The Newtown bee., 1888-08-17
The Derby Extension.

There is no question of Col Stevenson's determination to run a train over the Derby extension, September 15 and Mir John II. Hawkins. who walks over the line once a week and has been intimate ly connected with it from it's first survey,
 says that the only obstacle will be Fay Tor S Gridley's section just east of Bots ford. Much work remains to be done and the line will not probably be really completed until next year, but, by tres tie work over and around obstacles, the line is to be opened after fashion, next month. The track has been laid across the road that runs east from Botsford,
 but the rock cuts in the vicinity of Sher-
 man Botsford's old saw mill still resist
 night and day attack and it is probable that one of the three will have to be got
 around by temporary trestle work. Near
 the mill will be n long piece of trestle
 work, @ feet high at it's greatest eleva-
 tion and 52 bents wide. There will also
 be trestle work near Mir Julius A. Beers,
 across the swamp near Mir Charles Bots
 ford's blacksmith shop and also across the
 stream below the present saw mill of MT
 Sherman Botsford, where the masonry is
 not likely to be ready in time. The high
 way near Mir Louis F.. Hills shop on
 Half Way river has been changed fur
 ther to the east and carried under the track. East of this, Clark & O'Brien have taken hold of the culvert across I Whitlock brook and are pushing work. I Sullivans section is nearly done, except
 for small cuts and short fills and will be
 out of the way by the middle of Septem-
 Der. Curran's section, which begins al q the highway near Mir Walter $. Brad e ley's, is still further along. There art two places where rock is yet to be re
 moved and culvert is to be thrown ovel
 a small stream south of Samuel Stev l. ens's. The deep gully northwest of NJ T. Stevens's also remains to be spanned b.
 a trestle work 60 feet high. Three of tn
 seven stone foundations for the bed o E. this trestle have been laid and the fourtl 'e is under way. Mulhall's section, furthe Il south, high up along the west bank Q
 the Housatonic, has had a rough path t
 hew, through rock cuts and over dee
 ravines, which is the general character ( ,d the route from here to Shelton. It cut ks through rough, wild, wooded countr ,n previously left to foxes and the wood a man. The arched culvert over the Boy ne Half Way river is done, but remains he be filled in. The next gully south h; as it's culvert done, but is uot filled. The ks are two steam drills at work below tn d, and they are fast breaking up the roc A. and will get it out of the way in tim or There are still short stretches of tra' ,Tr where no grading has been done. Opp lrr site the Otter rocks, the track is hewn it. to the side of a gravel bank, one side ng which falls sheer away to the plain al ed river 30 and GO feet below, to which u of boulders have rolled down. There is tee wide gap at Round Hill brook, where Irs culvert is to be built and fill of 72 ft c. made. Then comes Flannagan's sectit F. which is tearing through gigantic eli an- at it's northern limit. Taylor & Gridl 24 have about 300 men at. work on tn ec- Botsford section, Sullivan about ?
 Curran 75, Mulhall 250,