The Portland daily press., 1886-01-20

registry OF that Court the amount then overdue
ana all other sums coming due and payable within
SAID SIX months, that this Company and all other
parties claiming under it, should be forever barred
ana foreclosed from redeeming any of the mort
cages aforesaid; and that thereupon said Weston
f. Milliken, Nathan Webb and Horatio N Jose
as trustees, their survivors, successors and
assigns should become, as such Trustees, abso-
Iutely the owners of all the Railroad of the Port
land Ogdensburg Railroad Company its rights
appurtenances, franchises and all other property,
real and personal conveyed or intended to be CON
veyed by the before mentioned mortgages, subject
70 the prior mortgage of Nov 1st, A. ID. 1870, and
10 suen mems ana liabilities as have been or may
pe cISdteu OF incurred by the Receiver. The six
months having expired on the 18th day of Nov.
last, and the amount adjudged due for the redemp-
Iloh OF Ine property not having been paid a final
decree of absolute foreclosure was. on the 15th
DAY OF Dec: made at Concord by Judge Colt Of
The usual statements of the operations of the
road for the fiscal year ending Sept 3Oth A. n
to9S & ana @ the @ IN Its physical condt
the Receiver and attached hereto.
RECEIVERS STATEMENT.
At the time of the last annual meeting. the trains
OF the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Company
drawn BY its own motive power, went through
from Portland TO the Connecticut River, running
upon the iron of the Boston, Concord & Montreal
Railroad Company, between Fabyans' and SCOTS
Mills, by virtue OF a contract made with that Com
pany; thereby making Lunenburg, VT, practical
ly, the western terminus of this road, so far as
what is denominated the Through business" was
concerned. The date for the expiration of thai
contract was the Sd day of June 1886. An effort
was made to renew the contract with the Boston
& Lowell Railroad Company, which Company had
acquired by lease the control of the Boston, Con
cord s. Montreal Railroad But 1t was found i'm
possible TO obtain any terms that the business
would warrant this Company in accepting An
arrangement was consequently made with the B.
& l.. r. r. Co. to operate that portion of the Port
land OgdenSburg Railroad lying between ScOtt's
Mills and Lunenburg Since which time all joint
business with that Company has been exchanged
at Fabyan's, which has become practically fbe
western terminus of this road.
quite extensive improvements upon the line of
the road have been made during the past year. as
giHeer'S report:
During the past season, some $4,000 cubic
yards OF earth have been moved in various under
taklngs upon your road. In detail as follows viz
80, 600 cubic yards in grading about ten acres of
quite uneven surface to properly inclined plane
at Thompsons Point, for a convenient yard about
the new shops; about one and half acres of this
plane were graded up from the shore of the old
canal basin; the greatest depth of filling being
within the basin about 20 feet; most of the mate,
rial was procured within the lot, by grading down
the higher land upon the point. About $500
cubic yards of gravel were then carried upOn this
yard and the one in Portland to thoroughly ballast
the surface OF each. 10000 cubic yards were ex-
cavated at the Cook Cut'' in Conway, N. II. The
completion of the work in progress there (requir-
ing yet about three weeks more time after the
ground IS free from frost) will ease off one of the
sharpest curves of the line, lower the grade sum
nit SIX feet and lift the embankment each way to
positive Improvement in both alignment and
gradient TO point where freight trains have ex-
perienced much trouble-felt more and more, as
these trains have become heavier from increase
OF traffic. About 1000 cubic yards have been
used In widening the embankment at CONWAY
Centre and in lifting the road bed near Beecher's
Brook, west OF Crawfords', where snow has drifted
badly, and about $500 cubic yards in general bal
lasting on Division B.
OF substantial masonry laid in cement there
have been constructed some 200 cubic yards, as
follows, VIZ; 377 cubic yards in foundations for
the turn table, machine and car shops, oil and ice
houses at Thompson's Point; 40 cubic yards in
foundations OF the freight house and pavilion at
Lake Sebag0, which were lifted two feet to clear
the water surface raised by the new dam con-
structed at the outlet; 10 cubic yards in rebuild
ing culyerts, one at the State line, the other at
Black Cat Brook in Conway, n. H., which were
washed out in the storm and freshet of last Aug
uSt 20 cubic yards in adding to the parapet walls
and the wings OF Mill Brook Arch Culyert in Con-
way, preparatory to lifting the bank there; co
cubic yards at the East branch, the Glen Ellis and
Saeo River AbutmentS in Conway and Bartlett
for receiving new iron bridges; 515 cubic wards
in four piers constructed, at each of the next
two crossings of the SacO River in Upper Bartlett
and two at Sawyer'S River in HartS location N
H., preparatory to replacing the combination
trusses there-each Of long single spans and unfit
for further service-by substantial iron lattice
bridges OF short double spans for the first two,
ana three sets OF iron girders for the last named
crossing; and 80 cubic yards in abutment at Davis
and Wiley Brooks in Hart's Location where iron
bridges are substituted for ''canal' truss in the
former and very high, old spruce trestle in the
latter. There are also quarried out ready for use
near the track, some 600 cubic yards of good
bridge masonry. New iron lattice bridges, pro-
portioned to the prevailing heavy rolling stock
have been constructed and placed by the Boston
Bridge Works Company at the East Branch, Glen
Ellis and First Sac0 River Crossings in Bartlett
replacing the old combination trusses at those
points, deemed no longer safe for required service
new Howe Truss has been constructed and
placed by our Bridge Superintendent to replace
sixty of the six hundred feet of pile bridging at
Shephard's River and intervale In Brownheld, Me-,
with solid earth. fhe Westbrook and Gambo 1r,n piIe
bridges crossing the PresumpScot River have been
strengthened by the addition of trestes and string
ers. The bridge over the Little Saeo in Fryeburg,
Me. and that over the Saeo at Conway Centre
N. H., have new ties and and guard sticks through
out $4,000 new cross-t ties have been quite uni
formly distributed over the whole line for renew
ais and placed in the track.
