Title

Report of the Committee Appointed to Procure a Survey for the Route of the Contemplated Cumberland & Oxford Canal to which is added the Report of the Engineer, Containing an Estimate of the Expence of Making the Canal

Authors

Cumberland & Oxford Canal Operation
Woodbury Storer
John Perly
Phinehas Varnum
Eli Longley

Files

Description

The Committee chosen for the purpose of procuring a Survey to be made, of the Route of the contemplated Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and of causing an estimate of the probable amount necessary for carrying the design into full effect, have performed the services assigned them, and now present the annexed Report and Estimate of the Engineer, which will in part, exhibit the result of their labours.

The Estimate of actual expense is $130,804,89 ; to which is added 5 pr. cent, or $6,540,24, lest in any event that sum should prove insufficient for the completion of the work. Although this sum falls far short of what was anticipated by many, still if the nature of the land through which the route is pursued, the facility with which the excavations can generally be made, and the kind and cheapness of the materials required doubt can possibly exist that the sum is amply sufficient. That there are some individuals in the community who may be led to doubt its truth, is obvious ; but the Committee do not deem it their duty to spend time or paper in argument to convince the sceptical [sic], for a slight knowledge of facts will show the feasibility of execution within the limits of the sum assigned. --from the report, p. 3-4.

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Publication Date

11-27-1823

Publisher

The Mirror Office

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Maine History

Disciplines

Engineering | United States History

Comments

Pamp 1074

Recommended Citation

Cumberland & Oxford Canal Operation; Storer, Woodbury; Perly, John; Varnum, Phinehas; and Longley, Eli, "Report of the Committee Appointed to Procure a Survey for the Route of the Contemplated Cumberland & Oxford Canal to which is added the Report of the Engineer, Containing an Estimate of the Expence of Making the Canal" (1823). Maine Bicentennial. 87.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainebicentennial/87