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Montreal. We can assure him, that he is
entirely nistaken-tor this is the very route,
of all others, which we should select and APP
prove-and which we ardenily desire, ere
long, to see carried into effect.
As we have not now the leisure fully TO
express our views on tins subject, we must
content ourselves, for the present, with lay.
ing before our readers the following commu-
ncaion, to which we would earnestly call
their attention.
For the Atlas.
Few Of the mineral resources Of that part
of Vermont which /, IN an near the line Of the pro-
pose, Railroad from Bellows as, through Rutland, |
to Burlington.
In Grafton about nine miles from Bellows Falls |
IRE the extensive quarres of soapst,ne yet dis
covered and from hch, for many years, argc guam
titles have been annually zen, 10 market Its OF very
superior quality, an easily and cheaply qrnrrled.-
The same mineral is also found in Chester, within
Two miles and III Windham, within six miles of the
line of road. In Rockingham there is abundance
Of roof slate, good as is found in the United States
In Chester ami Cavendlsh, directly upon the survey
ed line are inexhausthle qnarres of the best kind of
slcious mica slate for building OF Tagging anil which
rnn be worked with very little expense. In Wind
ham, Cavendish, and Ludlow the extensive
mountains Of scrpcnne vet known, some Of them
almost within stone's throw of the proposed line of
road and in Caveudlsh where his mineral ha> been
worked 10 some extent, much OF It is of that beautiful
variety called rerd antique In Plymouth any guam
'iy of lime. as white and twice strong as the
Thomaston can be made for less than eight cents he
lushe. Plymouth is remarkable for the variety and
superior quality oil its iron ores for besides the
darv ores, which are so common upon other portions
of the line there are extensive veins of rich magnetic
and mcaceous ores which are easily worked. The
marble OF Plymouth is abundant, OF excellent quality
and has not been extensively quarried, except for ma.
n bp OK p1T t,t
i! TO market In Danbury, Tnmouh, Clarendon,
Rutland, Pittsford, Brandon, Mrldebury and New
Haven, is found the b. st marble yet known IN the
country and in quantities. beyond any probable CON
sumption Many Of the quarre> in these towns, par.
tcul arly in Rutland and Mlddcbury, extensively
worked. Almost every year some new and beautiful
variety Of marble is discovered upch the route In
Tinmouth, Walingford Rutland, Piitsford, Brandon
Monkton, and Bristol, immense beds If excellent
iron ore. most of them close to the base of the min
range Of the Green Mountains in the immediate vi.
entity of large forests, and none Of them ten miles
from the surveyed line There extensive non
works in operation in Plymouth Pt,>ford Brandon
Bristol AM Vergennes. In Shrewsbury large q IAN.
titles OF copperas have been manufactured and the
euphuIet of iron, from which is m1de i. apparent.
-1y inexhaustihe In Chittendrn. many tons Of man
Eanese annually mined for expiration and the
same mineral is plenty in Plymouth and other towns
on and near the route There is scarce n Town upon
the line but what there is in il vlluhlc mineral
which wond furnish an important item of freight, il
Railroad were built. NJ recover, n Railroad upon
this route would tap, AT Nergennes and Burlington
the whole iron country Of Lake Champlain
Opposite Vereennes, Westpor', the LIKE is less
than two miles vide and the winter crossing unon the
ice better than at almos, any other point and oppo
site Burlington where the Lake is widest it is usual
iy open full ten months in the year, and it is believed
that powerful steamboat would furnish an unner.
rupied navigation through the winter MANY wear.
cannot pass before Rarond will be built from LAX,
Champla'n to Ogdensburgh and this is the neares
and cheapest route by which Lake Ontaro b.
tended through Keeno and Rutland Burlington anr
road built from Oslens urgh to Lake Champaign
freight may be transported 10 Boston from any poin
on the great Lakes, ,cest Of he ZEALAND CanL n!
Yort. W.T. ''N ''"' ''' '""' '0'"' 10 N''
In view Of a connection with Montreal, the Keen
and Rutland route has advantages possessed by n,
other. 1t is full twenty miles The nearest II passe
through country incomparabIy more rich in agri
cultural and mineral resources than any other part O
New England. The cost of construction, showI
by careful surveys, will be moderate as cheap
probably, as upon any other route. The grades ar
generally favorable, none necessarily exceeding sxi
feet to the mile; and upon that part Of West ofih
Green Mountains, there will be as litle obstruction
from snow as upon any railroad in Massachusetts.
There is, to the people Of Boston, another imporan
consideration. This route, being the most WESTERLY
anv that is direct and feasible cuts Off from, T'ro
and Nero York The trade Of Western Vermonk AMI
The nho,e country East Of il. An extension of III
Concord road, through Plymouth ~ H. and ri ,yer
hill, TO Stansead and Montreal, gives to the mer
chants Of Boston no new customers beyond a few
from Canada. An extension Of the Fitch urg rnad
through Keene and Rutland, gives to them all N
trade they would receive from the HaverhlI route
and, n addition To hat, the business of Western an,
Central Vermont and Northeastern Now York TN
Haverhll route makes a road simply TO Montreal
The Rutland is still shorter road 10 Montreal: an,
with the exception of 100 miles completes another Il
the nnvleahle waters If Lake Ontario
The Legislature of New York is abou, granting
charter for railroad from Platishurg through NJ,
lone and Potsdam, or Norfolk. 10 Op onsbnroh TIN
different routes from Lake Chamnlan to OpIens
bureh were surveyed in 1910 nv Edward H. Brod
head, Esq, under the direction nf Commissioners m
pointed Nv The Legislature Of New York From hi
report is obvious that the hesr and cheanesr route
tho one from Platsbur h through Nal ne and Nor
folk, and which is called the Nor,hern route. TIL
passes almost entirety through well settled and nro
-huctve country; the distance is I2O miles Their
are no GRADES exceeding 40 feer to the mile, no curve
with less radius than 1870 feet and The h,ohest Gle
walton above tide water 1859 feet being qOc feet aboy
Lake ChamDlaln. and S55 feet above The s. Iow
renee at Ogdensbureh Mr. Brodhead's estimate Fl
grading and bridges is hut 1890 500 nr 81 s3O N IN
mie-nor will any one, acqua nied with Thai nor,;o
OF the country, think il loo low His surveys wsr
made with great care the earth regularly .ounde
wrh the aueur 10 the depth Of the grade or n III
rock and his estimates for excavation and amh,nL
meni were nearly 80 per cent. higher tbnn WINS NM
for similar work upon the Fchburg rosd. '''