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The Sarnia Observer and Western Advertiser
MARCH 16, 1854
The Grand Trunk is likely to fair badly between Prescott and Cornwall,
the land owners along that portion of the route having combined,
according to the Reorder, to force extravagant prices for the land
required by the company. One hundred pounds per acre is the price
asked for land no better than has been purchased in other parts of the
province for £12 10s per acre. The Company have offered £15 per acre,
and if this is not accepted, a new line is to be surveyed ten or
twelve miles in the rear; so that the great damage complained of by
the farmers in the front will be avoided, and those combined to force
extravagant prices taught a lesson at the same time.–Examiner
