Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-07-13
RAIL ROAD CONVENTION.


| Alan Adjourned meeting OF this body. the follow
iou resolutions were presented by the committee on
! resolutions, and adopted
! Rc.,lved. That for Vernon, the time has now
come when in sclf-defence, her citizens must se''
ously and eaergetcslly enter upon a well diees'eo
and comprehensive system OF internal Improvement
or consent to see her population diminish, her prop
ery deictiorsc, and her comparative influence anu
standing among her sister states decline.
Resolved, That II the citizens oil Vermont DO now
enter upon such a system Of internal improvements
instead Of a diminished, we may reasonably look
Tor an increased population, for property to be en-
HANGED in value instead Of being lessened, and Tor
Vernon, to gain instead OF losing IN comparative
standing and estimation among her sisters
Resolved, That in the judgment OF this meeting
10 induce the citizens OF Vermont 10 enter upon
such system OF Improvements II Is only necessary
gather and arrange the parts and spread them oe-
fore the people.
Resolved, That the committee appointed to ie-
port to the Legislature Of Vermont upon the sub
ecis embraced in the foregoing resolutions, be IN
structed TO submit to the Legislature the proprety
and necessity of making a thorough Geological
Survey OF the State as proper prerequisite To IN
derstandingly entering upon a system oil internal
improvements.
To the friends of Railroads in Vernon, the meet
ing at which the above resolutions were passed.
was Of mos, encouraging character. ], was obvi-
ginning to find favor smong the farmers The
wealthy and intelligent cul,ivators Of the SOIL along
the valley Of the Connecticut, upwards from Brat
tleboro are seriously asking themselves whether II
is necessary that it should cost more 10 transport
every ton of the surplus that they Use and Of the
surplus that they purchase in market, to and from
Boston, their natural market, than il costs the far
mer living along Lake Champlain even as far as
twenty five miles back from the lake shore. to get
to the same market. They had heard to be sure
and it is true, that the distant western farmer the
shore Of Lake Erie, and even Lake Michigan
could send his produce to Boston for about the
same cos, that the farmer from the river towns on
the Connection, could and for less than the farmers
could living three tiers back from the Connecticut
They had heard of this and it was true, and they
had SOFT of belief Of it, but it did not to make
the same living impression upon their minds as to
find that their neighbors living from thirty to sixty
and even one hundred and twenty miles West and
North from them could send TO Boston cheaper
than they could. Their Lake Champlain neigh
bors had in the mean time been making precisely
the same set of comparisons between their own sit
uation and that OF the farmer situated along and on
the line Of the Massachusetts, the Connecticut and
The New York Rail Roads. Not only does il cost
less to transport from Burlington, from Vergenaes,
from Addison, Brdport, Shorehnm, Orwell, and all
the towns lying directly on the shores of Lake
Champain, than it does to transport the same freight
rom the Connecticut river towns but even from
Brandon, from Csstleon, and Middebury, it costs
less TO send to Boston than it does from Bratebo-
70, from Bellows Falls and from Windsor.
Let the farmer sit down and compute for himself
the number Of pounds he consumes in his house and
his farm that from market and the
other hand the number Of pounds weight that he
sends to market--let him multiply the thus
found by the number Of farmers in Vermont, and
he will see that the tax they pay for freight is
mighty one, and that saving OF even two or three
dollars per ton, would to the community be a most
important one.
Among other gentlemen, Mr.. John Cain and
Dean Worcester addressed the meeting and show
en-, the first from actual survey and the other hom
personal exploration the entire possibility OF
route either across the Green mountains through
Mt. Holly, or along the western margin Of the Green
mountains, through the valley Of Otter Creek and
the Ba,tenkll to Bennington and TO Pntshe!d,
Mass, where it would iniersect with the great
western rail road leading from Boston 10 Albany
Much interesting information was communicated to
the meeting from gentlemen from Weston and Brat
boro. in Windham County, and from Vergennes
and Middebury, in Addison County.
An entire freedom from narrow sectional views
seemed to pervade the meeting, and at the same
time was manifested deep and pervadng convic-
ton of the necessity Of united, immediate and per-
seyeriu0 action