LAKE ONTARIO SHORE RAILROAD. LETTER FROM GERRIT SMITH. PETERBORO APRIL 13TH 1870.
[Peterboro, N.Y. 1870]. Broadside, 8" x 13" in double columns. Very Good.
Smith, an early backer of this proposed railroad, admits that "we had greatly overrated the general desire for the road."
The towns through which the road would travel have been unwilling to provide the necessary financial support. If they do not, then the road's organizers should be "too regardful of their reputation to consent to be the directors of a road which will, in all probability, load the original and honest stockholders with great loss and themselves with great disgrace."
Not in Sabin, BRE, Eberstadt, Decker. OCLC 191229009 [5- AAS, Yale, Clements, Syracuse U, U Rochester] as of May 2022. Item #38355
Price: $175.00