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Transcriber's Notes

The fractions one half and three quarters were shown respectively as
1-2 and 3-4 which was retained herein.




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  |    FACTS AND FIGURES    |
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  |       CONCERNING        |
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  |   THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.    |
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  |    By JOHN J. PIPER.    |
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  |        FITCHBURG:       |
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  | JOHN J. PIPER, PRINTER. |
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  |          1866.          |
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FACTS AND FIGURES

CONCERNING

THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.


By JOHN J. PIPER.


FITCHBURG:

JOHN J. PIPER, PRINTER.

1866.




THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.


In his inaugural address to the Legislature, Governor Bullock says,
"There can be no doubt that _new facilities_ and new avenues for
transportation between the West and the East are now absolutely needed.
Our lines of prosperity and growth are the parallels of latitude which
connect us with the young, rich empire of men, and stock, and produce
lying around the lakes and still beyond. The people of Massachusetts,
compact, manufacturing and commercial, must have more thoroughfares
through which the currents of trade and life may pass to and fro,
unobstructed and ceaseless, between the Atlantic and the national
granaries, or decay will at no