The Portland daily press., 1867-06-25
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From tho Commercial RulIetin Poet

From the Commercial Bulletin Boston. ,Juna a.
While our Boston capitalists are pusillani-
mously gong back on their grand project to
establish steam communication with Eurons
and cody rejecting the liberal offers made 10
them Tor the expansion of their commerce.
rheT wlde-awake nelg ghbors of the Forest Clty
are preparing TO take advantage of this Inuif-
iereiiCe, saiiu w turn IL ~ LneIr own auyantaoe
other lungs De.ng equal, Of course Wes,ern
.raue Wou4u prefer coming to Boston, PROVIDED
,s had suitable outies here, account OF tins
city's DeIns the Centre and headquarters ol tue
great Misunderstanding interest vi new Lngland.
A1uI Bosom persisten:iy re.uses 10 prUviue the
ut..rlJInie 1avi lJies required the successful
prosecuLIo OF Ih4s traue, IN It's relations with
vr.lps Atisiu.lc markets. and hence IL must 90
elsewhere TO tinu them.
fortLand, WITH but one trunk line ocpnect-
ing her WIN The great West, and that a cir
cutous one, running mostly through foreign
territory, presents greater facilities Iur thai ne
cuilar DraIch OF trade, and now loads mara
SHIPS with agricultural pIoduce tor EurYpe
than Boston with ali her network of lnteri,,r
nneS, ana her superior advantages as a distsib-
uslng market. Ii IS remarkauIe, though by
no means lnexpncaoie tact, that the foreign
commerce of tile latter has failed to Increase
III all equal Ratio with her mutt plicatIon of
faiiroad iacilltles, while that OF our enterpris-
4lS helSnDor has Increased III = much greater
fasiO, anu Is now ucnianding other anu shorter
routes to The W esr. lnuee., TIE Grand Trunk,
exempt as 1t ls from cOinpeJiGon, has cot 10 po
100 Sow . COACH for Portland, anu .. mt tnInts
IA, got ~ be uoae 10 put her in more aIrect
couilnun caiion witn tne great sou.ces of eom-
lleiciai weaIll, at The pvInls OF agricultural
supply aAo lrouuct1Ou.
y usb what 10 10 DO uone to this end, we pro-
pose 10 hvlce Lere; and We may add, that
siils never wCLid nave peen aonc, nor thought
oi, probably, had IL not been ior the steamsnip
enterprises winch have made PortIanl such
couvenlent AID reauy outlcI Tor W esteru blaue
and Dut Tor she evl.eht and laneDtablc TACT,
mat Boston was noe disposed to do anything
on an adequate scAe, ior the accommodation
OF that traue. In IacI, the West has almost
ceased to nope Ior anything tron this n4etrop-
oils IA the way VI maritime facilities, ana IS
now anxlousiy looking TO other points upon
the seADoard ior factors to receive and hanGIe
her rapluly accumuiatIng proaIcts.
Ihe various hues OF railroad winch skirt the
southern snore OF the Great L.,hes, and enter
New England Though The Green Mountain
passes, are noecessainy beginning 10 take the
same view vi tne mater. Ih>y mast rely up
the W Westeru anu Atlantic trace ior their
patronage, anu they have long lnouiged the
nops tnaI, Win inelr Eastern terInlni at the
port Ul Dostvu, --..,ul stems would be
.aken To Jusuiy large increase ut produce
,nipmen.s 10 tnis port, such would Insu urc q
iliilel lai expansion VI their business. In tuat
case, they Were prepared to greatly eniarge
INsir transport iacllties, and, moreover, th, Ir
Iea~Ing stockholders we've reauy to subscribe
IDeEaDy to any iuLd that might be needed to
CStduNsh osc~noAAp 4hOs GOtWc6H POEt
anu EaroPe. I..
Dut the lgnominious failure of the National
Steaihsnip ehIefprlse, which they had otferel
10 back up to Inc extent of one-tlird of its
requisite capital, has naturally impaired their
commence ia DOston as AN outlet Ior Western
TRADE, anu CAUSED them to turn the ir attention
10 forLand as more promising and ayaIlaD,e
poinI Ca transit. Hence, II Is not strange un-
Ger the circumstances, that our Nor, heIn rail
roaa hueo Ire now schemins W make that city
eiie principal Atiannc t~rn mus oI their lneS,
ieaVihS tnelr COMMUNICATIONS wIth Boston
w si@4hd IL TIE secondary rsIatlOr Oh brYDch-
eS i......-t-..t.
1t IS now certain that this railroad diversion
IS not ohiy Contemplated, but that the pan
ior us execution IS we'll matured. The prelim-
Iiii.ry survey Ior a new grand route Ior travel
anu sranspolt between Portland and the West
have AiIea~y been maze. Last week party
VI Sehsienen, represeLtlng 80 100 90 OF capl-
.al, anu consisting OF EorLiand merchants,
leaulnY raiiroau men, as Well as several hi.h
functiVnaries OF Malne and Vermont passed
over the new rouie ana were wei satisfied of
i.s 1easlDIuiy.
The proposed route runs directly from Port
lanu To Tie w hlte MountaIus, by a line consid-
erauiy shorter than the Grand Trunk; thence
through Craw1oro's Notch, with a very moder-
axe grace, 10 Llttleton, n. h., crossing the
State line near the Junction OF the Connecti-
cut anu Passumpsic, and connecting with the
Vermont General Il. X. at Montpelier; thence,
Via tne Vermont Central. Ogde nsburg, Water
lown anu Rome roads, TO s.me point on the
EasSern shore OF Lake Ontario, where it is pro-
posed 10 buiid "a connection with OSwego AID
che New York Central Il. Il.
~ Tins VIII opes route between Portland and
Niagara fahs some so rsies shorter than 10y
way of the Giana Trunk; 1t sill tap the West
EN- anu canada trade OF Lake L,atarlo, whlcn
now goes principally to New Y ork, ~ the Us
wego JuncLion, ana will be a very D. IHsuiar
rou'e ior travel, on account of the novelty ="
passing through the heart OF the White Noun
TAIN region Its Intersections of New hamp-
snlre and vermont railroads must of necessity
tend to divert trade and travel from this me-
tropoiis, ana ITS results upon our commerce
VIII tescn US another of those practica lessons,
from winch we are SO slow to ueduce the moral
touching the conditions Of local growth and
progress.