Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-24
To the Honorable Board of Railroad Com

To the Honorable Board of Railroad CON-
miSSiOnerS
The Kingfield and Dead River Railway
Company, q corporation duly established
and existing under the general laws OF
the State of Maine, respectfully repre-
SentS
/. That said company is now maintain
ing and operating under an agreement
with the Franklin and Megantic Railway
Company, steam railroad for public
use in the transportation of persons and
property from its junction with said
Franklin ana Megantic Railway at King
field through the township of Jerusalem
to it's terminus at Bigelow Station, so
called, in the township of Crockertown,
all in the County of Franklin and State
of Maine, a distance of about sixteen
miles, with an established gauge of two
feet
2. That said company is DESTROYS of ex-
tending its said railroad with it's present
gauge from point at or near it's station
at Carrabasset through the township OF
Jerusale in the County of Franklin,
Dead River Plantation in the County of
Somerset to a point in the Plantation Of
Bgelow in the County of Somerset ct or
near the westerly end of the bridge
across Dead River, so called, connecting
the Plantation of Flagstaff with said
Plantation of Bigelow
3. That the length of said proposed eX-
tension, as nearly as may be, is sixteen
miles and that public convenience re-
quires the construction of the same.
4. Your petitioner files herewith map
of said proposed extension on proper
scale as required by law.
5. Your petitioner further represents
that the amount of capital stock SUBJ
scribed for the construction of said eX-
tension is at the rate of three thousand
dollars per mile; that the same has been
subscribed for in good faith by RESPONSE
bic parties; that five per cent. thereof in
said corporations; and that all legal re-
quirements in connection with the said
subscription have been complied with.
WHEREFORE your petitioner prays
that after due notice and hearing, the
location of said extension may be ap-
proved and your petitioner may be au-
thoriZed to construct, maintain and oper
ate said extension.
tenth day of November, A. D. 1905.
kINGFlELD AND DEAD RIVER RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY,
By: Josiah s. Maxcy, President
Cornish & BaSSett, Its Attorneys
WE, the undersigned. Josiah S. Maxcy
Philip H. Winslow and George A. Far
rington, being the Directors of the King.
field and Dead River Railway Company,
on oath depose and say that the state
ments in the foregoing application are
true; that the sum of forty-eight thousand
dollars ($4S,000l, the same being the in
creased amount of the capital stock of
said company, has been in good faith sub
scribed by responsible persons and that
five per cent. thereof has been paid in
in cash to the treasurer of said corpora
ton and further, that it is intended in
good faith to construct maintain and
operate the extension mentioned in the
foregoing application and this affidavit
they make by indorsing the same on said
written application as required by the
general laws of the State of Maine.
Dated this nineteenth day of November,
A. d. 1903
JOSIAH S. NANCY,
PHILIP H. WINSLOW,
GEO. A. HARRINGTON.
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec. SIS. November 90. 1909.
Then personally appeared the above
named Josiah S. MaXcy, Philip H. Win
slow and George A. Harrington and made
oath to the truth of the foregoing state
ment by them subscribed
Before me,
LESLIE G. CORNISH,
Justice of the Peace,