The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-03
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| By the above figuresit will be seen that ex-
cept in the year 1861, their earnings have
| steadily and rapidly increased from three nun
dred and ninety seven thousand dollars, IN
1859, to one million and twenty-four Thousand,
| IN 1868, nearly three hundred per cent. w ha1
road i'll the United States has done Detter {
| The year 1869 Will be no exception to this rule,
| but will show an equally handsome increase.
Viator would lead his readers to suppose
that the Northern Transportation Company
were running their line past Ogdensburg and
| TO Montreal. Nothing is farther from the truth.
| He practically admits that the st. Lawrence
| is not navgable below Ogdensburg, by his
| statements, that two OF the boats of the North
erh Transportation Company, drawing as they
do, when loaded, ten and a half feet were
| obliged to tighten to seven and half feet. TO
go TO Montreal. Six and half is the ayeraoe
depth of water-the present season the river
being unusually high.
1t is true, that for special reasons, two of the
boats OF this company did go to Montreal with
partial loads, the last that will go to that port
G, Eyery body knows that below this port, the
81. Lawrence river is one continuous success
ION OF rapids, not Davigable with any degree of
safety, except for very small vessels
Line past season q good deal of grain has
been purchased in Chicago on foreign account,
to be shipped from Montreal This grain has
Ogdensburg, iuto small barges.
Viator makes great point of the falling eff
OF the business of Ogdensburg from noticing
that the old wooden grain buildings were
unused and cobwebs growing in the spouts
He omlts to state that the floating elevator,
winch was able to elevate but Is, 900 bushels of
| grain per day to that building, had been super.
| seeded by fire proof building, capable ofeIeya-
| ting over 100000 bushels per day, and storing
600, 900 bushels. Yet if he was here today. he
would Find even the old wooden building.
las well the brick one, full of grain and the
Ha ed Al.
had received and elevated nearly 100000
bushels of grain this month, against lust 3OO.-
O4S bushels in October, 1863 He would find
them loading at this point, one hundred cars
per day. and would see fleet here, within the
next forty eight hours, bringing over 200 900
bushels of grain, besides lumber and rolling
freight, and he would learn that more than as
much more, is to-day afloat in the axes, bound
for Ogdensburg.
This is the Kind of "lalling off" and 'decay,
and decline of Lake business" which he could
find if his mental vision would permit him to
see any good Outside of the great city of Mon
treal. He would also learn if he wished
that the OgdensbuIg and Lake Champlain
Hallroad Company had built, this season,
fre-proof brick and slate warehouse. 8Ox4OO
feet, and he would fud that building piled full
of Hour and merchandise, and he would also
find the Same to be the case in the 'old wood
en- store house with the cob-webs,'' u nder the
grain bins, and if he would he could find eight
othCi Itoul lUU 10 0UU 1eeU In length
all piled full OF -four for New England, of
which he would see some 5000 barrels loading
per day.
Then il he would look into the shops of that
company, he would find them building and
completing two new eight wheeled grain cars
every day of The week, and he could, if he
would, learn that this had been going on for
nearly year, until their own equipment of
| freight cars had increased from about $50 to
nearly LOO, and he would find not one of
| them idle.
SO much for the Ogdensburg and Lake
Champlain Railroad Now for fact that Mr..
Poor forgot to mention, that when the Grand
Trunk Railway Company laid their road, thew
purposely avoided touching the st. Lawrence
river ut Prescott, opposite Ogdensburg for
fear portion of its trade would be diverted to
Ogdensburg, but that the laws of gravtation
and commerce have forced them to make a
connection and assist in supplying ferry
which can be maintained the year round.
Also that the Northern Transportation Com
pany, which began business in Ogdensburg in
1850 with three old and Indifferent steamers, is
now running nineteen first-classpassenger and
freight boats; that the increase of steamers
has been made to meet the increased demand
of business, and that six of the boats had been
added to the line since the spring of 1868, and
that the aggregate tonnage of this line is equal
to 700 freight cars.
He could have found out by applying to the
proper source that one company alone sends
forward from Ogdensburg, by rail, to market
upwards of 100000 feet of lumber annually.
But we have given enough in refutaton of the
Dusnwhacklng of Mr.. Poor, otherwise "Via-