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CANFIELD, Thomas Hawley. [Drop-title]: Deep Waterways. Subject of a Talk at the Algonquin Club last Evening. Hon. Thomas H. Canfield speaks of the Vast Amount of Business on the Great Lakes and of the value to Burlington of a Ship Canal. (From the Burlington Free Press). [16] pp. 12mo, stitched as issued. N.p.: n.d [OCLC gives a date of 1890; a contemporary note in pencil on the title states “March 1896”].

First book edition and rare. Canfield (1822-97), a native of Arlington, Vermont, was, by 1850, involved in railroad construction and lake and rail transportation between Montreal, Vermont, and New York. His most important project was probably the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was tireless in promoting the opening of routes for the transportation of the agricultural and mineral products of the West to New England, by way of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Vermont railroads and canals.

Fine copy, preserved in a box. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

750.0000