Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-05-11
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, MAY II. 1889.


OuR LOCAL CLAlMs.--Like causes produce
ike effects. What mankind have done
heretofore under similar circumstances we
may expect to see them do again. The histo-
ry of the past therefore becomes a safe guide
In calculating forth future. Let these prln-
ciples be applied to the prospects of Toledo
and the foot Of the rapids, as points of busi-
ness, and we shall find that while the latter
will have nearly, if not quito, every example
in this country in It's favor, Toledo will not
be able to fnd in the whole list of American
towns one that has grownto large size hav-
ing position strictly analogous to her own.
Beginning at the northeast of our extern
sive line of sea coast the first nnvigabIe river
is the Penobscot. At its mouth is.Castine
having fine harbor open for the largest
ships through winter and sunmer--but i is
small town of some two thousand inhabi-
tants, while Bangor, situated S5 miles up
the river at the head of tide water--can on
ly be reached by vessels of a smaller class
AMI is obstructed by ice in winter, has a
population Of about fifteen thousand. Be-
tween these places on the river are several
smaller towns scarcely worthy of notice.
The Kenebec is the next navigable river
This has no town of any note near its
mouth, but forty miles above, at and near the
head Of ofnavigation are the large fiourshng
towns of Gardiner, Hallowell and Augusta,
situated two miles distant from each other.
To Augusta which is the largest, vessels of
100 tons can go, and to Hallowel of nearly
the same size, those of 15O tons ascend
New London is situated at the mouth Of the
Thames with oEe of the best harbors in the
world, but it is far less fourishng and is not
above half as large as Norwich at the head
ofnavigation fourteen miles above. The
Connecticut river has its largest and only
important commercial'town fifty miles above
its mouth. The water up to Middletown Is
miles below, is somewhat deeper and the ma,
vigation to it less difficult, but it Is small and
falling to decay while Hartford is eminently
ffourishing. Near the mouth there is no
commercial town of any note.
Next comes the Hudson river, which as it
receives long line Of canals affords perhaps
the surest indication of what we are to ex-
pect firm our canals. The harbor formed by
the upper section of the Hudson from Wa
terford to New Baltimore in many respects
strongly resembles ours. Toledo is situa-
ted about as far above the flats IN the bay
as Albany is above the overslaugh. Below
those shoal places the navigation is entirely
unobstructed in both cases to New York
and Buffalo. The lower part Of Maumee
and Perrysburg are about as far above To-
ledo as Troy is above Albany and the up
per part of these places are situated SINH
larry to Waterford and Iansingburg. Be-
tween Maumee and Toledo the water is in
the shoalest places of the channel nearly two
feet deeper than between Albany and Troy,
and the channel much straiter. Suppose
Albany and Troy had set out in their career
at the same time, at the opening of the ca
nals-depending each on its natural advan-
tages--who can doubt that Troy would
have been much the largestl Albany is the
Oldest town in the state and has had the ad-
vantage which is not small of being the seat
ofgovernment of he great commonwealth
ofNewYork and until the canal was made, IFS
situation gave it a great wagon trade from
the west. 1t is The termination of the great
canals and the railroad to Utica and Buffalo
commences there. TWAS rich and populous
before Troy commenced its growth. And
YET Troy has now population of about 20,-
900 while that Of Albany scarcely reaches
10000. In 1895 when the canal was first
opened through to Buffalo, Troy had but
half the population of Albany. And yet
Troy is not at the termination of the canal.
has no connexion with it but by crossing
the river--is out of the great line of eastern
and western travel, and being the rival of
the seat of the state Government has always
had to contend against the official patronage
of state officers.
The Toledo Blade thinks we are charged
with superabundance of bile. 1t may be
so, for we caught a glimpse Of the mud-hole,
back of their Office the other day. Itmust
be physical, and not mental billiousness
that effects us, for we cannot accuse our
selves of being SO green as to harbor feel
ings of envy against the Blade, or to feel
Jealous of the city in which it luxuriatee.
As for ourselves, we feel very easy upon
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