The Portland daily press., 1873-09-22

would be so adjusted, moreover, that the peo-
Pile of Maine would be obliged to pay seveo per
cent, upon all the money. the half score million
dollars more or less, wasted in the long contest
and IN building parallel lines from which no
substantial benefit could ever be derived.
These roads must make peace some day. Rea-
son will reaSsert itself when the inflammation
of passion shall have had time to be reduced by
the depletion of the pocket. The State of
Maine IS most deeply concerned that their war
Fare cease now, before other millions OF useless
debt are gathered for its people to pay 1t is
for you, stockholde of the Boston and Maine
anu Eastern Railroads, to declare that il shall
cease forthwith. Nothing il to be hoped from
your boards of directors They are no better
than stark mad They have become deeply
Interested in the battle" that they can see and
hear nothing else, and think of nothing else.
Consider the case. Your roads must
always constitute the grand channels of COM
municatlon betwlxt this commonwealth and
the business centre of New England The out
lying provinces to the east, moreover q mag
nlticent domain in extent and capacities for
wealth and population, mu-t always remain, SO
far as business intercourse shall enlarge, in inn
portant part, your territory. Boston has been
scattering her money over the distant west by
millions, in region remote. the profit Of
whose growth must be divided with other sea-
board communities. Here to the east are ca.
pabilites of development large enough to sat-
isfy the amplest ambtion-develcpment that
will inevitably adj to the wealth and power of
Boston i'll LARGEST measure and to other trade
csntres of New England in their proportion.
10 Maine alone You have a field larger than
New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts and
Connecticut, together This terr tory pos
sesses more good land than all the rest of New
England conbued. OF lands unsettled there
are 10000 square miles, about 9.3f6,OO0
acres, of which g. 3lj3000 are in Aroostook
county. Speaking OF a tract of the latter lands,
containing about one and a half million acres,
Mr.. ;. L. Goodale, one of the highest author
tiles upon such questions, estimates their pro-
ductive force at ten bushels of wheat or one
and half tons of hay per acre, and their ca
pacity for population by consequence at nearly
one million persons. About the head waters
OF the kennebec and PenObscot rivers are
other great tracts of wilderness which in the
sum afford wide areas of excellent. soil This
territory Is now practically worthless for the
purposes OF settlement because 10 cannot be
reached by rail. The imruigrant will not. now
a-days, go tar from the railroad. Upon these
lanes an enormous amount of lumber rots
down because 1t cannot reach market The
better part OF the spruce pine and hemlock is
worked off by the rivers, and tue cedar in
part
But the prodigious growths of Yellow and
white birch, of maple in several varieties of
beech, white and brown ash, poplar hacmatac,
bass, hornbeam, etc.. every srickIof which with
III lew years has come TO assume value at
market, fall where they stand and are lost. as
/ they cannot be ioated by the streams This.
| too, with birch and maple plank worth S25 per
thousand, say at Portland and Bath, and the
other woods in proportion. If the lumber
bard and soft, that goes To waste on the wild
/ lands of Maine every yeai from the lack of
| suitable facilities to market, he estimated at
| only the modcum OF fifty cents per acre the
sum Involved would suffice TO build one hun
dred and fifty miles of railroad each twelve
calendar months! What Maine asks of YOU,
stockholders of the two Boston roads. ia 10
J combine your strength for The development of
! this great territory. She asks you, maypaui-
mously forgetting the past to secure harmony
! OF counses and oneness of interest and then
| to devote the great sum you could annually
save from present outIays to the building Of
feeders to your trunk line up into the uufur.
nlshed parts OF blalne,-tbis, of course prma
rily foryour own advantage, not for hers
Specal circumstances in the case are propi-
| tiOus The European and North American
Railway is now possessed of nearly a million
acres ct valuable timber lands. having received
the same by gift from the State. These lands
are rich in soil, lumber iron, limestone and ex-
! cellent marble. Bat railroads must be con-
structed through them to make them avail,
ahle-the proposed and chartered North
/ AroOstook railroad, at the outset The Eu-
| ropean road cannot build this extension But
it is willing, it is anxious to dispose of all its
| property and rights to those who can. Your
! companies iu combination can do this work as
it we're with one hand. Would YOU but con-
sent TO doit you would lay the State of Maine
under the deepest obligation. You win open
| up ineomparably the finest part Of New Eng.
