Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-21
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 We have had frequent occasion to re- mark that for our village on hill. raised far above the rivers which attract nanafacturiag capital in New England, Beauty is Business. We live and prosper oa cur breezes and pleasing scenery. Every season our streets are filled with the carriages of city visitors who come up s0 enjoy our cool air, our views and our drives. The main and even the bye roads are explored for miles in every direction by people searching out the beautiful pances with which our hills and valleys abound One great want. however, has been that. with the largest lake in the SAAAe within few miles of our village, we 0n hardly be said to have any lake scen- sy except distant views. On its western ed most uninteresting side only is there . rcd skirting the shore for a part of the dissanee. The eastern and bolder shore. s8ong which beautiful wood road could eMnIly be laid, has never been opened to shs visitor. It is to meet this great want tAns shs project we refer to has been sAmRaed.
 A fsw weeks since Mir. Horatio Benton. af Morris. raised c subscription for the szFtsy of . road around the lake. The ssrSsy was made by Mir. Jennings. of 4ilsea, and shows that, at an expense of fs1@ S.O00 to $4. 900. roads can be built from near the new Lake House about c nil8 westerly to the present highway near KseasRis, and from the south end of the Lake, along its eastern shore, to Marsh's, iron two and half to three miles. This would complete the circuit of the lake except . short strip of its northern border, would give our visitors e most beau tiful drive of about ten miles completely around it, and would shorten the travelled road from this place to Washington, Rox bury. Bridgewater. and Western Wood bury, about two miles.
 Accurately, the distance from the Lake House to the highway at Keeler's is 20 rods. This piece is all within the town of LitchHeld. There is a bridge over the outlet and little diking neces- sary. but it will not be an expensive road to build. The other and more important road. beginning at the south end of the lake. lies mostly in Morris. There are two routes for the upper end. The shortest follows nearly a straight line from the lower end of the lake to Marsh s and is only 25 rods over two and a half miles in length, a mile of the distance ly- ing through woods The cost of this road is estimated at from two to six dollars rod. The right of way over a large part of it has been given by the pre- prietors over whose land it passes. It rises at the highest point about an hun. dred feet above the level of the lake, but the rise is made by long approach at easy grades. The other route follows the lake shore more closely, crossing through . depression about half way down Marsh's Point. the elevation at the highest point being about fifty feet above the level of the lake. This route is about half a mile longer than the other, but it is more level. the views it opens up are much finer, and the cost of its construction would not be greater than that of the shorter one. This whole road will be most beautiful one. fully equal, those think who have been over the line, to the famous Waramaue LAks road, which cost, if we reeollect, Aa@r SlO. 1000. Mir. Benton proposes that @.OOO be raised by subscription for the building of these roads, which will leave but small amount above the cost oi maintenance as burden on the towns. This seems no moro than just, from the fact that while the greater part of the ex. panss of tho proposed roads will come on che town of Norris. the greater advantage wlla accrue to Litchfaeld.
 No observing person can help recogniz. ing the fact of unusual growth in this place since the construction of the She paag railroad. While there has beer gFsat financial depression in the country and while farming lands in this town ant elsewheas are difficult of sale at reduced prices. real estate remains high in Litch Aeld. simply because of cur growth as summer resort for city people. Sucl being the case, everything that tends {, improve Lltchfeld as . place of resor tends to the growth of the place. and VI, know of no improvement, costing no nor than the proposed roads. that will be s important No doubt Progress is costl, and we have been pretty heavily burdene' bY the various enterprizes that are devel Oping the place; but this Lake road is n new project. it has long been felt to b one of the necessities of our development and we do not believe it can be, or ough to be. mnch longer postponed. a.l a !.
 Capt J. E. Durham has been remoye from tho office of Postmaster of Bridge port. On the charge of having sold subor dinate positions. He denies the charge Col Knowlton succeeds him.
 Pres. Grant has appointed Zach. Chan AiaE. sx-SenatOr from Michigan, Secretar, af the Interior, in place of DeIano. I doss not stEiks ns as . good appointment
 The New Haven Insurance trial stil drags along.