Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-04-05
Term out apbotmtr.
FRIDAY, april s, 1874.
SUBSCRIPTION TO RAIL ROAD STOCK.

according TO his means, will be prepared TO make
liberal answer. We say liberal, not however be-
cause we think il requires any Hberatdy to sub
scribe all that ones will allow, but as indi-
eating the amount that each one must subscribe, TO
insure the immediate completion Of the project
An ENLIGHTENED se6shness is all that is required 10
lead to such a subscription as in two months time
will place the success Of the road beyond doubt
The great drawback upon the productive indus
try OF Vermont u.s. the difficulty and expense of get
ting the products of that industry to market
Those products that can be taken TO market at all,
bring precisely the price, and no more Of the pro-
ducts of those favored regions where the expense
of transportation is only one fifth one tenth as
much. The difference in the cost Of Transports.
ton affects the producer alone. A ton of butter,
or cheese or pork, from Vermont, the tTansporia-
ton of which costs SIS or $50 per ton, will bring
no more in the Boston market than ton Of butter,
or cheese or pork from Berkshire county, Mass,
the transportation Of which costs only 50 per ton,
or from Western New York. where it costs only
s. or sc per ton. Consequently the producer in
Vermont gets precisely much less for his pro-
ducts than the farmers in Berkshire and Western
New York, as the cost of transportation is more
4, is with regard to all agricultural productions
that find their way 10 market. 1t is precisely so
with all articles Of manufactures.
The difference in the present cost Of transpora-
ton of the products Of this region of country, now
actually carried to market and what that cost
would be, il rail road facilities were furnished, is
IMMENSE and would of itself be a very handsome
profit, perhaps greater profit than is now actually
made upon those products. But the benefit Of such
facilities would not stop here. The kind Of pro.
hat. L.
ed in quantity. The increased profit would lead to
increased production, and this in turn would add to
the already increased profits. host of produc.
tons, too, mineral, agricultural and mechanical,
that heretofore have had no market, only Inn
tied and uncertain one at home, would by reason of
these facilities find their way to the board and
would return to the owner or produce rich re-
ward for his labor Abundant illustrations Of these
effects could be given, but we will only advert to
one two.
Beef cattle already form an important production
of Southern Vermont. Their market is Boston
The average cost of driving them from this place
TO Boston is two dollars per head. The average
shrinkage is 100 lbs per head, which, il beef is
worth six dollars per hundred, would make the
whole cost of transportation eight dollars The
cost of transportation by rail road would exceed
three dollars per head There would be no shrink
age, while the cattle would be in far better plight
for market than they now, after having been
upon the road a whole week So that each produ-
Ger would, in fact make five dollars more per head
/ than he makes, and he would not only make
more per head than he now does, but he would
as a matter of course raise and fat more cattle.
Potatoes of the most natural and profta-
bic productions OF the Western part OF this county
They brought to the river towns and sold at
from Is to 25 cents per bushel, and at these prices
the market is uncertain, and the best very limit
ed The producers forced to use great caution
not TO over supply the demand. They are too
bulky and too cheap to bear transportation TO dis
tant market al the present cost of transportation
Were we supplied with rail road facilities, this
county could furnish the Boston market with pota-
toes prices much below the present average, and
still leave very handsome profit to the producer.
The prices Of potatoes range from IS to GO cents
per bushel. The best quality come from Nova
Scotia and command high price, but they are no
better if as good those raised in Marlboro Hal
flax, Nottingham, and Wilmington Potatoes
raised IN these towns could be sent TO market by
rail road at from FIVE to eight cents per bushe and
the producer would be able to pocket the Boston
profit thus realized would lead to increased produc-
ton, and that again TO an enlargement of profits.
We might add numberless other illustrations of the
necessary and inevitable effect Of a cheap and rap
id intercourse with market, in multiplying and
creating profits to the producers. If it be said that
the increased production will lessen prices and de-
sroy these profits cay that the increase of con-
sumption will keep pace with the increase of pro-
duction, and these products once upon the sea.
board, have the toorid for a market
Such then would be the effect Of rail road in
increasing The value of every man farm-ofevrry
mans trade--of every mans labor-that il there
was perfect certainty that nothing could ever be
realized from rail road stock, and that rail road to
Vermont would not pay expenses still ii would be
for every mans interest who owned land or water
power, or any other property, had any days
i0Orks in him. to pay liberal per cenage all he
is worth, and all he hopes to earn for the pur.
pose ofcompleting the road.
We say enlightened self.interest would iniallibly
lead 10 this conclusion, but fortunately such
conclusion is necessary.
There is a certainty-a certainty amounting al.
most to a mathematical demonstration-ihat the
stock Of the Vermont and Massachusetts, rail road
will be good investment--not only Il safe invest
ment but profitable one. OF this, every one
who has given careful attention to the subject is
fully convinced, and that toe, without taking into
calculation the future extension of the road beyond
this place. OF that extension there can be no
doubt and that will add greatly to the value OF this
stock. But with the certainty that there would be
no farther extension it can be clearly shown that
the road would be of the best roads out of Bos
ton. The Concord and Nashua roads running into
far less productive region, are and 10 per cent.
stocks--and continually increasing in value.
L. hola. d.