The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-06-08
The Baltimore and Delta Railroad.


The committees of this road, with the can
vasser, Mr.. S. G. Boyd, have been active and
unremitting in their labors during tho last
two weeks, and the project is daily assuming
Il more definite shape and more tangible pro.
portions. On Saturday last the Baltimore
and Hartford county committees met at Falls
ton on which occasion Mr.. Boyd reported
the progress he had made in soliciting sub
scriptons In about two days he secured
subscriptions amounting to 100000 in Balti-
more county. The people there, he said,
wanted confidence in the road. They are
not so well posted us the people of Hartford
county, but as soon as they were shown the
amount already raised in Hartford county,
and low cheaply the road can be built, they
lent n favorable ear. Mr.. Boyd also stated
that he had recently interviewed the direc-
tors of the narrow, gauge road between Tow
sontown and Baltimore, and found that they
were very DESTROYS of entering into consoli-
dation of their interests with those of the
proposed road. Altogether, lie thought the
prospect very encouraging, and suggested q
joint meeting of the committees of The Wa
tervale and Forest Hill Farmers Clubs with
the Long Green Farmers Club, for the purs
pose ofatiording the latter full information on
the subject. Accordingly, these committees
were named by the Presidents of the respect
i've clubs, as follows
From Watervalc Club-Messrs VIM. M.
Edelin,, James A. Spcer and VIM. III. Wa
tiers. From Forest Hill Club-Messrs Ma
than Grafton, E. G. Price and John b. Roe.
On Monday the committees met in Bel Air,
to consult counsel in relation to the proper
manner of opening subscription books. A
suitable heading was prepared and submitted
by the counsel, Col Herman Stump, Jr., as
follows:
Tile Baltimore, 1oacSont0pn, Dulanev's
valley and Delta Na1TOoo- Gauge Rail,cay
Company.-We the undersigned do hereby
subscribe the number of shares opposite each
of our names to the Capital Stock of the Bal
timore, Towsontown, Dulaney's Valley and
Delta Narrow-Gauge Railway Company, and
agree to comply with the requirements of the
General Act of Assembly creating and regu-
Iatlng Incorporated companies of The State of
Maryland"
On Monday next, June 18th, substitution
books will be formally and regularly opened
at the following places At the office of II.
IL. Mitchell, q South street, Baltimore; at
the office of Col. T. Sturgis Davis, Towson-
town; at Robert Dlworth's, Long Green,
Baltimore county at Moore & Watson's
store, Fallston; at the office of Herman
Stump, Jr., Bel Air; at John B. Roe's store
Forest Hill; at Jos. r. Wetherilrs store
Rocks Of Deer Greek; by c. c. Kinsey. at
Nathan Pyles store, Pylesville; at the office
of the Peach Bottom Railway at Delta, and
at e. q. Hipslcy's store, corner Gay and
Chestnut streets, Baltimore The chairman
of each committee of canvassers, and the
canvasser, Mr.. S. G.. Boyd, will also be sup
piled with subscription book.
1t will be seen by the terms upon which
subscriptions are taken that the question of
route through Hartford county is still unde-
termined. This much is certain, the road
will take that route upon which the largest
amount of money per mile can be raised
Enough has already been subscribed, we are
informed, to guarantee the road on the Twi-
ning's Valley route. Therefore if the people
of Bel Air, Fallston and vicinity want the
road, they must not hesitate to subscribe,
and subscribe literally. There is every reason
to believe that the road can be built this time,
provided our Baltimore county friends will
late tl,a 4
people of Hartford. The latter are doing all
they can to further the enterprise, by giving
their time and means to put the matter in
shape, and if the citizens of Baltimore coun-
ty, who are as much interested as any one
else, will also go TO work with a will, in less
than two years the railroad whistle will wake
the echoes in the beautiful valleys of our own
and our sister county.