The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1889-07-04
A Short Journey.

Messrs. Editor: You Newspaper men
make small account OF going away from
home because you go SO often. The
Somerset Railway to N. Arson has been
built twenty years, but had never been
over it until a few days ago.
1t is but five miles To Norridgewock
but failed 10 reach the Rairoa station
until the train had left for Emblem 80 |
waited from 10 30 A. NJ until ! T. NJ.
ilthungh suffered the usual discontinue
# being left, really enjoyed the de
ny, by surveying The beautiful steiner,
u and shnut The historic old town OF
sorri@rwoek. lIcrc were, the homes al
! hc older John Ware, the Sawtcllcs, judy,
| Preston, Capt. Asa CLARK, Joshua Gould
Lie Dinfortlls, Chief Justice Tenny, jos
Adams, VIM. Allen, John s. Abbott the
Key. Mr. Poet and many others, who long
since passed TO their eternal homes.
When the next train came was sure t.
be upon it, in tines and in few nom.
ents crossed the river and went trundling
northward in full view ON my left, Of the
"Bomaseen" falls and of the ntly named
'Old Point with nothing significant OF
ITS ancient consequence but the old gran.
lte monument erected there many year.
ago to commemorate and mark the spot
where Father Rosie was wont to gath
er the wild savages Of the forest and
teach them Of the existence of good mer
and of God.
Upon this lie ,utifnl plat of table laLd
neat the junction of the sand and kenne
bee, WAS the Indian Village. the Jesuit
Church, and the Indian Corn.heds. Her,
hundred aud siNty-tye years ago, fell, lN
the hnnd of violence the Pious Jesuit
Priest with many Of his followers:-Aug
%, l12i. History records the deed and
the granite shaft marks the spot.
The thriving vii age of Madison is next
reached, shoAlng its massive WOODEN Mill,
aud other machinery and mercantile struct-
nrts. Here We re cross the Kennebec and
soon reach No. An,on, the former ierIninu.
OF the road: long bridge here spans til,
Chrraba-sctt and we soon reach Embden
Station miles short OF the I, terminus of
the road; which is Carratunk Falls /.
miles above the Ferry and l mile -ahov,
Solon village. ''lhe Falls" is the present
attractive point on the Upper krnnebec"
Here We found active and substantial
works, employing large number of men 4
the various kinds OF Labor and several steam
! L
Mill on west side of the river.
Men were at work making surveys for
paper mill and canal on east side, Others
were working on dam across the river
and preparing foundations for railroad
bridge and quarrying or fitting stone for
bridge. Several buildings have been
erected for temporary accommodation for
boarding workmen. Up the river bank
from the falls to Bingham, crews Of men
are at work upon the railroad which is to
be completed by the first of October.
As wild and dangerous az Carratunk
Falls have ever been believed, they are
now spannod by a foot bridge upon which
passed from Scion to Embden last Sat
urday, for thetnrst time in my life, at that
point 1t is three planks wide. and safe
Tor Travellers Some one asked me if
1t wasn't grand sight to look down up
ON the falls under the bridge, as passed
1t? l couldn't answer the question.
dtdnt took darn.
After looking over the works on that
side of the river, walked down the rail
road track to the ferry and in doing so
was well paid for my walk. Soon after
coming into meadow, below the falls,
saw upon the track but a few rods before
me beautiful buck deer; he turned and
looked me in the face as approached
him, threw up his big ears, hut soon
turned, gave leap to the grassy field,
then gave me a grand specimen of his
speed and gait by several splendid leaps
across the field, then turned and surveyed
me closely few moments, with little
concern, evidently believing (what was
trae} that | wouldn't harm him in. the
least, then seeming at leisure. with none
10 modest, passed and left him standing
III patch of buekWheHt, but few rods
from the track. He was as long and tall as
II good Il months colt, Ind ,hurns 3 inches
long, mousttous eats but in beauty and
agility riyaled any other driving animal.
then supposed Inn domesticated deer,
but find tliat he is r. ally II wild denizen of
the forest, such rs ARE now often seen IN
the woodlands and fields III TINT vicinity.
have written nearly all of the above for
the sake of telling you of this hcnutiul
animal.