Connecticut western news., 1874-10-16
THE pA11roADs NOW BUILT.

lu0QTcu LnOuSAuu uOlldAS' WAIA IAiS iAn constructed, Boston and New England are connected with all the vast net work of railroads of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and those leading to the west. by an entire ly new, short, independent line. And the most important part of this project is that every one of these connecting roads from Boston to Pennsylvania is in situation to be leased and made one great line, or to transport freights under their present ar engagements at the lowest possible rates.
 THE NEW LINE PROPOSED
 Is as follows: Boston to Willimantic-New York and New England railroad.
 Willimsntic to Hartford--Hartford, Prov idence and Fishkill railroad.
 Hartford 10 POughkeepsie-Con Western and Poughkeepse and Eastern railroad.
 Cross the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie on floats carrying an entire train, until the bridge is completed.
 From the west shore of the river at Poughkeepsie to Pine Bush, Is miles of road to build over level country. The surveys of this link were all made by the Erie and Pennsylvania roads the past sea son. and it can be completed and equipped with thorough system of floats on tEe river, (loats to be used until the bridge is completed,) and the cars of the coal com panies and of the
 PENNsYLvANIA R. R. RUN INTO BOSTON IN
 SIX MONTHS.
 with immense western and southwestern freights. This short link of Is miles, and the only one to be built in the great through llne, will make direct connection west of the Hudson with the entire system of rail- roads to the coal and oil fields, the lakes and the west and southwest. It connects in nine miles of Poughkeepsie, with the Waikiki Valley (now Erie) and Rondout & Oswego, and in Is miles with the New York & Oswego Midland, and from this connection with the Pennsylvania railroad to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington and the southwest; the Erie main line tc the west; the Reading to the coal fields the Delaware, Lackawanna 6 Western tt the coal fields; the Delaware & Hudson railroad; and the whole net work of rail roads in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. THE BOSTON, HARTFORD AND ERIE RAILROAD in which the State of Massachusetts ha. three millions and six hundred thousand dollars of unproductiYe capital, is graded | to Hopewell, within twelve miles of Pough keepsie. With this road completed thi central crossing will not only provide i'm mediate and profitable business for it, bu open two distinct new lines from the Hud son to Boston and the sea board, and boLl | following as near the air line as any road that can be built. There is not 30 favora ble, natural easy grade connection to b' found at any other point on the Hudson be tween Albany and New York. On thu west of the Hudson, at least five mail lines will bring their business to the Pough keepsie crossing, as their nearest ant cheapest route east. The Erie railroad will do so from necessity, and because the com panY are interested to the extent of flv, million of dollars in the Boston, Hartfor( and Erie railroad. The Pennsylvania pro pose to make this their eastern line, ant have subscribed million dollars to bridg the Hudson here in their interest. I'm South Mountain and Boston railroad, iron Harrisburgh to Poughkeepsie, is a nev road, on almost an air line, is two-third completed, and will be finished by the tim the balance of the line is ready for througl traffic. The Reading railroad, Midland railroad will also make coal and othe freight connections this way:
 THE DISTANCE SAVED.
 The middle route by the way of Pough keepsie is on an average 100 miles les from the heart of the coal fields to Hart ford and Boston, taking Scranton or Maucl Chunk as an illustrative point than oyer thu roads named above by the way of Albany Pittsburgh to Boston, the POughkeepsi middle route is 100 miles less than by th present through all rail route.
 This is saving of one fourth the dis tance of transportation of every ton o coal shipped by rail from the mines t. Hartford, Springfield, Boston or Provi dence, or nearly one dollar less for ever. ton of freight earned between those points
 NEW ENGLAND's COAL TRAFFIC.
 The enormous coal traffic that will be SC cured by this new line demands particula attention.
 The quantity of coal consumed in tn states of Massachusetts, Connecticut an Rhode Island, in 1873 is estimated at g., GOO, GOO tons the most of which by exist ing means of communication with tn mines, was subjected first to railroad e canal, then to river, sound or ocean trans portation, before reaching it's place of cor sumptiUn-causlng 8 loss of 100 to 15 pounds, or from 5 to per cent. ton b handling. The above is also true of tn large amount of coal used in the manufac turing districts of New Hampshire an Maine, much of which would come owe thls line.
 AS the cost of transporting coal by raj road is from to 34 cents per ton pc mile, and the country on line from Bo! ; ton ard Providence to Poughkeepsie an | ,-,s11 I.o tod AL<,D ,rh keepsie route from 80 to 100 miles shorte than any other, this saving in distance wi reduce the cost of a ton of coal say $l. IRON INTERESTS.
 The iron ore beds in the vicinity ( Poughkeepsie and western Connecticut al practically inexhaustible, and second f no other mining districts in the Atlant states. They are now fitted for an annu production of million tons of ore whlc = with the increased facilities for transport . tion across the river will be largely au
 mented. The opening of this new lin
 bringing as it will the coal and iron ore te l gether, will stimulate to an unusual extel g the present iron manufacturing interests C E the line of the road from POughkeepsie
 the East.
 . A passenger will be able to step into D drawing room car or sleeping coach of Il
 Pennsylvania railroad at Boston and 2
 out at Washington or Pittsburgh, savir many miles in distance over present line
 and the delay annoyance and expense :. transfers through New York. The loss . time and expense of getting from the Gral ' Central depot to the depot iu Jersey City | now equal to about one hundred miles
 extra travel, and nothing like the anno
 ance, especially for ladies travelling alon
 is experienced on the American contine1 VI CONCLUSION.
 e IL will establish the shortest. and then y quickest and cheapest through railroad lii e between two sections of country that sh
 more freights from one to the other tn
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