The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-08-21
IF. MCCLELLAN, Printer.


Warren and Essex. Il seems 10 be i'm.
possible that these considerations should
not have great weight in the minds of the
business men OF Boston.
In the second place, the importance To-
Boston OF securing the construction of,ha
" Rutland Road" NAV be seen in the
amount of business which the line of that
road affords, and which would be made
contributory to its wealth and prosperity.
Owing, PROFESSIONALLY, 10 the fact before
alluded TO, Of the almost entire want of IA
business connection between Boston and
Western Vermont, the eatemt OF the com.
MERGE and resources of that fertile portion
of New England has been, in great
measure, unknown, or unapprecialed, in
Boston, The extent of this trade can be
made apparent in no better way, perhars.
than by statement of the tonnage of the
section OF Vermont 10 be accommodated by
the proposed Railroad. II has bsen ass
cerlained, by careful and laborious inves~
LEGATION of the business OF the towns on the
line OF the route, that more than ninety
thousand tons of freight is transported to
and from market per annum. This COM
putatlon IS exclusive of a very considerable
amount of private trading carried on by
farmers, who transport their produce To-
market, and return with salt, plaster, &c.,
for their own use and is, also, exclusive
OF any estimate founded on the largo num-
bers OF cattle and sheep, which are annu~
ally driven from Western Vermont to the
Boston Market, and which, on the COM
pleton OF the Railroad. would constitute
an important item of freight. The do.
tails OF this business the aggregate sum
of which is stated below, may be examin-
ed at the Office of The Company, No. o
Merchants Exchange.
Existing Tonnage on the line of the
Rutland road:
Chittenden County e towns only
29.076 tons,
Addison " 21,6l2 4"
Rutland 28,050 /"
Towns east Of the mountains
in Windsor and Wind
ham Counties, $3.50
Bennington Counly, $4,000
Total, 97,68s +"
1t is confidently believed that this COM
putatlon falls short of,rather Than exceeds.
the present amount OF tonnage of the sec.
lion OF country which il embraces. What
would be its probable increase, with The
augmented facilities for transportation To-
market, and the stimuant 10 enterprise and
industry, and the inducements for The en-
ployment oflhe immense unoccupied water
power of the Valley of Otter Creek, which
would be created by the construction of a
Railway, may be left 10 The calculation Of
business men. Such estimates, founded
on the existing business of given terrific.
ry, however exag gerattd, aud visionary
they may nave appeared in the outset.
have amost invariably been found, espe.
clally in New England, 10 fall short of
the reality. In the mean lime, however.
calculation may be aided by statement
OF some of the principal manufactures now
In operation, on The line OF the proposed
road. There are
Wooden Factories, (using $4,000
lbs. OF wool per annua) II
Iron Works. manufacturing over g.
600 tons the present year, 10
Marble Mills, Capable of cutting
from 1910 10000 tons per amwum) II
Nail Factory,
Cotton Mills, Q
Paper Mills
Glass Factory, (can manufacture 3d.
0OO boxes per annam, Q
Axe, Shovel, and Hoe Factories,
Slate Pencil Factories, (sent so tons
10 market in l844(
Oil Mills,
Starch Mills,
Copleras Works, capable OF produ-
cling 800 to 1000 tons per annum) VI
The Valley of Otter Creek is beyond
doubt, and confessedly, the richest agri.
cultural portion of New England. The
counties OF Rutland and Addison alone.
(nelIher OF which can be brought into bu>
sIness connection with Boston by anv
Railroad but the one we recommend,) .bv
me census of l84C, possessed 532, 1917
sheep, producing more than million and
half OF pounds of wool and 100000
tons Of hay are annually cut from he rich
aIluVon valleys which these counties con.
tain. Great as is the fertility of this sec,
ton OF VI, however, in agricultural pros
duct'veness, it affords no parallel 10 the ex.
traordlnary richness of its mineral resource
es. In the variety and extent of its mineral
wealth, it may be safely asserted, Western
Vermont exceeds any equal area of terri-
tory IN The world Providence, with Il
profuse benefcence, has scattered exhaust
less mines of IRON, MANGANESE, MARBLE,
lot which there are over twenty vareies,)
SLATE, Graphic and roofng) CopPERAs,
LIMESTONE. KAoLIN, &C., upon its sur
face and surrounded them with facilities
for conversion into marketable forms. In