The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-20

BOSTON AND MONTREAL. we hal
half mind to be provoked at the imp
donable ignorance displayed by many
the scribblers who torment the.pubIc
the subject Of the proposed railroad Co
munication with Montreal. Not only al
they excessively ignorant Of the topogr|
phy ofthe variousSroutes proposed, b
they seem to know even less of the objed
OF such road. Thus writer In II
fos' OF yesterday, who signs himself "B|
Dut 10 whose communication the very Id
letter IN the al alphabet would be more al
propriatc, says he shall not discuss Il
practicability or comparative merits
the different routes, but "a railroad
.Montrcal," in its naked merits, is VIII
he wishes to press upon the consideratld
of the Boston public! And what, let
ask, is to be the great benefit to Bostd J
ola railroad to Montreal' What kind
trade between the two cities is to pay II
enormous expense' What kind of good
can we purchase in Montreal, and whd
could we send in return for them' Rel
oIlect, there is custom house on bod
sides of the Canada line, and all trad
must be heavily taxed, one way or I'll
other. Our manufactured goods cannot p|
a duty and compete with English cool
OF the same grade, debenture goods fro|
foreign ports cannot be sent to MontreI
so cheap by railroad as they are now sci
by water. The productions of the so
are nearly the same there as here, and
course there can be no exchange of sud
products that come up to the dignity of
branch ofrtade, A few passengers, b
the steamships and otherwise, and tn
English mails, are nearly all that can b
depended on to support such road.
But still the road is of vast importanc|
to Boston, not as reaching the capital d
Canada, but as giving our city the int
mediate trade. And here comes the imI
portant qucsion-far more importar|
than the mere act of reaching Montreal
which route will give to Boston the grea@
est amount of trade? On this question,
we think that there can be but on
opinion among impartial men, who kno
the condition of the immediate countr,
and the general feasibility Of the yariou
routes. 1t is admitted that the rout
through Keene, N. II, and RUTLAND
w., is as short as any other, an
probably it is some twenty miles tn (
shortest. 1t is certainly that disctanc
shorter, than the route through Concor
n. H., and Montpelier, VT, ard it ha
this advantage over all others, that
passes through or near the very riches
agricultural and mineral portions of tn +
mountain State. While the Concord an
Montpelier road would give us very littl
trade that we do not now possess, tn !
Rutland route would open to us the yer
richest trade Of the State of Vermont
through its whole western valley, whic
now floats down the Hudson river 10 NeJ
York. This trade is of the greatest inn
portance to Boston, it is even more impor
tant than any trade which the Great Yves
tern Railroad has yet given us. The pro
duct Of million and half of shcep-o
immense dairies-of enormous iron mine
and of almost inexhaustble forests
ship timber--the latter in very great de
mand-are items in the dowry of wealth
which this enterprise opens to our bust
ness men. Shall it be lost by supineness
or by a wrong direction Of our energies
1--WE pause for ly."-Boston Mail.