The Portland daily press., 1897-01-22
To the Honorable Railroad Commits
sioners Of the State of Maine.

Respectfully represents the Bridgton and
Saco River Railroad Company, corpora
| ton duly organized on the nineteenth day
of July A. D. 1881 under Chapter 100 of the
Public Laws of said State a. d. 1876 and acts
amendatory thereof and additional thereto,
by Augustus H. Walker, of Bridgton in the
County of Cumberland in said State duly
authorized and directed by said corporation
| and the Board of Directors thereof to make
| this application and execute all other neces-
| sary measures in the premises, that said
| company has constructed and is now main
tainlngsand operating a railroad for public
| use in the conveyance of persons and prop
| erty within said State from the line of the
| Maine Central Railroad at Bridgton juno
ton in Hiram in the County of Oxford in
said state to Bridgton Center Village, its
northerly terminus in said Bridgton, dis
lance not exceeding sixteen miles and with
a gauge less than four feet eight and one
half inches. to wit, two feet, that the capital
dollars taken, filed and paid for, that the
stockholders and owners Of said stock on
the twelfth day of January, A. d. 1897, and
the Directors Of said company on the TWEEN
ty-sxth day of December, A. ID. 1895, duly
voted for the extension of said road at its
present gauge from said northerly terminus
6t.Bridgton Center Village to Harrison Vii
lage in Harrison in said Cum berland County,
and wholly within said Bridgton and said
Harrison, distance not exceeding six
miles, whereby the entire length OF said
two miles, and the said amount of SAID cap
iaal stock will exceed three thousand dol
lars for every mile including said extension.
Wherefore said company prays your APP
prevail of said action of said company, its
stockholders and Directors and for the right
and authority to construct, maintain and
operate said extension in addition to it's
present line and mileage afoI esaid.
Said corporation by said Augustus H.
Walker, acting therefor and for said stock
holders and directors as aforesaid herewith
presents this petition for your approval of
theslocation of said extension, accompanied
with map OF the proposed route thereof
an appropriate scale, and with profile
of the line thereof on the relative scales of
profile paper in common use and with re-
port and estimate thereof by Fred j. Illsley,
Of Portland, Name, skilltul engineer, from
actual survey.
Dated at said Brighton this twelfth day of
January A. d. 1897.
/ fSigped5 BRIDGTON AND SACO RIVER
RAILROAD COMPANY,
by Augustus H. Walker.
On presentation of the foreg DING petition,
Ordered, That the petitioners cause to be
this order of notice thereon three days sue
cessively in the PORTLAND PRESS, news
paper published in Portland, in the county
of Cumberland, the first publication to be
day of February, A. ID. 1897, which day
the Board of Railroad Commissioners will
be in session at the Cumberland House, a
hotel in Bridgton, at ten O'Clock in the fore
noon, for the purposes indicated in said
said petitioner shall send copy of the
foregoing petition and order to the munich
nal officers of the towns of Bridgton and
| Harrison by registered mail, six days be-
IVY '''i>' '-''-o JOSEPH B. PEAKS
For the Board of Railroad Commissioners
of Maine.
Dated this January 16, 1897
Attest ties ei 4. G. HARRINGTON, Clerk.
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