Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-06
Burlington and Railroads.

Our citizens will not of course fail To
notice the communication of the Hon.
Horace Fairbanks, Submitted by Mayor
Blodgott to the Board of Aldermen at
their last meeting, April the 9th.
Burlington las received no special ia
vors, at any time, from railroads. What
ever benefits many have been derived
from railroad facilities; TO our trade and
business, have come through legitimate
and natural channels. Our geographical
position, our COMMUNICATIONS by gwater;
our general relation to the great lines of
communication, by water and by land.
have enforced to some extent, and COM
PEELED the recognition Of her superior
business location, and facilities for busi-
ness, which have been, as they might we'll
be, acknowledged by the railroad manage.
mcnt of the State. 1t is, perhaps, be-
cause of the superior natural advantages
and facilities, known to all, that Burling-
ton has never been as active as it might,
or ought to have been, in promoting and
protecting its own interests, as respects
transportation, railroad lines, connections
and facilities for business.
The great trade, which 10 early days.
came to it from the north and east and
the northeast, and which filled our streets
with professions Of teams from all that
region of country and gave to Burlington
its life and prosperity in trade, after the
year A. ID. 1850, when the lines of rail.
roads were completed, was diverted to
other points, and suffered an almost alb.
solute stoppage. The change produced
revolutions, bankruptcy and despair, and
real estate and property suddenly drop
ped fifty to sixty per cent. in its value,
and few buyers at any price were to be
found amid the gloom that prevailed.
But whcn new enterprise began to i'm
prove upon tie business facilities of the
great agencies Of commerce. and work
our railroads 10 the interests of our own
trade and business, in place of the old de-
parted business, came in gradually, stead
lily and yet rapidly, but almost before
those mourning over the past knew of it,
a new trade, of great magnitude and Of
such special relation to industry and man.
utactures, that the gloom Of the past
was forgotten almost in the success Of the
present. And from the time Burlington
became known as great mart for lumber,
her growth has been rapid in all the de-
partments Of business, and her population
has nearly trebled since A. d. 1865.
! Therefore, although, Burlington at first
lost by railroads, and its husincss-its
old busness-was almost paralized by
improving and using the facilities which
had been chiefly instrumental in destroy
ing and revoutionizing its old trade, it
has gone forward rapidly since 1865.
and it has had in business and population
almost western growth. Blu. Burling-
ton has never regained her old trade with
the east and north-ea which was her
prosperity before the days Of railroads.
And now, strange as it may appear, the
east and Dorth-east-the valley of the La
moille-the region further east over tow.
ard and on the Connecticut river, enriched
and cultivated, ,-teeming with an active
apd busy population, full of enterprise
and industry, ask and almost beseech, that
their old business relations with Burling-
ton and Lake Champlain may he renewed.
They want to bring here again their trade
and their commerce, not as of old, in
carts and sleighs, but by railroad and cars.
They want to commune with us by speedy
transit. They want throughout the Valley
Of the Lamoille and clear out to St. Johns
bury and the Connecticut River to give
and receive with us, aud to bring back the
relations Of trade, commerce and friend
ship Of the past in old times, enriched
, and enlarged a thousand fold. To accom-
] plish it, on their part, on the whole limo
they have made the most determined cf-
forts and sacrifices, Against vast odds
, they have brought their road already from
st Johnsbury to Hyde Park and within
, two months the road will be ready for the
iron, and within three months the cars
, will Oe running to Cambridge. And now.
while this region of country, SO fertile, SO
beautiful, SO rich ip wealth and enterprise,
, asks to come to us and holds out its hands,
shall we extend ours? Shall Burlington
for the 6rst time try and do something for
, its own trade, its own life and prosperity,
by wise and concerted action --Burling.
ton Sentinel.
A Utica boy who attempted to ampu.