Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

year shows q movement Of 267,743
tons OF freight ~ aud from pOiats west
OF the lladson river. Here than is
nearly l,450,ee0 tons OF freight that
contributed TO the New York Central
RalhO Dads. Add TO thus the movement
via the Grand Trunk aud the Ogdens-
burg Railroad with its Lake steamers
upon the North, the movement upon
the South VIA the Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and Now York steamers, the
Sound lines 10 and from New York of
freights that arrive at New York for
New England, and we cannot coubt
that the total freight movement of the
New England States with the States
west oil US equals it it does not exceed
100000 tons. With the completion
of the New York and New England
railroads connection to the Hudson Il
larger proportion of tbs movement OF
freight Will come into the New Eng
land States hy rail than there now
does, as this connection will give a
short all rail connection to many inn
portant points in Connecticut and
Rhode Island, where Western supplies
now reach them via New \ DIRK city,
while to-day the Grant Trunk carries
but small proportion of the two mil,
lion tons of freight that goes and
comes from New England, and in any
of Vanderbilrs pooling combinations
if averaged to-day, the Grand Trunks
allotted portion would be quite small.
But it would not be surprising if all
the plans now afoot in connection
with the Grand Trunk are executed,
to find that railway demanding and
receiving third of the New England
bus ness with the West. Tue latest
project l.? connection with the Grand
Trunk is the construction of u railroad
from Ballston, N. Y, over y route
surveyed some years since, to Garth
age. his line will be some 120 mile:
in length, mostly through the Adiro2-
dacks, from Carthage to Clayton upon
the st, Lawrence river. Opposite
/ SaAanque, station upon the Crane
Trunk II niles cast of Kingston, there
is railway now in operation, the dis
lance being 81 miles. From Ballstor
to Boston via Gen. Burt's new railroad
and the Hoosac Tunnel is less thar
200 miles from Sananque to Chicago
via Port Huron and either of the
Grand Trunk proposed Independent
routes will be not more than GO mics
making the distance, via this proposed
new route, from Boston to Chcagt
1924 miles. The distance via the New
York Central and Lake Shore between
the same points is 1887 miles, and VII
the present Vermont connection of TIL
Grand Trunk 1850 miles. The grade
of the proposed Adirondack conncC
ton Of the Grand Trunk are lghte
| than the MAXIMUM grades Of any 0
the Trunk lines, like the New Yor
Central, Baltimore and Ohio, or Penn
sylvania Central roads, besides enat
| ling the Grand Trunk Ito which it i
? proposed to lease the road) to compel
for Boston business upon equal term
with the New York Central, BY mean
of the proposed railroad upon the ives
shore Of the Hudson from Albany
New York, Vanderbilt will find anothe
competitor for the business of New
: York city itself, while large loca
business cannot be expected from tn
Adirondack region. 1t is evident tina
very large through business woul
await the completion Of tue road. Eth
third and fourth tracts Of the NeN
York Central, built at cost of nearl,
? 30,000,000, it will be remembers
were constructed for through bushes
With the Grand Trunk deliveriu
freight in Northern New England, vi
Montreal and Ogdensburg, in centre
New England via the Ii osac Tune
and ip southern New England via tn
Poughkeepsie Bridge and the Fri
+ Railroad, all perfectly free from Van
derbilJs control, who will claim that
, / demand upon the part OF the Gran
Trunk for a third of New England
traffic with the West would thus be q
preposterous as it would now look
made with the present pooling polio
in force. We expressed the opinio
some time since that Vanderbilt woul
find the Job of contendng for Ne,
, EngIand's traffic with the West yer
difficult one. We have as yet seen n
reason to change that opinion, an
trust that the Grand Trunk Railwa,
with its 400 miles of railroads.&c.
, of it steel rallied the capitals
} of England behind it for any judicior
9 extension, will make Vanderbilt's 10
l much more difficult than even we ha,
! claimed it would be.-Boston Journo