The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-14
Letter from West Baldwin.

w EST baldwin, NldTCu IL, loll.
TO the Editor Of the Press:
The vivifying influence of railroad facilities
is being realized in this town, it being the tenn
porary terminus of the 2. & o. Railroad. The
merchants aud manufacturers of some fifteen
towns are leaving and receiving freight at this
depot, while the towns on the Ossipee river are
better accommodated at the Cetter depot.
About five hundred tons of freight month
are received at the West Baldwi depot from
Portland. and large quantity of lumber,
shook and the products OF the farm and manu-
factories are received there from the surround
. ing coAntry, to be sent forward. The receipts
for freight at this office are about $1,000 a
month. Messrs. A. s. P. B. Young have sent
over the road about 200 cords of bark besides
q large quantity OF other freight There are
now 1000 bushels of corn and meal at this
depot awaiting delivery. The f.eight bills Of
Messrs. Allen 8 Warren, of Conway, amount
to $500 a month. Messrs. l.. S. Martin, J. T
& N. Randall and Tebbetts & Walker, of
Fryeburg, are also receiving a large quantity
OF freight at this station.
MANUFACTURING.
Preparations have been made during the
winter for manufacturing a large quantity of
lumber on the line of the P. & o. Railroad
the present season Tobias Lord, ESQ., has
been operating extensively in the town of
Lowell, where, he says, the lumber is as good
as any he ever cut. The water power, about
two miles above West Baldwin, on the Saco
river, one of the best in the State, will not be
allowed to remain unemployed much longer,
as the railroad track runs directly past it.
RAILROAD EXTENSION.
The bridge at Bleakt eek brook, 160 feet long,
Is now so nearly completed that tbs track can
be laid and i. on taken across TO complete the
track beyond, Capt Newcomb, the road
master, says the track will be completed TO
Hiram bv the first OF April. The first install
mept of the iron bridge is received and the
work OF raising it will be co nmenced immedi-
-n'-:--heidae will be It's feet long, in one
span. There will be Two short spans Of so feet
each, built of wood. After the completion of
this bridge the track can be laid very rapidly
= between Hiram and F y-burg, so that by The
hrst OF June the citizens of Fryeburg and vi
onity will, find them selves within about two
hours ride of Portland If the second BALI of
the road to Conway should paw as well in pro
portion as the first, it will not be very un.
one passengers passed over the road on the
mixeo train on Monday of last week.
n H. CENTRAL RAILROAD
This is the portion OF the Portland g. Rut-
land road which passes through New Hamp-
shire. George Wardsworth, esq has lust com
pleted survey from the Saco valley through
Cornish. Porter, Freedom, West Ossipee 10
South Tamwortb, connecting with survey
already made to Meredith. The dstance to
Meredith from the Saco valley is fDrfy-five
miles, and to White River Junction about 100,
This road, il ever completed, will undoubtedly
form junction with the P. & O. road at Cor
nish.
THE FOOT OF THE LAKE.
A large plumber of mer have been employed
during the winter in building wharf 600 feet
long, and leveling the ground at the lake sta.
ticn. A large freight house is to be erected on
this wharf for the accommodation of the steam
er and canal boats, which will bring large
giant ty of freight from Bridgton. Harrison.
Naples and the country above. A building 15O
feet long is to be erected for the accom- moda-
ton of excursion parties from Portland, Brldg-
ton md elsewhere, which will be popular
place of resor during the summer months.
Cuarles E Gibbs, esq, is intending to have his
new steamer 10 readiness to put on the route
early in the season, from the Lake Station to
Naples, Brdgton and Harrison. 1t will be a !
eide-wheel steamer, about twenty feet longer |
than tn Oriental and several feet wider. The |
foot of the lake will be lively place during
the summer months if the programme an |
nounced is carried out G,