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List of the Lock and Canal Navigation Companies, authorised by the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in the order in which the several acts were passed.

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*No letters patent issued.

Dauphin, Lancaster,

†These companies and individuals commenced operations without letters patent under their acts of incorpora

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Table, No. 5. BRIDGES.

LIST of bridges, the companies for erecting which have received letters patent, shewing the rivers and streams over which they pass, the years in which they were severally commenced and completed, their length and width, elevation above the usual level of the water, and whether roofed or not, the number of arches by which supported, the materials of which the piers arecomposed, as also the amount of individual and state subscriptions to the capital stock, the subscription price of the shares; and the amount of the debts of the companies.

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Unofficial No answer rec'd.
Project aband'nd for present

Unf'nd. Swept away by h. w. Ap 1819.

Not commenced.

Cost of this bridge 300,000
nom. capital, $150,000.
Greatest arch in U. States.
Carried away by ice Feb1822
Destroyed by ice, in 1820.

Destr'd. by ice, March 1818
Cost of bridge $231,771, the
surp. capt'l.empld.in loans
Proj. aband. for the present
This bridge is in two parts,
separated by an Island.
This bridge the same.

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Table No. IV. TURNPIKE ROADS.

ALPHABETICAL list of the Turnpike Road Companies, which have received letters patent, showing the years in which the roads were severally commenced and completed, the length of each contemplated by its charter, the number of miles already completed, the amount of individual and state subscriptions to the capital stock, the cost of the road per mile including bridges, subscription price of the shares, the amount of the existing debts of the company, width of the road, materials of which composed, and depth of materials in the centre and at the sides respectively.

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Since the preceding Report was presented to the Legislature, some of the comp nies have probably ceased to exist, and others have been incorporated for the purpose of internal improvements. In a subsequent number we will endeavour to continue the list of incorporations to the present date, and make such corrections and additions as the information we shall obtain may enable us to do.

TRADE OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER.

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Middletown was the sole mart for the small quantity of of grain that was brought down the Susquehanna in keel boats and canoes previous to and after the revolutionary war; for Middletown was the lowest point of navigation for these vessels, the Conewago falls preventing their further descent. The grain was ground into flour at Fry's mill, or stored up and sold to the millers of Lancaster county.

In 1794 or '95 the first vessel in the shape of an ark, but very small in its dimensions, arrived at Harrisburg from Huntingdon, on the Juniata, and the Conewago falls were run by it with safety. About the time of the invention of the ark, the Conewago canal, at York Haven, was commenced, and on its completion in 1797, or 1798, keel boats were enabled to pass through it, and down the river to Columbia. The river trade at Middletown was by this almost at once destroyed, and Columbia having become the lowest point of navigation, increased with astonishing rapidity. The period was short, after arks passed the Conewago falls, until these vessels attempted the dangerous rapids below Columbia, and reached tide water. This, we think, must have been about the year 1798.

It was not until the trade of the Susquehanna had thus reached tide water, that it became an object of solicitude to the merchants of Baltimore, and as its importance became every year more evident, they engaged in the construction of the Maryland canal, which was designed to overcome as much of the rapids between Columbia and tide as were in the state of Maryland. And although frequent appropriations were made by Pennsylvania, to improve the na vigation of the Susquehanna & its branches, above Columbia, no appropriation was made for the improvement of the river below that point, until the year 1823, Then a commission, consisting of M'Meens, Hyde and Wilson, appointed by the Legislature to co-operate with the Maryland commis sioners, in improving the navigation from Columbia to tide, and a liberal appropria tion made for this purpose. Previous to this, the navigation between Columbia and tide was extremely hazardous, and heavy losses were yearly sustained; and now the risque of running an ark between these points is considered next to nominal. The York Haven canal was originally a Philadelphia concern, but in 1819 it was disposed of to a Baltimore company, by which it is now held.

The Baltimoreans had become alive to the importance of the river trade, and paid an enormous sum for the canal and grist mill that yet stands at York Haven. They erected besides a large stone mill, (burnt

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