# Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel

Author: Piper, John J., -1869

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40709

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## Summary

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 connect us with the young, rich empire of men, and stock, and produce lying around the lakes and still beyond. The people of Massachusetts, compact, manufacturing and commercial, must have more thoroughfares through which the currents of trade and life may pass to and fro, unobstructed and ceaseless, between the Atlantic and the national granaries, or decay will at no distant period touch alike her wharves and her wor...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facts-and-figures-concerning-the-hoosac-tunnel-40709/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facts-and-figures-concerning-the-hoosac-tunnel-40709/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facts-and-figures-concerning-the-hoosac-tunnel-40709/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facts-and-figures-concerning-the-hoosac-tunnel-40709/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facts-and-figures-concerning-the-hoosac-tunnel-40709/chapters/5/index.md)