Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-30
We RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, JANUARY "a, 1878
The New Trunk Line.


Oar readers have been informed, from
tim. to time, of the negotiations in pro-
gress for a new and important trunk
line of railroad from New York city to
Rutland, and are aware that, on Mon
day, the final negotiations, by which the
last hnk-that from Rutland to Ben
nington. was added to the chain, were
successfully closed We present in an
other columns, the views of the New
York TTt5,lne and Troy Times thereon,
which, at this time, will he read with
interest. In order that the importance
of this movement may be fully under
stood, we, briefly, rcstate the route.
The new consolidated trunk line under
the name of the New York, Boston and
Montreal railway, is $50 miles in length,
extending from New York city to Rut-
land. 1t was necessary for the company
TO build only 1853 miles Of new road
80 miles from New York to Carmel, 335
miles from Carmel to .Hopewell, and 30
miles from Pine Plains to Chatham. The
roads entering into this consolidation are
the New York and Boston, the Putnam
and Duchess, the Dutchess and Colum-
ba, the Pine Plains and Albany, and the
Harlem Extension. The combination
gas made under the laws of New York,
and the line to Rutland is now control
led by corporate organization. The
Importance of this line to Rutland can
not be oyerestimated. Here connections
will be formed with the Rutland railroad,
forming through line to Montreal,
where it, also, meets the proposed North
ern Pacific and Montreal railroad, max
ing it the grand freight and passenger
route to Lake Superior, Duluth, and
even the Pacific Ocean. There is an
other important railroad route to be CON
sidered in connection with this The
building Of the Montpelier and Rutland
railroad, besides opening up new mar
kets and throwing open thickly set
tied, but comparatively inaccessible
parts Of Vermont, will, in connection with
this New York, Boston and Montreal
railroad, also constitute line from New
York gia Rutland to Quebec, nearly in an
air line What splendid possibilities are
thus opened up for the future of Rut-
land. With Rutland made a, if not tie,
grand railroad center of New England,
what inland town, if we are true to our
own interests, can equal us? Railroads
have made us, in a great degree, what
we are, but it is only because they
have developed our resources. All the
railroads In creation CenterIng here cam
not benefit us, only in so far as they aid
us In the transportation of the products
of our Industry, and in developing our
material and industrial resources. To
be sure one follows the other. Where
one is, the other, necessarily, must be
or will soon come. Let us, then, take
hold heart and hand and aid by all the
means in our power the building of these
important lines. No aid in or will be
required of us for the southerly route.
but with its completion, we want and
must have the route to Montpelier.
The sooner it is built the better for Yer
mont and the better for Rutland. 1t
probably cannot be built without our
help. Let that help be given cheerfully
as we gave thirty years ago to find an
outlet to Boston and New York One
half or one-quarter of the energy display
ed then would build and equip railroad
from Rutland to Montpelier and to
Woodstock within a year. With the
+ building of these roads, or either of
them, would come capital for the develop
ment of our resources, for the erection
OF manufactures, and for an almost un-
II detinable growth and prosperity for Rut-
land. The business of the line must be
immense, but we see no reason why this
act should stir up any feeling Of jealousy
or opposition on the part of Commodore
Vanderbilt, as limited at in the Times ar
tIcle. Neither do we believe it will. The
wish on the part of Troy is, undoubted-
ly, the father Of the thought. Perhaps
Troy can i'll brook the idea of possible
rival among the mountains of Vermont
But Troy ought to know, as Vanderbilt
does, that competition is the life of trade
During the Credit Mobilier investigation,
one of the Witnesses, largely interested
n the prosperity of the Union Pacific
railroad, was asked if the receipts would
pot be lessened by the building of the
Northern Pacific. His reply was, that
there was any diminution from that
pause, it would be more than made good
by an increased traffic, arising from com
petition and the development of the
Country. The idea of the Tribune is
Correct, and we adopt its language for
this locality with the change of a word
-"Old means of communication may
temporarily suffer, but the eventual re-
quilt of the new arrangements of lines
~ill be beneficial not only to Rutland
put to the whole country.