The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-17
Correspondence
Hartford County Railroad.
FALLsToN, DECEMBER 10Th. Is

fALLSTON, DECEMBER 18th, 1869.
MEssRs. EDITORS: When wrote YOU
last, it was with view of drawing the at
tention of the public to q line for a railroad
to Bel Air that would interest the greatest
number of property holders, without ma
terially frightening that line or adding
much to its cost.
| start with the maxim, because think
our late experience with the Maryland Cen.
trail has proved it to be one) that we are
poor in relation to the needful to build
railroads, and consequently must confine
ourselves to such line as can be econom-
ically built. Therefore, with one fixed
fact, that to follow the streams will give us
much better roads at gery much less grades,
and the desirable point attained, to us
very desirable point, to wit, little expen-
diture of money.
l fully agree with your correspondent
Equefer, that it is not desirable at all to
have such correspondence as would at all
initiate against the road somewhere, or
what is still more desirable, that we do
not so conduct ourselves as to give the
smallest offence to any therefore, I think
that it is generally understood that our
united strength is needed, and to bring
that to bear is the duty ofall. Consequent
ly, whatever l may say in favor of the
adoption of any line, want it particularly
understood that-after full discussion of
the merits of all the lines that may be
offered and fairly surveyed and fairly re-
ported OIL say that whatever the major
ity determine | shall cheerfully submit to,
and subscribe just as much as though it
ran three times around me on purpose for
my individual accommodation.
Now, sirs, ifmy friend Equefer is right
in relation to distance between the two
points of departure on the p, w. g. B. r.
r., then it would not be economical wisdom
to depart from Tie valley of Winters Run;
because you have to get down first to the
run from Bel Air, and then you have to get
up again to reach Stockton. From that
high point you again have to get very far
down to Magnolia. This getting up and
down unnecessarily is what object to, and
| think that the engineer will think so too,
If you can show route that has less of it;
and other things considered, won't it suit
us better-op money is short. Now, my
dear sir, l don't want anybody left out in
the cold, but until the engineer says l am
wrong, intend to fight it out on this
Winters Run line-why2 Because you
have but one getting up to make, and that
is to Bel Air, and you have the whole
length of line, or nearly so, to do it in.
Take Magnolia as the starting point, and
you are at least two miles nearer to Balti
more to begin with than Edgewood. Then
you have Bel Air say ~ miles distant by
engineers measure, and - hundred in
height to overcome. Is it not easier and
more economical to do that once, than to
have it to do by a departure from the
Winters Run line three times Don't for
get the want of money.
If | understand the Fallston people, they
are not looking for this railroad to come
nearer than Winters Run, at Archer and
Towards mill, and think when they see
that line adopted, will subscribe llberall,
towards making it; but must admit that
the people in the neighborhood of Jerusalem
and Jericho will not be so nearly sup
piled as they would be at Stockton or
Prices, by about one mile, at McHenrys
Mill; but acould their subscriptions differ
SO much as to make up the loss in distance
and the greater amount of expense onpthat
line! 1t seems to me that my friend Eque-
fer has not got those people walked up
yet to the great Importance of having this
road built even to Stockton. fear because
it does not, or is likely to go down the
Falls to Magnolia or Stemmer's Run, that
we shall fail to make them our helping
friends. They certainly don't look through
the same glasses that do, and l believe
my friend Equefer docs also. 1t seems to
me that good accommodations on the road
would be offered to all parties who take so
deep an interest as to spend their money
in its building along its whole line, and if
they help us to build it, depot at Nc
Henry's mill would certainly make that ac-
commodation.
The last paragraph ofmy friend Equefcr
l adopt entire, but in this great work for
the development of our county we must
be careful not to undertake to do too much
what many other projectors have done
and thereby lose the whole.
Yours, respectfully, C.