The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1845-05-21

80 miles per day and 80 dollars per ton be-
tween Middsbury and Boston will be like a
tale which is told. Even the old Dutch pace
of three miles per hour on canals which cam
not be navigated but six months in the year
will be astonishing to those who will travel
at the rae Of so miles an hour, and transport
their goods at the expense of four dollars per
ton. To be then without the advantages of a
Railroad will be like sentence of Danish
menr from the world. Every project of the
kind which does not bring US within the
scope of its influence will only diminish the
advantages which we now enjoy.
To our manufacturing villages a railroad
has become almost indispensable. So nu-
merous are the privileges which are offered
on the tracks of railroads which are soon TO
be constructed that none will be improved
depending only upon the old and expensive
means of transportation. Capitalists whose
profits must TO very considerable extent de-
pend upon the cheapness of transportation,
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do not enjoy an easy access to the market.
In the manufacturing villages of Rutland and
Addison counties more retired as we shall be
should other portions of the State be favored
with rail-ro while we are denied it, we
could never expect to see another spindle or
4 loom or even an additional furnace put in
operation. With afbur mighty water pow err,
without better means of transportation, capt
talists would find other places in the line ola
railroad altogethermore desirable; and should
fatal connasration sweep away our large
establishments already in operation they
would never be replaced.
But the advantages of rail roads are vastly
greater to the farmers than to any other class
of community. They would be to them like
the philosophers store which converted ev-
cry thing into gold. They would give val
ne 10 those things which are now wasted upon
their hands. Their potatoes would not rot in
their bins nor their appletrees blossom in vain.
The vast expense Of transportation would be
mostly saved in their pockets. They would
not be Obliged to sacrifice three hundred
pounds, for shrinkage in yoke oil oxen besides
a weeks time and expense TO drive them to
market. Twelve hours would find their becves
butchered in Brig hton aud their skins hung
up 10 dry in the slaughterhOuse. Their
butter and cheese would not be forced upon
the country merchants at Il low price. and
even then paid for in stay-tape ana burkram.
The value of real estate in the county Of Adj
olson within few years would be more en-
HANGED than the expense of the railroad thro'
it, should our farmers pay the whole out of
their own purses. II is said that the rise
of real estate is Boston has much more
than counterbalanced the millions of capital
which the city has spent upon railroads, while
the stock is now the most productive Of any
in the country.
STOCK OF THE RAIL ROAD.
But among all the railroad projects of the
country none promises more productive
stock than that which ware now conromPla-
ting. 1t is believed by Competent judges, that
the way business alone would go very far to
constitute the Western road profitable in
vestmcnt, independent Of its becoming the
connecting link between Montreal and Bos-
ton. Estimate the rich agricultural products
of the region ofcountry through which the
road would pass. Add to that ] . or 20 mer-
camille, manufacturing and popuious villages
on the line OF the route. Aud then contem-
plate the immense. mineral resources of this
region, all of which would seek market on
this line of road. Ii is said we have onitser-
pentinc ,soapestqne, limerick, marble, manga
nese. and copperas sufficient to supply the
world. But who can compute the immense
freight of iron which would find its way
over this route. II is fact that between three
and four-filhs OF all the FORCES and bloome-
ries in Vermont are located in Rutland ana
Addison Counties. We have in our own
borders an immense amount of iron for cast
moe R,t,owhere in the world are there
richer mines Of iron ore than on inc opPeS"e
side of Lake ChampIaiu, which is now and
NAV be brought to yergennes' and thence by
this railroad might be carried TO iorses dotting
all along the base of the Green Mountains
from whose inexhaustable forests coal msyb
cheaply furnished FOR is manufacture.
AT the railroad meeting at Rutland, Judge
Toilet of Burlington statedthere were 125
fires within 90 miles of Burlington each man.
daily 200 pounds ofirou, amount
ing TO 72 thousand tons per annum.
But when you regard this road as the con-
meeting link between Boston, Lake Cham |
plain and Monireal,th probabilities Of prof
liable investment are vastly multiplied. Sup !
pose what is generally believed IS inevitable
that a n il-road should be built from 0gdeus-
bureh On the 81. Lawrence TO Lake Cham