Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-03-05
RAILROAD ITEMS.

! VERMONT FARMERS AND RArLRoADs.-We IN
fer from an article in the Caedonian that some oil
the farmers of Northern Vermont are Jealous OF
railroads. fearing that they will bring the producers
of the West into ruinous competition with them.
This is wrong view. The great difficulty win
Vcrmonters no,o is that the West has an advan-
tage over them in getting to market The pork
and grain of Michigan and the beef of Ohio can
nor be carried to Boston quicker and cheaper than
from Vermont. With great toll and trouble and
expense, our cattle dealers get their droves to
Brighton, reduced in weight and beauty, and there
they meet the beef of New York and even OF
Kentucky, in nice fat order, commanding the top
price of the market, while our Vermonters must
be content to be ranked among the " lean kine."-
The secret of this is, that the Western men avail
themselves of water communication and railroads:
they have no driving to do no wearing out OF the
beasts by toilsome journey on foot. Maniiestly
the only way to remedy this advantage is for Yer
noniers TO hare railroads, TOO We must get to
market as quickly and cheapy as we can the
cheaper we do it, the better can we compete with
others. But this is only single feature of the
case. What is true of beef, is more or less true
of every thing else. Let the people remember
these facts: the freight of your productions TO
ket, and of the goods bought in return, is tr
which you must inevitably pny-and it is tax with
which all other taxes combined will not begin to
compare. We estimate the money paid annually
for freight in Vermont to be many times the cost
of the state government. viii you reduce this
tax at least one half?-w you save hundreds of
thousands of dollars per year? If you will, you
will sustain railroads you will take stock in them,
if you can; you will encourage them.
Rutland Road. We learn from the Bellows
Falls Gazette that Committee has gone on to
Boston 10 make another trial to obtain stock. Why
don't they try New York? The American Rail
Road Journal abounds in articles cracking up the
Rutland Road as .New York Road, and zealously
urges New Workers to take stock.-Vi. Wntchmdn.
When we get our left hand firmly hold of Bos-
ton, we expect to extend our right hand to New
York, unless their hand shall meet us at Clarendon
We expect the latter will be the case, our Rail-
road riU be a New York road, as well as n Boston
road; and that the right arm of it will be The New
York road. | am of the opinion that within five
years, people may take the here and reach n.
York the same day, or Washington the next day.
Walton! don't you wish you could run away from
the Central scrapc you have got into and come this
side of the Mountain p Brcndon Yoice of Free
dom.
Friend Holcomb, if we should ever be compel
led to leave homo and take up residence among
the people of Western Vermont, we should have
the consolation of having good neighbors as
can be found any where in the world but when
we 90, it will be upon compusion. We most GER
tainly do not desire to run away" from the Cen
tral road for the sake of running to your road for
the reason that in our Judgment your road can new
err compare with the Central in capability for bust
ness or the amount of profits. The location OF
your road is such as to compel you to compete with
navigation for your boosted .Ne,c York business
and you must also compete with the Central road
(which possesses the advantage of lower grades
far more than balancing all the advantages yor
claim, even under Gilbert's survey,) for all the
through business to Boston. If we were to choose
therefore, the " almighty dollar" would compel u.
to prefer the Central.
But TO the point: you admit that your RUTLAND
road ,ciH be New York road"-and that eth,
right arm will be ihe New York road" We repeat
then, why don't you 60 to New York for stock
Why 90 to Boston and make war upon the Centra
road that Central Road which is emphatcally
1.-The Boston road, and which will inevitably pour in
to Boston the business Of the West and North, from
Ogdenshurgh and Montreal, -unleSS you can in
duce Boston 10 build road TO dirert portion Il
:, .Nec York We think it hardly fair hardly hon
est to attempt to bamboozle Bostonians into hosil
ity to the Central road, for the sake Of building
road which you thus publicly confess to be ga N
York road" That has been the business of thu
: Rutland managers in Boston for the last fortnigh
though we are happy to say, that they have ut
terly failed in their assaults upon the Central. II
aid their purpose, the Rutland gentlemen overstep
ped the bounds of propriety, and published in Bos
, ton the attack upon Gov. Paine and the Director
of the Central road, made by Messrs. French AM
Keith of Barre! We can hardly characterize thi
as any thing ehort of dshonorablo act, as well a
an act that indicates that the managers of the nut
land road are desperate Friend Iolcomb, we sup
pose this Gulf controversy, which gave rise to tn
Barre letter, is what you call the Central scrapc.
If so, we advice you and your friends to base n
! hopes upon that controversy. The Central road
! not to be impeded by that.
0F@An article of Messrs. Keith and French c
Barre, (Which the Rutland gentlemen have repub
$ lished in Boston, in the vain hope of inurlng tn
q Central Road,) has given publicity to oxceedingl
r wrong impressions as to the contracts that
They have implicitly censured the Directors for nc
accepting the lowest bid-and from this bid ais
they derive support for the Gulf Route. Now tn
i fact is that this bid could not be adopted it wa
d withdrawn by the bidder. The next lowest Biz
> being the lowest remaining, tcOs adopted for III
Western Division of the road but the bidders dc
d clined. Then the contract was made with NJ
n Belknap, on terms which it was believed will Sc
II cure the speedy construction of the road in the
# rough manner and at reasonable cost Known
g these facts, we have ventured to give them-th
without any authority from the Directors of til
Central Road.
nFSThe work on the Northern Road. in n II