The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-01-04
western maryland railroad.
I From The Haqerstown Mail. /


berland Coal fields through this place to
Baltimore. Surveys over the entire line
have already been made, and 40 miles
of the eastern end of the road built and
running. Active measures for its COM
pletion no Hagerstown from its present
terminus have been inaugurated, with
bright promise of ultimate success
Our people are awakening to full and
appreciative sense of the vast import
ance of the extension of this road 1t
viii be great work when completed,
and Baltimore, our natural and instinc-
tive choice for the mineral and agricul-
tural wealth of our mountains and val
leys, will reap rich reward. That the
Western Maryland Railroad will be
completed TO this place we do not
doubt, and that, too, at no distant day,
as well do the signs Of the times tell
us that the Cumberland Coal fields will
yet be reached by its extension to that
point
We are not painting fancy picture.
The readers attention will be struck
with the movements Of New York cap.
italists in projecting an airline enter.
prise from that city 10 this point. Three
millions Of dollars arc TO be raised to
complete the extension of the Western
Maryland Railroad to Cumberland. To
give our readers an Ineligible idea of
this grandcst Of projects, we copy an ar.
ticle of recent date from the T. s. II.
r. Register and Mining Journal -
The strategic Significance" of this
great projected route is one of startling
importance, and our people will before
long awaken TO the fact that our geo.
graphical position is such, that we may
get be great railroad centre. But 10
the article in question:
"a NEW RAILROAD FROM BALrI-
MORE TO CuMBERLAND.--Wc had a
visit on Thursday last from a gentle.
man who communicated interesting
iscts as a groundwork for his belief that
arrangements would soon be concluded.
whereby three mil,oas If dollqrs would
be raised, pledged for the construction
Of n railroad from the Western Mary
land Railroad, via. Hagerstown to Cum.
bcrland thereby 10 open another outlet
from the Maryland coal region to Bal.
timore
As an auxiliary part Of the project,
We have information that many shares
Of the Gettysburg Ra,iroa.l--a road
seventeen miles long between Hanover
and Gettysburg--hAye recently changed
hands, with view 10 the construction
Of a new road from Oxford, on its line,
east TO Columbia on the SusquehaBna
river there to connect with the Read
ing and Columbia Railroad aud also
ia clongation westward from Gottys.
burg TO a junction with the Ilagcrstown
extension Of the Western MARYLAND
Railroad 80 that a new road built east
from Cumberland would, TO the South
Mountain, be the main stem Of a line
iorking thence TO Baltimore via the
Western Maryland Railroad, and 10
New York via Gettysburg, Columbia,
Reading aud Allentown
An examination Of the map will
disclose The stragetic significance Of
this new route from Maryland to New
York And as trains arc now run
on combination timetable. from
New York 10 Columbia, il is not impos.
sible especially if the Gettysburg
Railroad be worked into the plan) that
new links between Columbia and the
Western Maryland Railroad extension
will be- built; for. if built into Mary.
land Il will also BIZ extended hereafter
70 Washington, thus filling out a back
door Inc from FashHgton IN Nc,r
Iork a. well as from Eastern Virginia
and Western Maryland to New York.
/ From the Potomac south, too. the open
valleys Of Virginia will invite farther
extensions aud more distant connec.
tions.
Verify, the existing Atlantic trunk
lines are being menaoed on all sides By
new born rivals, animated by no mean
ambition And when We review what
has been done. who shall say that this
or that project or enterprise will not be
consummated 7 The newest new thing
under the sun Is the latest railroad
scheme, born on paper and swaddlcd
in a map
An equally significant paragraph we
clip from the Nor York Hrdli, of the
18th inst, which says
1T is now considered settled that
5000 600 will soon be raised for n
Railroad from the Western Maryland
via Hagerstown TO Cumberland, there.
by opening mp another outlet from the
Maryland Coal Region to Baltimore. II
is said that this road is of great strategic
significance"
Such are the signs of the times. We
think we will realize there fulfilment.