St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-01-26
cortland 4 Cgdensburs RAILROAD.

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>,.uihl, Il ii the ,"nIpany'- office III This
cit1 Yesterday 81 rn:i~idci the ;"ilnv
inc Juc-;i"..>:
T. Ii they Vii .trrrPi iiir .i'I Of III"
Legislature al View Iian'>hiIr entitled
~" 5,, {" @'t...r Il ligi,' Of way through
;hi> >IIJr 10 the Portland \ 'Gdsn>-
hul% i;aii,.Hd I "lurlati"u ami ac' Jd-
diri"mI! 'l"jr',' "ipi"Nrd lrlN !.
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Legislature al Name "ni - \" ""t
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entitled an I"' /" lm'"ip"idt" me Fort /
land y t-d' n~h"t- h'ili"ad' "hr"mN.
Appi"'td '"tli'iiN H. - J..
!. II ;i'N VIII Ani"nd lhrh 'halA'lrl
- dc>I-u'd IA >''ti"n 81 ia" iaHf
m"niI"urd act.
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Utg NV:H.
>. |" trAn>.r"j ANY other mt>in">~ HAT
may legally come hci"lr them.
There WIS large attendance. some
eight -ltmth~ az the >t"ch being repre-
scented. lh" first business III order WAS
th" reports. HAT "t the President
tea. =. y. anderson, was especially III
tcu'>t"d ami important. We give The
following a">trlct:-
SINCE the last yearly meeting the
road has been finished. bridges bmlt.
and >upcr>tIucthe laid from liz then
terminus. at West BALDWIN. Ia FRYE
burg: and entirely graded. finished and
opened from there to North Conway. To
which point we have been running
about six months. The road he'd, sill
pcI>trucIuIc and hidgrS are all first
class III" Two most considerable OF the
latter being III mon. of The best APP
proved construction.
iii" stations and other building. thus
IA! erected. have been built NJ the low
r,t contract price. except when done
hy yhc day. under the supervision "f
the company : officers. AMI have re-
r"iNcd high commentators from the
puhlic tor their convenience and good
taste. ilr equipment al the road is
%nnd III quality and sufficient E"f its
present needs.
The receipts tot the Nral halr tully
rIual!rd the "nticipatimnS. showing Il
large proportional increase over the
four months preceding the last yearly
meeting; taking also into consideration
the difference in the average distance
of transportation.
The whole ;um"Iinl changed L" CON
>iructinn of the sixty miles OF road built
ald running. including preliminary cN-
pcnScS and uf organization. salaries and
incidcntal>. ~ Well before IL after the
opening "fthe road. land damages. land
III Portland. machine shops and machin-
cay improvements II Lake Scha@".
equipment. di-rolnt On bonds aud i'll
tcTc-t account. Is well H. road-hed.
track and other ;cnaucr>. amounts
to ~2.'n5.06' II. being an Average of
-:Ei.iHl l. pen mile. 'ihc next twelve
miles nr'd not cost "ycr%:1.hO pcrmile
u hich being rcii,'N ed of all preliminary
rNpCn-''~ ami co~t al further equipment.
will rr'iucc The average cost of the
Whole road al Il point >"NcntN two
miles from Portland. with il Tipmcnt
Ac.. to S:f9.W0 per mile. The aver
a." cost of railroads in Maine is = 5000
per mile.
and nov. in fc!crctrr to the further
prosecution of this work. The cars
have hccn running t" North Conway,
(>iXty mills from P"rtland.) sine" the
10th OF August, The receipts have av-
craGcd II .oW Il month since that time.
This amount represents the business
that existed before the building of the
road. with the slight accession that