The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-08-22
From the Boston Courier.
Editors Notes,
MADE DURING FIVE DAYS ABSENCE
FROM BOSTON.
Connecticut and Passumpsic
Rivers Rail Road.

The Directors of this corporation held u
meeting>at Wells River village, in Newbury
VI, on Tuesday last. After hearing the re-
port on the progress oftheir engineers, they
voted 10 proceed Immediately to the grading
of the road from Oxford Bridge to Wells Riv-
er-a distance of twenty miles. Through
the greater part of this section, the road will
be Of easy construction, and on serious obsta-
Gle exists 10 retard It's progress;-nt least
none, the enthusiasm, activity and pcrse-
verence of its stockholders aud directors may
be accepted as any evidence of future snc-
cess. This road, as probably some of our
readers are aware, is intended to open an av-
enue for the transportation of produce, mer-
chandize and passengers, between the north
ern counties of Vermont and the adjacent
counties in the province of Canada, to the
! City of Boston. Their charter enables the
corporation to extend their road down the
Connecticut to the mouth of White Rivcr,and
the original project was to connect AT that
point with the Northern Railroad, now in the
progress construction, and rapidly advanc-
ing. But the stockholders in this road, to.
gether with other persons of intelligence and
influence, have contemplated road begin
ming at point on the Northern, (ncar Cana.
any TO Oxford Bridge, there to connect with
the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers road
by which saving can be made of some fiji.
teen or twenty miles in the distance between
Oxford and Concord. A petition for Il char
ter to enable them TO make this connecting
link known by the name Ofthe Goose Pond
Railroad,w was presented TO the Legislature of
New Hampshire during its late session, but
failed OF success through the influence of
some adverse interests. They have great
confidence in the beIiefthat II charter will be
granted by the next Legislature. If they
should eventually be defeated the Connect
cut and Passumpsic Rivers Road will he con-
tinued down to the mouth of White River, q
there connect with the Northern Railroad of
N. Hampshire.
The line of the Connecticut and Passump-
sic Rivers Railroad, us before stated as now
contemplated, begins at the west end of Oh
ford Bridge, in the town of Fairlee and pass
es up the Connecticut, on its western bank,
through the towns of Bradford, Newbury,
Ryegate, Barnet, St. Johnsbury, Lyndon,
Burke, Sutton, Sheffield, Barton, Browning
ton, and Derby, to the northern line of the
state of Vermont, where, at no distant day, it
will, unquestionably, be connected with a
similar mode communication opened from
Stanstead to Montreal. Above the viage of
Barnet, the road leaves the valley of the Con-
nectlcut, and passes up the PasSumpsic,
through st. Johnsbury, Lyndon, &c, contin-
uning its direct northerly course to Derby
line. When completed, this road will be the
means of pouring into Boston the rich pro-
duce ola large tract of country and some of
the most fertile lands in the United States
Byudtordis thriving village on Wait River,
near where that stream unites with the Con-
necticut. The meadows are extensive and
produce immense crops of grass, potatoes, In
dian corn,and all the other graus usually cul-
tvated in New England. The houses are
handsome, and indicate not only wealth and
taste, but disposition in the people to i'm
prove and preserve what nature, industry,and
economy have placed in their possession
Wait River affords wator power sufficient for
extensive manufacturing. A. Low ESQ.,, has
here large paper mill, in which is manufj,c-
-turcd,on an average throughout the year,a ton
ofpaper day-chiefy, ifnot entirely, from
stock collected in the country. He is also
largely connected with the printing ofschool