AGRICULTURAL, MUSEUM. 59 



tizsns of New York, Jersey and Baliimaro, to push 

 turnpikes into the most fertile parts of our state, and 

 draw off our own produce for the aggi andizemcnt of 

 their respective Capitals, and with it, the attachment of 

 our citizens, to the manifest injury of our political har- 

 liiony. 



A number oi facts arc stated in your paper of Satur- 

 day, which shew that exertions, promising to be elfec- 

 tual, arc making, to keep the produce in the neighbour- 

 hood oftlie Connevvago Falls, to its accu^&tomed destina.- 

 tion at Philadelphia, instead pf taking the new rouie our 

 Beighbours of BaUitnorchavp prepared for it. 



It is satisfactory to be able tojitate facts also, wh'ch 

 shew, that exertions arc making" in another quarter, to 

 arrest the produce of the ea,st and west branches, nume- 

 diately at the head of the difficulties in the Susquehanna 

 navigatian, and to, obvia,te the necessity of descend. ng 

 ■within the inflaence of our enterprising neighbours. 



It is a fact, thiit a turnpike is now made from Sun,bu. 

 ry to Reading, except the spa,o^of §ixt,^en rniles, which 

 will be completed this year, the funds being all provided. 



It is a fact, that a turnpike has long been made from 

 Philadelphia to Pcrkiomen — and it therefore necessarily 

 results as a fact, that there remains o.nly the space from 

 Perkiomen to Reading, to complete a turnpike from Phi- 

 ad|i)phia to Sunbury, a distance of one hundred and 

 thirty miles, in the direct diagonal and consequently 

 shortest route to, Presque Isle on Ijakc Erie, and, as is 

 believed^ the easiest practica,ble route to Pittsburg. 



It is also a fact, that an act passed the Legislature last 

 session, to incorporate a Company to turnpike the in- 

 terval from Perkiomen to Reading, and that t e Com- 

 missioners are now exerting themselves to complete the 

 subscription for the stock, so as to enable the Compa- 

 ny to make their contracts this fall, that materials may 

 be prepared through the winter for commencing the 

 work with spirit iu the spring. 



