Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-30
The Railroad.

lying, as we'll as amusing, 10 soihe WIN
took stock in the wild flights of some Of
our scarey friends about the cost of con-
struction from Swanton to Cambridge
The bids for building this potion of the
road, received up to the time of the d.
rectors' meeting last week, were such as
to knock the sides of those arguments all
in. The bids, too, have been made by
responsible and understanding men.
BY the time our next paper reachss
you, VIC hope to have some very crafty
ing intelligence to communicate.
a. A Telegraph Company has been organ
lied under the charter obtained at the
lastsession of our Legislature, and it is ex.
pected that the company will very soon
construct the Iline from St. Johnsbury TO
Swanton. 1t will be of great service to
the construction parties at work at the
termini - ,
ia meeting the executive committee Of
e the various roads in Vermont which 60 to
= make up the Portland & Ogdensburg
j Railroad was held at the engineer Office
in St, Johnsbury on Tuesday, Quite a
number of proposals for grading had been
handed in by parties who are abundant
:, ~ able to perform what they contract to
do, and some Of the bids were quite IA
yorable. The committee has not yet de-
dided which one to accept, as the work
of deciding among so many bids, where
there is SO much at stake is no easy task,
but there is no longer doubt that the con-
q. tract for building will be made and the
work begun the present winter. The con-
tract will embrace sixty miles, being the
portions from St. Johnsbury to Hardwick,
and from Cambridge to Swanton. This
leaves q gap Of about thirty miles in the
" Lamoille valley, which is the easiest part
of the route to build.
1t is proper to say in this connection
that telegraph company was chartered
at the last session of the legislature, to be
called the International Telegraph Com
pany. The Company will be orgaaized
immediately and the line built from the
Connecticut River to Swanton. st.
Johnsbury Times.
PORTLAND & OGDENsBuRG RAILROAD
Contracts AwARDED.-Thc directors of
the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad
j, Company have awarded the contracts for
thegrading and masonry of the I'd, Sd
and 4th divisions Of the road-from Sc
bago Lake to Frysburg. distance of
about thirty-thl ee miles-to Messrs. Cald-
well, Dana and Hagau and Messrs. VIII
son, Tenant & Co, who make joint con-
tract for the whole work. These gentle
men have just completed thirty miles Of
tho Belfast & Mooschead Lake Railroad.
Their teams and men are on their way
here, and the work on these sections is to
be commenced Immediately and prosecut-
with vigor during the winter, in which
time it is expected all the heavy work on
the line will be completed. The contracts
= made with these gentlemen are very fa-
vorable for the company. They were
lowest bidders, have had good experience
: in building railroads, and have twenty or
thirty thousand dollars worth of teams to
place at once upon the work.-Prtland
: ..tPEar Press
".TnE RAILROAD. PROPOSALS RoR Con-
srRUeTloN.-Our readers are already
aware that Mr.. Mitchell, the chief engin-
Ger Of the Western Division of the Port
=, land and Ogdcnsburg Railroad, had in
vited proposals for the construction of the
two located sections of this read There
. Vas meeting of the Executive Commit
I ee of said corporation at the Engineers
Office in this place on Tuesday to examine
these proposals. We understand that they
received quite number of proposals, and
~ q
some Of them very favorable, being fully
as low as the Engineers estimates. 1t
will take some little time to examine and
consider these propositions, but we learn
{ that az soon as practicable the parties
whose propositions are to be accepted,
will be informed Of the fact, and work on
the line begun the present winter.
? ?, 4 Thisline Of road from St. Johnsbury to
Swanton is about ninety miles losg Two
sections, or about sixty milcs, have been
. located--from this place to Hardwick and
from Cambridge toSwanton. The ;nterme-
date section, between Hardwick and Cam
bridge, which is the easiest section to
construcs will be located and contracted
early in the spring, and will probably be
completed us soon as the ends, on which
" the slower and heavier work.