Identifier: routesratesforsu01rome (find matches)
Title: Routes and rates for summer tours
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, Press of the American bank note co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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on was once hospitably entertained. At PHILADELPHIA, seven miles distant, a thriving village of looo inhabitants, with extensivelumbering interests, we cross the track of the Eastern Division, where a detour is made for Clayton,twenty-two miles distant, in the midst of the Thousand Island region. ANTWERP AND KEENES are in the midst of valuable iron ore beds. The mines,once extensively worked, are now idle. GOUVERNEUR, thirty-five miles north of Watertown, is a thriving place, largely engagedin lumbering, mining and marble interests. Quarrying and refining talc is an important industry.Excellent fishing is found in the numerous mountain brooks. Connection is made here with the Gouverneur & Oswegatchie branch for EDWARDS, threemiles from Trout Lake, in the midst of good fishing and hunting grounds. One hundred and twenty-three miles from Rome we reach DE KALB JUNCTION, thediverging point for Ogdensburg to the north and Norwood to the east. 32 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD.
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R. W. & O. R.R-—SUGAR RIVER BRIDGE—LOCKS ON BLACK RIVER CANAL. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 33

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