The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-11-17

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that excessive rates and unjust aiscrim
nation. aborr stated are ibe lsrH
mAie result Il tbs monapoIy g Tee
business eulofei 81 tie Renssalaef and
Saratoga Railroad and So o prove The
Necessity aHd wisdom x opeuing tha
business - competition.
We Gud also ihat. ID Fthrgary. 1856
tbs EeuesAlaar aud saratoga eompaay
entered into 8 contract with the Troy
and Boston Railroad company BY the
terms u Wh.eh the Bennington and
Rutland Railroad company, through
business. and were only allowed one
train q day each way, aad that only for
local business
That subsequently,, IN January, 1867
the Rensselaer, aud Saratoga company
took lease Of the Troy and Benning-
ton road. Eve miles ia length. from
Hoosic Junction 10 the State line, for
tbe purpose Of breaking connection boz
tween Bennington aud Troy, which
they did and for fifteen months there
after an the business 81 the entire line
had 10 pass north 10 Rutland and find
H. way 10 market as best it could
That a The expiration Of the fifteen
months before stated, the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga company consented 10
open tho link thus closed, upon terms
exceedingly oppressive and injurious to
both the owners Of the Bennington and
Rutland railroad, aud the entire com
munity along the line Of that road.
The terms Of the connection proposed
permitted the running Of only one
freight aud one passenger tram daily
each way, without my connections for
through business, either for passengers
or freight, with a notice from the Rem
sselaer and Saratoga company that such
permission to connect would be with
drawn on three days notice, in case the
Bennington aud Rutland company at
/ tempted to do any through business.
Since the execution Of said contract,
the Rensselaer, and Saratoga, and the
Troy and Boston railroads, have OBJ
served it's conditions, and the BenHing-
ton and Rutland railroad has suffered
correspondingly
Ii appeared that the president OF the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad ayow-
ed it to be bis purpose, in making the
contract aforesaid, to compel the own
ers OF the Bennington aud Rutland rail-
road either to soil or lease the same to
/ the Rensselaer, aud Saratoga company,
with the ultimate view of obtaining alb
solute control Of all the southern aud
western avenues Of transportation from
Vermont II also appeared that the
owner Of the Bennington and Rutland
railroad offered to take for that road
two hundred thousand dollars less than
the Rensselaer, and Saratoga company
were willing 20 pay, provided the latter
would stipulate to afford the business
and the people on the lins Of that road
proper railroad facilities, which the
president Of the Rensselaer, and Sara
toga railroad refused to do; when all
negotiations ceased.
1t appeared that, under the opera
tons of the contract referred to, the
Bennington and Rutland railroad could
not be run, even at high rates, aud pay
expenses.
Ii appeared that the citizens on the
line Of the road had been compelled to
raise one million dollars to secure an
outlet to market 1t alsoappeared that,
higher rates OF freight, the cost of rum.
ing the Bennington & Rutland railroad
for six months, exceeded the receipts
over eleven thousand dollars.
1t also appeared that the Rutland
and Washington railroad had the en-
pacity to do ten times the business now
done over it, aDd that the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga road have furnished con.
yenient facilities for handling the mar
bic freight business, and that the mar
BILE dealers at West Rutland and along
the line of the Rutland and Washing
ton road, make no complaint in thai
respect, except the Rutland Marble Co.
VINO complain that other producers Of
marble had facilities for getting carr
| which they did not have.
1t appeared that two-thirds Of the
, marble produced at West Rutland
found market West That by Tia,
, discrimination which the Renssalael
and Saratoga company had the powe
TO exact, and did exercise, against tht
} northern ronle, VIA the Rutland ant
: Burlington aud Ogdensburgh railroad
(which il appeared was the cheapes
! and most desirable route) and by coils
ing the route ut the state line via tn
/ Bennington and Rutland railroad, b.
: shutting OF ri connections Tor through
i freight, hat 1t gave The Rensselaer, an,
| Saratoga railroad practically monop
1 ly of all the marble freight at Yves
G Rutland, aud on all the marble at Cen
( ter Rutland, Sutherland Falls, and al
q the quarries on the Rutland and Burr
{ ingtou, destined for southern marke
: through New York, Philadelphia an,
a Baltimore, until the Lebanon Spring
s railroad is completed.
I 1t appeared that If the Bennington
& and Rutland railroad desired 20 do an
$ freightng Of marble destined to pas
!. over the New York Central railroad 0
/. the Erie canal, for want Of proper con
G nectious at the State hue, over th
!. Troy and Bennington railroad, control
e Cd by the Rensselaer, and Saratog
s railroad, the Bennington and Kuuan
e railroad would be compelled 10 trans
4 port such marble over Their own In
and over the Lebanon Springs railroa
Y to Chatham, one hundred and uinetce
+ miles, thence over the Albany and 30,
d ton railroad twenty there miles, di,
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