! land lying in mass, the development of which
would enrich Maine, and directly and indi
rectly greatly enlarge the business of YOU
roads. You would at Ouce Command vast
freight of lumber. There can be no question
that the State will cooperate With Won in auy
scheme fo- promoting settlement. Nowhert
else in the United States can charcoal iron b,
made in great quantities at so low cost as
| amongst the gigantic hard wood forests oI
Aro0stook county, with the bess of ores ex.
tending for miles with limestone side by side
for flux. The slate belt of Maine, reaching
| eighty miles betwixt the kenbebec aud Pc
nobscot rivers, and turning out the best liter.
| ally the best, slate in the world, needs railway
extension. The PIscataquis branch of the
European road has been pushed into its vicin.
ity. Short spurs to the quarries are now in.
dispensable to the more rapid utilization of the
deposits. The supply will last practically for,
ever, and SO will the demand IL is pelma
nent thing to count upon. The railroad strug.
Cling III the Kennebec River, above Skow
legan. wants lift 1t opens good country
Every mile it advances carries IT nearer til
lumber region OF NJ. osehead Lake, aud its out
lying territories, to say nothing of the roaC
building toward it from Quebec and alread,
about opeuing to the State frontier
| brauch to the European road
called for up the valley OF the Paessdumkeag
to bring out the stores of hard aud soft lumber
and let daylight into its wildness districts Th,
SHIRE line" from Bangor east to Macbias is il
sharp demand. Some $4,000 people viii give
their business. They have almost strengt
enough TO build the rUad alone, but not quite
They viii! DO their utmost with prompt alacrity
Business to aud from the Provinces would a
once enlarge greatly were the gauge of the Eu
ropean and North American road brought dow
TO the standard of the lines west, and the bridg
at ST. ,lehn built. This cannot be done with
out some help. Your roads and Boston ar
deeply concerned to render that help withou
delay. Letting alone, however, the questio
of railroad extension into new territories, 20
would hnd ample and perhaps more urgent ca
for Your helping hand N constructing shOl
branches to the manufacturing sites of IL
State, upon which diversified industries are a
ready established, but which are put at disa'
vantage bv the cost OF 'baulsge and repeate
handlng in placing their products upon I'll
rail. Examples of this sort are too numerol
TO mention. Manufacturing operations a
conducted in the localities referred to even NC
| With fair success. But enlargement must
based upon improved facilities TO market.
In addition to these are the Dumerocs ar
large sites already accommodated with rai
roads close at baud, hut as yet only partially
not at all improved On the Maine Centr
railroad are privileges of this class sumniiT
from one to two hundred thousand horse pOy
ers OF water power, and in the first twel'
miles of the European Railroad above Bange
are $4,000 horse power additional, of both
which only limited use is vet made, Tn Sc sit
yon can greatly assist in developing, either wi,
| your own resources or by your influence viii
ma nufacturers and other capitalists You ca
also greatly promote their develupment by a
Jnsting freights at rates especially encouragin
to the manufacturer. Snch advances with
view to future reimbursement your lines actir
in harmony could make on the most Iber
scale.
All the various work thus outlined yo,
roads can do most efficiently together. III
great harvest to be gathered from such a SOW
ing both roads should be anxious TO reap q
gether. As the case now is neither road ca
venture TO attempt any part of the tlsk, Main
remains undeveloped and impoverished, an
your roads gather from it meagre i've fold {
business that should be tifty.iold. No chang
| in the relations of the case brought about b
the intervention of courts or legislatures will
| avail for peace. These forced conclusions onl
infame deeper resentments. 1t is in your pow
er, and rs matters now stand, in yours only I
secure s b tantial agreement. Such an aere
ment Maine urgently entreats you To max
without delay. Certainly men of inseliyenc,
men of good business Judgment. as localities
most OF your are, men who have so heavy n
cunnary interests Ut stake, must g able
come to an aderstanding upon SO plain a cor
eern Passion as de, the calm deiiberatitn
one dav wonld adjust all differences Over n
work of that day there would be lust ocelsio
for such rejoicing as has not been seen f
/ many year in MAISr