Litchfield enquirer., 1851-08-21
Railroad to thc Naugatuc Valley.

| One of our principal merchants, and a large stockholder in the Hartford and Providence Railroad, informed us that one of the directors had stated few days since in conversation, that 1t was the intention, first to contract and put the road through east of Willmantic, and afterwards, # there scas money enough left, to extend the road to the Naugatuc Valley, but not otherwise. We are dis posed to think our informant must have misapplehcnded the remark which he heard. We presume, from many consi- derations, that the road will be put thro' to the Naugatuc simultaneously with it's extension to Providence.
 A distinct pledge to this effect was gi- ven, and not only given but volunteerel by the directors at the meeting of cii- zcns which sanctioned the loan of the city credl' to the amount of half a million of dollars to this company. It was we'll known that if such a pledge had not been given by the President. Mr. Trumbull, on behalf of his board, that condition oy prov'so to the same effect would have been appended to the grant by an over whelnang vote. We presume that na intention IS entertained by the whole or any part of the board of violating pledge solemnly and spontaneously given under such circumstances, and without which, or some thing to the same effect, it is not at all probable that the grant in question would have been obtained. It is in the extension of the road to the Naugatuc, Valley that our citizens take the deepest interest. They regard the extension to. | Providence as on the whole good thinr. but the completion to the Naugatuc as decidedly better thing for thena Wnl the one, they are content; towards the other they feel lively zeal. The exten sion to Providence, while on the whole i is expedient, will to some extent diver
 business from Hartfefd- several of th..,
 largest factories III WilIimantic bein 7
 owned and run by Providence pcoplc
 But the extension to the Nauga.uc can
 not fail to bring large accession of b,r. sincss to Hartford. It will extend int. the richest vein of business in the State;
 q business largely and rapidly increasing
 as the monthly returns of the Naugatu railroad show. Much of this busine.-. formerly came to Hartford, and the ex
 tension 10 the Naugatuc will restore it |, it's old connections and channels, l. consequence of it's thus intersecting tha prosperous road, there is no doubt tha, rhe extension thither would pay large revenue upon its cost than the sam. number of mleseupon any other part e,;: i the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkil! i line.
 There is another consideration which should have great weight in deciding this 1 question. This extension has long been promised to Litchfeld county and the western portion of the State. They have waited for it long and patiently. But they will soon grow impatient and some. what disgusted, and not without reason. if what has been so often and so posi. lively promised to them, should be long CT delayed. Tha! part of the State has always displayed very cordial feeHnr towards Hartford whenever there has been occasion for it and it is by no means certain that this friendly attitude would be so firmly maintained, if its inhabitants were to be unreasonably disappointed in q matter which they have so much at heart.
 Tie idea of putting the road through to Providence frst. and afterwards to Naugatuc Valley. prOpidsd tAe, money holds out, is ali nonsense. TEe only way to make the money hold out is ~ con. tract for both parts of the work sisnulta> neously. The extension east and west should be undertaken together or not at all. To complete the road east of Will limantc first, would amount to an indef> nitc po3tponement of it's extension to the Naugatuc Valley-which, after all that has been said and written, would indeed be "a most lame and impotent conclusion.s and very unsatisfactory one to all our citizens. -Hdrtford Times.