Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-08-08

when these great advantages can be OBJ
tanned at an early day for trit'ing OF pendi.
ture Of money. However. we do not pro-
pose deciding for ourselves this grave
question uutil both sides have been heard,
and to this end We now give place to the
following:
SOUTHERN MARYLAND II. r. Co.,
PEgsrpyNr's Ofricg.
Washington. D. e., July 30, 1872.
d. s. BElscoE. Esqr.. .Aaorney ut Ld,e.
Leonard oarm, Maryland.
DEAR SIR: / have wears Of the 10Th
You can upon authority" assure your
people that the Southern MARYLAND Rail-
road Company will, by the 18th of Octo-
Der next. have completed fifteen miles from
the junction with the Baltimore and Poto-
mae railroad. near Brandywine and the
cars will be running from the junction.
fifteen miles towards Leonardiown, and
by the 10Th OF January next (unless VIC
shall be interferred with in getting our
right of way) we will have che road COM
pistcd and Tunnin3>,o Leonard o,cn sta
ton; and by the LIST Of March next will
have Completed the road to St. Mary's
river, thus opening route from Balti-
more to the sea and by the first or Koy
neLt the whole line from Washington to
Point Lookout will be completed
Mr. Domer. our chief engineer. writes
that ne has just completed the preliminary
survey TO point on the Baltimore and
Potomac road few miles below Brandy
wine. and thai the location to that point
will bc finished within ten DAYS. when one
thousand additional sien will be added to
the present force there, and thereafter
the work will be pressed from the junction
with the Baltimore and Potomac road
down the lire toward Point Lnokou, to he
finished at tue period have stated. TINS
giving the people O: St. Marys early ac-
cess to Baltimore and Washington.
The distance between the Junction with
the Baltimore aud Potomac railroad and
ST. Marys river bv our survey is only
forty-tuur miles. rnd as tho work is com
para,ively light NC propose To connect
these tw) points first to wit. the junction
with the Baltimore and Potomac railroad
AID ST Marys river SO as to have an out
let to the sea from Baltimore and Wash
ingtou; this accomplished. we then PRIV
pose 10 flush the route between ST. Ma
rvs river and Point Lookout, ten miles Of
which is already under construction and
nearly graded.
Having thus uEbarrcd the doors to the
outside world at both ends of il,r peminsu-
Ia. we viii proceed ut once t. construct
the lire of the rosl between the junction
and Washington city. This section was
reserved for the last. because it is the
heaviest and most expensive work along
the whole line, cur desire being TO give
the earliest possible communication by rail
to the two cities. and your people especial
ly could have early and direct commune
cation With Baltimore. their commercial
business emporium. This great point be.
ing accomplished. you can afford TO take
a little roundabout ride by rail To WASH
ington for a few months until the direct
route shall have been finished.
From a glance at The map it will be ap-
parent to your mind that our plan is the
wisest that could be devised TO effect an
early communication by rail to Baltimore
aud Washington. Aud think it must
be equally apparent to yonr mind that no
other line wall ever be built, notwithstand-
ing your commissioners. swayed By the
wisdom OF multitude of counselors. have
GiveU our opponents . conditional order
for the public fund of which, they are tho
cus,odiaus. which order. if j, shall ever
have any effect nj all. j; wiil be 10 embar.
rass the action Of the ouly company which
can accomplish the great object for which
your people have been waiting all thee
long years. All this will he fully realized
BY the commissioners and all those con.
ccrned in tia, ne.sSle Transaction. and alb
the consideration which may or may no,
have been realized will atone for the lnis-
take. as time alone will only disclose
Ii our opponents are really ia earnest
in their professions. | don't think that
either they or their friends have co,isider-
ed the subject. IL will reqsire more time
and lAoney to build the road from the Ess-
tern branca OF the Potomac to Brand wine
(-sy twenty-five miles) than 10 whh to
build FROM that point Ia Point lookout. |
a distance OF fiiIy-6ve to sixty miles. But
when you add To this the fact that 10 en-
ter the city they must build saara.
A bridge over Eastern brsneh Sd s'tc.ooo
Right Of wa. through ,he city 80 100
Constructing. tsnDei.ng, kc-s through the c~-
city . 7eO GO
Iaoi for depo, a-d bsIldins thereon 256. 900
Engines, cars, Sc r 600 oe
.r $40 .t t- -
s--4 i,5oO,Ssa
Here We have one milliea Eve hundred
Thousand dollars necessary to carry them
out Of the city. which,. sdded TO slfc1
amoons neccssary7to complete the whole
rad to Poins Lookout. leaves grand to-
tai Of three sod oae-hslf millions. By the
light Of which, it We contemplate. the
$l63. oee pro.sised by the ccun.issioners,
yM viii fnd they sent a-mest diminusivc
-pismy - do the cork Of giant, wLile it
will not en~ssser eSoV ,OgU 70 tsild our
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