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Excerpt from The Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad Line: Eastern Division, Vermont Division; The Resources, Population, Wealth, Business, Manufacturing Capabilities, and Tourist Attractions of the Country Tributary Thereto; Also, Its Relations to the Territory and Commerce of the Great Lakes The country, too, is already wealthy. The nominal valna tion of' property upon the Vermont section of the road, for the purposes of taxation, is about Its real value is unquestionably in excess of This includes simply the main line and the Burlington branch, and gives an average property of $687 to each member of' the population. The estimated average property of each individual in the United States in 1860 was In addition, the towns on the Passumpsic Railroad that will do more or less business on the Portland St Ogdensburg Railroad line, have property to the amount Under the operation of the leading occupation, dairy farming, the lands throughout the district are constantly growing richer, and by consequence the bulk of property growing larger. This is patent to the observer in the number of new buildings, new and large barns, with the latest improvements, going up in all the region. The opening of the road will add fifty per cent. To the value of land and buildings, upon the average. The movement of freight to and from the territory, is already surprisingly large, in consideration of the lack of railroad facili ties. In the year 1870, the towns situated upon the main line, not including the Burlington branch, and including those whose business will beyond peradventure come upon the Portland road, received and shipped of merchandise asfol lows: lumber tons, butter tons, pork 392 tons, . Cheese 269 tons, wool and hops 131 tons. There were also sold of cattle sheep live hogs horses and of potatoes, for food or starch, bushels.. There were also of outward freight, not included in the above. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.