The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-07-28
The Aartland Road.

ne Railroad COMMISSIONERS Hltt az
piu>ncld Friday last 10 view the loration
of tho IlarIl4nd road. but there being no
record of iorafion Of the linz aud nn e>ii-
matc~ of cost Of building tscraad u.c
Commissioner, anjonrned Ia meet the 4'h
of August at thu Same place, when II i
expected the necessary location and cNti-
mates will Ice in due form. There will be
opposition from several parties. not to
the road hut to the location in the vicinity
of PutshcM village aud They Will appear
before ID, Commissioner, at tie meeting
the 4th Of August
\ correspondent Of the Fairfield Jouru-
al says
We have had Dexter. ritt,iicld and
Skowhcgan tn oppose from the start, and
Pitt>hcld tp a man ha> DOM everything II
could from the start Ia prevent our get
ting the road, and everything II could To
make il cost H. high. aud i to-day fol-
lowing the same course To the best Of It,
ability. and in many respects in small,
mean and undcrhanded Way, and what
ever praise there Is for anyone for our
present position. belongs Ia Hartand
alone. and not Hartland and Pittslicld
And now let me tell you what our posi-
ton j. TODAY. Mr. Shaw canVassed the
town all over, and talked with every man
before toNu-mpeting; at the same time
Pitt>hcll had men from their village m
here working against our towns loanlng
their credit but what WAS the result
2ul vote, in favor and not one opposed.
Then ne went to work on the -ub>crip-
Na1H.
shares of $50 cach-sl 100. Dn Thurs
day last he sold the last share. Every
dollar Of the stock i subscribed, and the
books are closed. Not one share Was
taken in Pitt~nrld nor Is one owned by
any one living in Pittsfied. Citizcn~ Of
New York. Boston. Portland, Ilartand,
st. Alhau>, the Maine Central K. H., and
Thomas Temple, NJ. T.. of Fredericton,
y. b have taken it. We have the con-
tract made. signed and sealed for the
building cquipping and operating Of the
road and all secured by good and heavy
bonds that it shall be done and all for
SIPS 600 or less. and rs | said before we
had the several towns to contend with
and Pittsticld has been the worst one:
and for this reason they must not have
any of the credit for our Success and it Is
/ for this reason that | write Hartland
has done it; let her have .he praise. We
! have worked hard, still and quiet, and
the above is the result. We would not
think of failure, only of success, and |
! have told you more i'll this than has been
told outside before, and YOU may make
such use of it ~ YOU wish, giving Hart
| land and Mr.. Shaw the credit We are
going to have railroad after trying for
twenty wears and, Friend Mayo, our road
is the road that goes over to Moosehead
Lake, and that within two years, put me
down for this"
In explanation to the above the Pitts
| field Advertiser says;
we explained last week that the arti-
Gle in the journal whereby Pittstcld and
Hartland were equally credited with the
enterprise of bringing the railroad scheme
to a successful termination, rs now seems
certain. was erroneous, and that to the
latter town was the credit almost entirely
due Pittshcld has done nothing 10 help
4 the road. But the correspondent makes
statements above that are also in error
/ While there are very few persons here
who have opposed the railroad, some for
the reason that the road would cross their
land and thereby be n damage 10 them
and others for different reasons, there has
been no organized opposition here. As
we stated last week, the larger body OF
our citizens are totally Indifferent as tc
whether the road is ever built or not
most are ignorant OF the progress of the
project other than what appears in tn,
papers in reference to it. While opposi
ton to the road by our citizens woult
have been perfectly proper and lcgjti
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