The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-25
Railroad RumOrs.
Railroad runners ofall kinds have been

Railroad runners ofall kinds have been as
plentiful, for week past, as grasshoppers
in Kansas. One of them is that Jay Gould,
in order to perfect his great railway system,
is DESTROYS of securing control of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, with its western and
southern connections. However desirable
such project might be to that daring spec
ulator, il is not at all likely that he will ac-
complish it. There are $4,000 shares of
stock in the road, of which Mr.. John w.
Garrett, the city of Baltimore and the estate
of Johns Hopkins hold an aggregate ofsl 800,
or more than majority. None of these
shares are for sale. Baltimore and Ohio
stock, the par value of which is 800, was
sold last week in Baltimore at $20j--the
highest price ii has ever reached
The Philadelphia papers have had Il good
deal to say about the building of Il new road
from Baltimore to Philadelphia, to connect
with the Bound Brook route The Philadel-
phia Times SAYS that Mr.. Garrett has resolved
10 secure an Independent route to New York,
and does not intend to avail himself Of the
conciliatoly disposition of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company to give transportation
over the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
tmorc Railroad at a minimum expense.
The Times also says that an arrangement
has certainly been made by Mr.. Garrett with
Colonel McComb, for the transfer of major
ity of the stock of the Delaware Western
Railroad and adds
1T is conceded that Port Deposit will be
the objective point at which TO cross the
river. Almost the whole of any route from
Baltimore to Port Deposit would be cheaply
constructed so far as the right of way is con-
cerned The fact is well known that the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad Company has had
engineers out for several weeks making sur
veys ftwo or three possible routes, but 1t is
doubtful if it has been decided which is the
most feasible. The one which appears to be
the most practicable is the route suggested
some time ago by Edward G. Knight, of this
city, formerly president of the New Jersey
Central Road. This involves simply the
building of some fifty miles of road from op-
posite Port Deposit to bennington, there
meeting the Chester Valley branch Of the
Reading Railroad, which with q little
Strengthening from Edge Hill to Jenkintown,
the southern terminus of the Bound Brook
Road, would give line few miles shorter
than the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
tmore, but would not give an entry for pas
sengers into Philadelphia. Arrangements
for bringing in freight and passengers would
have to be made with the Reading Railroad.
This route, it is estimated, could be built for
five millions of dollars Officers ofthe Penn
sylvania Railroad Company admit that the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has
determined upon building an opposition
road"
The Philadelphia North american says there
is some talk of the Baltimore and Delta Mar.
rowGauge Railroad being used as far as Bel
Air as the Maryland link in the competing
linc, but the Baltimore SIN says there is no
reason to believe that any effort of that kind
has been made. Another report is that the
Baltimore and Delta will be used TO Delta,
and an arrangement made with the Peach
Bottom Narrow Gauge railroad for the lay
ing of third rail upon its bed from Delta to
Kingsbridgc. There would be only % miles
of grading TO be done between Kingsbridge
and Downingtown-thus affording line
from Baltimore to New York 1914 miles in
length.
1t is = fact that engineers have been at work
making surveys between Baltimore and Phil
adcIphia, but the same thing has been done
many times already. 4 lady correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, writing from Wavery,
mentions n survey by Baltimore and Ohio
engineers, made seven years ago, and adds ::
Many of the stakes then driven may vet
he seen among the Deer Creek hills. The
route struck Bel Air; thence above the
Thomas Run valley, a little below Church
vile: thence TO Chenille, in the Deer Creek
valley; thence along the creek to the Susque-
hanna river. If for no other reason Balti-
moreans ought to rejoice i'm the opening up
of some of the most beautiful scenery of the
Eastern States by such road, the Susque-
hanna, from the mouth of Deer Creek to Har-
risburg being equal in beauty to the Hudson
The Deer Greek valley also abounds in beau
titul and romantic views
There il said to be probability that if a
railroad is built it will cross the Susquehan-
ma at Watson's Island, and run near to and
parallel with the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad to Baltimore. fthe
crossing is made near Port Deposit it is pro-
bal,le that Deer Greek would be followed to
point near Chenille, in which event the
road would pass nj or near Bel Air.