160 A. L. Bishop — The State Works of Pennsylvania. 



the companies, say, $381,585, Avliich it is probable the roads had 

 cost more than the amount subscribed by the state and solvent 

 individuals, it would appear that to turnpike roads there had been 

 subscribed and appropriated up to 1822 in the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania the sum of $6,401,474. 



The works completed or in progress at that time provided for two 

 stone roads between Pliiladelphia and Pittsburg, one of which had 

 already been finished; one continuous road from Philadelphia to 

 the town of Erie on the lake of the same name, passing throvigh 

 Sunbury, Belief onte, Franklin and Meadville; two roads, with a 

 deficiency of but a few miles of turnpike, from Philadelphia, one 

 to Xew York state line in Bradford county, passing through Ber- 

 wick, the other to the northern part of the state in Susquehanna 

 county passing through Bethlehem; and a continuous road from 

 Pittsburg to Erie via Butler, Mercer, Meadville and Waterford. 

 The completion of these lines insured the northern, northwestern 

 and western sections of the state connection with the metropolis, 

 and, in the opinion of th6 framers of the report, would ^'afford facil- 

 ities for traveling and transportation unequalled, as to extent, in 

 the United States." 



With reference to bridges, also, a large appropriation had been 

 made. Private individuals had subscribed to $1,629,200 worth of 

 stock, and the commonwealth to the amount of $382,000. If to 

 these sums one-half of the amount of the debts be added, as in the 

 former case, the amount contributed to the construction of bridges 

 totalled $2,051,795. 



So far as navigation companies were concerned, the common- 

 wealth had subscribed $130,000 out of a total of $1,916,510 

 appropriated for constructional purposes. 



If all these subscriptions and appropriations be added together, 

 the amount shown to have been applied towards all kinds of 

 •improvements in transportation in Pennsylvania before the begin- 

 ning of the popular movement in 1823 was nearly $10,500,000. 

 This amount was expended by the state and by corporations 

 (largely the latter) exclusive of various sums large and small spent 

 by the counties on roads, bridges, and other improvements; an 

 amount which, though liberal, it is impossible to determine, owifig 

 to the loss of many county documents and to the confusion of 

 counts.* 



* Haz. lleg., I, p. 408. 



