Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-04
MAINE DISPATCHES.
HatefVille Takes Action Oh Kennenee
River Navigation
And Wants Congress to Open the
River to Watervllls.

Especial to the Kennebec Journal
WArERviLLE. April 3-At meeting of
the Waterville Board Of Trade last evening
the following officers were elected
President, Mayor Meader, Ist Vice Pres.
ilent W. 3. Arnold; 2d Vice President,
W. T.. Haines; 81 Vice President NJ. c.
Foster; Secretary. J. F. Percivai; Treas
urer, Z. S, Head
w. T. Haines, C. Z Matthews and J. f.
Perciyal were appointed committee to
revise bylaws and report at the next meet
ing.
Resolutions reported by W. T. Haines
were adopted, stating the advantages to be
derived from the navigation of the Kenne-
bee to this city, and urging upon Congress
man Milliken to do all in his power to se-
cure an order for survey of the river to
Wsterviile. and to secure appropriations
for clearing out the channel. A copy of
the resolutions was forwarded to Mr.. Mil
liken.
The folio wing resolution was prese nted
by W t. Hsines and adopted
Resolved Whereas the kennebec river
vas nsyigahle and navigsted by s,eambosts
and other river crafts prior to the building
of the dam across SAID river at Augusta,
and WAS so navigated after the building of
said dam, by means of he lock therein, to
Waterville for over forty years, that the
building OF said dam was not intended to
obstruct, but rather to improve the navi-
CATION of said river to Watervile that said
river has always been navgable to Watsr-
vile durlng the summer season excepting
in extreme drought, and that by dredging
and cleaning out the channel of said river
in few places, which can be done at small
expense, it can be made navigable to Wat
erville during the entire summer season
for steamboats, and other river craft, and
whereas, the citizens of Waterville and vi
ciniiy have recently organized 3 corpora
ton known as The Waterville Merchants
Steamboat Company" and are nov having
built new steamboat which they pro.
pose to run on said river from
Waterville to Gardiner in connec-
ton with the steamboat plying be
tween Gardiner ard Boston for the trans
portati IN of freight and passengers, and
Whereas 1t is believed by this board Of
trade that the navigation of said kenDebec
tlNtr 10 WatttFiiie Dy steamboat ana otner
rivercrait will be OF grea; commercial ad-
vantage to said Wateryiile and surrounding
towns, it is hereby voted to earnestly urge
upon our Representative in Congress that
he do all IN hi, power TO secure An order
for the survey of ssii river to Watervllle
in the next river ard hsrbor bill passed by
Congress, and thereafter to secure such sp-
pre- prtations as shall in the near futur.
result in the clearing out of the channel in
said river so as to secure navigatle water
for each year thereafter.
That copy OF this resolution be signed
by the President and Secretary of the
board and torwarded at once to Hon. Seth
l.. Millkeu, Wsshingt II. c.
Russell s. Bradbury proprietor of the
large steam lumber mills at Wstervilie, was
in the city Thursday eHdeavoring to piacr
q contract for a steam lighter to ply between
Waterviile and Boston. The craft will be
one hundred feet in length, of shallow
drsugbt and driven by twin propelers.
There will be sails slso to be used when
the wind is favorable. The craft is designed
to carry a cargo of about two hundred tons
taking lumber out and bringing coal back
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