The Portland daily press., 1881-01-19
PORTLAND g. oaDENsBuRG.
Annual Meeting and Election of Officers


The annual meeting of the stockholders o
Ihe portland and Ogdensburg railroad wa
neid yesterday at the company's office OF
Exchange street.
President Anderson read the call for tn,
meeting and nominated for chairman Mayol
Senter.
The records of the last meeting were reac
and approved.
The report of the president and directors
| was submitted as follows:
DIRECTORS REPORT.
The directors respectfully submit the follow
ing report, exhibiting the financial condition
OF the company, and its operations to the close
Of the fiscal year, ending September 80, 1880
also particular statement of the present con-
dltIon of the road and its rolling stock, with
the work done and improvements made there
on during the past year.
Among the more important items of track
and road bed improvement as reported by the
engineer, are the following
Ihe completion of the pile bridge, extend
ing from the main track in Portland to the
wharf, 552 feet of which is across the land of
the company adjoining the channel of Fore
river, at an expense of a little rising $4,000 !;
the extension Of the freight tracks in the
PORTLAND yard and at Cumberland Mills sta
ton; new siding in Fryeburg, east of the
station; and the frightening out of the sid
ing at the East Branch, in Lower Bartlett, to
accommodate the increased traffic in logs and
DARK nom those points. A spur track Of
some loo0 feet in length, has been constructed
10 petter accommodate the lumber traffic at
upper Bartlett. A long siding required by
the increased business with the Boston, Con-
cord and Montreal railroad, has been laid at
Fabyan's station.
The long pile bridge over Stroudwater
marsh showing the need of extensive repairs, it
was thought best to incur the additional ex-
pense.of replacing that perishable structure
! by permanent road bed; and an embark
ment of solid earth is already commenced
here with ample water ways constructed of
wood and sunk in the salt water channels
crossed by this bridge, so that while made safe
for this winter, it can be finished in early
spring.
The ends OF the large arch culvert at Ink
horn brook have been relaid in cement, and
the high embankment raised still higher and
hlled out over them, SO that there is now ne
Objectionable depression of the grade at this
point. The heavy embankment over the large
culverts lately built at the Collywright and
Black brooks have been raised, and the incon-
venient grades at these two points also greatly
improved, besides the substitution Of
permanent work for perishable struc-
lures Of wood which, for the sake
OF economy in the first construc-
ton of your road were erected here, as at some
other points, but are now steadily diminishing
IN number. The material for all these fills has
been taken from the submits of the higher
grades in the immediate vicinity of embank-
ments SO made, thereby reducing the eleva-
tons as well as raising the depressions in the
road bed, causing marked improvement in
the grade of the road
Inc steamboat wharf at Lake Sebaro has
been very substantially rebuilt. The very
high trestle by the Dismal Pool and Just east
OF the Crawford Notch ledge cut, has been
filled to about half its height and heavy re-
tanning wall Is now in process of construction
which, when finished, will admit of not only
the entire filling up of this trestle work, but
also moving out the track to its proper loca-
ton, and by doing this relieve the three
sharpest curves in your road of several de-
grees In the curvature of EACH The material
for this heavy embankment will be procured,
as 1t so far has been, by widening out the
long summit cut on the curve by the Crawford
House, which opening Of the cut WILL it is ex.
pected, preclude the snow deposit therein,
that has, heretofore, been the cause of some
detention of the trains, and also of no incon-
siderable expense every winter in keeping the
track clear.
The long trestle bridge east of Fabyan's has
been entirely filled up with the most substan-
tlal mixture of sand, gravel and stone, pro-
cured from the slopes in the western approach
OF the mountain track, which, by this system
OF widening out, is greatly improved-and
the embankment protected by heavy rip
rap OF large stone against the danger of en-
croachment from the action of tho "Wlld
Ammonoosuc" which here runs parallel to
the road. There is an abrupt turn in the
river near by where the railroad crosses it,
and at this point the bank has been fortified
BY a rampant OF earth heavily faced with stone
Some four miles of steel rails have been
laid, and very considerable amount of vet
serviceable iron, thus replaced has been dis
trlbuted for the general repair of track. About
ten thousand cubic yards of good ballast has
been placed upon the track between Portland
and Steep Falls.
The equipment of the road is in good con-
dition. Thirty platform and twenty box cars
have been added. One old passenger car has
been withdrawn entirely from service, and two
others have been changed to brake vans. 1t
now consists of s locomotives, Is passenger
and baggage cars, 23S merchandise and other
cars, 3 snow plows.
Passenger train mileage, 14O,3Sl miles
Freight, lila
Construction, 2O,755
Switching, 1880
Total, 2449S0 miles
Average number of cars on freight trains. 1888