Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-29
COrrespondence-

| that you could spare Out iihil'c" 0P"0>
in your paper next week, owing to large
amount of advertising matter on hand,
shall forbear sending you the article al
ready written for your next issue, but
wish briefly to reply TO some points raised
in your commcnts,-and first let me say
that your understanding as expressed by
YOU relative to the non-publication of my
first article is entirely different from my
own. After it had remained unpublished
for some three or four weeks, then at
your special request consented to fur
ther delay of some two or three weeks as
| understood you to express it, and as you
still held the article, it would seem rather
improbable that an agreement not TO pub
LSh had been made.
You claim that | have no confidence in
the engineers. | do not know that | ever
said aught against Mr.. Lindsey, Bailey,
OF Hale. | suppose them to be competent
and honorable men in their profession, and
at the time | wrote my first article, none
Of them had ever surveyed the whole
route, and | believe none but Mr.. Bailey
had surveyed any Of the present route
from DanviIc to Cambri &c. The esti-
mate of Mr.. Lindsey might be different,
on personal survey, and when | referred
to the estimate of Mr.. Lindsey, not hav-
ing seen it for some time, my impression
that his estimate was $4,000, was occa-
stoned by adding to his estimate the
cost of rolling stock. The estimate of
Mr. Bailey of S27,T05, per mile, would
seem to be most reliable, as the survey
was made by him. Add tothis, land dam
ages, and the expense Of rolling stock, and
you have u sum of between $50, 600 and
$4,000 per mile. Within u few days |
have been informed by enc of the direct
ors that the cost of the road bed, and
5:ilg,j will amjlnt to half. or near
ly half, Of the expense Of the whole road,
add to this, land damages, and yea can
easily figure how much money is needed
according to above estimates, to put
the road in a condition to mortgage. The
claim Of some Of the directors, at our
town meeting on the 9th of April, was
that the road could be nortgaged when
the road bed and bridges We're built, and
that they had got only $l0,0C0 to the
mile, including money and bonds, to DO it
with. This sam is to be reduced by the
deduction of the interest on the bonds,
during tie building of the road, and prob
ably further deduction for discount on
the sale Of the bonds. This difference
between the amount Of our funds aud the
cost Of the road bed is the rock ON which
we split and is what this town asks the
corporation TO provide for, before we throw
up our old contract with the corporation
and make a new contract, by which we
are to advance our bonds 10 the corporation.
The town is just as truly loyal to this
great enterprise as it has ever been, but
our already burdensome taxation and fin
ancial embarrassment is such that we can.
not afford TO throw up safe contract, for
one that appears to be, and to say the
least may be uncertain.
Your idea thut "when the dirt begins
to fly" etc., the doubtful ones will step
forward and fill up the gap in the funds,
is not very probable, for men are not apt
to subscribe much for any object, after al
enterprise promises to be success, NTH
ont their assistance, and others have in
vested to that extent that they must COM
pletc The work begun or lose what they
have invested. ..f3 ta
You charge me with "imputing d,shon-
fsty" to the managers Of the road, that |
charge Messrs. Fairbanks and others with
"conniving at falsehood," etc. l can only
say that | do not SO understand it. |
have not the pleasure Of a personal ac-
quaintancc with the Mcssrs. Fairbanks but
from reputation | have every reason 10
believe they are men Of honor and intelli-
gence. | have designed neither to malign
or scandalize any man. | have never
claimed that the officers Of the road in
this county were dishonest in their repre-
sensations to the people Of this town.. in
the bonding days. l only find fault with
the secrecy with which this new scheme
OF bond changing has been kept from this
people, and with the mode attempted to
make this new contract, and that the &C.
ton Of the town in refusing TO change the
bonds, should have been met by a spirit
Of resentment and ill-leeling from those
who favored the change. | know no rca.
son why this intelligent town after it has
done and promised 50 much for this enter.
prise, should be 50 harshly dealt with, be.
cause it refuses to aceede to the new and
unexpected demands Of the corporation.
As to the pledges and conditions made