The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-23
IFrum the Portland Press.
Portland ana 0gdCnSburgh Rail
road.

An adjourned meeting of the corpo-
rators Of the Portland q Ogdensburgh
Ralroad Company was held at the
Common Council room Saturday even
ing Hon S. Il. Spring presided, and
IN the absence of the clerk II W
Richardson was chosen Secretary pro
t'u 1lessrs A. + Stevens, Chos. j.
Gilman $. T. Corser John Neal, Lew
IS Pierce and IT, " Richardson were
elected associate corro ,ators.
The chair then called for Il report
from the committee Of seven, appoint
ell az the last meeting aud instructed
TO arrange for opening books Of sub
scuptou to the capital stock of the
/ road and to provide for a survey Of the
route with view to furnishing esti
mates of the probable cost of con
structiOn.
FIX Gov. Washburn, chairman OF
the committee, reported that no steps
/ had hitherto been taken towards
opening books of subscription The
committee regarded it as their first
DUTY to demonstrate the entire feast
blhty OF the route, and to that end had
engaged two competent engineers to
make a reconnaissance of the line
trom this city to the Vermont border
The engineers Messrs John i. An
dola0u and Chas j. Moves, were to
leave the city to-day, and proceed to
Conway and theme to thecy Crawford
House, where he Will meet Alr Lins-
ey who has already surveyed the
route through the Notch, aud with
him pursue the Reconnaissance through
New Hampshire to tue Vermont line.
Arrangements have also been made for
u meeting, perhaps ut Oswego bat
more likely at ST. Adams, of gentle
men interested in and representing al
the inks in the great cham of railway
communication between Portland and
Chicago representing the Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont interests.
and the Vermont Central, Rome, Wa
tertown x Ogdensburgh, Great West
ern and Michigan Central railroads.
The plan for this meeting is nearly
matured The committee had also
learned that the corporators of the
Portland, White Mountains and o.
densburgh Railroad Company, lately
chartered by the New Hampshire Leg
islature, proposes to meet IN short
time for Organization ut Littleton -
Finally the committee have been in
conference during the week with re-
sponsible parties, attracted by the ob
viouJ merits OK the projects, who stand
ready to contract for the construction
Of the entire line from Portland to the
junction with the Vermont Central
Railroad
Hon. j 3. Brown made some re-
marks explaining the proposition re-
ceiyed for building the road The
contractors are ready to enter upon
the work as soon rs subscriptions are
received. They are gentlemen Of ex-
perence and means, and will put on
a force sufficient to carry the work
through III the shortest possible time.
In his view, however, it would be
proper to wait for the report Of the
engineers before opening the books
for subscriptions. 1t was necessary
to satisfy the public Of the complete
feasibility of the route lie was satls-
fled because beh al been over the route
with competent engineers; but it was
proper that the public should have
the data of careful Reconnaissance
before investing in the undertaking -
There would be no difficulty in raising
the money, ifit We're shown that the
enterprise is entirely feasible
On inquiry il appeared to be the I'M
preston of the committee that the
survey would take about twenty days.
On motion of Hon. John Lynch, the
corporators approved the the action
of the committee in employing engi-
neers to survey the route
On motion OF q. f. b. Jackson,
Esq, it was voted that meeting
stand adjourned, subject to the call of
the chairman.