The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1867-04-09

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which states thai the l,ulread prepes
ed, whieh > 10 reUte the people q
Western Vermont. Is % be accomplish.
el by ba sl aad b1riHg hrowQh a.
stu5. ~ ffm Hasselou q p Cha'
baHis aud 8 expresses great deal e
concern ana salritnde for The people ..
Western Vermont. lesi they shoall &,
an outlet aud prop q opert.se 81
on their isars, hy rg.sirg a doubt as %
the ability of the road 10 earn enough
% pay tie intcrcst on its bonds. warm
them that ,hc whole capital stock must
be sunk. sc have no doubt but
that the people Of Western Vermont
falls appr o.a'o this kind solcitudo on
the part ol tbglr Troy friends, and feel
( it IS hardly necessary 10 give much time
Il 30 "a subject which has been so fuly dis
enssod ly them, and is 40 we'll under
stood hy every individual Ia Vermont
The route of tao entire road through
the towns 81 Hoosic, petersgurg, Ber-
lin, Stcphentown, New Lebanon and
Chatham, is through rich agricultural
district,and will compare fayorahly with
any 81 misos Of the Harlem road, o. .in.
decd with i.s entire ieagth,aad IL equal.
I y capable oi contributing to The busi.
ness aud support of railroad as any
interior district ii The safe, ~ equal
length
That yau may fully understand the
stcrd, disr,rt We propose a compari-
son Of resources with the main eonnec.
ting road at the south, the Harlem.
which passes through the back pant Of
Columbia Dutchcsa, pntnam and West
chester counties the people Of which,
would not feel particularly compliment
ed by the msnustion that dis
triet which SUPPLIES most Of the milk to
Sew York was a aeriie one.
The Harlem road is l2S miles long
our road 81 milrs
Tue towns on our road have d popu-
lation Of 32S per mile On the Harleni
2S2 per mile.
Our towns raise 10,i9l bushels Of
grain for each mile On the Harlem,
S,375 bushels for each mile
Onr town have lSs COWS for each mile
/ On the Harlem 207 for each mile
Our towns have 1,l57 sheep for each
mle, the Harlem 1S6.
Our towns made 1885 pounds Of
butter for each mile, on the Harlem
l,763 pounds for each nile.
Our towns made 1915 pounds of
cheese for each mile, on the the Har-
lem lis pounds for each mile.
The facts show an aggregate ability
Of production for the support Of a rail
road equal to, and in some respects
greater, than the towns Of the Herlem
Railroad, and disposes Of the repeated
I.lorts Of the Troy interests to preju-
dice the public and the minds Of The
capitalists against this section Of the
country, by calling it o sterae one. The
Harlem Railroad earned, in The year
! 1864, $l4,307 per mile; and IN 1906,
| $l9,300 per mile If railroad
through region Of country, shown to
be MS sterile as the country through
which the Lebanon Springs Railroad
viii run, can earn $4,000 per mile
/ what ought we to expect for our road
4 Why not relatively as much as the Har
lem road ? When it IL considered tina.
TIE above comparison Of recources ii
lor towns that have have had road III
operation through them for years, and
our towns are I'm 10 tiCeaty mites from a
railroad Why will not ohf locdl re-
sources develop in a short time, TO b.
much greater than on that road; our
road when open enters Mt once upon NJ
organized through business between
Canada and Northern Vermoiit to New
York, which is now in friendly hand,
ready TO be concentrated upon IL; AMI
which must be fully ell.l il MT great
er than any revenue derived by tic
Harlem from It's Albany business
We are well aware of the tendency
to oyer-estimate business, aud the doub;
which careful men express AZ slch esti
mates, and hence, ii estimating the 10.
eal earnings Of our road, we made per-
sonal enquiry of tha farmers, merchants.
manufacturers and Bcchmaies on the
line, and in all cases took thor lsweat
estimates. Oar subsequent inyestiga
tons more than c9aGrm3d our esti-
mates We find the local tonnage Of
the northern roads to be 1000 tors PEA
/ mile per year; while we have only est
mated 1000 tons per mile, per year
this IS besides through tonnage; ail TN
alylis II our estimales for passenger
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