The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-21


business. Also, that for all business COM
ing over your road less than twenty miles
west of North Conway, you should receive
your pro rata for twenty miles haul.
A NEW LINE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE
- n LOWER BRITISH PROVINCES.
Your road, therefore, by these arrange
ments. not only becomes part of a great
trunk line, but comes into close business
connection with the system of railways ex-
tending from Portland through Northern
and Eastern Maine, by the Maine Central
and its branches, and through the Maine
Central to the European and North Ameri-
can, and the other railways now built and
those in process of construction in the
Eastern Provinces; thus becoming the
channel through which, in the future, will
flow the trade and passenger traffic that
passes INTERCHANGEABLE between Canada
and the Lower Provinces.
In behalf and by order of the Board of
Directors.
SAM. J.IANDERsoN, President.
Engineers Report.
To the President and Directors.
Gentlemen,-During the past year
thorough maintenance of way has been con-
stantly kept up upon your road, and its
merlted character for uniformity of track, and
|
well sustained
I~r NEW WORK. ~,
The grading upon the extension of your
road beyond North Conway, begun in August
1872, was continued through last winter; and
so far completed as to admit rail LAYING to
begin about the first of June, 1873, and on
the twenty fourth of that month the first
train with passengers ran to the Glen station
about six miles, and on the thirtieth of July
to Upper Bartlett eleven and quarter miles
by rail, but something more than twelve miles
b! the stage road. Although the construc-
ton of this portion of your road was not ac-
cepted, nor yet entirely finished, daily traffic
was maintained between Portland and Upper
Bartlett to October twentieth. On that night
sudden freshet of the upper Saco washed
out the freshly formed and insufficiently pro-
tected banks in several places; causing about
fortnlghts interruption to the moving of
passenger and freight trains over the portion
of your road between the Glen and Upper
Bartlett stations, and damaging the road bed
to an amount of about $4,000.
During the months of July and August a
surveying party led by civil engineer John E.
Early, under the general direction of assistant
Thos. E. Poverty, was engaged in perfecting
the line of location at various points between
the Wiley House and the Mount Crawford
House. The results were considerable re-
dnction in the required quantities of excava-
ton for the construction of your road on the
mountain side and improvements in the align
ment; the latter now showing an equal
amount of curved and direct line between the
Mount Crawford House and the Notch sum
init, or 4.l75 miles in curves and 4.l65 miles in
tangents.
The grading and masonry between the
Upper Bartlett station and the Mount Craw-.
ford House are nearly completed. The bridge
across the Albany brook in Upper Bartlett is
erected, and the material for the three other
most important bridges on this division, two
for crossing the Saco and one for crossing
Sawyers river is being prepared SO that the
track may be laid to point within eight
miles of the Crawford Notch summit, in
season for the next summers travel.
Between the Mount Crawford House and
Frankenstein's Cliff the excavation is opened
at nearly every point, the masonry is under
construction and all the work progressing
| favorably. e sd d $3.50 10 = ,ou'8 -
Beyond Frankenstein's Cliff the clearing
has been done nearly to the gate of the Notch.
| AT this point force began the ledge excava-
| ton about the middle of October and have
kept steadily at work through the winter
| making very fair progress. This excavation is
within the limits of the eighth division, which
| is under the immediate supervision of Mr..
| Geo r Ravmond while NJ nom;ol H.
inps is in CHARGE Of the seventh d;v;s;on a,d
MI. w. q. Davis of the sixtb' ali nnder tho
general direction of assistant Tbos r PevarIv
The rock excavation at the Gate Of the
Notch is of a harder character than ito snr~
face indicated. which makes the drilling a
more tedious process than was anticinated
but it breaks out well and there is less Of
rock excavation in the approach to this work
than was expected, and the general construc-
ton upon the whole mountain side line
nron,;sas ~ he much ,,oro favorah1ol than h. =
heretofore been sunposed
MIR, c,u,,
lhh LOCATION FROM THE NOTCH SUMMIT.
On the north western slope of the noun
tains, assistant 5. l.. Stephenson has been en-
gaged IN careful surveys from the thirteenth
o. last may to the first OF December and has
iocateq the line OF your road from the Craw-
fora house at the Notch summit to point
on tne western Dank OF the Connecticut river,
Inc boundary oetween the States of New
hampshire ana vermont and the dividing
nhe OF tne towns OF Dalton and Nuremberg.
MI. stephenson mas passed under lnstru-
mehtal examination quite a large breadth OF
country, IN the towns OF Carol, Whtetield
! ana Daiton, ana mas OBTAINED very favora-