The Woburn Branch, 2 miles long, belongs to the Lowell road; the Medford Branch, 2 miles, the Methuen Branch, 3 miles, and the Great Falls Branch (in New Hampshire), 3 miles, to the Maine; the West Roxbury Branch, 5.35 miles, and the Pawtucket Branch, 4.2 miles, to the Providence; the Brookline Branch, 1.6 miles, the Newton Lower Falls Branch, 2.5 miles, the Saxonville Branch, 4 miles, the Millbury Branch, 3.2 miles, and the Milford Branch, 12 miles, to the Worcester; the Marblehead Branch, 3 miles, the Gloucester Branch, 13.5 miles, and the Salisbury Branch, 3.4 miles, to the Eastern; the Fresh Pond and Watertown Branch, 6.75 miles, and the Lancaster and Sterling Branch, 9 miles of which are completed, to the Fitchburg. The Worcester Branch road is half a mile in length, the Bridgewater Branch, 6.5 miles, the Chicopee Branch, 3 miles, and the Granite (in Quincy) road, 3 miles. Including these, the total length of what may be called the Massachusetts roads is 1,216.57 miles. Besides these, there are many roads in process of construction, leading from the main lines in Massachusetts into other States. During the session of 1846, the Massachusetts Legislature chartered eighteen roads and branches, with an aggregate capital of $ 5,795,000; during the session of 1847, sixteen, with an aggregate capital of $4,822,000; during the session of 1848, nineteen, with an aggregate capital of $7,105,000, and the capital stock of the railroads already in operation was increased $ 3,945,000; during the session of 1849, fourteen, with an aggregate capital of $2,470,000, and the capital stock of the railroads in operation was increased $ 1,150,000; and during the session of 1850, three roads or branches, with an aggregate capital of $740,000, and the capital stock of the roads in operation was increased $925,000. 3. Principal Lines of Railroad in Process of Construction in New England and New York, on the 1st of September, 1850. Name. Atlantic and St. Lawrence, From Portland to the Canada line, which it strikes at the town of Canaan, Vt., where it connects with the St. Lawrence and Kennebec, Bath, & Portland, From Portland to Augusta. Length, 60 miles. There is a York and Cumberland, Portsmouth and Concord, From Portsmouth to Concord, N. H. Length, 40 miles. Open from Portsmouth to Raymond, 23 miles. Concord and Montreal, Concord and Claremont, Ashuelot, Contoocook Valley, From Concord, N. H., via Haverhill, to a point of intersection From Concord, N. H., to Claremont, where it intersects the Open from Contoocookville, on the Concord and Claremont New Hampshire Central,. From Manchester to its junction with the Concord and Claremont road in Bradford. Open to Weare Oil-mills, 10 miles. From Dover, N. H., to Haverhill. miles. Cocheco, . Open to Farmington, 17 Great Falls and Conway,. From Somersworth, N. H., via Rochester, to Conway. Open Peterboro' and Shirley, to Rochester, 12 miles. From Groton, Mass., where it leaves the Fitchburg road, to Peterboro', N. H. Length, 30 miles. Open to the State line, 15 miles. Connecticut and Passumpsic River, From the mouth of White River, at Hartford, Vt., up the west bank of the Connecticut to the State line at Canaan, where it will connect with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic road. Length, 114 miles. Open to Wells River (Newbury, Vt.), 40 miles. Will be opened to St. Johnsbury, Vt., by 1st November. Length, 60 miles. From the Vermont Central Railroad, at Stanton's in Essex, Vt., to the Ogdensburg road, at Rouse's Point. Length, 40 miles. Will be open in October, 1850. From the Rutland road at Rutland, to Whitehall, N. Y., 24 From the Whitehall and Rutland road at Castleton, Vt., to contract. From Bellows Falls to Brattleboro', Vt. Length, 20 miles. This is the connecting link between the Rutland and upper roads, and the Connecticut River and lower roads. Fitchburg and Worcester, Length, 12 miles. Grand Junction and Union, From deep water at East Boston to the Worcester Railroad in Wilton, Canal, Naugatuck, Brighton. Length, 6.18 miles. From Nashville, N. H., on the Nashua and Lowell road, to Wil ton. Open to Danforth's Corner, Amherst, N. H., 9 miles. From New Haven to Springfield. Open to Tariffville, 45 miles. Open from Bridgeport, Conn., to Winsted, 62 miles. Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, Open from Plainville, Conn., to Willimantic, 43 miles, Ogdensburg, From Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Rouse's Point on Lake Champlain. Length, 118 miles. Will be opened the whole length in October, 1850. Hudson River, . New York and Erie, Length, 160 miles. Open New York. From New York City to Albany. 1851.] IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1848-49. 209 Branch (Camak to Warrenton), 4 140 66 Jackson and Brandon, Mississippi (Natchez and Malcolm), St. Francisville and Woodville, La. Clinton and Port Hudson, Mexican Gulf (N. Orleans to Proctorsville), Tenn. Memphis and Lagrange, Ky. Lexington and Ohio (to Frankfort), Louisville and Frankfort (open to Lagrange), Ohio, Little Miami, 66 Mad River and Lake Erie, 130,000 500,000 46 450,000 46 395,600 14 100,000 30 168,000 24 27 33 450,000 27 84 1,508,402 57 1,754,260 14 36 XXVI. PASSENGERS ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1848, TO 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1849. |