The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-06-28
Disttngtsished S-isitors.

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Our county was last week (too late t
notice in our issue) visited by party
from Buffalo, as special committed
representing its citizens to inquire into
and investigate personally the coal fields
their productiveness, quality and gener
al extent in the counties of Elk anc
Cameron. Hitherto mistakes in recarc
to the location of the most importan
coal basins : prompting enterprises O
an expensive character and which O
course proved failures-had rendered i
paradoxical among capitalists, busiues,
men and citizens ofthat part of New
York as to the crjStdnce of any large
bodies Of bituminous coal, as sufficien
to warrant the expenditure of building
Railroads to their beds. We do not dis
parage the citizens of Buffalo, nor o.
Rochester, or of any large town in west
ern New York, in saying that this sec
tion of country, has until 7ery lately
been a sealed book" to them, he
sides they had been warned by the fail
ures upon the outskirts Of the coal nea,
their State line, to observe caution in
their future examinations and appropri.
ations. The citizens of Buffalo and
others have company chartered to
build Railroad from Buffalo via Oleap
to Emporium, called the "Buffalo and
Washington r. r." with narrow guage
intcrsccting the ?, & Il. at the point
last named.
The Legislature-of New York has au.
thorized the city Of Buffalo, subject to
the sanction by vote of its citizens, to
subscribe to the capital stock of this
Railroad 100000 (two hundred thou.
sand dollars) as preliminary of eau
ton, the careful denizens of the city
caused the appointment of this commit.
tee to visit this section and report as to
the reality of the ectSte nee of coal ad.
equate to warrant the enterprise Of bull.
ding this Rail Road.
The character and intelligence of the
committee eviuce the good judgment
of their appointees. The following
named persons constituted the com.
mittee; Joseph Warren, Esq, editor
of the Buffalo Courier; Henry Clapp,
Esq, editor Of the Buffrlo Express
DIR. Brunck, editor of the Weltbunger,
(German); Mr.. Gaib, reporter for But.
taio (German) Telegraph; Gen. VIM.
I. Rodgers, Comptroller of the city of
Buffalo; Charles Macomber, City Cpk
John A. Ditto, City Surveyor; Joseph
Il. HOberstro, President of Common
Council; Messrs. Schew, Flach, Gard
ner, Dart, Koons, Hausle, Shields, De
Witt Clinton, Esqs., Members of City
Council; Col. Prescott, Washington R.
R. Co., and j. S. Gibbs, Esq.
The committee made very favorable
impression upon cnr citizens by their
urbanity and zeal in the
discharge Of their duty-trusting more
to ocular demonstration than to geologi- |
cal reports, maps, &c.
They visited the Daguscahonda Mines
as also several of the companies upon
the line of the Daguscahonda Railroad |
for several crossing toSt. Mary's |
and thence to Cameron county.
We shall wait with much interest the |
report to their constituents, which we
shall lay before our readers as soon as
possible.
1t being the first committee of the |
kind who have visited this section, and |
from its numbers and high character,
its report will no doubt be anxiously |
looked foy By the citizens Of Buffalo, as
well as ourselves.