Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22

the inhabitants near the centre of the town were greatly fsvoured by kind Provi. dence, in having discovered that the low meadows west of the meetingho were then mostly open, and for two or three years supplied the few cattle then iu their possession with coarse hay.
 To be Continued.
 Shep0ug Valley R. R. to Salisbury.
 Editor CONN. WESTERN NEWS: The ex- tension of the Shepaug Valley railroad from Litchfield to the Conn. Western R. R.. Is but thing of time and money, as it is or will be necessity to keep in life the road The local business of the road as it now is, will not evidently pay running expenses. and the greater part of the business for profit will be done in summer when the annual migration of city people for the hill town" begins. True, local business may be built up in time like the Naugatuck Valley, but as the business of the country hecomes diversified, and water power is not such an object as it used tolbe, the time when the Shepaug river will drive numer- ous spiniles aud rolling mills, looks further and further off. Without doubt railroad adds to value, not only of lands, but to men's industry and labor, cheapening trans portation and making market for the productions of the county, and we can't have too many of them. The projectors of the Shepaug railroad kaoao that the road to pay, must be extended to some terminal point where connection can be made with other roads, and business built up other than mere local one, but where this point will be it remains for the people of North Western Litchfcld county to decide, for the road will go where the money comes from. By building the road to Winsted as is contemplated, they (the directors of the road, think that it will come in competi tion with the Naugatuck and take freight and travel both from them and the Conn. Western, and also in a measure comes in competition with the Housatonic, as the consolidation of this road with the Dan- bury and Norwalk, makes it the nearest route in the state to. New York, unless the road from Brook6eld junction is built to White Plains on the Harlem R. ssR. But IS this not suicidal policy for them, and aside from their true policy? Let us see. The corner towns in North Western Litch- field county are the wealthiest towns in the state. The iron manufacture of these towns, and value of ores and iron exported Cor sent ont of the state) are not exceeded by any manufacturer anywhere in the state, taking any one branch. More money is distributed here in these towns than in any towns >not cities) in the state, and what is the consequence Farms are worth more farmers are better off and more enterpris. ing. Take the iron manufacture away, and we immediately would sink to lower grade than any agricultural towns anywhere in Connecticut, and all this in great meas ure is due to our railroads. Before the Housatonic R. R. was built, what did the iron manufacturers amount to? True, in those days one man in Canaan did make a fortune, but it was owing more to himself, than to any particular demand, for any thing but anchors, for which the peculiar advantages of Salisbury iron were acknowl- edged, but since the building of the Housa- tonic R. R., the iron manufacture has increased from comparatively nothing, to a business of great magnitude, and the de- mand still increases. Our mountains are being stripped of their wood to satisfy the law of demand, and large extent of country is made to pay tribute, which could not be, unless we could use the modern high ways of travel. By building the Shepaug to Salisbury, new country is not only opened but market is made for their wood, and better facilities offered to wes- tern trade for Central Litchficld county, as we are in a sense dependant on the grain. cry of the world" The extension of the rail road from Ansonia. the terminus of the New Haven and Derby R. R., 10 Wash ington OF the Shepaug, and the agitation of the people of the towns of New Boston and Warren, to have aabranch from these to Warren Center, leaves us another route, (perhaps better one) to get to New Haven and the manufacturing towns of Naugatuck Valley, and opens an outlet from New Haven to the west, better than they now have. By extending the road from Warren np through Cornwall, Huntsville to Lime Rock land Salisbury, we have a through route to New Haven, which would connect at State Line with the roads from these to Poughkeepsie or Rhinebeck and the west. This latter perhaps is much better route than to go by Litchfield. If we have either of the roads, we must pay for them, and | there seems to be a need of either of these ] roads, on account of the cheaper transpor tation it will rake of coal. wood &c., and large amount of freight would be secured at Huntsville. in the transportation of iron and ore. We pays our money and we takes our choice.' As there is little desposi ton to build the Shepaug R. k. to Sails. bury now is the time to move. Goshen will q think) bond herself for either route 1 from Litchfield. There are no engineering difficulties to overcome in building from there to Salisbury, through Cornwall Hol low, Huntsville &c, but in case we can
 not get that, we still have the route iron
 New Haven. The cost of maintaining ouI public roads would pay the interest on { good many dollars subscribed for a railroad
 and when we count the increased value added 10 lands money is made.
 March 18th, 1872. HY. 8.