The Portland daily press., 1879-01-22
PORTLAND & OGDENsBURG RAIL.
ROAD.
Annual Meeting.

Inc annual meeting OIL Tue fOTIldnu anu Og
deusburg alroad was held in the company's
office. on Exchange St, yesterday, at 10 O'Clock.
President Anderson called the meeting to order
and Mayor Butler was then chosen chairman
The report of the directors was read as fol-
lows:
To the Stockholders of the Portland and
Ogdensburg Railroad Company:
The directors respectfully submit the
following report, showing the present con-
dition of the road. bed and track the work
done and improvements made upon the
line during the past year, the amount of
rolling stock and other property belong
ing to the company; also the present
financial condition of the company, with
the result of its operations for the year
ending Sept. 30, 1878, and comparison of
such result with that of each of the pre-
ceding twelve months.
The engineer reports the road-bed and
track as greatly improved since the last
annual meeting, and this has been manly
accomplished by the large renewal of some
4S, 900 good cedar cross ties, and the ad-
gravel, with three hundred and thirty two
tons of new iron-the gravel having been
required in repairing the waste of washed
banks as well as for renewing the ballast
in surfacing the track.
An important improvement has been
made at the COllywright or Dole brook in
Windham. in the recent construction of a
very substantial arch culvert laid in full
cement, with solid earth bank nearly
completed. to replace the pile and trestle
bridge, $50 feet long and 25 feet high,
which up to this time has carried the track
of your road across that ravine.
Preparatory work on the foundation of a
culvert has also been done at Black brook
in Windham, with view to the similar
substitution of permanent embankment of
earth for perishable structure of wood,
thus obviating the frequent demands for
repairs and partial renewal, with also some
degree of apprehension, their inevitable
attendants. This process of replacing the
several trestle and pile bridges with solid
embankments of earth and stone, ought to
be continued steadily until your road is
entirely free from every such compare
lively unsubstantial construction.
A considerable amount of repair has
been required this year on the Basin and
the Stroudwater pile bridges. The filling
in of the long but rather low pile bridge
near the Fabyan House should not be
much longer delayed.
A new wharf, 25O feet long, has been
built on this company's land along the
shore of Lake Sebago, which must prove
of great benefit in facilitating the tranship-
ment of Lake freight of all sorts from the
boats to the cars.
Z A new tank-house has been built at
West Baldwin. A new station has also
been erected at Livermore to accommodate
the increasing business at the junction at
that point of the Sawyers River Branch.
A set of track scales have been pur-
chased and set in one of the sidings in the
yard at Portland, sufficiently large to
weigh an ordinary freight car loaded with
seventeen or eighteen tons of freight. The
company have also bought of the Ameri-
can Ballast Unloader Company, the right
and license to make ard use the improve
ments described in letters patent granted
the company,-said improvements consist
ing of plough and apparatus for unloading
ballast from cars-and have built and
operated one of the ploughs.
A remarkably valuable gravel pit of
eight acres area and some forty feet depth
of excellent material, has been secured to
the company near the East Branch of the
Saco, in the town of Bartlett, and a siding
laid into it 900 feet in length.
The Railroad Commissioners, after a
very thorough examination, and in a
somewhat extended and very compliment
ary notice of the road in their report to
the present Legislature. say, 'The road
bed and track are in very good order"
''The rolling stock is in fair state of repair,
and the trains have been run safely and
promptly
The rolling stock of the road has been
kept in good condition, and one new loco
motive has been purchased.
The equipment Of the road now consists