Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-09-17

lA The sale Of the bonds of the Wilmington and
Raading RaiIroad Company has been such as to
warrant the Company in purchasing cross-ties
for the road and such purchase can now be made
It is expected that about one-third the number of
ties required can be obtained along the line of
the new road and at some points they are now
being delivered. The greater part of the remau-
der viii be procured on the pehinsula and ship
ped to this city, whence they will be sent along
the new road Nothing has yet Been done III re-
gard to the purchase of iron. ,3ld
Il The company has contracted for locomotive
to be ipsed on construction trains.
MIR. Wiley the responsible contractor is now
making arrangements 10 supply the place oil the
sub contractor who abandoned three or four Sec
tipns he had contracted for near this city and also
Of another sub-contractor who had made SINH
liar abandonment near Coatesville.A The grading
will then te rapidly completed. sae.
Work on The bridge over the Schuylkll river
at Birdsboro' Is progressing quite satisfactorily
and the piers are prominently visible to passen-
gers on The Philadelphia 81 Reading Il. X. The
timber for the bridge has been contracted for
Thus very satisfactory progress Is being made ani
oil that is now required to insure the speedy
completion Of the road is that the present rapid
sale of bonds shall continue and That such sub
scrlptions as yet remain unpaid, be paid in. ln
this matter also we glad 10 learn tlat thele is
"a decided Improvement noticeable and that many
who have hitherto been dissatisfied and held back
are now coming forward and paying up.
Boughman. Thomas a. Co.'s Map of the
Peninsula.
We have received from the enterprising pull
fishers q copy of their new map of the Peninsula
between the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and
are glad to announce that the work is ready to
issue to subscribers. We have had ample oppor-
tunities To observe the map in the various stages
of It's preparation which our interest in il led us
It'd make use of but the completed work, in beauty
and correctness, even exceeds our anticipations.
We must especially commend the coloring of the
map, the tns all being light and delicate SO that
u no place is it difficult to read names or trace
lines on account of the high color.
We do not deem It necessary TO re-statc what
the map shows as our readers have had ample op-
portuuity for some months to inform themselves
concerning this in our advertising columns, but
clearer idea of tho matter. can be gained by IN
examination of the work and we advise all our
readers to call at Messrs. B. T. & Co. s and see it
for themselves a7l5zts
Every business man in this city should have
copy OF tito make himself iamiliar with a terri
tory the trade Of which Wilmington may secure.
and then should set to work intelligently and
vigorously to secure such trade.
The absurdity of the political division of the
peninsula into one State and two parts of States
strikes every one as soon as they glance at the
first map of the peninsula as a whole, and 1t may
be that 1t will do good missionary work in favor
Of constellation. 1t, however, now shows the
geographical unity of the peninsula and the evi-
dent indeptity of interests of the peopeof Deln-
ware and the Eastern Shores of Maryland and
Virginia, and should have wide circulation
throughout the territory embraced in its limits.
1t is issued to-day, and from now to October
LIST subscribers may obtain IL at the price first an
nounced, $3.50, but after October 1st no one can
obtain IL copy at less than 81. The first price was
certainly very low one, considering the territory
embraced the expense Vf surveys, the flaeness
of the engraving, the beauty Of finish and general
excellence of the work. Five dollars per copy
would not have been high In comparison with the
price at which similar maps are now selling.
Persons have over two weeks iu which to get 1t
at the first price named, and we advise them not
to neglect the opportunity but to; send in imme-
diately their subscriptions to the. publishers,
Boughman, Thomas s. Co., No. 421 Market street,
Wilmington, Del, .sl'liHt asiH'