Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-10-24

skiticook and Crossuntic, and boys lying be-
tweent hem. After leaving Mattawamkeag
the road is quite rough, though not unusually
SO for new one; the first stopping place is
KINGMAN
&C miles from Bangor that promises to be an
important town. 1t is not more than two
years since this place was selected as a site
for what is said to be the largest tannery in
the country. 1t has just been entirely COM
| pleted The last freshet unfortunately, car.
ried away the dam, and operations must be
suspended ior some time. school house
has been built, and the nucleus of thrifty
| though rude-looking town has been estab-
| lished. Between Kingman and the next
! station is considerable bog land, and in
several places the track is Quilt upon piles.
| The country appears decidedly uninviting in
| places. 1t is continuous wilderness, with
| log huts every few miles, in which section
men with their families exc out what must be
Mt present lonesome existence. Along the
line for more than so miles the scenery is a
| monotonous monotony of unreclaimed wilder
ness. The first station from Kngman is
BANCROFT,
10 miles from Bangor and near the upper
crossing of the Mattawamkeag, which at this
point is left by the road The bridge over
the river is 260 feet long. This is good farm
ing district About miles from Bancroft is
Bog brook crossed by bridge of 40 feet
span, and mile or so further is Hot brook,
crossed by a similar bridge. This brook has
| its source in springs and its water never
! freezes in winter. You next come to
DANFoRTH,
| IS miles from Bangor, a town that dates back
| to 1880 and contains 325 souls Its business
| is farming and numbering; it has hotel; the
roads from Calais, lIoulton and Springfield
| pass through it; it is situated on the Baska-
| hogan stream, down which goes large quanti-
| ties of lumber to the Mattawamkeag and
| thence into the PenobScot. The Baskahegan
at Danforth is spanned by bridge of 100
feet; miles from it is the west branch of the
Tomah stream, which is crossed by bridge
of 10 feet; the track follows the banks of the
Tomah for some miles. The railway crosses
the Calais and Houlton stage road at
JACKSON Brook,
ll2 miles from Bangor and 81 from the bound
airy between Maine and New Brunswick At
this place are several domiciles of comfort
able appearance, and one fine 2-story house
near the station. About miles below the
railway on Jackson brook is situated Shaw &
Ayers tannery of 400 watts. Between this
station and the next is cut of G5, 200 cubic
| yards; miles from the boundary the sum
| NIT between the valleys of the Penobscot and
the ST. Croix is reached at point CPS feet
above sea level. SCOTS brook, which runs
close to
LAMBERT LAKE STATION.
is miles from the St. Croix and is the outlet
of Lambert Lake, a beautiful sheet of water,
apparently about miles long and from
| quarter to a half mile in width 1t lies be-
| tween heavily wooded hills, and affords most
refreshing contrast to the weary miles of will
derness just passed. The next stopping
place is
| VANCEBoRo,
the last station on the Maine portion of the
road, town of $50 inhabitants one year ago
The first dwelling house was erected in April
1869, and since that time the progress of the
town has been steady; it is essentially rail-
road-built town. There are now in the place
sc frame dwellings, 10 log dwellings, . no.
tells, 2 stores, and school house and public
hall 30xG0 feet. There is Sabbath school
attended by As children and possessing a
library CT 80 volumes, and the common
school has an attendance OF so pupils. The
people raised by taxation for school purposes
the present year S400, and $500 were raised
in the same manner for the maintenance and
opening of roads. Religious services are
held in the hall every Sunday, thought here is
no clergyman stationed in the town. No
liquor is sold here, and there is Good
Templar's Lodge with 100 members. There
are two stores; Shaw & Bros. have here a
tannery with 500 watts $50 men are employed
by them, and during the bark season loo
more are employed. They have also tan
merry at Forest City, % miles above Vance
boro, midway on the Chiputneticook Lakes.
Mr.. Shaw is about finishing a magnificent
dwelling which will cost not far from s40,-
! 000 1t is situated on an eminence a few
5 hundred yards from the station, and though
| IL appears rainier out OF place III present, II
will, doubtless, soon be surrounded by other
buildings which will aid in toning down the
disparity between it and the neighboring
structures, the most of which are decidedly
primitive in their appearance and conven-
: fences.
THE ST.. GROIN RIVER,
pouring from the Chiputneticook lakes, d.
vides Maine and New Brunswick. The
a bridge spanning the river is rife shot from
the Vanceboro' station. The distance from
Bangor to this place is ia miles; there are
yet SIS miles to accomplish before the city OF
st. John is reached. Sitting comfortably in
your seat, you are cover the river" and into
the Dominion almost before you are aware.
Crossing the st. Croix the railway crosses the