Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-11-25
LINCOLN TELEGRAPH.
Batl), Mle.
THURSDAY MORNING. NOV. IS, Is41.
Effect of the Rail Road.

The editor of the Portland Advertiser after MAX
ing some very just remarks upon the probable effec
of the RAILROAD from that city TO Boston, clearly
showing that the benefits accruing to the merchants
of Portland will much exceed any disadvantages ap-
pretended makes the following remarks in view OF
its extenton to Augusta and Bangor. We copy
this part of the article, that our friends in this region
who ought to feel some interest on the subject, may
be prepared to use their influence in securing for
this matter finally, a judicous termination 1t viii
be observed that these remarks apply with equal II
not greater force to Bath, than Portland.
alt is important, in this connexon, to take into
view, the condition Of things, when the Road is
extended east of us to Augusta. We shall then
have constantly increasing demand on one side,
and large source of increasing supply on the
other. Cannot we conrive here to stand 6etUeen
the demand and the supply, and to make a profit
the business that goes by us, by putting IT INTO
the right shape, and giving it the proper dlrec-
| ton Particularly it is to be considered, that
when the Road is extended to Augusta, Portland
becomes the nearest winter port of all the Ken
nebec region, and there many articles OF
country production, which will necessarily stop
at the first point, where they can find water car
/
three to five months in the year, and 1t is known
to us personally, that the producers and traders
on that river, have anxiousy sought for an outlet
| in winter. AS it is, articles which are brought
in in sleighing to the country villages, are often
obliged to wait till late in the spring, before they
can be forwarded. An early market is often the
entire difference between good profit and a
dead loss.
We find the following postscript appended 10 the
same article, What the "serious objections to this
scheme" of locating the RAILROAD by way of this
town are, the editor does not inform us. But as he
considers it ga matter of fair competition between
Bath and Portland which shall have the advantage
referred to, we trust merchants and capitalists
will properly set forth the peculiar and superior
claims of the route alluded to in the following
postscript Ifthere are s'serous objections to
this route we are assured that the evidence album
dant in proof that these supposed objections, would
be entirely forgotten by the stockholders and the
public, in the superior profits which this route would
yield to the investment, and the general utility of the
location, over any other that can be entertained.
"P. s. Since writing the foregoing, we haye
been reminded that there Is a scheme, noticed IN
this paper about the 9th Of October, to carry the
Rail Road hence TO Bath and there crossing The
Kennebec TO proceed northward on the east bank
of the river, or at some distance from it, as TO
| form ma in ok between the Kennebec and the
Penobscot waters. The effect Of this would be TO
make Bath, or rather W0Olarich, the winter port
for much Of the interior. There some serious
objections to this scheme, and it may be matter o
fair competition between Bath and Portland, which
shall have the advantage referred to-