Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-01-05

MoRRISoN'S 5 COVE RAILWAY.--- Great excite
ment exists in Middle and South Woodberry
and along the line Of projected Branch rail
road from Newry, via Three Forges, Martha,
Rodman and Bloomfield Furnaces and Wood,
berry to Pattonsville. A meeting has been
called at Woodberry, on Wednesday the 10th
inst, for the purpose of consultation and TAX
ing immediate steps to procure charter. AT
the present stage OF the fever every dollar
necessary to grade the road should be sub
scribed within fortnight, and this is all the
money that is required, as the Pennsylvania
Central, we are informed, have a standing
offer to all branch projects in which they
stipuate to put on the super-structure after
the grading is once completed. Persons ia
milar with the route, are confident that the
road could be graded from Pattonsville to
Dix's School House, in Taylor townships
Blair county, for the same amount of money
that was expended in building the Pattons-
vile and Woodberry Turnpike. The heavy
part of it would be from Newry to Bare's
Mills, distance of three or tour miles.
portion which is demanded by the hundreds
of thousands invested in the iron business
along the stream which this project must ne
cessarily follow. The various important
points Of interest, which would be brought
into rail communication with the outer
world, would be Martha Furnace, Martha
Forge, Three Maria Forges, Bare 4 Co.'S
Paper Mil. Bares Mills, Bloomfield Fur
mace. Woodberry and Pattonsyille. 1t would
pass Immediately through the great hematite
ore banks of Bloomfield and Sarah Furnaces,
where the ore has been procured out of which
the celebrated Union and Rodman guns have
been manufactured, &infacta greatpartof the
heavy ordnance manufactured for the sup
preston of the late rebellion.
The great Cove alone ought to be able to
support railroad without any of the above
improvements. No section of Pennsylvania
Yields, in proportion, more produce than this
| section. Wheat, Rye, Oats and Corn are the
principal productions, and yield very heavily.
Millions of bushels of these grains, and hun
dreds of thousands of barrels of -four, are
shipped annually to Hollidaysburg, distance
VARYING from eight to twenty-one miles, while
railroad facilities would double, aud in many
instances, treble the produce. dozen OF
the largest and best Touring mills in the State
wonld' be reached directly, and their -four
poured into market, with half the expense OF
the old slow, drag wagon system that is now
employed to carry their manufacture to place
of shipment. To the agricultural resources
Of this section are to be added the value OF
the great beds of lime stone to be found along
the entire line of the road, which for build
no purposes and lime cannot be excel
ed any where, and latterly, we have the graf.
ifying intelligence Of the discovery OF hive
foot vein of coal, within two and half miles
Of Woodberry. on the farm of David Boyers
| This establishes the fact beyond cavil that
their is coal in the mountains bounding this
fertile region, and that in short time new
discoveries will be made With such resour-
ces. and the substantial wealth of the Cover
why should this railway not be built? Ma
ture has done more for the route than she
generally deso erppqBtfae ppqBtferig R6HRd
be greatly enhanced by it. If every individ-
uaI viii subscribe half the amount that his
property will be increased in value by the
construction of the road, it will be built to a
certainty And if it should be built it will
not be long until it viii be extended to con
meet with our own road, and relieve us from
the disagreeable necessity Of scaling the
mountain, on miserable apology for a road,
between this point and Pattonsville; in the
/ otal Ill
between this place and Hollidaysburg would
connect from the Bedford road with the Nor
rison's Cove railroad at PattonsviIle, dis
tance of ten miles by coach, and avoid mo-
notonous ride of 80 miles directly through by
stage Let the project be pushed as it de-
serves to be pushed and Morrison's Cove,
staid old Morrison's Cove. will yet seethe day
when the iron horse will traverse her limits
in the majesty of his strength, carrying from
her garners her material wealth, and in re-
turn pouring into her lap all the advantages
of rail communication with the world at large.
DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN ScHELLsBuRG Our
esteemed correspondent ''Ve ritas' sends us
the following:
"Reader, don't stare, nor, after momen-
tary reflection, anticipate me by exclaiming,
Yes, in some drawer or safel'' for such is
not the fact (although, perhaps, the precious
metal might be found in some such deposito-
ry in the town but
yellow, precious shining gold
has been discovered in the bowels of-of-- /
not the earth, but in the bowels no, the giz-
zard of duck
''But let me explain. A friend of mine, at
whose house happened to be at the time the
''quack' was slaughtered, called my attention
to the fact, his wife having made the discov-
cry few minutes previously.
''Ten or dozen of pieces of pure gold
flor we tested them with acid were found
in the gizzard. They were of va
rious sizes and shapes, but one piece partcu
lary, more than the others attracted atten-
ton. 1t was solid, perfectly circular, about
the size of small shirt buttOn, and convex
on both sides, having glittering appearance.
1t seemed to us, and no doubt it was the case,
hat these pieces of gold had been detained
n the organ of the duck for a long pc
,iod and through the friction of sand and
other gritty particles had obtained their shape
md polish.
Now that this duck, like bipeds of high