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Memorial to Abandon a New Jersey Waterway Proposal
A memorial to the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly argues to abandon a waterway long deemed useless. It compares canal boat capacity to steam locomotive efficiency, noting canal boats carry about seventy tons of coal in five days, while locomotives move two thousand tons in five hours. The lessee offers to relinquish operation and transfer all rights to the state if water is diverted from lakes and streams at no cost.
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New Jersey
Morris Canal and Banking Company
PF. L
Delaware River
Easton
Passaic
Newark
Lehigh
Pennsylvania
Globe
Erie Canal
Virginia
Massachusetts
Ohio
Jersey City
Delaware
Canal Company
City of
New York
Werts, Griggs and Voorhees
George Stephenson
Stockton & Darlington
England
State of New Jersey
Camden & Amboy Railroad Company
Morris & Besex Railroad
Lackawanna Railroad
Tidewater
Central Railroad of
Hudson
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Lehigh Valley Railroad of
Governors’ Commission
Cadmnany
Phillipsburg
Mountain View
Pompton
Stanhope Hoopatcong
Dover
Boonton
Paterson
Bloomfield
Rockaway River
Pompton River
Greenwood Lake
State of New York
Hopatcong
Groensac Deke
Feyteen
Wenaque River
Philipsburg
Lehigh River
State of
Cana c Company
Belleville
Morris Canal Company
Morris Canal
Lehigh Weakley ~ Railroad Company
East Jersey Water Company
Ccar
Railroad Company
East Jersey. Water Company
Owork
Pequannock
Cansi Company
Museeneteong
Rockaway
Pomptes
Lake Hopatcong
Greenwood
Canak Company
Sumimer
Greenwood Latte
Exista
Ikewine
Canal‘ Company