The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-05-07
From the Boston Atlas.
RAILROAD ROUTE THROUGH YER,
mONT.

A friend writing u.s. from Bellows Falls, in
regard to the course of the Railroad connect
Ing our City with the State Of Vermont, gives
the following valuable information in regard
10 the Rutland route to Burlington.
The towns through which Ihissurvey was
nrtIe, from Bellows Falls 10 Burlington, and
Rocking ham Chester Caveudish, Ludlow,
Mount Holly corners OF Wallingford, Shrews-
bry and Clarendon, down the east side of
Otter Creek through Rutlasd. Pittsford,
Brandon, Leicester. Salisbury, Middebury.
and New Haven, TO Ter5ennes; then through
Fcrrisburgh, Charlotte and Shelburne. TO
Burlington. Tie reports and profiles of the
engineers, who riade the survey, are now in
the hands of Mr. :. NJ. FELTON,, engineer of
the Fitchburgh read. A glance at the map
will show you that rad upon this route,
besides being the most direct 10 Ogdensburgh
AMI Montreal, will give Boston most of the
t:ade OF that part of New York which bor-
lers npon Lake Cham,lain, and all the trade
of Vermont, except a portion of Bennington
County. You can form some opinion Of the
character Of the country, from this part:
fIopni Holly is directly upon the SUNNI; OF
I'll. main fanee of the Green Mountains, ex-
tcniing nearly to the base, upon either side
Contains 5ut 30 square miles of land, yet there
were in that town, on The 1st Of April, 1874
1i57 cows were kept for dairy uses. The
most important locality of iron ore, in New
Yc:!k, and probably in the United States, is in
Newcomb, Essex County; and the iron made
there is brought to Lake Champlain, at West
port, opposite VergennHs. In the New ORR
Geological Reports. for 1910, pages 273 tC
3ll. you will find description Of these ores
by Prof Enmous.
", do not oppose road up The Conn
o. up White River, to Montpelier, we arr
SIMPLY n favor of the shortest road TO Burl
ilston. From Bellows Falls. the RrtlanC
r,a.e to Buflingtoa is full 20 miles nearer thai
tlc Non peiler. 1t passes through the lror
ani marble reginn of Vcrmont-and, mer'
fh7G al as far as Boston is concerned, through
Ruii;,n1 AMI Addison Counties, the most pro
d1ctive agricultural and mineral district il
New England, and which now trades almos
exclusively with New York and Troy. Some
thing may be presumed upon our local knowl
edge Of the TWO routes; AMI, rs this is the
e1'te.n terminus of either we can have little
local interest in a choice between them.
At the risk of trying your patience, vii
suggest another point, whit oh think ofimpor
lance. Boston by her Railroads, is seekin.
new customers, from W aom she may not onI'
buy, but TO whom she can sell, and her mcr
chants can both buy and sell better at homt
chan abroad. Now, the Western Railroad
does not enable them to do this, as the small
amount of freight sent through from Boston
tosAl5any shows. Boston pays for Western
prnduce, brought from Greenbusii. more il
= money than in goods Let Railroad b,
built from Boston, throueh Western Vermont
and your City becomes the nearest and bes
market for the whole surplus produce of tb
Champlain Valley-to that market it will b,
taken by the producers or the first pnrchas
ers. and goods will be received in return, sui
fci.nt to e4uaIizc The cost ofthedowu freight t.