The Portland daily press., 1868-11-05


hands Nature has done ali that is possible
for US. Our harbor, our geographical posi-
ton, q river valley on which to lay our fraoK
to he great mountain range, the very noun
tains rent asunder to furnish pass to the val
ley of the Amanoosick on the other side, down
which we slide by an easy grade and at trlning
expense to the Connecticut river; all these
are her free gifts. While the topography OF the
country. through which the road will run, is
sncb that the grades over which the heavy
freiohts will be brought from the West are
lighter than on any competing road; and the
only heavy grade-that through the Notch GO
ing West-wil prove no Inconvenience, as the
same power that can take those heavy freights
up the light grade OF sixty feet to the mile on
the other side will be sufficient to draw the
trihing weight of load that will make up the
return treights through the sleeper incline OF
the Notch going west-which of itself is less
than many that are hourly passed over by
some of the best paying roads of the country.
Let not your faith be shaken nor your at
tention distracted by appeals made by attor-
news in the interest of our great rival. Put
not your faith in any representations to the
effect that Montreal can ever be the rival of
Ogdensburg for the trade of the great Lake
tween the two cities, we have been informed,
Zone The lockage alone upon the canals be-
amounts to five cents bushel on grain, and,
as the Boston Corn Exchange has said, "The
problem is, How to lay down for export
bushel of wheat five cents cheaper in Boston
than it can be laid down in New York.
Trust not to connections with detached frag-
ments of other and rival routes managed by,
and in the interest of rival cities. Read care
fully W hat Mr. Adams says of the difficulties
attending the connections with these "squab-
bling corporations" and of the necessity for
that Concentration and system" by which
"the field of New England might be spread
out so as to include the whole Lake region
"that the west will not deal with conflicting
interests" that "their way must be made
plain"
We know from our own experience that, al
though some of these same railroad interests
now make connection throu N Vermont and
New Hampshire from Oswego to Portland, by
way of New Market junction, yet it is impos-
sible to make through rates of freight with so
many corporations under different boards of
Directors; and therefore shippers find it cheap
er to ship direct to Boston and thence to Port
land; while the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad, over the shortest route and under one
management, will be a consolidated" line.
having an individuality of its own that is al
ready attracting the favorable attention of
Western shippers, and the opposition of the
Boston interests which control the existing
lines of road in Vermont and New Hampshire
having their partizans at work in our very
midst, laboring to defeat the efforts OF the en-
terprisipp business men of Portland who are
striving to increase her area of trade, and, by
the same action, relieve her from her impend-
ing "fate as an outlying province of State
street."
Citizens of Portland, real testate holders,
think for moment of the grand, substantial
and commodious structures erected since the
great fire on every business street, and ask
yourselves from whence is to come the new
business requiring these increased facilities
and that is to make profitable these improve
ments. What part of the country, to which
our present railroad connections extend, can
be more thoroughly farmed" than it has been
in the past" Can our present volume of bust
ness be further subdivided by the establish
ment of new business houses? Is the present
number of our stores and contingencies in
adequate for the accommodation of the rush Of
anxious buyers from the vicinity OF the al
ready constructed highways Of travel? Re
member then that this road will add a local
trade to Portland from Northern New Hamp-
shire and Vermont, equal to at least one-third
of all our present trade, while, unless we do
construct this new highway we shall lose the
trade of twelve towns whose business must be
attracted to Boston over the new connections
now under way between that city and the val
ley of the Saco at Conway. TH
That the stock will be paying investment
no business man can doubt, who will take into
account the cheapness with which the road
can be built-probably not exceeding twenty
five thousand dollars per mile, from Portland
to Swanton-the pressure of through freight
that will be crowded upon it, the timber tracts
lying contiguous to its line of route, the iron
mountain of jackson, containing the finest
ore on the continent, the present immense and
continually increasing White Mountain pleas
ure travel the magnificent water powers, the
thriving towns and villages with their popular
summer resorts and "watering-places" by
which it will run, the yearly subsidy that has
been promised us by other interested roads,
and in addition to this, the fact that the net
earnings of the whole railroad system of the
North is now seven per cent. with probable
steady increase, and that the Passumsic road,
with no through connection and passing over
less valuable part of Vermont, costing thou
sands of dollars per mile mole than this can
be built tor, now divides six per cent annually
to its stockholders, besides funding large sur
plus. -r.
This is our last appeal We must raise a
certain amount now or we fail, and lose ali the
bright promise of glorious future for our
much loved, our proud and beautiful Getty by
| the Sea-" Let US, then, join together heart
and hand, every man according to the ability
| which fortune and his own intelligent enter
prise have afforded him. and with a liberality
characteristic of all broad-minded business
men, press forward to successful conclusion
this magnificent, well-dgested and wealth.
producing undertaking.
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