Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-05-10
HORSE SHOE FLANKED.
A New Seaport on the Delaware River
The New Railroad to Delaware elty,



lFrom the Philadelphia Evsnirg Telegraph
The completion of The Delaware and
Pennsylvania Railroad from Pomeroy
Station, on the main line of the Pennsyl-
vania Central to tidewater at Delawar,
City, is attracting a great deal of alter
ton the part Of the newspapers in tht
West and in New York city. Our neigh
ho's on the Huds IN have already dis
covered that this new road makes the
distance from Chicago to the Atlantic
Ocean thirty five miles shorter than ny
way of the roads terminating at New
York. The shorte At route between Chicago
and New York Is by way of Harrisburg
and Easton. which is ten miles les than
by way Of Harrisburg and Philadelphia
The distance by rail and water from
Chlcago to Sandy Hook, via Easton and
New York, Ia about equal to that from
Chicago TO Care May via Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Il Delaware Railroad
Is forty miles long. and extends from.
Pomerov. on the pennsylvania Central
forty mill west Of Philade'ph to Dol
aware City, on the Delaware at the head
of the bay. about forty miles below Phil.
adelphi1. i. has been leased by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who
have purchased large tract Of land or
the river front, Oh which tn iermina
buildings will re erected. To this poin'
the products Of the grain aud corn field
Of the great West, the "iihrac'te aud
htullinous Goals, the lumber, iron ant
petroleum Of PENNSYLVANIA can bt con
yevad ~ the same cost as 10 Philadelphia
The new shipping point is also located
at the eastern terminus Of the De!awar'
u Chesapeake Canal, which brIngsa vas
amount Of traffic from Baltimore and tn
South, Including the rich bitnminUus cos
Of the Cumberland district, so yaluabl
as the fuel of steam vessels.
Delaware CITY Is at the head of Della
ware Bay, and is only sixty miles iror
the Atlantic Ocean, to which II has &C
cess at all times of the year. In selecting
this locality, the Pennsylvania Rairoa
people have cut the Gordian knot Of th
vexatious Horse Shoe, and bid dehanc
to the ice blockade.
The crolkers who have been prophesN
ing that the large ocean steamers of tn
American Steamship Company could ne
trade to the Delaware IN the winter season
will find their calculations to be sont
what erroneous. Rather than any Injury
the new port will be great advantag
to Philadelphia, whose halbor Is alread
crowded with an increasing coastwis
and foreign commerce, and which alread
has direct railroad communication wit
Delaware City.
The new locality is surrounded by OF
of the richest agricultural districts in II
country, and which is famous for !
crops Of fruit and wheat, and has In |
vicinity some of the finest ship limb
land in the Uniied States. These a
some of the most important elemen
subseryieut 10 the rapid growth of tou
ishiug city, which has already the nuclei
OF settlement around which TO expau
and at this point. another generation W
hear the hum of the industrial pursul
of half a hundred thousand peopl
Steam-carrying out the conceptions
active minds, will have accomplished t
work Of building q new city, which FOL
long time will be exempt from the exc,
sive taxation which hangs like nigl
mare over the city of Penn.