The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-08-06
State Of NJ aine.
orable Board OF Railroad

10 tne HONORABLE boaro OF Raj road Commit.
sioners: "S'
Respectfully represents .
Skowhegan and Norridgewock Railwav eae
Power Company that it is a corporation aug AUG
26s OF the Public Laws of 1898, and that Ptef
constructed its road from Skowhegar Ia vnS
ridgewock hereunder and is now opera,in.
the same. lug
Said corporation further represents thu,
desires to construct an extension of and ~ u
dition to said road upon Water street az.
Skowhegan and it files this its petition IN
for, as requi ed by Chapter "a OF the laws :,
1895. s Of
The location of the proposed extentoas and
additions are as follows: 1u
First. Starting on said Water Stree, Il;
Skowhegan at point on the center lii ~ ~;
railroad as now constructed sixty-thref an ~
one-half feet Westerly from the west rail u1
the freight siding of the Maine Central "a VI
road Company; thence by course Soutberi
and Easterly on radius of seventy ieet Ia w
South line of said Water Sire the distanuuss
of this extension being sixty-six feet -'e
Second. Another extension starting on IN.
center line of its present road in sad Ne
street at a point 446la feet Westerly iron, ~
starting point of the first proposed extensios:
above described thence by course Nottbs,
" and Westerly fifty nine feet, oh a rasisa
one hundred and FIVE feet to the Nortss,
line of said Water Street
The first proposed extension, after crossir.
the Southerly line of Water Street. VIII f-ns
thence, by agreement of the Maine mn
location of said Maine Central Railroad com
pany and connect with the present pur trsck
thereon. The second proposed extep,ioa
will, after crossing the northerly line of Na,A.
Street, run upon land OF private parties nv
agreement to the pulp mill o: the Skowhega5
Pulp Company.
Your petitioner further represents thar h,
the building OF the two extensions above oui
lined upon said Water street. and there. afts,
wards making a complete connection betyee,
the said Pulp Mill and the said Maine Cent?
Railroad spur track, it will be enabled to me-
its said street railroad between said points 70.
the conveyance of persons and property ~
| such manner that it will thereby contribpte
to the public use thereof, and your petitions,
wherefore represents that public convenient
requires the construction OF such road AZ
above outlined.
Your petitioner further represents that N.
map of the proposed route, on an appropriate
scale, which accompanies this petition bear,
the written approval thereon of the said mo-
posed route and loca ion to streets road,
or ways OF the municipal officers of the sais
| town of Skowhegan in which said extenso5
of its said railway is to be constructed and
! further that it has filed herewith report ana
estimate prepared by a skilful engineer
Your petitioner therefore prays that vou,
+ Honorable Board will appoint DAY for
hearing thereon, and that after notice and
hearing your Honorable Board may furtbe,
find that public convenience requires the con
struction of such road, and that your APPROX
al thereof may be endorsed upon this pet,.
ton
Dated at Skowhegan, this 25th day of July
A. d. 1896.
sKowHEGAN & NoRRIDGEwocK RAILWAY 4
POWER COMPANY.
By W. H. Wildes, President
On presentation of the foregoing petition
ordered:
That the petitioner cause to be published a
true copy of said petition and this order Of
notice thereon, three days successfully in the
Daily Kennebec Journal, a newspaper pub.
lished at Augusta in the county of Kennebee
the first publication to be five days before tbs
eleventh day Of August, A. D. 1885 and also
cause the same to be published once in the
SOMERSET REPORTER, a weekly newspapefI
published at Skowhegau in the country oil
Somerset, on or before the eleventh day oil
August, A. d. 1896. on which day the Board al
Railroad Commissioners will be in session an
the Hotel Heselton in Skowhegan at eleven
O'Clock in the forenoon, for the purposes in.
dicated in said petition.
j. B. PEAKS, Chairman for Board of Raj.
road Commissioners.
Dated this third day of August, A D. 1895.
true copy. lw9
Attest: E. c. FARRINGToN Clerk