Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-04-20


rainer by the completion of this line.
10 those of our people who are obser'
want of the events now annually
occurring in our section this veto viii
bring sadness. Tho products of the
forests are rapidly decreasing in guam
tityand those ofoursturdy and earnest
people who have secured from them an
independence in pecuniary matters
at once prepare to leave our cold ana
unproductive soil and seek tho rich
profits that more generous land VIII
give them for the expenditure OF then
labor and their means, and thus year
by year the very best class OF our
citizens seek now homes in the west
The lands they leave have riches
infinitely greater than those they will
6nd in the country to which they so
but without transportation they arc
without value to any one. Was evei
so suicidal policy adopted by any
State? 1t is burial Of her wealth anc
Punishment of her people.
Who can estimate the value of tho
completion of this line to our OWL
county? In the construction Of
great through road from north tC
south every interest would have beer
subscrved. our land would increase il
value, our minerals wUuid iIaVv Uvvr
dragged from their hiding places, oui
coal would have found market anc
our towns would increase in popula
ton. The whole western side of tho
county would have market at it'
door. With two great lines of Rail
way travcrsing us from west to easl
and north to south both productions
and values would have rapidly enhan
ced. The line from north to soutf
would have caused branch roads tC
spring out in every locality and The
Upper Susquehanna would speedily
have echoed with the Shrek of th'
engine. Communication would hav'
been had by way of the river with thu
Indiana branch and from the Cherry
Tree to Clearfeld all of our peopl,
would have been provided with al
outlet. The enormous deposits of iror
and coal in the lower end of th'
county would have acted as q magnet
upon the wealth that such n line
would have brought in and it tot
would have been rapidly opened anc
its values increased. This is no over
drawn picture; any one who vii
look round him and study the progress
of the past ten years will see wha'
great through lines of Railway have
done for other communities, and from
this may judge what they would az
for us. Even our small branch from
Tyrone is developing the eastern sid
Of the county with great rapidity
and from what We see there we ma,
form an inadequate idea Of the result
from the wealth and population tha
would roll in upon us by a through lin
from north to south Clcarfeld woul,
have been tho end Of this line anc
necessarily, round houses, car shops
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dings of large business would hav
followed.
We say it in sadness, this vet
means the loss of all these TO ou
people and our section, for the guar
antccs secured by the earnest effort
of those who represented US at Harris
burg insured the completion Of th'
road. Tho vetoed bill not only CAV,
us the loan OF the securities to use a
our just proportion Of State aid, butt
positively guaranteed tho completion
of the entire line, and in view Of thi
fact we feel that the loss to us is ire
parable and to the State a seriou
injury.