cost of Road and outfit from
Lewistown to sunbury, l,s8e.s7:

Total do to Northumberland, s1,3lG,672
The above estimate contemplates the con.
struc,ion Of q first class Road, with rail
weighing Sc lbs. per yard. the same as that
used on the Lehigh Valley Rail Rood, which
last year sustained traffic of nearly 2,000,-
900 tons.
VIII the Road pay fair interest upon the
ADORE cost This is a question of vital i'm
portance to those embarking in the enter
prise.
On this point there can he no donbt, il
Road is commenced lcih sufficient capital. fin
ished in the shortest possible time, and is judi.
ciously and economically managed. There
will be no tunnels or heavy rock excavations
| to prevent the road from being completed
and in operation within IS months after the
work is commenced. thus saving the heavy
| loss of interes: incident to the construction
of more costly works. The line will have
not over 10 per cent. of curvature. and the
maximum grade in the direction of the
heavier traffic westwardly will be of unire-
Quent occurrence, and in no case over ! J
miles in length. There will be no efforts
for through N. Y. business in competition
with existing routes, and requiring fast ex.
press trains at greatly increased running
and maintenance of way expenses. The
road can therefore be worked under mode
rate paying schedules. A new and more di
rect route to Pttsburc and the West will be
opened for Snyder. Union. Northumberland
Montour, Columbia, Schuylkill, Luzerne
Carbon, Wyoming, Wayne and Susquehanns
counties.
The line runs for its entire length, through
fine agricultural region, and for two thirds
of tue distance, is adjacent to extensive tim
ber tracts, limestone ridges and continuous
beds of valuable iron ores, many of whicl
can only be reduced by anthracite coal, bu
with it making iron of the rery best quality
The western terminus of the road will he il
and adjacent to absolutely inerfaustible. FIELD
ct'the best qualities ofJossilterous, bro,on hem
attic and carbonate ores, the combination o
schich aciH produce iron inferior to none MI
!. Henry ID. Rogers, State Geotosst. says
The body of these ores in the wide ant
long valley Of Lewistown which yet remain
undeveloped is prodigious." Ferguson
valley alone, commencing directly at th
termn nus of the road, has already been sui
jected to tests and discoveries of continuou
veins Of tossiiierous ores for six miles an,
carbonate veins and brown hematite deposit
for II miles. The extension of the Mifiii
, & Centre II. r. to Bellefonte, shortly to b
made, will establish further connection wit
: ore lands and with the Snow Shoe bitun,i
nous coal region. Men of intelligence. es
perleCce and capital, interested in iro
manufacturing and coal operations at til
east, and the development of the ore land
in this region, assure us that arrangement
: have already been made for the erection {
:, 10 additional furnaces Mt Lewistown an
other points, as soon as the building of tll
; road becomes fixed fact. These alone wi
involve the transportation of over 200 90
= tons of anthracite coal per anrum, beside
the requirements for furnaces and manufat
: tories already in operation, for domesti
consumption along the line at lewiston
and points beyond, and for burning lin
for iertilizing over l.0000 acres of Ian
aloug the line and as much more in the va
: leys terminating at Lewistown.
But estimating the anthracite coal trad
at only 100,0 900 tons per annum, at a chare
of three cents per ton per mile, which wi
: save the consumer over $3.50 per ton on IL
present cost, and assuming only that an &c III
r amount of profit will accrue from all 9th,
i transportation, viz: from bituninous Coz
eastwardly, iron ore, limestone, timber, agr
J. cultural products, manufactured iron an
n other merchandise, and passengers. and
basis is safely established for u net incon
|. of over 500, 900 pei annum, or s per ct. VI
}. on the entire cost of the road. The farme
and proprietors of mineral lands as well
the merchants and manufacturers. can the
make safe, paying inrestment in the stoc
. or bonds OF the Company, whilst 10y So ,loin
:. they will secure the completion of m ente
y prise which will add from one hundred
20 one thousand per cent. to the presen. walt
OF their property and interests.
: My obligations are due to George |
), Arms, Prin, Asst Eng. and the entire Corn
for the skill, zeal and energy by which l
II unusually large amount of work was accou
~ plished in a short time
le Very Respectfully, Your Ob't Servant.
. .. F. G. ARMS, Chief Engineer.