The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-06-18
RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.
The Board of Directors for Internal Improve
ments, made report of their doings, to the
Legislature, at its late session, from which we
extract the most important part. The expen-
ditures, up to the time of making the report,
amount to about $3.50.
Mr. Baldwin, accompanied by Mr.. Make
peace, resumed on the 9TH of April the sur
vey Of the route between Boston, and AL
bany, which was begun the last season un-
der the direction of the Board Of Commits
sioners, but was left unfinished, for want of
time to complete it, The line of this sur
vey was begun at Needham, and has been
carried through the towns of Natick, Fran
ingham, the northern border of Hopkinton,
Scarborough, Westborough, Grafton, Mill
bury, Worcester, Leicester, Spencer, Brook
field, West Brookfeld,. Western, and Pal
mer, to the point of beginning, in the last
season, on the Chckopee river. Complete
maps and profiles of the survey have been
made, by the Engineer and his assistants,
during the intervals of their employment
in the field which are now in the possess
sion of the Directors. These surveys, with
those which were before made, complete an
entire line, from Boston to Albany, the
whole distance by the line surveyed being
10y miles, and from Boston to the Connec-
ticut river at Springfield, 964 miles. The
route now surveyed, as it appears from the
maps and profiles, is more favorable for
the construction of railroad, being more
direct, and presenting fewer obstacles from
steep declvities, than the Directors had
reason to expect. A more particular des-
cription oft they reserve for future occa-
sion.
During the prosecution of this survey,
the Directors employed an Assistant Engi-
neer, Mr. Wadsworth, who, accompanied
by Mr.. Makepeace, surveyed another route,
which proceeds from Charles street in Bos-
ton, III different course from that followed
by Mr. Baldwin, passes through Newton,
Weston, birmingham and Scarborough,
and unites with the other line in Westbor-
ough. The distance by this route is about
a mile and quarter less than by that be-
fore described, but it is more uneven.
They also employed Mr.. R. P Morgan, as
an Assistant Engineer, to survey line, d-
verging from that surveyed by Mr. Bald
win, at the outlet Of Long Pond, in Grafton,
and passing through Millbury, Ward, Ok
ford, Dudley, Southbridge, Sturbridge, and
Brlmfield, meeting the latter line upon the
Chlckopee river in Palmer. The length of
this line is As miles. 1t passes over lower
ground, and is for the most part more level
than the other, but it increases the distance
about eleven miles.
Before Mr.. Morgan entered upon his SER
vice, he was employed to explore a more
northerly route, leading from the Concord
river, to the sources of the Ware river, and
also to Miller's river, preparatory to SURVEYS
in those directions. Mr.. Baldwin and Mr.. |
Makepeace also, after completing the sur
vey OF the southern route, explored the !
country from Northampton to Ware river. !
and after fixing upon the most favorable d. !
rectlon for reaching that river, proceeded |
along the channel of that river to near its
source. After consideration of the re-
ports of these examinations, Mr.. Baldwin !
was directed to proceed with Mr.. Make
peace to make survey of more northerly
route than those before described Begin |
ming at Waltham, they carried their survey
through Weston, the border of Lincoln, |
East Sudbury, Sudbury, corner of Stow.
Marlborough, Berlin, corner of Lancaster,
Boylston, West Boylston, Holden, and
Princeton, to the Summit Of the ridge which
ulFlueS IuS WdLeIS Vi Iue NASHUA, from those |
of Ware river Mr.. Baldwin is now employ
ed in continuing the survey down the valley
of Ware river, passing through corner of
Rutland, Barre, New Brain
tree, Hardwick, Ware, Belchertown, Gran
by, and South Hadley, to Northampton.
The route presents some advantages, par
tlcularly IN the gradual ascent by which
the summit Is approached from the east.
In addition to these surveys, Mr.. Morgan,
after completing that of the southerly line
before described, was directed to make
survey, still farther north than that made
by Mr.. Baldwin, proceeding from the sum
init In Princeton, through Hubbardston, to
branch of Miller's river in Templeton,
where it meets point in the canal survey
made by Mr.. Loammi Baldwin, in 1895
THIS line, with par Of that last surveyed
by Mr. Baldwin, and the canal survey oy
Mlller's river, forms a complete northerly
route, from Waltham to the Connecticut
river. Some portions Of the route NAV adj