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

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Ton We have also shown that a single road by
be way Of Greenfield would be nine or ten miles
1 further to Brattleboro, and would require thirty
miles Of construction. We have shown that TO
ADOPT the latter course you would incur heavy ex-
pense, merely for the purpose Of doing an injustice
to yout stockholders, and incommoding and injur-
inc, and may be losing two-ihirds Of the business
which would fall on either
But the pamphlet threatens to build road from
Greenfield to Brattleboro, 1--WE presume whether
with or without the consent of Vermont,) and to
rival the road to CIRCUITS. 1t goes further and in
forms you that nothing above CIRCUITS can escape
YOU. In other words that this entire region can
be compelled, TO the end Of time to pay to the viii
larc of Greenfield this nine or ten miles Of ributel
Allow us to remark that considering by whom, and
10 whom this is spoken, the idea incucaies most
piousy the duty of loving your enemies 1t even
improves on Scripture, and advises the selling of
YOUR friends Your worldly wisdom would Of course
make you careful TO require an equivalent and we
would recommend you to get ready pay. OF all
kinds Of traffic. it is the worst TO do on credit
But let us empire what this equivalent is. The
pamphlet seems to say that by building your road
oihrough Greenfield" to Braueboro, you will Sc
cure the Greenfield and Northampton business
and will otherwise lose it, And why should you
lose i'll lftwo branches cheapest and best
would Greenfield be so angry as to refuse TO use
theirs unless you ruin the other Is the tonnage
of Greenfield such whimsical tonnage that it would
do itself an injury because its northern neighbors
are also accommodated Is the pork Of that dis
uct such unamiable pork as to go indignantly by
land carriage, merely because other hogs ride on
Railroads Would the hay of Old Deerield be re-
sentiu and stay at home because the cattle of Yer
mont were also permitted to ride TO markeil
We do not come to you in the language of
hraat Wa ha fria de Of nd
expect long to remain such. 1t is our duty, how
ever, to remind you that Brattleboro is but about
weny-eight miles from Athol, with ffty-three feet
grades, and that the project of the pamphlet would
increase this distance TO more than fOrty-eight
miles. What temptation would be offered to 9TH
er roads than yours or the Fitchburg, TO break
through line so ioolshly heightened
But the pamphlet informs you that your goal is
Troy, and that to reach that city you must pass
through Greenfield. If this were really true, the
only answer required would be that the Greenfield
branch would accommodate the Trojan train
There would even then be no necessity for injurng
the other branch 1t will not be yOur company,
but one or more other corporations who build any
road 10 Troy. That other company will select its
own termn and you are interested in giving it an
abundant liberty of choosing the best. We only
ask you 10 keep both points, Greenfield and Brat
tleboro, available. The pamphlet invites to sacri-
hce all but theirs. We wish well to the Trojan
project: The route, even from Greenfield by Green
River, passes without about six miles of Brattlebo
70, and this hiatus would be filled were it only to
accommodate the flour trade with Vermont and
New Hampshire instead of sending it forty miles
round by Greefueld
But in this connection let us look again at the
pamphlets distances The address labors TO prove
that the route by Greenfield TO Troy is nine miles
shorter To do this they gain quarter Of mile
BY contraction between CIRCUITS and Greenfield ;
either three quarters two miles by stretching be-
tween CIRCUITS and Bratleboro, and seven miles by
sending the Brattleboro route TO Cutting Hollow.
The first news we had that Cutting Hollow was on
the way TO Troy, reached US in the Greenfield adj
dress. For any company building from Brattle-
boro west, to 60 to Cutting Hollow would be to
60 down hill when their great object is to rise,
and to turn back towards Boston and descend the
Green River valley about three miles and half
in order to start again West. Again, the only
information we have that Railroad to Cutting
Hollow from Greenfield would be but fifteen
miles long, is from the pamphlet. We do not
contradict it, for we know nothing about it. We
are justified, at any rate, considering our expert
ences in other ponts in waiting for further inlor
nation. But we leave the minute comparison of
distances on that or any othenoute TO Troy, to
the company who shall undertake it, We think
there other considerations to your company far
more important. If the Brattleboro branch to
CIRCUITS be selected, the Troy business would 90
twenty miles or more over your road instead of
eight and quarter from Greenfield, or possibly
only seven from the Northampton line. Locate
wisely the road from CIRCUITS to Brattleboro, and
ii will receive the Boston business of the southern
part Of Vermont. 1t will receive the Boston
freight, or large part Of it, from the upper valley
oithe Connecticut and from Burlington. 1t will
receive the entire travel and business upand down
the valley of the Connecticut, and it will receive,
whenever such a road is made, the business of
Troy and the West. What better twenty or
twenty-one miles of line can you build Z Where,
IN New England, can you more wisely invest your
funds On the contrary, add willully and pur-
posey either nine or ten miles 10 this distance,
and you try an experiment, the result Of which we
defy any man to predict.
The pamphlet makes an amusing display with
ia rule" and "a map" to show Greenfield is in
Z" a straight line" with Boston and Troy. We
need hardly tell you that Railroads across the
Green Mountain range must be laid out with other
instruments than maps and ferules. "Air lines"
would become far too airy-and inasmuch as their
own Green River route runs up into Vermont,
and to parallel of latitude considerably north OF
Brattleboro the taking an observation on it while
at Greenfield, or even squirting ever so straight
across that town, would seem TO have very little
to do with the subject.
The pamphlet says that if you will "locate your
road through Greenfield" there shall come flour
from Northampton towards Filchburg, and that
manufactured SUITS of various kinds may 60 to
Greenfield, and down the Connecticut River
Road to the south and west. And may not all
this happen if the Vermont road should enter al
GrnnI'sl Or must we slnnnsa thnt the slInanll.