The Portland daily press., 1872-07-09
A Vote for Ogdensburg.


vote to complete railroad that belongs to
the people of Portland not to handful OF
capitalists, and that will be managed by the
people and for the people of Portland for all
time. tf.
1t is vote to secure the advantage of the
investment of s., 250,O0O by Vermont, Cana
da and New York to give us independent
route to the Great Lakes to which 100000
square miles of the most fertile country in the
world are tributary, occupied by 100000
of people, whose annual business by the Lakes
is over 500, 900, 900, having increased over a
thousand per cent. in the past thirty years.
1t is vote to secure the outlay of $780,
900 by Canada to give us an Independent
route to Montreal, including bridge across
the st. Lawrence. .G
1t is a vote to secure, at Montreal, connec-
ton with the vast system of Canadian rail-
ways, to which the Dominion government
has appropriated $3O,0OO,O00, the Imperial
government $13, 900 in addition to 50,-
100000 acres of land, or nearly S1O0,0OO,00O
in the aggregate to ensure their prompt CON-
pletion.
1t is a vote to secure for Portland share
in the enormous business centering by these
railways at Montreal which Sir Hugh Allan
has declared to be only inferior to that of
Montreal herself.
1t is vote to make Portland the export
and import centre to the vast territory lying
upon the Canadian railways, present and
prospective, as well as to that tributary to the
Great Lakes.
1t is a vote to enable Portland to profit by
the vast enlargement of the canals now in
progress by the Dominion government, as
well as of the Caughnawaga canal when eon-
plete.
SIt is vote to secure connection with the
Northern Pacific R. R., whose president Gov.
Smith first proposed the route through the
Notch, had it surveyed, and now, as always,
declares it to be the best route from the great
Northwest to the Atlantic.
1t is a vote to secure a route to Chicago,
independent of the Grand Trunk, south of the
lakes.
1t is vote to secure another route to the
same point via the Canadian railways, giving
d
efits of competition.
1t is vote to secure to Portland perma-
nent trans-ocean steamship service through
out the year; to secure against the attractions
of Boston Sir Hugh Allan's steamers in ad-
dtion to those to be run by the Grand Trunk;
and other lines which our favorable geograph-
ical position and railway accommodations
will enable us to sustain.
1t is vote to give our traders access to
market vastly larger than any to which they
now have adequate means of approach.
Closely contiguous to the line is population
of 100000 who are remote from any other
railway, and who by the necessities of trans
portation will do business over this road
And beyond, throughout the great West, our
merchants will find by this line access to a
population of millions, and can compete for
this trade.
EFT is vote to give our manufacturers also
more direct and cheaper approach to the
great interior where their goods find sale.
1t is vote for a great increase of business
in the city, a corresponding increase in popu-
lation; consequent increase in the value of
real estate, of houses, shops and stores, in
crease in the demand for every form of labor,
skilled and unskilled, and of every element of
material prosperity.
To refuse to invest in this great work, so
full of promise to the city, the paltry sum of
two and seven-tenths per cent. of the real
value of the municipal property, would in
deed be the riot of unreason.