A TAX ON THE LAND TEN MILES EACH SIDE OF THE ROAD, to build it, would in three years repay itself, and leave to the present population and their posterity an enduring source of wealth and importance. We lose one hundred thousand dollars annually in the price of butter and cheese alone, when compared with the prices obtained by Lewis and the northerly part of Oneida, simply because they are nearer the Canal and the Rail Road. BUT TAKING STOCK IS _NOT A TAX_, IN ANY SENSE OF THE phrase. It is only resolving to purchase a certain amount of property in the Road, which, taking similar investments elsewhere as a sample, will pay interest, or can be at all times sold at par, or at an advance, like other property or evidence of value. The owner of shares can at any time sell out, and have the satisfaction of knowing that he has greatly added to his wealth merely by affording countenance to the project while in embryo. THE DIRECTORS ARE POWERLESS UNLESS THE PEOPLE RALLY to their aid. They have made efforts abroad for capital to build the Road, by adding to the subscriptions on hand at the time they were chosen. Owing to causes not prejudicial to the character of our enterprise, they have not for the present succeeded. Aid they have been promised, but they are enjoined first to show a larger figure at home. The ability and disposition of our population must be more thoroughly evinced than has yet been the case. AGENTS ARE AT WORK, OR SPEEDILY WILL BE, ON THE whole length and breadth of the line from Cape Vincent to Rome. A searching operation is to be had. If the Road is a failure, the Directors are determined that it shall not be laid at their door. Let this be remembered, and every one hereafter hold his peace. CLARKE RICE, Secretary W. & R. R. R. Co. Watertown, Aug. 27, 1847. APPENDIX B A LIST OF THE OFFICERS AND AGENTS OF THE ROME, WATERTOWN & OGDENSBURGH RAILROAD (March 22, 1886) _President_, CHARLES PARSONS, New York _Vice-President_, CLARENCE S. DAY, New York _Secretary and Treasurer_, J. A. LAWYER, New York _General Manager_, H. M. BRITTON, Oswego _Supt. of Transportation_, W. W. CURRIER, Oswego _Gen'l Freight Agent_, E. M. MOORE, Oswego _Gen'l Pass. Agt._ (Acting), G. C. GRIDLEY, Oswego _Gen'l Baggage Agent_, T. M. PETTY, Oswego _Gen'l Road Master_, H. A. SMITH, Oswego _Supt. of Motive Power_, GEO. H. HASELTON, Oswego _Assistant Superintendents_ W. H. Chauncey, Oswego J. D. Remington, Watertown W. S. Jones, DeKalb Junction _Agents_