The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-25
TROLLEY LINES EAST AND
WEST.
What a Western Trolley Would
DO For Fulton County.


ticle from Public Opinion, Cham
bersburg, relative to trolley lines,
and from the same paper this
week we give another. The
Chambersburg people are thor
oughly alive to the Importance of
the subject. If the matter of en-
couraging the building of trolley
roads in a county that has already
three railroads, it ought to be
worth considering by county
that does not have any.
We have become so thoroughly
disgusted with the efforts that
have been made to give us steam
roads that we feel like training q
shot gun ON any man that talks
railroads.
The trolley line fever broke out
among our people few years
ago and money was subscribed
and an engineer employed who
made an estimate of the cost of a
road from McConnellsburg to
Mercersburg.
The estimate made was so out
landishly high as to make it be-
yond the probability of paying as
an investment 1t was afterward
learned that the estimate was
much beyond the figures that
should have been given.
Mail may leave Philadelphia so
as to reach Mercersburg at $40
in the morning, as our morning
papers now do, and with trolley
line we should have our eastern
mail before ten, and Webster
Mills, Big Cove Tannery, Harri-
sonville, Saluvia, Knobsville and
Fort Littleton should all be serv-
ed by noon.
It,willbe remembered how slow
our people were to invest any
money in the telephone, and to-
day we should think it a real
calamity to be deprived of it's SER
vice. Haven't we some Fulton
county men with sufficient enter
prise to move in the direction of
the trolley Editor.
GA westward trolley line from
Chambersburg to Bedford would
open up populous and productive
region of vast extent that is now
almost without outlet. When
completed, with it's natural
branches, it would be line with
feeders from all the valleys and
coves of the Blue Mountains.
West of st. Thomas it would con-
meet with the Bedford and Mer-
cersburg branch. From Fort
Loudon it would penetrate Path
Valley. This line would extend
to Richmond, Carrick Furnace,
Fannettsburg, Spring Run, Dry
Run, Doylesburg and Concord.
From McConnellsburg there
would be alinenorthward through
the Tuscarora Valley to Burnt
Cabins and Shade Gap, and
southwark to Webster Mills and
Big Cove Tannery. Can any one
imagine the travel and transpor-
tation that would thus come once
more over the old mountain road. |
once a double line of Conestoga
wagons, but for many years al
most deserted? An era of pros
perity unknown before would
come to the hitherto unpenetra-
BILE Wales of Fulton, Huntingdon
and Bedford counties and the
Tuscarora valleys would take on
new life and new beauties.
"If at first the line only extend
ed to McConnellsburg westward |
and Fannettsburg northward |
from Fort Loudon it would be a
great gain to the Cumberland |
Valley and all the railroads that
centre in Chambersburg. Path
Valley is one of the most fertile
and beautiful of the entire Kit
tochtinny range. 1t formed
part of the famous Tuscarora
Path in the days of the Indian
trade. Before the epoch of rail
roads it was known to every
traveller who went westward |
from the Susquehanna to the
Allegheny, When Upper Stras-
burg was town of more import