The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-07-24

If time aai money q start tho bat.
H There were formidable d.alaul.
Ties H. arertame wtleh. ty patience
aai perseverance. were 81 length 50
. far overcome SIS ta establish the fact
iaai iais m.lk business Night grow and
become a great success and source q
F pfa6l 60 miE producers. dc well as TO
See railroad Tie farmers have ouly
to fauIsb good mIIk. well cured. and
the railroad 60 carry tt al rate a
. freight that wiu leave profit To the
producers This. we had reason 10 be.
lcyc, would BE- done. Many. perhaps
nearly 40 doubted a fret. whether our
usw business would survive mid.sum-
mel, and waited doubling aud waiting
. e. see whether the milk business would
/ become az established institution. Aud
SIC pushed oa with the business, en-.
couragei aud gati6cd 10 see that con.
( fdcuce 10 hundreds Of instances was
taking tho places Of doubt and mistrast.
. Let me say here, waiting on the part
/ If farmers caused as to lose money
Z We put 10 our money aud spent our
/ time necessary 10 DO a large business,
and charged DO more commission at
frst. when but few were sending milk,
than would make it profitable to US
when the business would become large.
Therefore. We lost money.
We could have increased the bust
Bcss lastcril the freight on milk had
been siGtyvents a can instead Of eighty
cents a can. Other railroads charge
from fifty to sixty cents a can. think
the true policy Of al railroads is 10 fix
their tariffs with a view TO furnishing
facilities for developing the resources
Of the country through which they
pass This especially should be the
policy Of the Harlem Extension Rail.
road, as il is and must be largely de.
pendent on its local business II was
built by bonding the towns through
which it passes, and it is for the bust
ness Of tue valley from Rutland to
Chatham, and must depend fer support
mainly on that valley and Of course is
/ interested ia its Development, Milk
can be produced without a railroad as
with, but can it be sold To be sold
it must find its way to a market. This
is the reason why towns put their
money into that railroad ; and the re-
sources Of country may be just as
readily developed by furnishing the
means Of transporting 500 cans of milk
to market daily, where they can be sold
at a better price than can be obtained
at the place Of production, as any other
way. And when railroads furnish these
facilities, and il is known that such re,
suits may be obtained, sooner or later
the 500 cans will be increased to 2, zoo
cans daily, and thus the product and
profits, both TO the railroads and farm
ers, will be increased. This is the true
development. And the same may be
said Of everything else that farmers car
produce for am accessible market from
a side Of beef down to a cabbage head
The New York market for milk may be
ever so good, bun it will do the farmer
/ no good if it costs them nearly all the
milk is worth to get it to market The
farmer must be placed within reach Of
market where he can sell advantag
eously whatever he can best produce q
surplus Of. Then, if he will, he may
prosper and he viii help every one with
/ whom he deals to prosper And rail
roads are just as dependent upon the
products Of industry to transport as
farmers are upon the means of trans
portation. If milk can be transported
at a price that will leave profit for the
farmer, milk will be produced for mar
kct otherwise, IL will not. And the
same with all kinds OF produce, /
/ marble can be transported at a price
/ that will leave q profit for the worker
! Of the quarry the quarry will be work
cd or developed otherwise, it will moi
be and nothing will be furnished Il
transport. An1 the same with lumber
coal or any thing else. Railroad
should aid iu every practical way al
such enterprises This is their true in
tcrest When this policy is pursued
both by railroads and the people, ther
they will be mutual helps, and this i,
the true point to be aimed at. anC
should be the criterion or rule for fix
ing rates Of transportation. But they
lost sight Of this when they fixed thu
freight oa milk at eighty cents a can o
forty quarts Was this railroad bull
for the people OF ars the people to b
whitfield aad shaped ia every way 70
the railload until they ate whittle,
away and unable to produce anything
to he transported to markety
We took hold of this njk business
ou this railroad with the expectation o
loss al first. So far as our business wa