Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-10
The Rutland and Woodstock Rail.
road.

lion to the Rutland and Woodstock
Railroad on the 2lst of October. The
road from Woodstock TO White River
JUNCTION was put under contrsct on
Wednesday last, and will be built. There
fore 1t Is subject of congratulatlon that
the friends OF the Rutland and Wood
stock road are moving in the matter oil
extension TO this town. 1t is OF great
Importance to this section that this route
should be built, making an east ana
west route, tributary to the several rail-
WAYS running south and west from this
noiut. This enterprise having been
commenced should receive the support,
encouragement and capital Of Rutland
aud the several towns along the pro-
,osed route. 1t Cff.rs new and more
direct route to New Hampshire, North
Eastern Vermont and Maine to New
York and the West, with advantages
which our business interests and the
towns above demand. TIE first object
i've point is White River Juuc ton,
where junction would be made with
the Northern New Hampshire, Passump'
sic and Vermont Central Railroads, and
direct line opened to New York, over
which all the large and increasing
freight business of North Eastern Yer
mont and New Hampshire would tind
more cheap and speedy transportation.
The project is entirely feasible and the
plan fully discussed and approved by
connecting lines.
From Rutland this new line can take
route westward, to connections with
the NewYorkCentral either by way OF Sar-
atoga to Schenectady or by Saratoga and
the Rutland and Washington Railroads
to Albany and Troy. New York can be
reached also either by the Lebanon
Springs and Harlem or by the other
routes named. The towns along the
new route are manifesting much confident
interest in the matter and hope at last
the railroad facilities for which they have
so long waited, are TO he realised The
manufactures OF North Eastern Vermont
are large, rapidly increasing and the
abundant water power gives them OPP
portunity for almost unlimited extern
sious. Give them railway communica-
ton and adequate freight transportation
and the growth and prosperity OF that
section OF Vermont would be surprising,
were it not that examples OF such expe-
rience are already so common in New
England.
Rutland, however, and the four impor-
tant railroads now centeriDg here, have
every iuducement to come forward to
the encouragement OF this new enter
prise with money and influence, and
carry through 10 completion st an early
day. The line proposed is not new, but
the combination OF interests tor its con.
struction was never so strong as at
present, and If properly organized and
directed, need not, will not fail of success
1t supplies additional facilities for trans
porting freight to and from the West,
aud does this, too, by means Of co.opera-
ting and connecting instead OF rival
lines. The sooner, more certainly and
strongly the established lines secure an
other and practically distinct line to the
North East, more completely can they
establish themselves and promote the
general commercial prosperity. Thorough
awaking and response in this communi-
ty, whose prosperity and growth for
the last seventeen years, are the best
proof of what railroads can do for Rut-
land, and the Woodstock railroad will
become one OF the things OF the certain
and near future.
This road, when built, would com pete
indirectly, If not in the end successfully,
for the trade Of the through line from
Portland to the West, by way of the
Passumpsic Railroad, across which the
Portland and Ogdensburgh line must
cross. By this route the distance will be
shorter from this section to the enter
prising towns of Eastern Vermont, and
Montpelier, and it opens up one of the
best portions of the State, now with out
railway facilities. To Rutland the sue
cess of this route would be great ben
eft. 1t would bring US in direct CON-
municstion with the people Of Windsor
county, also, Orange, Caledonia and Or.
leans counties, and bring to US some Of
the business which now goes in other
directions. We should then be the bus
mess centre OF some towns In Windsor
county. This road would almost double
the territory from which the tradesmer
of Rutland get their business. The peo
pie of Woodstock and other towns are
awake in the matter, and their prospect:
OF success are fattering. We trust ou
own citizens will, when the time comes
ne found ready to take hold of the mat
Ter, and encourage it by material aiC
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