Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-04
THE PROJECTED RAILROAD
Which is BEING Discussed I'm Dor
chester and Oarolfne.


chester and Caroline.
special Correspondenceof Gazette and journal.
PRESTON, Mo-, Jan. 27.-The newspa-
pers of Caroline and Dorchester counties,
learn will this week contain communica-
tions urging the survey Of line of rail-
way from Greensborough via. Denton ON
an air line to East New Market in Dor
chester county, and from the latter town
TO Vienna on the Nanticoke river and
across that river through Wicomico
county to White Haven and to
be continued from White Haven
to the most desirable connecting point
ON the main line of the Delaware system.
A line of road thus run would be some
where near 60 miles in length and would
go through a section of country as yet
unopened to convenient railroad trans
portation except at the junction with the
Cambridge & Seaford railway at East
New Market, and would thereby bring
large accessions of freight along its line
(running between the nayigable waters of
the Choptank and Nanticoke) as well as
furnish in effect the advantages of
second track for the main line at little
less cost than a double track from Clay
ton southwark,
The greatest drawback to the proposed
line is to be encountered in the necessity
of bridging the Nanticoke at Vienna with
draw for the vessels and steamers nayi-
eating the river above Vienna.
The advantages urged by the advocates
of the proposed line, over the route sug-
gested by the meeting in Denton last
week, from Greensborough to Federals-
burg, are threefold:
Q.) The latter road, about % miles in
lcngth, is considered too short either to
bring sufficient local traffic to compensate
for its erection or to bring much relief to
the main line as a substitute for double
track. (2.) The length of the former line
would be about 60 miles and would pass.
through or in close proximity to some of
the best fruit sections of Caroline and
Dorchester and 6, bring the northern
markets into advantageous business rela-
tions with the best oyster mart ESQ
claimed on the Peninsula where 1t re-
quires an unusually severe cold spell TO
freeze the oyster beds over. This, IL
investigation proves TO be true, will be q
great desideratum.
It is also urged in considering this
question by the advocates of the longer
line, that the distance from Clayton, Del,
via the Chesapeake Il Delaware railway to
Greensborough, Denton, East New Market
and Vienna to the most accessible point,
southwark on the main line of the Della
ware division in Somerset county is only
one of a few miles in excess of the length
of the main line via Seaford and Delmar,
and that thereby the adyantagesof having
this route not only ms a feeder, but as a
double track in truth running 80 fur
down the Peninsula would be almost inl-
measurably enhanced.
AS about all the hope of railroad ad-
vantages in the near future at least, arises
from the necessity generally assumed
that freight and travel will soon demand
q donble track down the Peninsula, il is
we'll and proper that the subject should
be thoroughly discussed Your corre-
spondent has tried to gather the argu-
ments for the Caroline, Dorchester and
Wicomico route as they are owpresented
by its frienda