The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-08-20
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VIM. YOUNG, Scc'y.
The Advantage Of New Railroad From
Baltimore to PHILADELPHIA.

The Wilmington Daily Ncns of the nth
instant, in an apprcciativc article, advcrts to
the advantages which would accrue to the
people of Maryland and Delaware by the con-
struction of a new railroad between Balti-
more and Philadelphia. Hartford county far
mcrs are entitled to all that the Macs says in
their praise, but that journal has fallen into a
common error in stating that the Baltimore
and Delta Railroad is completed. Nearly all
the grading is done and paid for, and tue sub
scriptions will more than complete that por-
ton of the work. There is, therefore, every
reason to believe that the road will. in rca-
sonable time, be an accomplished fact. 1t
will pass through an entirely different section
of Hartford from that which would neccssari-
ly betraverscd by a through road, and being
a local road, dependent upon the farming
community for its support, it would he run in
the interest Of the farmers along its route
Therefore there need BIC no antaronism he
tween the two railroads. Ifcapiialists out
side of Hartford county desire to build rail.
road through our county, it is plainly mat
ter of good policy to throw no obstacles in
their way-cspccially if they are acting in
good faith, and their object is not to defeat
our own local road.
The article in the NearS is as follows:
Governor Hamilton, of Mary land, has been
paying visit ofinspcctiOn 10 tho well known
farms of Mcssrs. Parker Lee and William
Woolscy in the Deer Creek country of Hair
ford county, Md The Governor expressed
his surprise at the adyanccd state of farming
in Hartford county, and declared that when
he should tell thc farmers OF his own county
That he had seen twenty barrels ofcorn grow
ing upon an acre, and that The Hartford conn
ty farmers spread II half ton of bone dust on
the same area, they would refuse to believe
him.
Along the Deer Creek are some ofthc most
beautiful and fertile lands in The country
Grazing is largely engaged in BY the farmers,
who in culture and education are much be-
yond the average, and by intelligent industry
they have brought their iarms toa hiuh state
of cultivation, and have made their homes
beautiful.
There is but one drawback in the neigh
borhood. Ii has no satisfactory r:tilroad out
let. There is n narrow gauge road running
by mcandcring route from Delta, in the
slate region of Pennsylvania to Baltimore
and in preference to using this road, many
farmers haul their produce and drive their
cattle TO points on the Phiadclphia. vii.
mington and Baltimore rairoad, ten or twelve
mics distant from their homes. The road
from Baltimore to Philadelphia, for which
Colonel McComb underworld to obtain
charter from the Maryland Legislature, was
intended to run directly through the Deer
Creek country, and would afford TO the pco-
pie OF this rich section ofEarfOrd county i'm
mediate communication with the markets of
Philadelphia and Baltimore The benefits of
such road to the people of Maryland and
Delaware are almost incalcuable Besides
the great number of cattle that now, at an
unnecessary expenditure of time and money.
arc yearly brought to this portion of Hartford
county from Virginia and Kentucky, and
after fattening arc sent to PHILADELPHIA and
New York, there are in the neighborhood
valuable deposits of granite and scrpentine
stone and traces of rich mineral wealth.
Large quantities of flint are ground to the
iineness of flour in the mills along the Deer
creek, and by the present inconvenient means |
OF communication are sent TO Wilmington TO |
be used in the making of chinaware. A rail |
road only is needed for the present traffic ia |
increase, the quarries and iron ore mines to |
ne opened, furnaces to be built, and towns |
ana villages TO spring mp along the line. II |
would be hard to find anywhere in America |
more beautiful scenery than that surround.
ing the lower Susquehanna, and it is not too |
much to hope, should railroad be built run
ming across Hartford county to the Susouc-
hanna, somewhere near the Conowingo
bridge, uniting Baltimore and Philadelphia,
that not far in the future, for thirty miles
along the route from both cities would stand
suburban homes, villages and country res.
licences. lH
The country is fertile and beautiful, its poo.
plclare thrifty and quick to advance when
the opportunity offers, and n railroad like the
one talked Of would increase their wealth
and the wealth Of. every town and State
through which it may pass.
We are ut liberty 10 state that Hon.
Charles b. Roberts, of Carroll county, ia in
no possible sense n candidate for the con
5rcssional nomination, at Westminster, on