Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1874-01-03


In entering upon snoihe- year VIC al
naturally Look forward with whstc7er oil
prophetic instinct We possess or imagine
We possess 70 ice what 1t will probably
have 10 store for US. We do not propose
to attempt 10 forecast the history OF the
Republic for the bew twelve months, just
begun, but ask our readers 10 pause Will
nc at the thrcghhold Of the year and con-
slider what the year eighteen hundred
and seventy. four has or ought to have
on store for Wilmington. We
have never begun any New Year with
better opportunities than We now have.
Nearly all the things we have hoped for
sud considered essential to our growth
aud prosperity we now have. We would
scarcely know where TO put another rail-
road. The Wilmington & Western, no
matter what il has cost some In the way
Of losses,is an accomplished fact and will
be sure at some time to be extended SO
as to bring still more territory into closer
relations with cur city. The vigorous,
plucky and hopeful Wilmington & Read
ing railroad is now extended to Reading
and Is pushing forward in the face OF
all sorts of difficulties to the coal fields
fthe Lehieh. II needs no enthusiast 10
predict for ii a great future aud whatever
prosperity may attend 1t Wilmington will
share. The Delaware Railroad is yearly
increasing its business and Its facilities
and yearly gathering more and more the
trade of this fertile Peninsula by means
of its many branches. The Philadelphia,
Wilmington s. Baltimore Road, too, des'
pite dismal prophecies that IL would be
swallowed up by the giant monopoly
which mismanages so many miles Of
railway already, is still in the hands Of
its wise, liberal and Intelligent owners
and still maintains it justly earned repu'
ta;ion as The best managed, best equip
ped, great highway Of travel on this
continent.
Wllmington's facilities for travel and
transportation are unsurpassed, as, be-
sides all these, size still has her splendid
water facilities, and it is toward the fur
ther utilization Of these that attention
should be especially turned during the
year Just begun. But even In this di
reetion substantial progress has already
been made. A fine new rolling mill hai
gone up almost on the Delaware front
,,a t. ill ara,, tha oit,-,e frrouth in thai
direction, while Edge Moor will sooi
send up from its great stacks a pillar o
cloud By day and of Gre by night, point
ing out TO Wilmington the direction il
which it must grow to achieve greatness
aud become really city on the nobl
Delaware.
The mccullough Iron Company ar
putting up two new iron mills Pussy
J1ues & Co. have completed the larges
aud finest foundry ever built here tn
Harlan Il Holiingsworth Company ar
rebuilding and charging the car works
and there are PREPARATIONS in every iircc
ton for earnest, vigorous work wheneye
business reyiyes. And better than al
this, all our great concerns, old or new
have come thTonrh TIC great panic, ant
are prepared TO take advantage to tn
utmost ci The great impulse which mus
be given trade, wuen it does revive, ,,
she shortening Of Tic supply Of all kind
Of manuiacta. Gu gods through the tom
porary suspension ofproducfiou. Fighter