The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-09-28
Wiscasset and Kennebec Railroad.
WIsCAssET, Sept. 26. 1871.

To the Editor Of the Press:
The result of the meeting of the inhabitants
of Whtefield yesterday, is most auspicious to
the immediate undertaking and speedy con-
summa ion of the project of this road. One
hundred and fifty thousand dollars as a loan to
the corporation was voted; and it is contem-
plated to appropriate twenty thousand dollars
town subscription to the stock of the company
wHITEFIELD.
Whitefed is an int rior town, isolated to
the great thorougbfares of commerce, upon the
upper waters of the Sheepscot whose meander-
ings furnish to its territory not only rich allu.
vial deposits for extensive and success
full agricultural operations, but also mag
niicent and numerous waterfalls for
extensive manufacturing purposes. 1t
is one of the richest, most industr-
Gus and thrifYful rural communities in Maine;
and in the energy and enterprise of its popula-
tion unsurpassed; and all that is wanted is the
opening up OF its fertile meadows and abun
dant and facile water powers, to the busy hand
of manufacturing enterprise, the mechanic
arts, and the manipulating fingers CT COM
merce, to restore these hills valleys and water
courses of the ancient Dominions of Maine,'
portance and power.
EFFECT OF THE k. & L. r. R. ON TRADE AND
TRAVEL EAST.
The completion of the Knox & Lincoln rail-
road in its final contemplated connections
with the city of Pa ngor, via Belfast and the
Georges River, and its affiliations with the
upper Penobscot valleys and the bay below.
must powerfully affect the commerce, in ternal
and foreign of this part of the country. 1t will
shorten and cheaper transportation and travel
between Bangor 1.-THE great interior and dis
tributing centre of the region described) and
teh great marts of commerce, Portland, Bos-
ton and New York, via of Wiscasset, at least
twenty miles of railroad transit, and with
proper water connections by steam or sail. all
all Of forty to torty-five milesl These natnra,
advantages must be a fortune to anv nlace and
company controlling the same; and if ia Tho
duty of the merchants of Portland at on.a 70
secure them or their control at Wiscasset
BY so doing Portland can defy the combina.
tions of capital and interest to carry the trade
and travel of the east by her harbor and
wharves out of the State on the one side, as
they have succeeded in doing by their railroad
con solidation from the western side of the Ken
nebec on the other.
EFFECT OF wIsCAssET RAILROAD SYSTEMS.
The completion of the Wiscasset and Ken.
heoec roads now chartered and funded will
enhance the Importance of Augusta and ex-
pauu It's business relations indefinitely. This
city Is destined to be to the Kepnebec and ts
valleys aud tributaries above an interior dis.
trioutlng centre OF trade aud travel, and nv the
projected road brought within -.
miles oitthe open sea, accessible for nu-roso--e |
commerce with all parts of the world o. ~,
seasons and for all classes of vessels. It Win
infuse into the business of Augusta new ele.
ment of commercial life and commercial actiy
ity. The trade and travel of the populous and
fertile fields and prolific manufactures of the
upper Kennebec and its eastern tributaries,
tor purposes of export and import, and Market
able transit at Wiscasset must be shortened