The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-10-18
The Baltimore and Delta Railroad.


The Baltimore and Delta Railroad.
The survey and location of the Baltimore
and Delta hallway, under Major cambridge,
is completed. The consolidation with the
Baltimore and Towsontown Railroad, which
secures access to the limits of the city of Bal
timore, has been effected. The right of way,
with few exceptions, has been secured without
cost, from Boundary avenue to Delta station.
The stock subscribed has reached something
over 100000, 1t is thought the estimate
which Major cambridge will submit to the
Board in few weeks of the cost of grading
and masonry, based upon actual surveys and
carefully calculated, will not exceed the one
previously given, of $4,000 per mile The
price of labor, iron timber and other material
used in the construction of railroads has not
perceptiby advanced. The crops of our
farmers are abundant but lower in price
Money is MS cheap Mt the great centres oftrade
as it was year ago, and rs cautious, too
The necessities for the road are growing
daily, and will continue to grow, as long MS
the products of our soil and our population
continue to increase.
Mr. Waters, the President, will probably
call his board together before many weeks,
to lay before them all matters pertaining 10
the present condition of the enterprise, and
the data he may have Mt band to convince
them of the possibility of final success. He
may also before the meeting comes of, secure
the bids of responsible contractors, in order
that the engineer and the Board may deter
mine with more accuracy the probable cost
of the road.
From all we now can see, the next meeting
of the Board will he Il very important one,
perhaps the most important yet hold. For
tunately the Board is composed of men we'll
known for their good business qualifications,
their integrity, their courage and their eau
ton. Several of them are well and faverably
known all over the State, and we doubt
whether any local enterprise in our State has
ever been placed in better hands.
These men when they meet, before looking
forward; before taking SO important n step ms
the letting of the work to anybody; before
making any forward movement whatever,
will we think, look back TO see where the
people are, what they have done and what
they are willing TO do. Whether they are in
sympathy with them and disposed to stand
up nobly to the work.
Thus far the people have done well. The
subscription books show that nearly every
responsible land holder near the line of the
proposed road has subscribed towards its con-
struction. The large packages of uncondi-
tional releases convince us that the land hold
ers whose farms arc cut by the line are square
ly up with the times and discard as beneath
their notice the contemplate preteXts so often
made for refusing to grant right of way, and
the books of our faithful collector show that
our people have not only subscribed in good
faith, but mean TO pay up like honorable men,
in order that the work may he pushed steadi-
ly onward.
Certainly we are much nearer II railroad
than we ever were before, and it gives us in
creased confidence, when in looking back
over what has been done during the past year
and a-half, we see so few errors and oms-
sions in the management Of the enterprise
Indeed, we know of nothing that should have
been done, that has not been done, and at the
proper time. But we haye said the directors
will look back to the people before attempting
forward movement, in order TO see that they
are thoroughly in sympathy with them in this
great work. We think they will find them
sound and ready TO sustain them in any line of
policy they may see proper to adopt. Wesee,
however, in looking over the collectors books,
that therea are n few who have not yet paid their
five per cent. instament, and in looking over
the list of land holders that some two or three
in this county have not yet granted right of
way. We sincerely hope that before the
Board meets all denquenls on their five per
cent. will make settlement with Mr.. Price,
and all land holders that have not yet released
will hasten to do so.
Let us, by every means in our power, con-
vince the Board at its meeting that we are
really and truly in earnest in this matter, md
that having put our hands to the plow and
our shoulders to the wheel, we intend to keep
them there, and work unitedy, faithfully and
honorably together, till the result is obtained
for which we have united and formed this
company This course on our part will in.
spire our directors with that confidence which
will prompt them to adopt such line of pol
icy as will insure the speedy construction of
our road The work of grading should com
mence this fall we would complete the road
by next autumn Much yet remains for the
Board to do before work can commence, and,
80 far as we can, we should inspire the Board
with confidence in our determination TO sus-
tain its action and comply promptly and fully
with all its requirements.
Wehavc good reason to believe that what
we have done in the way of subscribing to
the stock and right of way is beginning to
attract the attention of moneyed men, and
each Of us should do our utmost to impress
the Board and all others interested that we
meant 10 do just what we have done and that
there will be no unmanly hesitancy or quib-
ling on our part that what we want is the
road completed ut the earliest possible mo-
ment, and that we will be ever ready to sus-
tain the Board in their efforts to secure it.