St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1870-01-28
From the Portiani PresE.
Portland eG OgdensbHIg Railroad.

The annual meeting of the above
named corporation was held at til office
of the company Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock. There WAS :: very good attend
ance, the rooms being filled. The fol-
lowing Is an abstract Fl ON the report of
John f. Anderson, Esq, the Chief En-
gineer:
After his appointment as Chief En-
ginecr on the Dist of January, 1869, he
proceeded at once to make thorough
and instrumental examination of all iea-
siblc routes from Portland to the Craw-
ford Notch OF the White Mountains, in
width embracing the whole country be-
tween Bridgton Centre on the north and
Cornish on the south. TtiiS area COM
pretended three general routes and IL
system OF preliminary surveys which de-
veloped all intermediate practicable lines
and every combination of parts of the
several routes, which the physical char
acter of the country admitted OF. The
result of these examinations was submit
ted in tabular statement OF the several
routes which has been already published.
The very remarkable character of the
line subsequently located-avOiding rock
almost entirely, and diiiicnlt excavations
except near the city Of Portland, w.th
lis low average quantities per mile, has
demonstrated the truth OF the statement
made in bis report at the completion of
the preliminary surveys, in which he
said that only by the most pains-takiug,
preliminary examinations, between the
| fixed termini, over u considerable breadth
of country, can the Directors decide upon
| the best and most economical lucatioi.
An engineer of reflection and sterling
worth. once said. that more money was
wasted and more mistakes made from Il
too haSty location Of Il road without
careful preliminary surveys. The sur
vcvS have discovered not only an nm
usually cheap route, but have >ati-tac-
toIily shown that the one finally adopted,
willie il insurc~ the greatest amount OF
way business, is the cheapest to con-
>truct between Portland and the state
line ut FryeburL while the length is but
two miles 9rcat,r than the most direct
line practicable.
The portion oi the road under CON
tract WAS arranged in four divisions til,
first .x,,nJinu to S.b.ro Lake /, under
the direction OF Mr.. =. l.. Stephens, IL
Resident En@incrr. Its grading. ma
chinrrv and bride constructions. prom.
i. 70 he comp,rlrd Il tore the first O.
next july. OF the sixteen miles com
,ri,inr lis ZENITH. at .cl,t ci.ht are ma
deed in READINGS, for ballast and SUPER
structure. and the balance. i. in such m
,dv,nrrJ Stale 4, (, warrant the as,rr
tion thai traffic can pt-. over It hv III,
first of NEXT S-utr,uh.r. L.l,,,rn p,ri
jI.,,d anil Lake s.h,r,
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upnro,itabIv a,t.mrrrJ in =, inter can l..
..,.ilv damn, IN summer
TL, ,r;r,I liv;.,cp from, U,IlN,m
pond to lI,rain B,il.,. j. ru,lrr Mr.. Geo
Wad-wurlh. R.>i,l.ut En.ru.,r. and H.,
work !, lriu, ,i,oIou,Iv prosecuted al
.,u,. thirty NOM. -. tL,. work .u i,
.,.lv,rt,,,,u.l,, Inu,. in winter
T,.. c,r,,h J,i..,r .xr.rl;,., from
Hiram Er;.I,,. +, F.v,.h,rr Vir.,-.-u
,,.I,;rh Mr. Cb,. / \,,.I :. R.-,J,u
En,;n;.,r-l,,. several mil. of ,vu,L t,,
.TnLt f,r ur.,it.,hr. ,x.,ufinn in winter
but finer. are more than twenty nit
.nueu,d and all in o,,rrntion
Over 500 men are cmp'ov,d ON ia
four ,l,,i-i.n~. - there. J., no doubt tina
urAi New Years day the cas- can b
Iumiu. To- Frycburg from l. rrlund. Tin
preliminary survey thruu"' the VIII,
Mountain Notch has been most ~nti-,ac
torily 2u': "Nptditlou~lv made 10y NJ
Thomas T.. Poverty, assisted 10y Mr.. j
Il. Ru-t, AID demonstrates beyond
doubt or conjecture that tic PROJECT {
the rtlroal through II l. something br'
ter than merely prnclIrahlr one. no
only ON account OF the feasibility ~ +
the atta.nable aliGnmcntS and gradients
but also on account OF l;~ chrapnr-- com
pared with almost any other mrun,ai
: railway.
From Portland to 4 point near tn
wiley House the general character ,
the road-taIcn by ten mile divisions
will be quite uniform throughout, BOZ
a /" costs ami gradients. aud when con
ptc'ed acc"rdln" to the specifications ,