Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-06-30
Point Lookout Connection with
the Baltimore and Potomac.
The Washington Chronicle of Saturday


The Washington Chronicle Of Saturday
says:
The presence in this city Of several railway
men of the North, in connection with the
Point Lookout Railway enterprise, strength
ems the idea that is given out by prominent
incorporators that the business of construction
will commence this season. The charter Is
said to be mainly in the hands OF business
men Of the North, and will be handled, not
with reference to the interests of special local
tiles, but to success as a whole, upon the most
approved business principles. Thus 1t IS
stated that new survey has been made OF
the route. by which it will be shortened some
dozen miles between Point Lookout and Bran
DIVINE station, on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railway. 1t will skirt along the Patuxent
river SO close as to make the rich resources OF
that stream aud its valley tributary to it.
This will be of great service to the shipping
of the Chesapeake, which frequently, in pc
RODS of storms, takes refuge in great numbers
at the mouth Of the Patuxeut.
According to the plans of construction above
indicated the enterprise will be essentially in
the interest of Baltimore, and will be an i'm
portant feeder TO the Baltimore and Potomac
Railway. 1t is true that products or produce
coming over the Point Lookout Railway t.
Brandywine junction of the Baltimore and
Potomac Railway may reach Washington, but
| it would be an exceedingly indirect and I'M
natural route. "A direct line to Washington
would be less than half of the distance of that
referred to. OF course it will be incumbent
upon our authorities or citizens to supply the
short link of fifteen miles to make direct
route hence to Point Lookout, where it is in
contemplation to build up grand watering
place by the same parties that hold the char
ter of the railway.
The advantages Of this point for the pur-
pose named are so well known that it were a
work Of supererogation to state them. In a
word, the location is superior, because of the
junction of the bay and river system Of wa
ters. The outlook is superb in its grandeur
and variety, and the advantages of driving
upon an extended beach, affording excellent
surf bathing and safe sailing and fishing, are
very remarkable.
A glance at the map will show to the most
careless observer the excellence of the locality
for grand watering place, whereat the fash
ionables and the health seekers of this and
more Southern ATTITUDES can resort without a
necessity Of having recourse to Long Branch,
Cape May or Newport.
There are those who think that aside from
the commerce in fish and oysters which would
largely feed the proposed Point Lookout Rail-
way, that it will in the end as the southern
most point on tide waters reached by railway
from certain anthracite coal mines of Pennsyl-
vania, be the depot for such On the Chesa.
peake. Also, that Mr.. Garrett, of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railway, must take the same
view concerning the depot upon Southern tide
waters for Cumberland COAL
The road can be very cheaply constructed
as the route is nearly level throughout. When
constructed it will bring a rich agricultural
country into communication with this city.