Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-04-06

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over the almost straight, due North
and South, through line of our North.
ern Central Railroad, which receives
the Wilkesbarre basin Goals descend.
ing the North Branch Susquchanna)
at Milton, above Sunbury, and the
anthraciles of the SchuyIiSill county
basius from Shamolxin, Ashland and
Pottsvile.
CanandaigUa is therefore The depot
of Pennsylvania in the heart Of New
York. To Canandaigua the anthra-
cites 20 over narrow gauge roads, en-.
tirel y controlled in Pennsylvania. The
route from 5chuyilkiH county, via
Williamsport and Elmira, to Canaan
daigua is, at present the shortest; is
well organized is under Pennsylva-
MIA direction and delivers coal in
Buffalo, for the great West, in compe-
tition with the Sunbury and Erie
line, delivering the same anthracites,
for the same Lake Trade, in Eric.
Canandaigua, however, is too near
Buffalo to please the New York Cen
tral Company, which can now only
collect tolls for anthracite (going
West) over less than one.third of its
line of road. The New York Central
would like to shift this coal point
from Canandaigua (the end OF the
Northern Central Railroad of Penn
sylvania) TO Auburn, 40 miles further
east, TO Syracuse, 60 miles further
east, or even TO Utica, 100 miles fur
ther east points at which connections
with our anthracite basins will, in u
year or two, be completely made; viz
via Auburn, Ithica and Owego (now
in progress); via Syracuse and Bing.
hamton completely; and via Utica,
Norwich and Binghamton Gin pro.
gress); the one line being an extern
sion and connection effected by Mr..
Packers Lehigh Valley road, up the
North Branch Susquehanna; the
other by the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna Company, now making great
efforts and laying great plans for sup.
plying all the demands of New York
State and its connections with this
indispensable sort of fuel.
The great obstacle to these connec-
tions is the broad gauge of the New
York and Erie Railroad The narrow
gauge Lehigh Valley, and Delaware
and Lackawanna, have already con,
nccted with the New York aud Erie
they tranship their coal upon it. The
New York Central, also, has narrow
gauge branches over TO the New York
and Erie But to make this double
system available certain narrow gauge
connections arc still required. IVher
these are made-ioken the Leigh and
Scranton Goals ret rnnning freely
across tho New York and Erie, to III,
great central valley of New York
State, and offer themselves for being
switched on the New York Contra
Railway at Syracuse and U,ica-ther
| New York favors will no longer bC
shown TO Pennsylvania Goals going
via Williamsport and Elmira, TO Can
andaigua. That line will be shoulder
ed out into the cold, for the sake d
forcing the Westward bound anthra
cites to go over as large section o.
the New York Central as possible.
To meet this close e-at.hand emergen
cy, TO preserve the independence o
our West Branch Susquehanna con
nections, as well as TO open up another
and still shorter transportation for the
anthracites to the Lakes, the valley
next west of the valley OF the Dycom
ing Creek Cup which the WilIiamsport
and Elmira Railroad runs) is 10 bV
utilized; viz, the valley Of Pine Creek
The new railroad will switch of from
the Philadelphia and Erie a littlt
westof Wiliamsport, at Jersey Shore
will run to the head waters of Pin,
Creek, where they intorlock with tb,
head waters of the Allegheny river
will descend these TO Olean; viii
thero cross the New York and Fri,
line; and will then run straight Z,
Buffalo, via Aurora.
This Is the first line which the bill
obliges the Pennsylvania Contra
Railroad TO guarantee The building
II is already made from Buffalo 4
Aurora. In two or three years
steady stream ofanthracite coal trains
/ descrting the present Canandiagu'
line and ignoring the existence of boil
tho New York Central and the New
York and Erie altogether will flow
. across tho Potter county summit &
the Lake at Buffalo; while another
similar aud even larger stream vii
, ilow along the present Philadelphia
, and Eric Railway directly to th
Lake at Erie. And the rehux O
these two streams Of trains, will brinl
! past Williamsport and Harrisburg, a
, least two thirds of all that portion 9
the grain trade Of the West whic
makes use of the waters Of the Lake
: and lands itself at Eric and at Buffalo
E 2. But the West wants bifUmsRou
; coal as well as anthracite. IL gets
/ at present from the lake depot a
! Cleveland, supplied with its stoo
, chiefly from the (Ohio) Mahoning an
! Beaver river country lying along tn
G Pennsylvania and Ohio State line
= Many plans have been laid for maxim
] Erie a depot for the Goals Of Nortl
western Pennsylvania. But here lie
e the difficulty; the coal beds Of th
1 Upper Allegheny river, county are lh
; bottom beds Of the Lower Coal System
J. generally thin and poor; and the
( geographical areas are mere isolate
. patches scattered about here and ther,
o over the high country, and consequent
{ " to be worked only at great disa,
s vantage. They arc the same bed
s patches of which remain upon the NJ
z lands about Massillon, Akron and tn
d neighboring towns of Northeaster
Ohio.
Y Eric can mover become gres
y Bituminous coal depot until il has col
J. noctions made for IL with one Of ii
a choicest of our coal fields the und'
}, yelopcd central region Of Clearfel
). and Jefferson counties, shut in bohin
" mountains, at present covered Wit