Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-01-08

ehusetfs Rail Road Company issued by The Con-
yentioa held at Montague, Dee 3, 1915.
| The location of the Railroad which you are
building, is certainly an interesting subject TO ali
concerned, and especially to those residing on and
near it, And if who have labored for it from
the beginning aud contributed to its funds should
even be as imporunate in our claims as its early
/ and continued enemies 1t is quite possible our
earnesness would be an excusable fault We had
intended to be silent we had presumed that the
Company so deeply interested in knowing the truth
and acting in conformity with IT, would require no
other guide or adviser than their aud the public
welfare. But a meeting has been held at Green
field which has issued its advice to you in a la
bored Address This document has been rcpub-
| lished from its newspaper form, IN large edition Of
a well printed pamphlet and If we, the holders Of
nearly one quarter Of your stock, were to omit all
remark on It's contents, silence might be deem.
ed an admission of its truth. This admission we
are, in many particulars, unprepared TO make,
CIRCUITS tavern in Montague, is the point where
Millers River enters the valley Of the Connecticut
The Greenfield pamphlet informs you that this point
is fccnfy-fioo miles from Bratieboro by the way Of
/ Mortified. There arc two lines, both of which
touch Mortified; the longest is only tpcnty one
and a quarter, and the other only tcenty miles,
This same address informs you that From CIRCUITS
to Greenfield by the surveyed route IS eight
miles The distance is eight miles and one quar-
ter. The phamphlet gipes you 10 understand that
the Greenfield route increases the distance to Brat
tIeboro only FEE si1 miles The real increase
Of the distance is nine or ten miles -that is nine
miles if the route through Mortified village be the
one compared, and in the other case, ten miles,
We leave ii TO those skilled in fancy mathematics to
add these several miscellaneous together and ascer-
tain the length Of their aggregate falsehood
The pamphlet appears to estimate the additional
cost Of going round by Greenfield at Sl50OOO-
We ask you to suspend your judgment on that point
until better informed. We believe it will be double
that sum.
j But let us look little more closely at the pro-
posas of the pamphlet. II advises you to build a
road from Greenfield TO Brattleboro, and we will
for the present suppose this advice is sincere
Those who give this counsel would Of course rec
ommend that such road should be constructed on
the best possible route between those two places,
aud it becomes interesting inquiry where this
best route from Brattleboro Greenfield would car
rs you. Leaving Braiieboro for Greenfield you
would follow the westernmost Of the two routes
which touch Mortified, until you approach within
about seren miles of CIRCUITS Seven miles and
few rods would complete what the pamphlet calls
the Gill route, and carry you TO CIRCUITS tavern;
but instead Of accomplishing this seven miles you
would be required TO dyerge more towards Albany
than Boston, and reach CIRCUITS by going sesenteeH
miles To gain seven miles on your journey 10
Boston you would travel seventeen
|. We admit that such bends are sometimes made
They are introduced when rendered unavoidable by
impossible lakes or mountains; but Hogarth HIM
self would hardly volunteer curve like this in
Railroad, for fancy merely.
n Let whether there is anything but fancy
and feeling which calls for such sacrifice. The
, stockholders residing north Of CIRCUITS were repre-
sened in the meeting for whom speak Their
wishes a fair indication of the interests Of the
i people among whom they live. 1t is they, not the
n inhabitants of Greenfield who would use the road,
whether TO 60 to Hartford or Boston. They are
almost unanimous in the opinion that the best line
to GroHfs tdrerR is (all things considered the
best route towards Hartford. We understand that
the road from Greenfield TO Northampton has re-
ceiyed a subscription Of three-ffths Of the funds
necessary to build it, and that its construction is
1 probable BE 1t so,-we wish it success
. branch from CIRCUITS about seven miles long would
. reach 1t. Elongate this branch to eight and one
+ quarter miles, (if two Railroads must enter that
town together,) and you reach Greenfield
Suppose this done, and Northampton Greenfield
and the southern portions of Vermont are each sup
Piled with road to Boston, and the route up and
down the valley ofthe Connecticut will have been
elongated only about FIVE miles. 1t is TO those who
live north of CIRCUITS tavern who are most deeply
interested in this question: whether it be in relation
TO their use of the road in going 10 Hartford or
Boston and TO them the question is shall fire miles
o Boston line. Caa there be any wonder at their
c choice d!
Besides, If Greenfield cannot endure that our
u business with Hartford should incur five addition
: al miles of distance, their anxietes can be relieved
IN another way-they have mistaken the remedy.
: The place to lay down the rule and find a COM
Portable hypohenuse, is not north Of Greenfield but
south of CIRCUITS.
IS The line from CIRCUITS, SOUTH may take either OF
the following routes il there is desire to shorten
the road to Hartford 1t may reach the Northamp.
ton road at Wimansett, and run entirely on the
= east side OF the Connecticut, and we learn petition
: is pending to extend for seven miles the existing
charter Of the Hampshire and Franklin Company
1 Tor this purpose Again, it may run 10 Hocanum
n aud cross to Northampton, and connect with the
l. Railroad there, well as with the Pennington
d road, which is in contemplation. This project it
is true, has been embarrassed and DELAYED by the
sudden and adroit change Of the Northampton line
from Hocanum, so as to deprive il of its lower ter.
If minus OF junction. But, Waldo Higginson Esq.,
IS VINO made lis survey pronounces il one of the
cheapest lines in New England and as cheap as the
Old Colony road, for which he also made the pre-
liminary surveys Or, lastly, the road from Grous
may be built for about eleven miles to O junction at
. South Deerield This eleven miles, would, it is
thought, cost less money than the eight and quar-
l. ter miles to Greenfield. The Hartford road would
e then be heightened over the Greenfield plan only
ID either one mile or tpo and quarter miles, while
Northampton would be fpe and a quarter and
II Bratlleboro nine miles nearer TO Boston Which is
most important 10 yOu TO bring the southern part OF
l. vermont nine miles, and middle Massachusetts, five
v miles nearer TO youor TO save two or three miles