Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-14
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
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Occupied the Nest Of he Day.

The fall board Of county commissioners
was present st the hearing On the pT''iiion
for a road between the Tabor Lyon roaa
ars the coousbs Mil roai safuriay- The
e4.e for the petitioners vas eonla TIL By
z. W. whitehouse, E.q shiie Cts soici-
TOT Hoixay sppeAse,l 10 Opposition
The 1rnesses sxsmipef ~h5 were IN
favor Of ihs road we're l. L5on, wm-
Stone. wu,. Lyon and Nathaniel GiIn1c Of
Manchester, Fred L. HsTins Of East Wiz
throp, Lemarl Titcemb. J. n Wade and
Dr.. Geo. 4. Briexetr of Augusta; .bose
opposed, Alouzo Chesiey. Daniel Black
aud Cna.. G. Merrill Of Augusta, and
George cottle u Manchester.
There vas quite a difference Of opinion
brought out concerning several of the fea-
lures Of the proposed road. Some thought
three bridges, $50 in Augusta and one in
Manchester, would be ali necessary, while
others thought seven would be- required.
/. was estimated that Augusta would have
to build abous t53 rods Of the proposed
road and Manchester 2i3 rods.
Wa. Stone Of Manchester SAIL there
would be only one horseback" in the road-
Readfsld people you'd travel the road FRI m
Manchester Porks and il would shorten the
route about two miles. He estimated that
i, would not co.t over - a rod, Including
bridges
w. NJ Lyon said the people Of hepiield,
Belgrade and Mt. Vernon would be greatly
cJnvenienced By the road.
Nathaniel Gilman thought the road sould
be a great convenience 10 the people Of
quite large territory; would b. easy TO
build and keep IN repair. Didn't think
there would be any land damage in Man
chester.
Daniel & Black of Augusta said the road
would be an expensive one to ba.ld, hard
to maintain and would really convenience
but few people. The land damage would
be considerable.
Alonzo Che,ley Of Augusta said the land
damage to him would be large. The road
would be square across bis land.
Chss. c. Morrill, Of Augusta said he
should wan, $50 in land damages. He
didn't know of any one on the line OF the
road that wanted it.
Geo. Cottle Of Manchester was opposed
to the road. lie knew something about
building roads ami the road would be an
expensive one.
| Lendall Titcomb Esq. was heartily in ia
| yor of the road as he believed that it would
| be benefit to Augusta. This city has more
trade attractions than most cities in the
State and we had very billy roads connec-
ting the city with the surrounding country.
| This proposed road would be almost level
ami he believed would become the main
thoronghfare for most of the travel from
Mt. Vernon, Vienna and North Read
field
| j. n Wade favored the road which he
thought could be built for $500, bridges
and all
| DR. George f. Brickett favored the rosd
| Mr.. IIolway agreed that the road would
b. expensive if such road as is needed is
built OF this expense augusta would have
TO bear nearly all the burden, Manches'sr
very little. The road would accumulate
but few people. The sentim ct among the
citizens of Augusta rl"Fjl universally ia
against mourning Il y expense. Now is u
very inappropriate time for imposing such
burden. There would not be great
amount of heavy trucking over this road.
The road was thought of % years ago. II
was not deemed advisable to build it then,
and is surely not more so to build it
now.
E. w. Whitehousc agreed that there are
not two miles of road in kennebec county
which can be more easily or cheapy built
than this road, or more cheaply kept in re-
pair. He dwelt at length on the amount
of travel that would pass over this proposed
route. The proportionate expense would
be as bard for Manchester as for Augusta.
Parties representing SIS 900 of Manches-
ters valuation had petitioned for 1t.