History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . He began with the Merrimack Boating company in 1818. 880 HISTORY OF CONCORD. represented (queerly enough in view of what has since happened),that no route could be found for such a branch in a tolerably directline between Portsmouth and Manchester, but from a point in Hook-sett this branch could be built. When the Portsmouth main lineshould reach Concord, if this Hooksett branch, as it was called, werebuilt to Manchester, there would be, by connection with
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . He began with the Merrimack Boating company in 1818. 880 HISTORY OF CONCORD. represented (queerly enough in view of what has since happened),that no route could be found for such a branch in a tolerably directline between Portsmouth and Manchester, but from a point in Hook-sett this branch could be built. When the Portsmouth main lineshould reach Concord, if this Hooksett branch, as it was called, werebuilt to Manchester, there would be, by connection with the Man-chester & Lawrence line, another route hence to Boston, not so goodas the existing one, but capable of harm. Here was a situation thatmight have been met in various ways. Some people would havemade a noisy wrangle about it. The Concord Railroad was wiserthan that. It kindly took the new-comer by the hand, loaned it fiftythousand dollars in 1849 (for which it had legislative permission),and never sought repayment, brought it into Concord parallel withits own tracks in 1852, and persuaded it to abandon the Modern Type of Locomotive. Until about 1849 the Concord companys engines, Souhegan, Penacook, Tahanto, and the like, were built by Hinkley &Drury (afterward the Boston Locomotive Works); then the Amos-keag Manufacturing company, following an example set long beforeby the Locks and Canal company of Lowell, permitted the agent ofits machine shop to go into engine-making. The Amoskeag com-pany naturally claimed as a customer the railroad which ran past itsdoor, and turned out engines like the General Stark, in August,1849, and later the Rob Roy and the Ixion, with more steam-making capacity than had been usual. As engine-building increased CONCORD AS A RAILROAD CENTER. 881 at Manchester, the tracks of the railroad became a practice-groundfor products of the shop, and it was a rather common sight for apassenger train to come into Concord drawn by a Gray Eag
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