The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-28


railroad, extending from the depot of the
Maine Central railroad at West W aterville to
Carratunk Falls in Scion, a distance of "a
bamiles, has been put under contract and the
works. to be commenced forthwith s.s71
eva The contractor is Mr.. s. s. Thompson. for
. merly contractor on the Atlantic & St. Law
~ renee railroad and now of Lyndon. Vemont.
bEs Mr.. Thompson, after the completion of the
- Atlantic & St. Lawrence railroad, built the
siAPassumpic railroad extension from St. Johns
bury northward, and has since resided at Lyn-t
rs don, Vermont. He is well known as a reliable
41 and responsible contractor uilot i,lfot ilgA
,su The Somerset road is under contract of lease
Ito the Maine Central railroad, and the means
= for constructing it has been raised chiefly by
SWthe towns on its route. a-e p. t...ft g. ....
nih Its construction will add at once to the bust
81 ness of Portland By the lines located, the
Snit>wn of Anson is broush t by mile or two me-
or to Portland than Skowhegan by the line of
a the Portland 81 Kennebec railroad, although
% the distance between the two places is some
> twenty miles by the river. From West Water
v villelnto Norridgwock the distance is but
eleven miles, while it is some thirty miles by
% the way of East Waterville and Skowhegan
1.-The completion of this new line into the in
terror is matter of much interest to the bust
~ nest men of Portland. 10 ssfrsf ,ffs. .a
son The enterprising President of the Somerset
~ road, Joel Gray, Esq, is a native of Embden 4
where he has his summer home, and to whose
rE sagacity and public spirit the county of Som
is erset is largely indebted for the success of tie
enterprise. .,,g,r f..f,a.,o..t ~. "A
"a THE FAIRBANKS SCALE MANtPacroKY.-
It is well known that the celebrated scale man
ufactory of the Fairbanks is situated at st.
= Johnsbury, VT, on the line Of the Portland.
i; White Mountains and Ogsensb,lre Railroad.
Some idea of the amount of businass which
the road will derive from this source alone NAV
be gathered from brief account of the extent
I. of the works They employ there four hun
dred men, and manufac- ure from eight hun
dred TO one thousand scales per week. includ-
ing all sizes. They melt from twelve to fifteen
~ tons Of pig iron per day. The freight to and
from St Johusbury station last year was near
i ~ ten thousand tons. They use 100000 feet
OF lumber per year. The freight bills sett ed
at that station of the Passaic Railroad during
~ the year 1867 amounted to over 80 soo Tho
aggregate manufacture of scales for tho
D year is some over 100000. Every dascr,n-
ton of weighing apparatus is manufactured
from the small prescription scale of the druo.
gist to the weigh lock scale of 500 tons for
weighing canal boats. The Messrs. Fairbanks
are now manufacturing railroad track scale
with platform 80 feet long, with capacity of
70 tons, for weighing trains of coal cars They
have made them 1870 feet long. sd .sss1C i''-
''''" The present firm consists of Thaddeus Fair
banks, Horace Fairbanks and Franklin Fair
80 banks. The scales were originally lin 183O)
g invented by Thaddeus, who was then assocat-
4N ed with Erastus Fairbanks, an older brother
,Irsa PReDIGIoUs sMEETNa.-The League meet
ing in Philadelphia on Monday was immense.
sis Fully thirty thousand people, says the Press
on gathered in front Of the Clnb House OF Broad
street, swaying in immense masses from Mar
bet street 10 Spruce Larger than the great
meetin-s of 1866 or perhaps any ever before
q, held in Philadelphia, it was an emphatic avow
al for Pennsylvania of her intention to fall in
to line in October. Vermont and Maine must
look out for their laurels