Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-23
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The Rail Road.

laud and Ogdensburg Through Line ex'
tends from the Connection; River to Swan
ton. a distance Of III miles. Our Mr..
lIasslcr has just returned from a personal
inspection of this Division, and is, there
fore, enabled to make the following state
meuts Of his own knowledge.
Before II was contemplated to build a
consolidated through line, charters were
obtained in Vermont for the following
named railroads: the Essex County, from
the Connecticut River to St. Johhsoury /;
the Montpelier and st. JOhnsbury, from
the latter place westwardly to Danville {;
and the Lamoille Valley, from Danville
TO Swanton which three companies are
now. under the direction Of Joint tx
ecutive Committee, building the line from
Dalton TO Swanton. At Dalton connec-
ton will be made with the Boston, Con-
cord 4 Montreal Railroad and with the
Eastern Division of the Portland & 0g-
jeusburg; at St. Johnsbury the Passum'
sic River road is crossed from Cambridge
a branch will be built to Burlington, and
al Swantou, direct communication will be
had with Ogdensburg and Montreal by
roads long since completed, and with
which favorable contracts for an inter-
change of traffic have already been en-
tered into.
Let us examine cursorily the character
of the country tributary to this Vermont
Division, noticing some of the features
which combine TO make this section Of
country one through which it will pay to
build railroad if the local traffic alone
is taken into consideration. At Dalton
the rapids in the Connecticut River af.
ford excellent water power, and the tim
Der now growing about the head waters of
that stream can be floated thither for man.
ufacture and transportation TO market.
From Concord sawed lumber is now being
carried by the railroad in remunerative
quantities, and the development of the
slate quarrcs aud copper mines is only a
matter ola short space of time. Of St.
Johnsbury we will speak more in detail.
The Passumsic, the Moose, and the Sleep
er Rivers afford water power for saw.mills,
machine-shops, factories, and last, though
not least, partially for the extensive Scale
Works of the Messrs. Fairbanks. Ten
acres of ground are covered by these
Works, and the employees, in number about
six hundred, form quite community of
themselves. Ia all parts ofthiS establish
ment accuracy and careful attention to
details are conspicuous, and it is to these
features that we cannot but attribute the
eminent success of this firm, and the world
wide reputation which it has so justly
earned.
The Messrs. Fairbanks are sending from
their works over twenty-five thousand tons
of freight per annum, for the transporta-
tion of which they have been forced to use
the Passumsic River road, Their goods
for the West have been carried north
wasdly by this road to the Grand Trunk
Railway, and by that circuitous route have
been conveyed to their destination and
those for the export and the East and
South also by it until other lines coald be
reached. 1t does not surprise US, then,
that this firm have with their usual abili-
ty, prudence and forethought thoroughly
identified themselves with the construction
and management of the Vermont Division
Of the Portland and Ogdensburg, both Of
the active members of the house at st.
Johnsbury being also members of the
Joint Executive Committee, and taking
deep personal interest in the affairs of the
road.
Continuing west along the line Of the
road we pass through Danville, with its
wooden mill, lumber, and granite quarry !;
through Pcacham, with its many million
feet Of timber; through Cabot, with its
woolcn. mill and maple sugar trade !;
through Walden, whose staple products
are butter and starch through Greens.
boro' with its saw mills and water power,
and roads to the towns of Wheelock and
Glover. We are now in the famous La
mile Valley, and pass through Hardwick,
Woodbury., and Wolcott, with connec-
lions to Craftsbury, and its large lumber,
butter, and live stock trade. as also It's
TOMBSTONE quarry. Elmore has thousands
of acres Of original growth Of timber
awaiting only market. Morrisville is
next reached and is certainly one Of the
most thrifty and beautiful Of New Eng
land villages. Tho Lamoille river here has
fall Of seventy-four feet, and affords a
noble water power. Besides the factories
already established others are in cotempla-
ton, and since the opening of railroad
the town has increased very largely in all
that constitutes permanent wealth. 1t is