The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-05-28
The Railroad.

road from the Susquehanna. river through
Hartford and Baltimore counties to Baltimore
city. We referred. then to no particular
route. Since then we have heard the subject
more or less discussed by the people of each
of the counties aboye referred to, and from
suggestions and facts since brought to our
notice, we have come to the conclusion that
road from the mouth Of Deer Creek, on
the Susquehanna river, through Hartford and
Baltimore counties, by way of Long Green,
Dulaney's Valley and Towsontown to the
Northern Central Railroad at or near She
Relay House, would receive considerable en-
couragement at an early day. 70 rlet
This route has the advantage of passing
through one of the most beautiful portions
of the State, as well as one of the hcalthiest,
most populous and prosperous: Besides,
by this route the expense of making eight
or nine miles of road would be. olivia
ted. There is now road from Towsontown
to connect with the Northern Central Rail
road at or near Swami lake, in serious con.
temptation, and which, it is thought, will be
completed this year. This is no new project
however, as considerable work in the way
of grading has already been done upon it.
1t should also be borne in mind that this
route lays, for its entire length, through an
unusually productive section, where, if we
are to depend at all on the contributions Of
citizens along the route of the road, this of
all others seems to us to promise the most
If freight be one Of the objects of this as 1t
is of other railroads, then surely the country
referred to, with its abundant crops of al
most every description, and its incalcuable
quantities of lime, offers no mean induce
ments.
1t should be remembered, too, that this
would pass near no other road, and through
district which has to depend entirely for
transportation upon the use of heavy and
expensive teams. This would be entirely
obviated by a railroad, and each individual
thus relieved enabled to employ the capital
now used in wagons, horses and mules, IN
railroad stock or bonds, WHICH could not fail
to be source of profit, This section of the
two counties Of Baltimore and Hartford once
opened up by railroad, would afford some
of the most desirable locations for country
residences that could well be imagined, re-
markable for beauty and unsurpassed for
health, and it is only for the want of rail
road communication that much of this part
of the State is not appropriated to the pur-
poses above indicated. Baltimore city has
already three hundred and fifty thousand in
habitants, and who is prepared to say what
her population will be ten years HENCE {?
She has in the last four or five years made
more rapid strides in improvement than
any Of her sisters of the old States, and this
spirit of improvement is even now on the
increase. She must, therefore, as New York
and other crowded cities, send out her mer-
chants and business men by the thousand
to find in the rural districts healthful homes
for their families during the hot months !;
and where could they find SO inviting dis
trict of country as the~yery one which we
have already mentioned? There is more
wealth and more extensive farms along this
route than along any other that could be Sc
lected, and, therefore, greater hope of receiv-
ing aid from the immediate vicinity of the
line.
We are not familiar enough with civil en-
gineering to know whether this would or
would not be an expensive country over
which to make a railroad, bnt presume that
the difference between it and any other
which might be selected would not be great
AT any rate the advantages ofthis route ovei
any other-unless it might be one directly
along Long Green Valley-would fully COM
pensate for the difference in cost We
have no fancy for any particular railroad
line, but feeling assured that road through
the country from some point on the Susque-
hanna near the mouth of Deer Creek, to
BALTIMORE city, will eventually be made, and
that there is no reason why it should not be
done speedily, we throw out these sugges-
tons for the consideration of those who are
more familiar with such enterprises than we