The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-09-24
PETITION FOR
GRADE CROSSING
Supervisors Of Mifflin Twp
Through their Attorneys
Pray Court for Order.
Answer to be Filed BY 30th.

"Wnen VIII the llllSdtOn COnCoUll-
tant to the construction of the river
bridge at Mifflinville endr" is a ques-
tion frequently ashed. There doesn't
appear to be satisfactory answer to
it. The fight between the railroad
company and the commissioners is
still on, and both are battli G with
tenacity that forbids OF even an ap-
proximate conjecture as to when it
will end. The latest move 10 the
matter was made by the supervisors
Of Main township on Saturday when
they through their attorneys Ikeler &
Ikeler filed petition praying tine
court for an order to permit crossing
over the Penna. Railroad tracks at
the south abutment of the bridge at
grade. The railroad company will
have until the goth of the present
month to file an answer and October
9th at eleven o'clock has been fixed
for the hearing. The petition reads
as follows:
That on July 7, 1902, the Court of
Quarter sessions of Columbia county
confirmed absolutely the report Of
viewers laying out county bridge
over the Susquehanna river, where
said river crosses the public highway
leading from the public road between
Bloomsbury and Berwick to the village
of Mifilinville, and that said viewers
made, laid out and returned change
or variation in the bed of the road
leading to the southern end of said
bridge, which variation is as follows:
Beginning at point in the northern
line OF First street to the village of
Miffllnville, two hundred and fifty
feet west of the western line OF Mar
ket street, thence across the village
common north twenty-one degrees,
west 1873 feet to the right of way of
the North and West Branch Railroad
Company, now the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company. thence crossing said
right of way at grade north twenty-one
degrees, west 1870 feet to the southern
abutment OF said bridge, said abut-
ment standing on said common to
high water mark.
That the SAID county bridge is now
in course OF erection and has been
completed at its southern end and
that in order to reach the same it is
necessary for your petitioners, and it
is their duty to construct the road or
highway leading thereto, as laid out
by said viewers, and across the tracks
and right of way of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and that an older
to open and construct said highway
has been taken out and served by
your petitioners.
That It is necessary and is desired
by your petitioners constructing the
new highway aforesaid that the same
shall be so constructed that the high
way and railroad asoresaid shall cross
each other at the same grade.
That the propose and desired con-
struction of said crossing at grade is
the natural and convenient method
Of building the aforesaid new highway
leading to the southern approach Of
said bridge and will be made by simply
extending the level of said southern
approach across the tracks of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company at
grade and thence by an easy ascend
ing grade southwark to Front street
Id the village of Mifflinville.
That such construction at grade
is desirable and absolutely necessary
because the southern approach of
said bridge rests upon the river bank
at an even grade with the tracks of
the railroad company and only few
feet distant therefrom, and that there
is not sufficient space between the
bridge and the tracks of the railroad
to construct descent from the high
way Gf built overhead) to the bridge
or its approach. That in any event
a grade crossing Is reasonably re-