Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-04-09
Az OPPORTUNIYl.

There is project now on foot, and urged
with much earnestness and enthusiasm to
build Il railroad from Oxford in the southern
part Of Chester county to the Susquehanna
River at Peach Bottom where the great
rooiing-slalc quarries are located. But
fourteen miles Of road are required for this
connection and an extension of thirty miles
beyond the Susquchanna would carry the
road to Hanover Junction whence there is Il
direct road TO Gettysburg This would
make road forty -four miles long running
through rich portions Of Chester and Ian
caster counties and sure Of much local trade.
This road it is said will certainly be built.
The Gettysburg Road will some day be ex-
tended westward, while the Littlestown
| Railroad, branching from it, will unduult-
eddy be connected with the Western Mary
land Railroad shortly to be extended 10
IIagt tstown, and another branch road is
contemplated TO Frederick City
Aside from these connections however the
proposed road from Oxford to Peach Bot
tom and thence 10 Hanover Junction thirty
miles this side Of Gettysburg would rive al
most an air line Of Il miles in length.
From OXlurd, over the Philadelphia IL
Baltimore Railroad, TO Philadelphia, the Il $
lance is - miles From oxford 10 vii
mlngton, the distance over route which
would he an almost direct mir line extension
Of tile line Of road now proposed. would he
about % miles Thus the slate from the
Peach Bottom quariics, ard The products If
south Central Pennsylvania and North
western Maryland, would reach comner-
cial port thirty miles nearer The Sea Than
| Philadelphia over Il route about thirty miles
shorter than that over which they would
reach the latter city.
With this trade, in addition to the great
local trade from Chester county, would it
not pay TO build that twenty miles If road
from here 70 ONlordf
The road we suggest, from here 10 OK
ford, might readily follow almost precisely
the route so warmly advocated by many.
when the the location Of the Wilmington *
Reading Road was being discussed, that is.
what was then known as the Western route.
the advantages of which, for local trade,
were universally acknow lodged, and towards
which large conditional subscriptions were
made q the stock of the W. ~ II. K.
We merely suggest the oxford route ~
one way of building road westward, tht
need OF which has long been felt, which
shall pass through one Of the fnest
agricultural districts Of this aud Chcs
Ter counties, and tap the only extensive
lime deposits in this State, where lime i,
qnarried, the quality Of which is equal Il
any found in the whole country. In add
tiOn TO these local advantages which il La,
long been felt would Of themselves warrant
The building of such II road. the extension
west from oxford which we have sketchct
taps an almost virgin country, rich in min
cral wealth asd agricultural resources which
as yet las formed no permanent trade con
! ncctions
We have spoken Of the probable extension
of the Gettysburg road West. THIS IL mere
Iva question Of time, Us Il practicable rout
tor sucii extension, known as the Souihcri
pcnG,l lNania Railroad, has already bueI
surveyed, By which shorter route Yves
4 can be lud than now exists. Such cXtcn
sion could make connection at CHAMBERLAIN,
/ with the Baltimore 4 Ohio Road and b.
means oi Tie pltsburg Il Counclsyllc roa
with litishurg, and The roads centciin
there Either Of these routes woul
y ,ri,., .et n. Il I,f