Excerpt from Report of the Directors of the Rutland and Burlington Railroad Company: At Their Annual Meeting, at Rutland, Held 20th June, 1849 Law'i ence with Lake Champlain, and the friends of that enterprise are sanguine of the early completion of the work. Its consequences upon the transporta tion business of the Lake, and our own road part1en larly, cannot be over-estimated. The Lake forms a great basin in which Will be deposited, without breaking bulk, or transhipment, the illimitable pro ductions of the West. Your road, terminating at one of the most favorable points, cannot fail to participate largely 1n the new. Business thu's about to be intro. Duced. 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.