The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-06
BAYOuuE'S FUTURE.
Her Water Front Destined to
Be Of Enormous Com
mereial Value.

The construction of the New Jersey
Junction Railroad, now nearing compile
tion. will have an important bearing on
the prosperity of Bayonne City. This
railroad connects with the Bergen Neck
and National Storage, Leligh Valley and
Central Railroad of New Jersey on the
south. and the Erie, Delaware, Lacka-
wanna g. Western, Pennsylvania, New
York. Ontario & Western and West
Shore Railroad on the north, and en-
ables Western freights to reach tide
water of the Kill Won Kull and New
New York Bay over any of the trunk
lines.
Heretofore Bayonne has been confined
practically to the Central Railroad of
Now manufacturers can receive their
works, and ship then manufactured
goods from their own wharves on ocean
going vessels. The waters of the Kill
Won Kull at Constables' Hook. where so
many large industries are now located,
mas a depth of water of from twenty to
thirty feet, and by dredging greater
depth can be secured. No place in the
vicinity of New York City offers such
aafdvantages afa as are now obtainable along
The Standard Oil Company has for
MANY MANY years done the main portion of it's
foreign trade from this point and it has
peen stated that there is more foreign
tonnage from Bayonne, than from the
entire port of Boston. However this may
pc, tne standard Oil Company thorough
possesses there, and is now engaged in
spending millions of dollars in new con-
structlon and extensions of it's plant
its output.
The other large enterprises now located
mere are the Tidewater Oil Company, the
Ildewater I nli wa Pipe Company sQimited), the
the Oxford Copper Company, the T. .& S.
Y, White Sulphur Works, the Columbia
Oh Works, and other manufacturing
c,onlpanies. &c PAM There is only remaining on
the Kill Won Kull a frontage of about
nfteen hundred feet, which has not been
taken up by the companies above named
ana the prospects are that in the very
near esa future this remaining water 'front.'
age Will be appropriated to some manu-
featuring use, where land and deep water
connections are essential for conducting
business.
advantageous from a commercial point of
view, and is now attracting the attention
OF spectators who are thoroughly alive
to the great future and development in
manufactories of Bayonne City. Already
there Is talk of more than one big com
pany coming over from Brooklyn and To-
eating in Bayonne. The building of
wharves, docks and piers on the Bayonne
Peninsula so close to the Great Trunk
lines carrying out merchandise to all
ports of the West, North, South and East
makes the land in Bayonne of ifnmeas-
urable superiority to the Long Island
shore at Brooklyn. From and to these
lighters are employed to carry over the
goods to the Trunk lines, which means a
heavy charge on shipper, exporter and
merchant handling the goods. The charge
will not be necessary if a BROOKLYN Com
pany locates on the Bayonne shore front.
This question is of SO much importance
to Warehousemen and others that it is
only a matter of a few years when the
bulk of the carrying trade of the port
Of New York will be landed at the Bay
onne front of the harbor. Altogether, the
outlook is very promising for renewed
noillt.