Report of the Toronto Board of Trade; Received and Adopted at the Annual Meeting, February 27, 1856; And Report on the Toronto & Georgian Bay Canal (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...for new sidings, which the new mills and establishments upon the line and its vicinity, amply justify; this will render necessary a further supply of rails, Sic. Although a great deal has been effected in securing extended accomodation at the Portland Terminus--the most important feature in the whole project, there still remains much to be accomplished which is now in active operation. Hence expenditure upon a large scale is still going on, to stop which would be virtually to close the door upon the trade. I would estimate the work still to be done on the line, and the stations between Montreal and Portland, and the necessary increase at the Portland Terminus to be about 150,000 sterhng. This would make the total cost of the line somewhat under 9000 per mile. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient servant, (Signed, ) ALEX. M. ROSS, Engineer. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY OF CANADA. WORKS IX PROGRESS. RETURN OF FORCE EMPLOYED DURING THEMONTH OF JUNE 1011.--Appendix A. REPORT OF THE GENERAL MANAGER. Gentlemen, --In presenting my Report of the operations of the Line between Montreal and Portland, duriug the past year, it will be necessary, for the information of the Shareholders, to state briefly the condition in which we found the property on taking possession of it in July, 1853. The Directors of the two Companies, namely, the St. Lawrenee and Atlantic (from Montreal to the American Frontier, ) and of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence (from the American Frontier to Portland, ) anxious it appears to secure the Summer Traffic of 1853, opened the 47 miles between Sherbrooke and Island Pond, which completed the through communication to Portland in a very imperfect state; so much so, that it became necessary in October to close it again, except f.