The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-18


was confidently anticipated at the outset
Some of the reasons are tolerably well
known to those of the readers of the Times
who cared to keep posted in regard to this
important enterprise. The delays and diff
hcultics have all been fully explained by
the failure of the former contractors for
the division between
WHITEHALL. AND TICONDEgOGA.
They entered upon the work of CON
s,ructiOn without sufficient means, and the
money they were obliged to use in satisfy
ing the claims of workmcn for wages and
merchants and manufacturers for supplies,
was obtained only at rates that made the
contract unremuncratiye, Now that it
has passed into the hands ofmen financially
able to carry ii out, it seems more salts
factory progress may he expected 1t
must be admitted, however, that the job is
not inviting. The road bed in some in
stances must be made by cut
ting down through rocky mountains,
and in others, along the lake shore, the
bank must be raised. In some places the
excavators have struck hard pan. the re-
moval of which is almost as difficult as
cutting through SO much rock A tunnel
three hundred feet long is being cut under
the old earthworks of Fort Ticondcroga.
and in short time the whistle of the loco
motive will he heard under the ruins of the
old stronghold. 1t requires no overstrain
ed rhetorical figure to bring to mind the
contrast. Grim visaged war is being under
mined by ambitious commerce. and the
productions of the nation that surrendered
the fort and the nation that captured
il will he borne along under its ruined
walls in peaceful iapidity ere many moons
shall come and go. One thousand men are
employed on this division. The work is
about half completed. Ii ishopcd that cars
will be run over this division next spring.
BETWEEN TICoNDEROGA AND PORT HENRY.
The village of Ticondcroga has lately
commenced to grow rapidly. Between it
and Port IIcnry-thirty miles north-a
railroad has already been built This road
was originally intended as a branch of the
Pittsburgh and Whitehall railroad, but
when the corporation which built il be-
came financially involved it was decided to
the Vermont Central railroad company.
In order to utilize it, the Vermont Central
bridged Lake Champlain; the furore which
this action occasioncd has not prssed ont
of the public mind. Last summer the
monetary affairs of the Vermont Central
became complicated, and the Port Henry
and Ticonderoga branch was transferred TO
the New York and Canada railroad com
pany. This company now operates the
branch. Trains now run regularly across
the Lake Champlain bridge, and the peo
pie along the branch are satisfied for the
present with this roundabout way of reach
ing the other world. When the division
between ''Ti' and Whitehall is finished
this branch will be on the direct line with
Troy.
BETWEEN PORT HENRY AND pLATTsBuRGn
From Port Henry to Plattsburgh-fif
miles-all the heavy work has been let
Two tunnels through rock-One three hun
dred feet and the other eight hundred feet
are included i'll the contracts On this
division work has just been begun The
surface is generally mountainous and rocky
and construction will be difficult. Some
miles from Pittsburgh south are excepted
from this remark. The contracts for the
the light grading will be let next spring.
and it is hoped to have this division finish
ed in October, 1874, Among the traps"
which the New York and Canada railroad
company spurchased from the Vermont
ming from Plattsburgh to the Ausable river.
This road cannot be used as part of the
main line, but it is proposed eventually to
extend it 10 kceseville on the south and |
Malone on the north.
NORTH OF PLATrsBuRGH.
From Plattsburgh TO Rousc's Point, the
northern terminus of the new route, it Will !
be necessary to construct but twelve miles |
OF road. At Rousc's Point the New York
and Canada will connect with the grand
division, and passengers and freight with
out change of cars will he carried over the
celebrated Victoria bridge into Montreal.
THE NEW ROAD.
The time when man can enter the cars
at Troy and be conveyed over the shortest
practicable route in the quickest possible
time without change of cars to Montreal il
iXed to occur within little more than a
year. We will be on the safe side and say
two years. The benefits which the new
international route will confer upon the
villages through which it passes are meal
culablc The mountains which rise along
the western shore of Lake Champlain are
rich in iron and others minerals
OF commerce. The new road will bring
coal to these villages; there the iron will
ne prepared Tor and then convey
ed by this new railroad to the
great iron center of the east. Here we
receive it and make it into stoves. horse
shoes, rails and domestic articles, and then
distribute it throughout the civilized
world.
BRANCH ROADS.
The building of this road has induced the
people who reside in villages at some dis
lance from the main line to inaugurate
projects for building branches One from
Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to 'Ti'
Landing on Lake George-four miles long
will i is confidently expected be con,
'tructed within year, and the rough and
old stage coaches will be done
lway with forever. The travel is very
ieayy In summer and very light in win
er. But balancing one season with the
'ther the projectors expect to make the In
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