The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-09-08

this matter 1t will show that Boston. instead
of being the shub"--the center through which
all the spokes oftrade and travel in the great
wheel of commerce and business, must pass, is
in fact off one side an out-of-the-way place; a
bye-place, through which the tide of travel is
now diverted from it's direct and proper
course.
Let the attention of Portland and OF fort-
land merchants be directed to this matter, anu
it will be found that at Rochester the trade OF
upper New Hampshire and Northern Yer
mont NAV he turned towards this city, which
1t that point is about forty miles nearer than
Boston. while the artery connecting Boston and
a larye portion ofcountry would again be cut
1t Epping. tssri=7sa
To show that Others are thinking of these
things, and Disadvantages within the reach o
our city, we extract the following from the
Roche ter, N. H., Courier of Sept. LIST After
copying an article which recently appeared
n the Press, that paper says:
Some twelve or fifteen years ago, after work
lad been commenced on the York and Gum
berland at Great Falls and the piers for the
bridge partially constructed across the Salmon
Falls river and the road graded for mile or
more in places nearly parallel to the highway
rom Great Falls to Rochester, preliminary
examination was made OF the route from A.
red to Rochester with view to the feasibility
IF a direct route from Portland to New York
3ia Ma ,hua, Worcester, &c. The resultof the
examination showed the route much more
easible to Rochester from Alfred thar
rom Great Falls, and much shorter 1t wouiO
Tn also five or six miles further north of Bos.
on & Maine road, and pass through much
better country for business, and at Rocheste.
you'd have the benefit of competing point
% Boston UiG the Eastern or Boston & Maine
roads-the Eastern controlling and managing
che Great Fails & Conway, and the Boston &
Maine controlling and running the Dover
Ninnipisseogee. At Rochester it would con
rect Portland with Northern and Eastern
New Hampshire viG the above named roads.
twenty three miles would connect Rochester
With Portsmouth & Concord Road at Gambia,
md give direct route from Portland to New
fork, Utn Manchester, Nashua, and Worces
or. From Alfred to Rochester railroad can
De built cheaper than any other piece of road
)f the same length in New England; and fol-
en- miles after leaving Rochester toward Can,
liza, the landis peculiarly favorable, being lev
81, with no great streams. ~ 3, ~ 81 30 ~ aa
For the, above reasons we believe the state
nent Of the Press correct, that when the
York & Cumberland is built it win come from
Alfred to Rochester. Our merchants have
bought many Of their heavy goods in Portland
Cor some years, but having to pass over three
Dads in -ess. than fifty miles it makes the
rel hit higher than from Boston. Since the
preliminary, survey, which made a decided
change in the views of the managers of the
York & Cumberland, East Rochester has
grown to be quite manufacturing place on
the line of the route surveyed, while the build
ing of the Concord road through Manchester
would make it easy for Portland to realize hel
ambition long entertained, of a direct route to
New York " .ft,i