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from Piscataquis to Bangor, there is no place in the present known 

 world from -vNhich slate can be sent to Boston, New York, or anjr 

 Atlantic city, so cheap as from Piscataquis. 



Now if mj statements of the inexhaustible supplj, of the unsur- 

 passed quality, and the lower cost at which this article can be pro- 

 duced in market, be true, and I know they will be found so, after 

 the fullest investigation, is there not a sufficient object to build a 

 railroad to Piscataquis ? If these are not considered sufficient, the 

 Hon. David Pingree, proprietor of the Katahdin Iron Works, has 

 often told the writer that he would alone give a railroad to Bangor 

 a yearly business of ^40,000, 



S. E. CROCKER, Age7it B. and P. S. Co. 



