Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-05-20

revenue into your treasury. 10u cannot
ard You will not alter your present. policy
without this railroad. You give them away
and you will continue to do 80, unless they
ore enhanced in value BY this road. Although
think the provisions Of this bill are oner.
Gus upon my constit,,sps, / am its warm
advocate. believe the prospective value oi
the public lands (set ssids BY this bill as a
sinking fund increased in value BY this rail
road-with their accumulated interest for
thirty years will constitute On ample fund
to extinguish the principal Of tbe loan when
it shall become payable. 1t is true the first
division Of the rosd bsilt BY private sub
scription is mortgaged 70 the State, but the
cdi-ct of that mortgagsk only to guarantees
to the State that tho sinking fund shall
amount to q sula- s~Geient 10 .oicem the
principal Of her bonjse If that is sufficient
then the road win not be called upon to pay.
l believe il will be. So far m human expe-
rience can teach US, 50 far as human fore
sight and sagacity can %, it will prove sim
ple have no fears OF fhat.
But the first division Sf the road is also
holden to the State. 10 pay the annual inter-
est of twenty-five thuusahd dollars in each
year. the ANIMAL accruing interest on your
loan. winch has been appropriated to build
the second division Of the road. think sir,
the earnings of the second division will pay
the interest. The first div,sias substantially y
guarantees to you that it shall. II itshould
prove otherwise, it falls upon the first dvi-
sion. II it should prove sufficient, then the
+ first division will have nothing to pay.
fire. ly admit that it is by No means so clear
as 1t is that the Lands will pay the principal
of your loan. The one isscdftin. There
may be some risk of the other. That the
earnings of the second division from Malta
wamkeag to the boundary and to ioulton)
F will eventually be sufficient to pay thirty five
thousand dollars annually,t presume no gen.
tleman doubts The problem is, whether it
will pay from the start. What security has
the first divsi n that it will do 80? SIR,
with the road built TO Mattawamkeag, the
Company will owe the State nothing. This
, part of the rad will have been built without
any aid from you. The route from Milford
to Mattawamkeag is easy and erel-with
no expensive bridges. The land damages are
very small. The amount of Earth removed
/, on the Wutervle road from DanvAc juno
tion to Watervile. ffty-four miles, was two
millions of yards. The amount on this route
is now but three hundred and eighty thou
sand Yards The amount Of rock excavation
on that road, about eighty Thousand yards.
The amuunt on this route less than three
thousand. The character Of the soil is light
, and easy. The accomplished Superintendent
. of the kennebec Railroad. who has had large
experience in building railroads, and who
has examined the plans and specifications Of
this road. and personally and thoroughly ex-
, amined the route with yi!w Of building it,
, offers to construct the road from Milford to
Lincoln, a distance Of twenty three miles. for
twelve thousand dollars per mile-to com
piete II in II thorough manner. rady tor
taking furntnre, with all the depots, &c,
and with grade not over thirty feet to the
mile. The remaining portion Of the r,ut',
about thirteen miles. was n,t surveyed at
the time uf the gentleman examination and
he did not p,ss over it. This part will cost
/, more-iut nat .xeeedins two Thousand dol
lars per mile more. The c~t oi working a
: road and keeping it in rrFair, depends upon
. It's condition. the iron, the grade. and costs
. ot fuel In NJ .ss.lchusctts il varies from for
tv-ive cents each running mile, mp To one
, dollar sad twenty-five cents. In Maine it is
, about sixty-eight cents per mile. On this
road it would he lrss.
What would be the amount nf traffic over
this road from Milford to Mattawamkeag
f independent of the second division OF the
road? will give you some statistics Of
other roads, and in ding 80, will select an
, average year, 1855.
, The Anlro,cog lin aud kennebec road, in
. cluding the road to Bangor, transported that
> year.
Through passengers, $3.50
, Way * 1919
The Androscoggn road transported in the
, same year,
Through passengers, 1900
Way 1910
One road from Bangor to Milford. a dis
tance Of thirteen miles, is already in opera.
tion. 1t is on the back route, and does not
accommodate or command more than hal
the travel between these points. Probably
not one-half OF it.
The .oad in 1855. transported,
Through passengers, . o6o
, Way 1920
. Include all the passengers who pass oyel
1 this route, b,tween these points, and You
, have the enormous aggregate OF one hun red
, and fiitv thousand annuallv-nearlv rs many
, as there are both through and way passen
gers between Bangor and Portland. ! d,
not say, sir, that the entire distance between
Bangor and Mlttlwamkeag will exhibit sucl
/ amount OF travel, but do claim that the en-
tire route is the greatest natural thorough
f.,o vr ....a- ....a .~,,ffic in the ,tatc From
the most careful estimates and statistic.
~nicn we have been ane to obtain, there ar,
, annually thirty thousahd passengers, WAY
and through, between Milford and Malta
, walnkeag. and twenty-five thousand tons o
I freight am satisfied that this amount il
far below what results will show alter tn,
I construction of the road. Besides, the re
sources of the county are such, that rail
, road will multiply population, travel and
! traffic.
The cost Of the road, according to the esti
mate have made, is $59S, 500. The cos
Of the furniture. fifty thousand dollars, ma
king an aggregate OF seas 500. But will
call the entire cost Of the road and the turni
ture at soo,oOO
: Cost of running two trains
; over tho road 90 miles per day
t and cost of repairs annually, 30, 900
Interest, $4,000
$4,000
$4,000 through passengers,
at 50 90, 10000
| 5000 way pas gers at 81, 10000
25 900 tons freight, at 50, $4,000
| S95,O0O
, Mr.. Speaker, l repeat, with this roat
, built to Mattawamkeag, we owe the Stat'
nothing. 1t has been built without yonl
, aid. The bill makes provision for one mil
, lion of dollars to build the second division
8 from Mattawamkeag to the boundary ano
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