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X//l^i4^^ (s Of A ItOMEa WIWIPMWI V.\:''''A OK, 1 j.jl; 'i. ! p mj% i fifiiiB:». ..n^^ SAILWAY BXTENSlOIf MOM QiFiELPH TO LAKE HUROn| 'J M^ii ip \%,%}, lit 'to vr I vm'ifim'mM»: -n oisj*^"^***'*'''"^ ''^-1 f'jn« b&?t Hi?.' (>fr OF HAMILTON, 0. W«7 ,'. .Kt>T.ll«*^' ^•^ .ItiL. R. Raw, book AMD JOB rBlVfIB, JAMM MBBIT,. AMIlfOB, 0. W \\\\\\^^ S VI c »&J^^ J 'i aiidl piiiotiei4i>te liitttB, : .¥hA fbllfnring pUin fiiotowd flgures, idVooating the building of a Railway from Guelph via Elora, Fergus, Mount Forest and Walkerton, to Lake Huron—are berein respectfully submitted by the Author, for the oarefai fod oandid consideration of the Katepayers who will I;|e bQaiofi^^- idjy its ^QttniotioD. I L flH ; ^rik«l^ t^ikt«d two thoQsand five huncfred (2,560) copies of this Report for freb distribution, among the rate-payers of the diunties of Wellington, Waterloo, Perth, Grey, Huron and ^ruce. I it$ circulation amongsf dllprniiet eoticemed, Ihtg I To expedffi Uavt to request that Gentlemen to whom I tend extra copies, will plette address and send thmi without loss of time to their friends and acquaintances, who areeifJier directly c/ Indirectly this . r i « interested in the building of /Railway. , ^\ Cfointy Wardens, Rbevas, Counoiliors, Edito^ inivkhmiHJ i ers of newspapers, Postmasters, Clerks of Townships and Clerks of Counois, Merch'ints, and others, will p^oaso send me lists of names of rate-payers in tVcir townships, with post-office 'iddressei I post paid, and I will pve-p^y andiseira a copy of this Report to •aoh person in said Counties, whoso name and address are sent toe. When you have read this Book, please lend to your neighbour, trho will read and return it to you for future reference, F. w. watkinS p. 0. Box '91, itAMiLTOV, April, 1881 r ft ft ft ft ft ft HOT. .n ,WOTHM/.l. .,1 nHA itoi.fl .^iM .H W J ' % 2VX §wf»t gnti» m& ijiimti vn • (iO-: ADDRESSED TO THE RATE-PAYERS OF THE COUNTIES *' OP WELLINGTON, WATERLOO, PERTH, GREY, HURON AND BRUCE. h via Elora, GEfifTLBUBN,—As I am personally a stranger to a large majority Huron—are of you, it is perhaps best for me at the oatset to inform you who I the careful am and what have been some of myantecedejits in this Canada of 111^ bQne|i^ oors. tK)) copies of I am an old Backvroodsman, who has spent twenty-nine payers of the years of my lift, (from 1819 to 1848 ) clearing up and then cultiva- Huron and ting oar Canadian wilderness lands, thus endeavoring to do my paVt to make our beloved adopted country " bud and blossom as the rose." leemedf Iheg From 1848 to 1860 I was pleasantly and profitably engaged in the racopie$yWill mercatatile business in the City of Hamilton. Since 1860, up to /me to their the present:, period, my time and energies have in a great measure Or Indirectljf been satisfactorily employed in aiding to develope the increasingly ' * ' * . useful immense Oil treasures, that for untold ages had lain hid in their rocky depths, in the far-famed township of Enniskillen. ps and Clerks id me lists of I have also the pleasure of being able to inform you that for- and Bioe 'iddresses darinfr the last ten years, I have been a Ratepayer in the Coun* his Report to ty of Bruce, and such being the case, (although I am a citizen of iress are sent Hamilton,) I can assure you that in everything that has a tendenoy to aid in the development of the reaouroes of your rich, fraitful irneighbonr, Country, and thus add to the comfort, convenience and happiness of rence, youiMlves and families, your interests and mine are identical. I know, because I have passed through the same ordeal myself, what :in5^ i your privations and toils have been during the f it twenty (20) P.O. bl. Box to tbii-ty (30) years, whilst you have been laboriously engaged in cl«sring ap jour heavy*timbered lands, and bringing them into that high state of euUivation that is now the cause of your honest I pride, triumph and prosperity. These things being so, and feeling as I do, that I am one of yourselves, I consider it a duty incumbent on me, and that I have a right, independent of the frowns or favors^ faci or rewards of any man or company of men, to do my part' in> •cdtavoring to rtate, (especially to our1oil>worn agriculturists,) the gatt fitoBSBily '*ttat now ezisti for the imniediate oonstruction fad smsaimsamm ; . continnoM working of a line of Railway from Guelph to Lake Ha« ron ; as well M Mfi^ow ap in a plain, clear, apd truthful manner, to all our RatepayCTs, the heavy losses they are now sustaining for %( want^fauch means of transit as such Railway wiU furnnh theib I and also the figures to prove the manner in which, without injury to \\ ounelte8,'#e'6ah furnish sufficient means, say Eight Thousand Dollars, ($8,QQ0,) per Mile ; or, in round numbers. Seven Hun- dred Thousind Dollars; ($700,00^,) or