Category: History - American
In his inaugural address to the Legislature, Governor Bullock says, "There can be no doubt that _new facilities_ and new avenues for transportation between the West and the East are now absolutely needed. Our lines of prosperity and growth are the parallels of latitude which c...
In his inaugural address to the Legislature, Governor Bullock says, "There can be no doubt that _new facilities_ and new avenues for transportation between the West and the East...
2. Part 2Six years ago, and _twenty-three years after the Western road was opened_, the population lying west of Springfield within ten miles of the Western road on a distance of forty-f...
3. Part 3As stated above, the Fitchburg Railroad Company was authorized to build a road from Boston to Fitchburg, a distance of fifty miles, in spite of the strenuous opposition of the m...
4. Part 4The writer of this article has not enjoyed "an intimate acquaintance of over thirty years with water power," but he has resided exactly the same length of time as Gov. Gardner s...
5. Part 5The theoretical capacity of the Western Railroad is a fruitful subject for speculations and array of figures, but facts and demonstrated truths are what practical men wish to de...