Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-20

~ Dad Aahs NAaEATAst- ca unn xlie "a it
and tha Eatisaa road IA The ejbcr. and 4
wa OFT 10 Tho cold. Prssioai h. the
builaing II the Cbamplain Can,l every
thing went through thia section, Iai J IL was
a grand highway, except in Tho winter
The canal tapped and the railroad
your business, which has dimipisAed your
business and population. I havsan in
terest in this enterprise becauseE it is an
Addison county interest. Midalebury,
could afford to pay 100000 70, its ter
minal to be at that place. 1t is tnques-
tionably for your interest 1t isa per-
sonal interest to all of you. 1t is Of great
Importance to the community as an
aggregate. There is no intelligent
man who will not admit that it is
for their interest. You have only to
look at the progress of Middlebury since
the building of the Rutland Railroad,
although it has not been developed as 1T
ought to have been, because its water
power has been locked up from various
causes If this people do not help this
enterprise they make fatal mistake.
The true route seems to lie through Shore
ham, and no town needs it more. Thisl
company can build the best and shortest
route. The great want of Addison county
is to be developed. One reason why this
will be built is that this is great trunk
line 90 miles nearer to Boston than fyl
the Vermont Central. 1t is a highwy
east and west.
This is an entirely inadequate reporto
the argumentative and telling speech of
Mr.. Stewart, which should not be marret
of its massive proportions by an abstract
but should be presented as whole to de-
justice to his clear and forcible address
Hon. A. B. Waldo of Port Henry was
called upon to address the meeting, to
which he responded in happy and tell
ling manner. He came there as an out
slider, but his people had deep interest
in the construction of this road as means
of getting connection with the outside
world On their side of the lake they
had taken hold in earnest and built the
various links in the Pittsburgh and
Whitehall Railroad. They had some aid
from the State, but the greater proper
ton came from bonding the towns in the
locality. On the road from Pittsburgh
to the Point of Rocks on the Ausable
River Pittsburgh had contributed $780,
900; Peru, 100000; Jay, 8 per cent. of
its assessed valuation. On the Southern
division, from Port Henry to Ticonderoga,
Moriah contributes 100000, Crown Point
$4,000, Ticonderoga $4,000. Every
town adjacent to the line of the road has
bonded to the entire amount allowed by
law, 90 per cent. of its assessment, which
is higher than in Vermont, because prop
erty goes into the list there at its actual
valuation. These towns have done this
without any security whatever except the
natural increase of their property and
the benefits arising therefrom. We
want to get out, and are determined
to get out The road will pay when
a conn otion is made, other railroads pro.
jected, and the towns are bonding them
selves with great alacrity. A road has
been graded of very heavy grade to the
ore beds at Port Henry, and 800 tons of
ore are brought out by it daily. The
railroad is cheaper tlsan canal transporta-
ton, besides having an open communica-
ton all the year. The moment the cross
line Is constructed across to the Rutland
railroad, it steps into fine local business
! The large amounts OF this freight makes
a paying business. Iron ore is the best of
freights. The mining interests of the
town of Moriah are yet in their infancy
The construction of this cross line is one
of the grandest schemes for the benefit of
the people along its line ever conceived.
The benefits of being on great through
line are of material Importance and the
people should take heed of these consid-
erations.
Col William Il. Calkins of Tioonderoga,
on call, responded. In commencing he
referred to early incidents relating to that
section of the country and his passing
through it in his boyhood days. That
after great struggle twenty miles of
the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad
was now in successful operation. He was
located at Ticonderoga and would nat
| orally desiFe to have this road located SO
as to terminate at that point, in view of
the summer travel but more especially
for the improvement of their unparalleled
water power at that point, and the bust
ness it naturally invites. If it could not
come to Ticonderoga, he wanted it to go
to Crown Point, enabling them to get out
somewhere. He was not supremacy selfish
to have it come to his place, and while he
did not love his neighbor as himself, yet
he loved hig naighboF next to himself.
The original design was to build their
road to Whitehall, but that town thinking
it would come to them in any event, did
not bestir themselves and he had told
them if they did not do something the road
would end at Tioonderoga, and thai elso
that Old I'll. would yet ~ the head off
Lake navigation. He hoped that the
people of the western shore would wake
up and take hold OF this enterprise and
keep pace with the drum beats of Ameri-
can industry.
Mr.. Cook of Port Henry, president of
the road on the west side, responded to,
an earnest call. He said he was not like
Isaac Hill, who stated that he was unex-
pectedly called upon to make a speech, |
and then drew out manuscript and
read long speech. This question of
building railroad was practical one,
which commended itself to every int Ii
gent man. The question was asked will
it pay? He could say to the town of
Shoreham it would pay. He had some
experience in building railroads He
had built railroad in New Iere9ey