Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04
MONTPELIER AND BLACK RIVER
RAILROAD.

hAILhOADs
An adjourned meeting was held at AL
bany in favor of this enterprise on the
9th ult., and as Sanders hall was not
large enough to convene the audience,
the Congregational meeting house was
opened for the occasion. Montpelier,
Hardwick and Wolcott were represented
by from sixteen to twenty delegates each,
and other towns interested by substantial
delegates.
The previous organization having been
considered as only temporary, Mr.. Wal
ton of Montpelier moved that it be made
tho permanent organization and 1t was so
voted. Appointed D. M. Camp of New
port additional Secretary. Mr.. Walton
made some remarks to show by compari-
son the ability of the people of the sew
eral towns interested, to build the road,
and predicted that, should they do it,
the increased value of the property of
the towns would in thirteen years amount
to more than the entire cost of the road
Rev. W. II. Lord advocated the narrow
gauge road, and showed, by engineers
estimates and by reports of actual cost
of such roads, that while the business Ca
pacity far exceeds the work now per-
formed by the Vt. Central, the cost of
building, equipping and running will not
amount to more than two-thirds as much
as the common gauge roads. Mr.. Cotton
of Irasburgh thought the people of that
town were of one mind in favor of the
road aud would do their full share to-
wards building it. He thought the
freight on lumber would amount to $780,
900 annually. Mr.. Tyler thought Mr..
Cotton had fairly represented the town.
Mr.. Putnam of Worcester spoke of the
saving to the owners of lumber by hav-
ing railroad near the lumber, and of the
great demand that now is, and will con-
tinue to be, for that article To ques-
ton in regard to the continued supply of
timber, he said that of 5000 acres, all
the timber of suitable size may be taken
from 100 acres each year. and before the
last 100 acres are reached, the first lot
will be as heavy timbered as at first, and
referred to some instances known to gen.
tlemen present to substantiate his posi-
ton. After remarks by Rev. S. G. Ea-
ton and others, Mr.. Judevine of Hard
wick offered the following resolution,
which after debate was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That committee be ap-
pointed for the purpose of making pre-
liminary survey for railroad from Mont
pelier to Newport or Troy, through the
Black River Valley, and of obtaining a
charter of the most feasible and practi-
cal route between said points, and for
raising the necessary funds for said sur
vey, said committee to consist of two from
each of the following towns, viz: Mont
pelier, East Montpelier, Calais, Wood.
bury, Hardwick, Middlesex, Worcester
Elmore, Wolcott, Craftsbury, Albany,
Irasburgh, Coventry, Newport, Eden
Lowell, Westfeld, Cabot, Marshfeld and
Troy.
Resolution by Mr.. Poland:
Resolved, That the committee be di
rected to forward to the friends of the
enterprise, in the several towns named
In Mr.. Judevine's resolution, which are
unrepresented here, copies of the same
and request them to appoint their com
mittees and report their names to the
Secretary or Chairman of said committee
Adopted
Committees were appointed as follow,
for the towns represented. Towns il
blank not represented
Montpelier, P P. Pitkin, E. D. Has
kell East Montpelier, Calais
Ira S. Dwinell, E. D. Haskell; Wood
bury, S. K. Cameron, R. B. Dow; Hard
wick, A. 3. Judevine, F. 7. Bridgeman
Middlesex, G. G. Putnam, Charles Hunt
Worcester, Horatio Templeton, VIM
Bruce; Elmore, A. P Slayton, A. M
Kelley; Wolcott, E. P. Fairman, R. F
Parker; Craftsbury, j. W. Simpson, Mel
son Rand Albany, H. W. Chafey, J. E
Chamberlin; Irasburgh, E. P. Cotton, c
=. Allen; Coventry, J. R. Thrasher, P
B. Hancock; Newport, -; Eden
-; Lowell, James Brown, VIM. H
Blaisdell; Westfeld, Cabot