thereabouts, to be employed at' a subsidy to inruioe the Great Westarn Railway Company or other contmctors, to build, equip and continu'^usly work this pro* posdd Railroad; I believe I aV-* correct in stating that tho sande can be built, and equipped in an efiicient but much plainer and less i expensive style than are our present railways ; at the same time it will require to be built safe and substantial in every respect, wLh the view, however, cf our trains only running an average speed 0^2 from twelve (12) to sixteen (16) miles an hour thereon ; and, ai a matter of course, in only providing for such a rate of speed, th^ rails may be somewhat lighter than those now used oti our Great Western Rjpiilif.ay, the guage, however, being of the same breadth. In short, this railroad will require to be built, stocked and worked in a safe and substantial manner, and in perfect accordance with the amount of'.tubsidy that will have to be paid to ensore its constrac- tion, so ttat'it may be made alike profitable to the Shareholders and to th«%fti6{palitiei. Tn entering tyon the task I have assigned to myself, that of ad- vocating* thi{[l question, I feel it my duty, for a variety Of imporUnt reasonSchendinafter given, to recommend the building of this Rail* way from Guelph via the towns of Elura, Fel*^, Arthur, Mount Forest and Walkeiton, either to Inverhoron, on Invbrhuroa Bay, «t to 8out)l|tmpton, nh Like Qurdu. Although in si doing, I an aware that a small but yet respectable mindrity of the Ratepayart interested in Ms construction and future working, would probably^ (all things else being equfil,) prefer a more NoKherly route than the one now mentioned, and which I consider it my duty to advo* cat*. I trust) however, that a lat-ge niHJority of my fellow Rate*- paytm, who, with me, aro interested in the furtherance oi tUis entevprise, will carefully, atid in an uiiselfiiih and candid nanner^ will lo^k at this facU of the ease, and having done so, that they not vitally OK«)y endorat ny sentiments in the Main, on thil great end |«i|>octiDi ^ttfttioa, btti thiat iKith unaAiaHy ol ilicUli| ttej wVA 'WHf •*« to Lake Ha* atab, with uiA, at once perseveringly and continuously take hold Ihfal manner, an(j givei ''a long pull, a strong pull, and a pall altogether;*' and the Bostaining for by so doin^ we will soon have the heartfelt pleasure of seeing farnnh head waters of Ontario boand not oalv with bands of iron, but also theib j tiout injory to with the more enduring ones cf a healthy and vigorous ooiomeroe bt Thousand to the rich and fertile shores of Lake Huron. Seven Hun* The Counties and Townships more particularly interested in the be emplojred building and future working of this coiitemplated Railway are now, Company or by the active induPtry of their rapidly increasing population, trans, i^orlcthis prO> formed from being a vast wilderness into a coutitry that for beauty hat the sbofte of situation, salubrity of climate, fertility of soil, and water-power ainer ; and lets for the propelling of all kinds of manufacturifkg miohinery, is equal e same time it to any, and superior to most of the Townships and Counties of respect, wi.h Western Canada. rage speed o"* In that section of our Province, through the benevolence of a on ; and, aa a kind Providence, the past 2 years. 186 i and 1866, have beenyeara of speed, th^ of unparalleled agricultural prosperity ; the clouds have dropped oti our Great fatness, tie ea>th has abundantly increase, the bj^ms same breadth., yielded her d and worked have been filled with plenty, and I am thoroughly of the opinion ^noe^iththe that, during those two years, there is not any portion of our coun* try (of equ&l extent) that has produced {greater amount of agri. 9 itttonstroc- a Shareholders oiiltural wealth. Such being the case,- and in the absence of Railway facilities to cheapen and eitpedite the transportation of> grain and alt kinds of saleable farm produce from that section ol >ir, that of ad- country to frontier markets, as well as to i.icilitate the importation r of important thereto of such goMs and merchandize as are necessary to supply' of this Rail. the watits and add to the comforts of its inhabitants, it becomes my Lnhnr, Ifouttt duty to jut down a few of my ideas respecting the necessity that buron Bay, «» exists for the immediate building of this long-talked-of and much- doing, t am needed Railway *, and I trust that by so doing, I may state some le Ratepayers facts and figures bearing oh the question that will, in some degree at vid probably^ least, inform the minds and confirm the opiniors((is to the necessity \j route ifasin thers exists for immediate action boi tg taken in this milter,) of a duty to adfo» minority of the Directors (British ai d CA'^adittn) of our

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