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Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey for ...
Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey for Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: capital, to undertake these public works. The result is, that the State has a revenue without taxation, and a treasury free from debt, while railroads and canals... more » intersect the country in every direction. The following statement exhibits the general nature and extent of the internal improvements of the State. It is not as complete as would be desirable ; still there are, it is presumed, no material errors. Canals. Delaware and Raritan Canal. This important work commences at New Brunswick, the head of navigation of Raritan river, and extends to Bordentown, where it enters the Delaware river, being forty-three miles in length. It is seventy-five feet wide at the surface, forty-seven feet wide at the bottom, and nine feet deep- There are seven locks at each end, each two hundred and twenty feet long and twenty-four feet wide, admitting the transit of boats of five hundred tons burden. The canal is supplied with water by a feeder extending twenty-two miles above Trenton. It connects with the Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal, and is at present the principal avenue through which New York is supplied with coal. It also commands a large amount of freight between New York and Philadelphia, and is navigated by regular lines of propellers moving between the two cities. The annual transportation of coal is over one million tons; of grain over one million bushels ; and about two hundred thousand tons of general merchandise. Cost of the canal ----- $3,707,915 90 Receipts for the year 1854 - - - 474,740 39 Expenses " " - 171,753 98 Earnings ... 303,186 41 The Morris Canal. This canal extends, by a circuitous route, from the Hudson river at Jersey City to the Delaware river at Philipsburg, opposite Easton, where it connects with the Lehigh Canal of Pennsylv...« less