Altogether your road, in its bridges, road bed
and track, has not been in such good condition for
trafc since Its trst opening not then for the
present very much heavier rolling stock and
freight that passes over it. When we began the
and treStles, by works of permanent character,
there were upon the line of your road ffty-fOur
bridges OF various lengths exceeding twenty feet
which aggregate total Of 12,744 feet; at the
present time there are of such bridges, but forty
aggregating total of 8, ,4S9 feet. There was then
of pile and trestle bridging 629 linear feet now
there are but 936 feet in all. In truss bridges of
wood, you had total length of 2,510 feet; now
but J., Alb feet. Then there was of iron bridging
total of 1,3691s feet; now you have 2,6721s
feet"
1t will be noticed by the tables annexed that
considerable expenditure has been made at the
CompanyS grounds on ThompsOn's Point, for
moving earth, erecting of engine house and shops
and supplying the shops with tools and machinery
the close Of II scsI yea b @ rGs ts
was imperative. The grounds and buildings here
tofore occupied were entirely inadequate for the
service required. All repairs upon freight ears in
winter, as at other seasons, were made without
shelter, as the carpenter shop was large enough
to accommodate, for repair, only a singular pas
Senger car; the machine shop contracted and in
convenient; while the blacksmith shop was an
old shed, utilized as far as possible The most of
our passenger cars were left exposed to the wealth
A MN alNor
OF onr locomotives were always without cover at
large expense for fuel, to prevent the freezing in
the boilers at night. A hundred tons of coal ex-
ira, were used during the last winter on this ac-
count. The larger portion of our locomotive re-
pair work was done outside OF our own shops for
want OF suitable buildings and TOOLS at a large eX-
pense for truekage besides the greater cost of the
work We were occupying leased land for which
we were paying rental of $500 per year. The
Company had purchased the land at Thompson's
Point for the uses to which ithas now been put
1t would have been poor policy to erect perma-
nent structures upon leased land and the poorest
economy to attempt the reconstruction of the roll
ing stock OF the Company-a considerable portion
OF winch was quite old and suffering for the want
OF a thorough overhauling-deficient as we were
in the proper tools and machinery for either wood
or iron work. and without cover for materials and
stock, or shelter for the labor employed.
Urged on by these considerations it was determ-
ined TO prepare our own grounds and erect suita-
BILE buildings at Thompson's Point, such as the
maenlne snSP d6ox6O feet; brick engine and boil
er house 2OX3O; blacksmith shop 50x60; car re-
pair shop 125x50, and an addition 75x25 and
paint shop 75x5o, also brick engine house hold
ing four locomotives and two water tanks holding
$4,000 gallons, car shed 340x30; lumber shed
35x50; ice house 18x20; store house 16x35; oil
store house 2ox3o; wood shed 20x42j horse shed
20x35, and workman's building 5x24. The tools
and machinery furnished for the machine shop
cost $3.50, and for car shop $1,000, ana LOT
blacksmith shop $780, exclusive OF cost OF put
ting up.
All Of the work shops are heated with exhaust
steam from the stationary sengine; about $500
feet of pine being used, costing 500. This saves
10 stoves and at least so tons of coal per wear;
the steam used costing comparatively nothing. A
well has been put down near the engine house and
steam pump attached, using about 400 feet steam
and water pipe, at cost Of $3.50. This well is
supplying all the water for the engines. va "
10 Illustrate the economic results Of this ev
penditure, take two examples of work that is al
most constantly going on. The cost now Of fitfinp
car wheels is not over $1.5o per pair. being the
exact amount heretofore paid for the trucking to
ted. We have turned off three pairs of driving
Wheels T1 ior mogul engine at an expense Of $3.50
me mere cost OF trucking the same has been
heretofore S15. The steam hammer and bar cut
ter N blacksmith shop will make large saving,