Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-01

Legislature, in connection with the build
ing of the Atlantic and st. Lawrence
railway, which traverses small portion
of the State, in which he met with suc-
cess. A meeting was held in 1915, in
Canada, in reference to the Passumpsic
railroad, in which few had faith, but it
was all accomplished. The demand of
business required the building of the
Portland and Montreal railroad, it was
pushed through, forming one Of the lead
ing international lines of the country,
and by its construction had awakened a
new impulse in the people, and had
tended to form mutual relations of friend
| ship between those colonies and the Unit
ed States, and in all our relations we
were one except by the accident of being
under different governments. No one can
fail to see the Importance of the social
religious, literary and business union
of the two sections which were but
auguries that eventually we should be one
people. The world looks with admiration
on this union of interests, we sympathize
in all movements between each other.
The building of the Montreal Railroad,
was a necessity growing out of the bust
ness relations of the Canadas, that they
might have access to sea-going vessels in
winter. The Welland canal affording an
opportunity for an export trade during
the summer season, between the
West and Portland. This slim
ulated Portland, and had enabled
her to recover from her disastrous
fires, and rebuild her stores and dwellings
In more magnificent and substantial
manner, and has built up that city from
10000 to 10000 inhabitants, with its con-
sequent in business, evincing the fact that
the railway is the great benefactor and
civilizer of the age. In less than 40
years, these instrumentalities have revo-
lutionized the world. 1t has lifted up
the marble from your quarries, and
I clothed your fields with verdure, and cul-
tivated your hillsides. The enlargement
of the Wclland canal set the tide of trade
to the seaboard, so that when, ten years
ago, only 800 barrels of flour were deliv-
cred in Boston, against $4,000 barrels de-
livered last year. Chicago delivered at
Buffalo, 100000 of bushels of grain
in 1862. The present year bids fair that
it will exceed more ethan 100000 900, in
dicating the tendency of freights east
ward from the grain growing regions of
the Great West. Greater facilities are
required to extend the lines of traffic.
Mr.. Poor at some length referred to
the vast resources and power of several of
the leading Railroad Corporations and
the immense amount of business that
came to them, all Of which were lines Of
transit cast and west like the project now
under consideration. These corporations
were a great power. Vanderbilt who but
few years since snecred at the idea of
of railway over steamboat transportation,
now controls 2,i0O miles Of railroad
Press even stood in fear Of these great
iuenop,lieS. The growth Of Chicago was
ala illustration Of the value OF railroads in
building up towns and cities And even
now, by different combinations many OF
the large cities of the west were extending
lines Up save thcmselye, from rival in
forests These facts indicate the great
strength Of the enterprise in which We
are engaged and affords Us the nforml-
tion that freight- are rapidly seeking and
demanding an outlet 10 the. scahoard.
Hence the feasibility Of this line afford
ing smother harbor for shipments to
Europe.
General statistics Of railroad building
in England and America were given by
the -pca ker, showing the truth of the
theory If the rapid increase Of business
and the demand for the transit of mer-
chandi~e and productions OF both countries
The marble Of Rutland, and the forms
into which II MAY be wrought, must at
ford immense business in the future, and
increase the p3puation. and business Of
the town in proportion to the extension
Of il railroad facilities. We are looking
+, know ,,l,,ra tho FREIGHT !. n come
from. Il is provided for in advance in
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