{"newspaper_name": "American watchman and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
writer is informed that wheat was selling when lie
was there at 81 cents per hushel-,and as price
is now 100 cents, this shows the propriety and ne
cessily for some easy mode of communication with
our interior country-for it locomotive engine
would draw so tons, which is equivalent to upwards
of 1900 bushels of wheat and at The rate Of six
miles per hour, this whole quantity might be deliver
ed at this place from Ptsburg, in less than Eve days
OF 10 hours each.


The difference Of price between 300 bushels of
wheat purchased at Pittsburg at 81 cents, and our
present price, is more than 1900 dollars -and cal
culating the cost of wagonagc for the same, the
rate of 20 cents per bushel, for As miles, as before
shown, it would cost more than lao cents per bush
el here--which exhibits the impossib,lity of trans
poriation by wagons and without some better mode
Of conveyance, this and many other articles must
remain dead weight there--while on the Atlantic
coast they may be much wanted and the price re-
main so high that we can longer feed consumers in
foreign countries.


But by means of such rail way, the citizen CT
the interior countryside Merchant and the foreign
consumer. would be benefited b.