Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-07-23

distanoe-from Portland to ossipee Valley
80 miles or more, forming a common
line with other corporations ON the direo
line To Rutland is already completed
leaving but 81 miles Of new line I,
be provided for TO complete the lin,
10 all the West, The distances may
be summarily stated as follows; From
| Halifax to Chicago a distance Of l,65t
miles; l3i miles lie in Nova Scotia
/ PA miles across New Brunswick, PSI
miles across Maine, - miles across New
Hampshire, ca miles across Vermont, 3S.
miles in New York. $50 miles in Canada
al0 miles in Michigan, 20 miles in In
diana and ID miles in Illinois. From
Chicago TO San Francisco by the Unior
or Pacific Central Railroad, the distane,
is 2,33s miles, making total Of Boss
miles, or, in round numbers, Of 1900
miles OF connected railway across the con-
tinent at its widest part by the most
direct possible line from the Atlantic 70
the Pacific Ocean,
The expected completion of the Euro.
poan and North American Railway, from
Bangor TO Halifax, at the same time with
Pacific railways, has attracted public at
tention to the necessity of filling in these
links in the great continental chain, by
extending a line due west from Portland
/ 10 Whitehall, and from thence TO Rome
on the New York Central The distance
! from Halifax 10 Chicago can be reduced
to 1900 miles, easily oondcnsing the line
between Chicago and Liverpool TO twelve
days, and between San Francisco and
London TO seventeen days, The distance.
Of this intervening unbuilt line are as
follows from Portland TO the New Hamp-
shire line, 2s miles; from the New Hamp-
shire line TO the Vermont boundary, 81
miles from White River Junction to
Rutland, 46 miles, making the whole dis
lance from RutlandIto Portland lGS miles
the distance from Rutland to Halifax, 764
miles, and from Rutland to San Francisco
1924. This is a definite statement in
part. giving view of the great line OF
railway communication across the CONT
nent, all of which is fully provided
for, with the exception of one hundred
and twcnty-four miles from Rutland to
Woodstock, from Bristol or Franklin, n
H., to within 30 miles OF Portland and
from Ru,lond This way is great
project and seems at most improbable,
but the fact is before US and fixed beyond
peradventure Therefore, let us begin the
energetic work of becoming one Of the
important points in the great chain. A
large portion OF European travel comes
from the west which would seek the
shortest route without being compelled TO
proceed to New York, the great port at
this time of ocean travel. Every section
through which this route passes n inter-
ested alike in this matter BY this line, /
from Rutland and Portland, the most di- .
rect one to the west is completed. Be
yond the Hudson stretches the great
West, the grannary of the earth, where /
human food is produced more cheaply
and in greater abundance than on any
other soil, and presses to the seaboard for
market, like the waters of a vast lake .
that cannot contain its accumulated .
will force It's channels to the
sea-"
We have cndcavored to lay before our
readers the main features of the plan Of
communication, perhaps in
for our limits forbid the clabo-
ate description the subject demands to
Dring it home to every citizen. Sufficient, /
perhaps, has been said to draw the attcn- .
ton of the people to . careful and more
elaborate investigation CT the subject and
o attend the meeting on the 2Sth, when J
more definite details of the project will be
aid before the public by the gentlemen
Who will present facts and statistics more
satisfactorily and intelligently than we !
nave been able to do in this article.