The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-09-27
CORRESPONDENCE.
The New Railroad Project.
hartford Co. Sent. Goth

hartford Co., sept. 2Otn, 1877.
MR.. EDITOR: Your paper of last week gave
to most of us the first information of the sur
vcys that are being made for a new railroad pro-
jcct, and which were noticed by you as progress
ing through Baltimore county. Feeling deeply
interested in this subject, | made the earliest
practicable enquiries and hasten to give you the
statements received. They have come in rclia-
Bile form, and can be acceptedSas containing, so
far as they CO. accurate information.
The surveys are being made in order to find q
practicable route for an entirely new line of road
which is to be completely independent ofall 9TH
cr roads, companies or charters 1t is to be To-
cal. 1t will be located, not altogether SO rs to
offer the shortest running distance and time, be-
tween two great cities as Philadelphia and Bal
timore; but to occupy the best line of valuable
country that needs opening between those two
points, and to live not only by its through
freghts, but by its local trade and travel also.
For this reason the company view with favor the
less direct route, lately examined for the Mary
land Central, leaving the line of the Union road
near Baltimore, running up the Herring Run
slopes towards TOwsontown, crossing the Gun
powder near Glen Ellen, making Bel Air point
on the line, then by valley of Deer Creek to the
town of Oxford, to West Chester, thence to Phil
adelphia. They propose to locate upon this line,
and have not less than three parties engaged
in the hundred miles above described-a double
track narrow.gauge road.
This bold enterprise is undertaken in the be-
| lief that with the aid of the people, through
whose lands it will pass and whose interests it
must so largely serve, it can be made, and with
| out any stock subscriptions. The company pro-
poses to issue bonds to the extent only of half
the cost of the road. 1t intends to make the pur-
chasers of these bonds pay for such as they shall
subscribe for, only when the road is graded and
ready to receive its track. 1t claims the right of
way as part of such subscription to its means
and it declares to be ready at once to begin its
work, and to give us railroad in few months
the railroad we most of us have been looking
for during the past fifteen years. 1t may not
give us the rapid express trains of the p, w.
and b., but it will give us fast lines and many of
them; and it will bring and take, at our doors,
those products of our lands which offer us the
only hope of recovering for those lands their for
mcr name and money value. You were right in
stating that our lands were depreciating in val
ue. Look at the reports of the last sales made
in our county, they will hardly bear favorable
comparison with prices obtained for choice
ground on the extreme edge of Minnesota, but
| on the North Pacific railroad.
The managers of this new railroad assert that
they will expcnd at once in any county, an
amount equal to the subscription of bonds made
therein. This at least will show that the enter
prise is no scheme for securing some funds in
| advance of the project.
Mr.. Robt. s. Van RENSSELAER,, an engineer very
favorably and long known in the north is Presf-
dent of the Company, and his son of same name
conducts the surveys. N.