The Newtown bee., 1901-08-16
moved from Humiston's fiat to George Robinson's cottage on High street.

R. AND L. CO.-sALE BY THE HON
 NICHOLAS STAUB OF NEW MILFORD.
 According to report Hon Nicholas of valuable water privileges n the Housatonic river to the Con- 1ecticut Railway and Lighting com oany, thus giving this great corpora Iion control of practically the entire length of the HOuSatOnic river so far IS damming privileges are concerned.
 The New Haven Leader says: The Power company is the cor porate name under which the men in- terested in the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company have for several years been quietly securing property along the HOuSatOnic river preparatory to building great dams which will con- fine the water and develop power for other purposes, electric lighting, etc.
 In the Housatonic river above Derby to be found in the whole state of Con- necticut. The power which can be generated there is practically unlim- ited and if it can be transmitted over long distances without too great loss of efficiency many of the independant power stations which now dot the quarter of the state are bound ultimately to disappear.
 In 1885 group of enterprising men, chief of whom was Allan w. Paige, foresaw the possibilities of the situa tion and secured valuable corporate rights. The charter was amended in 1899 when the privileges conferred were expanded. The company now has the right to erect dams across the Housa tonic in the vicinity of Oxford, South ford and Bridgeport, and to do every thing, necessary and convenient for the development and utilization of the water power. 1t is authorized to exercise the right of eminent domain for the purpose of securing land which is essential to carry out its plans for building reservoirs. It is empowered under certain conditions, to. o.distribute electricity through Hartford, New Haven and Fairfield counties; to oc- cupy the public highways, and to con- struct and maintain wires, poles, con- duits and structures and fixtures. This extract from the companys charter shows the broad highway rights that the corpora tiOn has secured: "When 1t shall become necessary or convenient in the construction of the work au- thorized by this charter to alter bed or course of any road or public highway said corporation may change the bed or course of any such highway, and such change of road or highway shall be to the reasonable acceptance of a majority of the selectman of the town in which such road or highway is so altered to the reasonable acceptance of the majority of the selectmen of said town, the same shall become to all intents and purposes part of said road or highway so altered or chang ed."
 The minimum capital stock of the HousatOnic Power cdmpany is $500, ,0OC with authority to increase it to $l, GOO, GOO. Half of the shares issued may be cumulative preferred stock with divi- dendS of not less than six or more than eight per cent. Authority is conferred on the corporation to issue bonds to the extent of One-half the amount actually expended in acquiring real estate rights and in the construction of its plant. Special provisions are made for the company to sell out, fo1 it to absorb other corporations and for it to consolidate with other com. panies. The financial features of the charter are as broad as could be wished for.
 The company has been working very quietly, and the A. M Young syndicate which controls the corporation has been formulating far-sighted and far. reaching plans. Expert engineers have been making preliminary surveys fol the location of dams, for the ascertain ment of the storage capacity of reser voirs and for determining the genera possibilities of the situation. All this has been done so quietly that few peO pie have known what was going on. SC hot 116 company has been acquiring directly and indirectly the land rights that art necessary for the cOnsummatiOn of its plans. The aggregate amount of req estate that it will be necessary to ob tain in order to carry the cOmpanyt ] purposes to their full cOnsummation i! large. The negotiations have beer going on for considerable period, anC the company prefers to secure it! needed land by friendly purchase thar l by reSOrting to condemnation pro ceedings.
 | Itmay be be assumed that the Housa tonic Power company will work in the closest harmony with the Connection
 wise known as the Connecticut Trolle! trust. The purpose undoubtedly is tt have generated on the Housatonic; l 1hA SO 0A1oAAU ol U4AC ClCNVA1NoA Po"Ol now used by the trolley combination for the propulsion of it's hundreds o1 cars. The trolley trust has acquired 1 large number of traction properties il New Haven, Fairfield and Hartfort counties, although it is not so promi nent in Hartford county as in thu other two. Its cars may be seen il
 nearly all the populons centers betweel
 Hartford and Stamford. It is gradu ally expanding. It is steadily buying
 up existing systems and building nev
 lines.
 As the result of the approval of the
 combines latest plans by Judge Gage
 of the Superior court Waterbury will
 soon be linked with New Haven b!
 electric railway. When that is ac
 cOmplished one may ride in the com
 pany's cars nearly all the way iron
 Waterbury to Stamford. The onl.
 break in the continuous trolley lint
 will be short stretch between Sey
 mOur and Naugatuck. Plans are ma
 turing for trolley connections, over tn,
 trusts lines, between Waterbury ant
 Hartford. The company is about t, extend the Oakville line of it's Water
 bury system to Watertown. Thes'
 facts merely suggest, but do not com
 prehend the varied activities and com
 prehensive plans of the Connection
 Railway and Lighting company. It
 notifications, already great througl
 the three principal counties of tn
 commonwealth, are steadily extend
 ing.IWaterbury Republican.
 Among those enjoying a sojourn a MT and Mrs J. R. RObinson'S in Merry
 all are MT and Mrs Sheldon Hendrick
 of South Carolina, Miss Birdie Roth,
 of New Milford, and MT and Mrs Orl,
 Cook and baby of Bridgeport.
 William Stone of Merryall has i'm
 proved his barns by newly covering