The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-26
RAILROADS.

publishes in its last issue, the following
railroad intelligence, part of which will
prove interesting to the people of the up.
per portions of Cecil county. In connec.
ton with this we would state that the
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany, advertised some weeks ago, and
books We're opened for subscription to cap.
ital stock of Company and subsequently d
meeting Of Stockholders to elect Directors,
both meetings held at Elkton:
THE JUN1ATA AND STATE LINE Rail.
EoAD-LoCATING SURvEY.-The great
event of the week at Oxford was the ar
rival on Monday Of the locating engineers
of this projected road. They have arrived
this far in their westward course from New
York, via. Philadelphia and West Chester
From here the party under chief engineer
Norris will go to York, Pa, and 20 on
westward to Gettysburg before the winter
sets in. leaving the balance of the route
from Oxford to Baltimore, or rather to the
Susquehanna river, at the mouth of the Oc
toraro, to be finished by another corps
On this latter part of the line, Capt.
Mcdowell is now making Il preliminary
survey. The line as located by the party
at present here, from Unionville to Oxford,
is pronounced very satisfactory one.-
They passed near White Horse, Russell.
vile and came into our town east of the
Fair grounds, crossing Market street with
in 100 feet of the track of the p. & B. G. r.
r. ION the north side making an easy,
straight line, in which it strikes only two
unimportant buildings, on the lot of H. S.
Worth. From here westward to the coal
regions, and further west, which it seems
to be the intention Of the Company to
strike the Peach Bottom Railway as far as
the Company are making no surveys ON
this part Of the projected line.
Is there any serious intention on the part
of those engaged in making this survey, or
is it merely feint? In answer we can
only say that a company whose headquar-
tiers appear to be in New York, and who
seem to be solid, intelligent, business like
men, are making survey and locating a
double track narrow gauge road from that
city to Baltimore, with a line branching of
at Oxford, westward through Lancaster,
York, Adams and other counties, to the
bituminous coal fields. Preliminary sur
veys have been made and the location is
right of way is being obtained in some sec
tieps. This much in Pennsylvania, while
in Maryland from the Susquehanna river,
opposite the mouth of the Octoraro, to Bal
timore, the location has been made and in
some places the contractors are reported at
the work Of grading. This certainly looks
like business. We wish the company, if
they mean business, good speed. We give
some items in relation to the project from
our exchanges.
The Bel Air -E!gis has the following par
agraphs in relation to the Maryland por-
ton of this road:
'The following paragraph, taken from
the Baltimore county papers, will be of
interest to the citizens of Hartford and Bal
timore counties-especially those along the
route of the project railroad:
There was left for record in the office of
the Clark of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county. Gu the I'd of October, 1872, a
mortgage from the Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company to Philadelphia
Trust Safe Deposit and Insurance Com
pany of Philadelphia, Pa. The considera-
ton expressed in the mortgage is $500, 900,
payable on the first day Of October, 1896.
The road is to be double track, narrow
gauge to start from some point within the
city of Baltimore and extend to the Penn
syiyan;a State line, at or near a point where
said line crosses Octoraro creek, in Cecil
county, distance Of forty five miles
The surveys of this read hetYeen Balt-
more city and the Susquehanna rlyer, We
learn, have been completed, following, for
the most part. the survey made last sum-
mer by Col. johnson.
We are inclined to the belief that the ac-
ton above indicated is something more
than feint on the part of some wealthy
corporation, to prevent a rival company
from occupying ting ground; and our belief
is founded On the fact that tho railroad
facilities now existing between New York
and Baltimore are inadequate for tho
transportation of the immense amount of
freight to be carried, and for the proper
accommodation of the local traffic"
Maryland and Pennsylvania Railr0ad.-
This company, which proposes to build a
double track narrow gauge raj lway from
Baltimore city to the Pennsylvania State
line. there to connect with the State line
and Jnniata railroad,' making a through
line to Philadelphia. has been making pre-
liminary surveys in Baltimore county for
some time, and ascertaining, through its
agents, what material aid can be relied up
on in our county. Sufficient foreign CAPT
tai has already been secured to put the
ROAD unueF contract, anu 10 pay luiiy one
half the cost of it. We learn from a con-
versation had with a gentleman connected
with the enterprise that no subscriptions
to the capital stock is solicited from our
citizens, but merely an investment in the
company's seven per cent gold interest
bonds, secured by mortgage on the road.
This aid is not required until the road
shall have been graded and ready to re-
ceive the rails.-Tousontoacn Herald.
THE CoNTRAsT.-The Republican State
Central committee have issued an Address
to the people of Maryland in which the fol-
lowing remarkable contrast between the
candidates for President is drawn:
General Grant has proved his ability,
both in peace and in war.
Like many great soldiers he is modest,
reticent and silent, but exhibits that Exc
cutive faculty SO well cultivated and proved
by successful military command on a large
scale.
Mr.. Greeley has during a long life dis
played ability as an editor and as an inces-
SAINT talker on all varieties of subjects. He
has held always extreme opinions, and
been violent and intolerant in the express
sion of them. He has failed to show the
possession of any administrative ability,
and by temperament and habits is grossly
uDfittad for tho ayerciSa of tho 6ntipS of