The Republican journal., 1905-07-20
The Railroad Situation in Prospect.

Our Prospect correspondent writes: The
railroad bed is about completed in Prospect
from the Colson bridge to the Arthur
| Trevett place. The contractor for thi:
piece was Mr. Wiseman. The depot and
siding is half way between the Marden anG
Trevett farms. The station house has a
concrete cellar wall, water tight with nc
cellar drain, and the carpenters will abou,
| finish the house this week. The bridge is
| done, and it is Al feet long between the con.
crete abutments and rs feet high in the
channel The iron work rests on nine con
|. crete piers built from the solid bottom
The cut on the south side, or rather on the
Blanchard farm, is 35 feet deep and on the
other side II feet deep. The bridge is moi
built wholly for a water channel but to keep
the track up to grade. There have been a
good many wild estimates of what was level
and about level along where the road bed is
and almost any one can estimate very well
in a general way about hills and valleys
that are plain to be seen, but how the esti-
mates of level will correspond with the
level over the woods and hills is another
story. There appears to be more cuts
ana Hills than were looked for every
where. But of all the estimates made along
the fields and clear lands, there was an old
pioneer that spotted through the solid woods
more than hundred years ago and beat
everybody. A man by the name of Staples
bought tract of land in what was then
Prospect anywhere he wanted it, and among
the farms included in the Staples patent,
so-called, we're those of S. B. Littletield,
Emery Calderwood, Wilber Ridley, William
Smith, j. NJ. Grant, Arthur Dockum,
Horace Lindsey, Cecil Moody, Granville
Herman and some few others. This old
pioneer spotted his road through Stockton
Springs and the Staples patent to Prospect
and the landing. 1t used to be rumored
when was small boy that where the road
was spotted through SO long before was the
only good location for road. Either hills
or valleys are one side or the other. 1t may
be it happened so, but it was about the level
for the railroad bed and the road is built
very nearly alongside of the highway all
the way from the village to the swing off to
go to Standpoint. Along by the Trevett
of the buildings, but after deliberating
they paid $1,000 to Mr.. Trevett to move his
building and changed the road alongside
the old pioneers spotted road of more than
a hundred years ago. Only about 20 rods
from this old road, in the swing Off towards
Standpoint on the Marden brook, there is a
concrete culvert 155 feet long, feet in the
clear. Work was begun on it before the
snow was gone and in one Of our visits 70
the place there was more than an acre from
10 to 90 feet deep and 155 feet wide, and by
the last of August they expect to have the
The contractors for the road from the Irev-
ett place to Mr.. Young's, Standpoint, are
Mavers 4 Brothers from Nova Scotia. Four
| teen spans OF horses are quartered IN the
Spinney buildings and the boarding houses
all around are filled with boarders in addi-
tion to the Italian quarters. There are
large numbers of men, women and children
and transients, such as telegraph pole
crews, and wire fence crews, besides a
bookkeeper, timekeeper, blacksmith, dyna-
mite crew, barber and Italian store keeper.
This makes quite d crowd and is great
| change from former days. By the way, we
expect some antics along the road with
horses. With cars coming SO near the road
it is hard to make a horse believe that they
| are going by, and some of those stald old
plugs are going to make kinding wood and
stand up on end for perhaps the first time
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