Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-01-03


zcalous efforts TO "gobblc' up the
trade and travel Of the great West.
The oil. coal and timber interests,
along the proposed route Of the Az.
lantic & Great Western iail road, is
of far more value, and OF more lasting
interest to rail road, travcrslng this
territory, than that OF any two roads
combined. The oil trade Of the Ven
ango region is so well understood, and
the quantity shipped eastward 80
great, that we need not dwell upon
it; but we will at once proceed to
show the fallacy of transporting a
barrel of oil 517 miles, when it can
be taken to the same place over a
route 132 miles shorter, or 454 miles,
when route lO3 miles shorter is TO
be found, viz:
From New York to Franklin via NY.
d Ererail road BIZ
From New York TO Franklin via the pro-
posed ronte 3S5
Difference in favor Of new route 1872
From Philadelphia TO Franklin via
Philadelphia Erie rail road 4j4
From Philadelphia to Franklin-<G
Pcnn'a. Central, Tyrone d Cleardeld and
Western Central 35l
Difference in favor of new route 1903
The time saved to travellers IN pas
sing over this new route, will be from
four to five hours, and thercdnction in
distance on Ton of freight from 100
to l30 miles, is no small matter when
counted by thousands of tons. In or
der to bc fully understood in this
matter we propose to give the precise
route, and the distance from place to
place, along the proposed line of the
Atlantic 4 Great Western Rail Road,
and also the route from Philadelphia
via Clcar6cld to Franklin, viz Lcav-
ing the foot Of Barclay street, New
York, and proceed over the Morris &
Essex rail road--purchascd by the
A & G. w. r. R.-via Newark and
Morristown to Iackcttstown, n. j.,
G2 miles, from where a link of lS
miles is being completed to Easton,
on the Delaware river. Thence by
the East Pcnna. rail road TO Allen
town, IL miles, thence by the Lchigh
Valley rail road to Mauch Chunk, %
miles, thence by the Lchigh & Ma
hanoy rail road to Quakake, 27 miles,
where a connection is made with the
Cattawissa road-which has been leas-
cd by the aforesaid company for 900
years, and pay annually s3G5,0O0
rcnt-thence to Milton 6a miles, thence
to Bellcfontc forty-cight miles, thence
AZ miles to Clcarfcld, (malsing the
route from this place TO New York
just 800 miles, and to Philadelphia,
via Of Tyrone & Clealfield and Pcnna.
Central, 26G miles, the distance from
Clearfeld-whcro a junction of the
two lines would be formed thence to
Franklin-would be 50 milcs,) thence
20 Brookvillc Al miles, to Clarion II
miles, to Franklin 27 miles, making
the distance from New York to Frank
lin the great Oil depot, only 3S5 miles,
and to Philadelphia 351 miles, a sa-
wing in distance as above stated, to
the latter city, of 103 miles and to
the former 1872, over the shortest
routes that oil is now transported.
Another local feature on the route
of the Atlantic 4 Great Western road,
must not be discarded, or overlooked
as it far exceeds that of any other
route, besides tapping the center OF
the Oil region; it also traverscs the
center Of the Anthracite coal region
and the incxhaustiblc Bituminous Goa
fields of Centre, Clcarfeld aud Jefler.
son, as well rs the rich iron mines OF
Centre and Claricn, and countless mil.
lions of feet, Of the finest timber in
the world, is to be found in Clcarfeld
and Jefferson, which would be cheap.
y fioatcd down the West Branch OF
the Susquehanna,and Cloarfcld creek,
to the limo of this road, where it would
be detained and manufactured for the
use of the line, and to be transported
to Eastern and Western markets.
The A. q G. w. route is therefore
much the shortest, either to the Oil
region or to the West. The necessary
surveys arc to be made Immediately
and the work will be put under con,
tract as soon as possible. The money
to pay all EXPENSES is salreadv nrovided