The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . _%:^W^te iiBiiiiiiiiiiiSi 9PPI The Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad commences here,and following the valley for a short distance, throws out severalradiating branches, connecting the main road with all the coal ope-rations in the Mine Hill, and Swatara ranges, embracing the richcoal districts of Minersville, ,Tremont, Llewellyn, Branchdale, tonnage of the road is enormous, and like the Reading railroadto which it is tributary, it has a
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . _%:^W^te iiBiiiiiiiiiiiSi 9PPI The Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad commences here,and following the valley for a short distance, throws out severalradiating branches, connecting the main road with all the coal ope-rations in the Mine Hill, and Swatara ranges, embracing the richcoal districts of Minersville, ,Tremont, Llewellyn, Branchdale, tonnage of the road is enormous, and like the Reading railroadto which it is tributary, it has a descending grade throughout its com-bined length. A train of passenger cars runs between SchuylkillHaven and Tremont, via Minersville. The route is a pleasant andattractive one—penetrating the richest coal districts of Schuylkillcounty. The company have recently obtained the right to extendtheir road (which is among the most profitable to the stockholders ofany other in the United States, at the same time that it is one of themost substantial in its structure,) over the mountain, so as to connectwith the Shamokin railroad at Sunbury—thus uniting the Schuylkill
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