Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-12-22

scenery in Stowe, and our then direct com
munication with the sublime Mount Wash
ington, going to and from which thousand
would annually drop of to spend few
days, rusticating among cur sweet forest
and beside our sparRh2g trout brooks
give peculiar and rare advantage to thi
location.
We could greatly amplify this part o
our subject, but the space allotted to THU
article will not allow.
AT another time we intend to speak o.
that portion of the road which runs through
Franklin county. How much of the i'm
mense dairy produce that now finds de-
pot at st. Adams, would find a more nat.
ural, and cheaper access to Sheldon
What an immense local business would be
given our road at that point What splen'
did resources would be developed in that
region--but Of that at another time.
We give you below letters from two gen
tlemen whose words in this affair should
weigh with you much. They are the words
of men whose faith has been amply 'testi-
fed by their noble works--their l''diridu-
al subscriptions nor amounting to at least
one hundred and fJty.fre thousand dol
lars. We ALLURE you, friends, to mark
we'll their words, and hesitate no longer
When they say that they have reason 10
believe that when we have furnished our
ten thousand to the mile for the completion
of the road bed, cur securities can be me-
gotiatcd at about par, they say rather less
than more than they might. 1t is their
cautious and prudent way Of telling you
what they kno,c. In eighteen months,
then, from next April, We can, ace aollt,
hear the snort Of the iron horse, and see
our county commence a career Of glorious
progress. But, nor mark, If ice fail to
make this response imthe mert .tour ,ceehs,
we shall let slip an opportuuity'which will
probably not rccur in the next generation!
Read what they say:
ST. JonSsBURY, Dec l4th, 1868.
4,
find that it will not be convenient for me to
70 to johnson on Wednesday, and trust it will
make no difference with the action Of the Board
Of Directors
The most | could do, would be to urge the
work forward with the least possible delay The
time has come when the Lamoille Valley should
say, " We pil hare the Road at all egenis, and
that without letting the grass grow under our
feet We want spades ordered to the front! as
soon as the frost will admit of it, and we
can't see why they can't be. If you cannot this
winter make your subscription clean $40 900 to
the mile, you never can; and that is all that is
lacking, to put the road under contract, from
Connecticut River to Lake Champlain. What
we would like, would be to sec this done, and
work commenced in ercry tour, before July
next
Cannot each Of the Directors be furnished
with subscription book, and be constituted q
committee to canvass his town for stock. If this
could be done, the amount obtained, ip the az
gregate, would roll up beyond your expectations.
Much should be done, and must be, in towns
adjacent to thosc-who have subscribed as towns.
Let us ne apIe 10 secure AIr. Lindsey at an
early day, and by the time we are called upon to
go to Portland, have our stock-list made up, and
report ourselves ready for work.
Please let me hear from you in regard to the
action of the Board, and if there is anything
can do to advance the work, command me and
III respond if in my power.
Very truly Yours,
FRANKLIN FAIRBANKS.