Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-04-24

| place was taken by his substitute, James A.
| Shedd.
Portland and OgdensbuTg Railroad,
Our Portland friends are still pressing
| forward and have not in the slightest degree
changed the original plan Of building through
| lhe . Notch, and meeting us a the Con
! uecticut river in Dalton. All articles in our
state papers to the contrary are incendiary
and entirely without foundation Papers
and correspondents who are in adverse in
tcrests are the OriglnatOrs OF these articles
and then they are taken up and published by
our State papers whose location is antagOn-
istic TO the interests Of this valley but those
who kuotr The tactS, take no alarm. And
we now take this occasion to assure the
friends Of the enterprises that everything is
going on all right and ask Of them in case
they hear rumors coming from enemies al
home or abroad regarding the road u take no
stock, because it will be w0rthless.-La-
NOBLE Newsletter
CAMBRIDGE, Vt, April 18th 1872.
Editors Messenger The operations upon
the l.. v r. R., were suspended last Friday.
in this town. Ii makes much confusion among
Uh la5orers, as plans had been made for
pushing the enterprise on with vlgor the
coming season. Loss must occur to those
lv the action ls en- barrassIng to many.
Your letter from Treasurer Wead, was read
with interest, but can hardly reconcile its
C ,ntents with the movements in this section.
Hoping well for the enterprise, | remain,
Yours. E. p. MUDGzTT.
s.. ABaHS Messenger.
We make the above quotations from two
Of our exchanges, as information from near
the line OF the Lamoille Valley Railroad, and
also as Introductory to a motto. of some
things that are now transporting at Portland,
Maine, the eastern terminus ofthe 2. il .. r
By publishing these notices We do not intend
TO be incendiary, and most certainly
nothing il farther from US than de-
sire to be regarded as antagonisticf to the
interests Of the Lamoille Valley, which is
too near neighbor not u have interests in
common with Montpelier.
But from the animated discussion now
going on in some of the Portland papers
relative to the " Notch . route as it is termed.
through New Hampshire to the Connecticut
river. and the failure Of theI City Of Port
land to raise the =, 800 900 required to as
sure the construction Of road over this
route, 1t would seem that the way in which
Portland Is to become connected with Osens
burgh is still open question. The Port
land A rgus of the 18th inst says that after
the most energetic Efforts for several days to
obtain signatures to q petition requesting the
city government t. appoint commissioners,
eng neers and others for the purpose Of as
cert4ining the feasibility and cost of the ex
| tension OF the Portland and Ogiensburgh rail
road from North Conway to Dalton \. H. a
distance of 50 miles, only one hundred and
sixty one names out Of some six or seven
thousand voters we're obtained. As one rsa-
son for this, it is stated that the surveying
and engineering on the P. & 0. r. up to Jan.
| LIST 1872 had cost sixty-six thousand sixteen
dollars and thirty-fve cents and the road Is
not completed sixty miles. The Portland
/ paper very reasonably claims that if the OBJ
] ect OF a commission is to find out and make
a railroad connection with ogdensburg, or
some other terminus of water transit on
the lakes, for the purpose Of building up
that city it is important that other routes be
examined and reported upon, and the one
adopted that viii require the least aid from
that city, to build, and effect the object de-
sired. In 40 earlier issue it gives the figures
10 81 ow that there are other routes that are
shorter, vastly mora feasible aud less exp pen
sive to buiId-that whilst the Notch route
runs through mountainous and sparsely
settled section of country where no local sup
port could be given to a railroad, where the
! I-.T rho
could be counted upon as certainties, the
| great object to be obtained can be secured by
easier grades through fertile valleys. 1t is
not necessary for us here to report the figures
Of distance over the several routes any
farther than to say that those given for the
Notch route through New Hampshire are
much larger and the grades to be overcome
much heavier
| 1t is evident from the hesitancy manifested
| by the citizens of Portland in coming for
ward, and with their signatures urging on a
further expenditure upon this formidable
route, that they have been counting up the
costs and have come TO the conclusion as th c
Eastern Argus suggests, that there is such a
! thing as paying too dear even for railroad
The Portland Daily Press is of the opinion
that ), the voters of Portland will refuse to
permit the credit Of the scity to be loaned to
the Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Com
pany to enable them to continue the road
through the White Mountain Notch to connect
with the west division at the Vermont line. p.
1t is regarded as better financial policy
TO lose the S7I4,O00 of stock already sub
scribed BY the city, than to cast s., 100000
more on waters so far above the average tide
as to leave no reasonable hope for their
re turn, to 90 with that already invested
One way out of the difficulty, which the Press
suggests, is to build AZ miles of road and
make connection at Meredith or Plymouth
n. II. with the Boston, Concord, and Mon