Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-30
EDWARDS CASE,
The Company's Last Ma
chinery Witness Testifies.
A. H. Pratt and E. v. EIweII
Both On the Stand Yesterday.
The Outside Property Will Be Reached,
Il Is Expected, Within a Short Time.

parcels OF outside property on which
the 60 mpany should contest the valua-
ton of the aSSeSSolS. They were the
brick block on Water street. the largy.
boarding house on Water street and the
pulp mill buildings on the east end of
tnr dam. AS for the rest Of the proo-
erty counsel took the ground that it
WAS assessed at its full value and tina,
it was not to be disturbed unless il
should be found that there was Il gen
criI undervaluation of other property
IN the city.
Attorney Heath then further address,
ca the court in regard to what he Gale I
an unfair report Of the proceedings Of
October 23. which appeared in the Ken
nebec journal OF October "a, and was
copied by other State papers. Nj.
Heath took the ground that an in
justice had been done the witness. the
Hon. ". ID. Pennell OF Lewiston an!
asked that the court request Il fair
statement Of the proceedings. The
court took the matter under consider
alton.
FCr the purnose Of doing full JUS
tice 10 this part Of the hearing, tile
Jourra! viii publish a full stenogranh-
ic report Of il in tomorrow's issue. il
being impossible TO have it Transcribed
in season for publication this morn
ing. -Ed)
Ernest W. ElWcll was recalled to The
stand shortly before l. O'clock and his
direct examination taken up where il
Was dropped at five O'Clock Thursday
afternoon. He wa. asked by Attorney
Baker as TO just what mills stood on
made land. The witness said that one
half If mill No. .. one corner Of No. 4
and part of No. . all had their found
atoms on made land. The mills on The
made land shake. He couldn't state 20
what extent they lad settled but there
cracks in them. The east half of the
office was on made land and that had
cracked 50 that it was necessary to
take out 4 part of the wall Il while ago
ana lay it again. Part Of the annex ID
No. mill sets on piling.
The crosS-eXamination was conducted
by Attorney Williamson. He asked
the witness when he came here to work.
The answer was % years oGO last April.
He was asked to show what the shore
line was 1T that time. lie did 50 on the
plans. but the stenographer complained
that he couldn't record that very well.
50 he was asked if the land was there
when he came there. He replied that 1t
was. so then you have no actual
Knowledge of it's being made land, have
yOu:" asked the attorney for the city.
Witness replied that in digging about
there he had found Old logs and limbs
buried There hal been no substantial
change in the shore line in the - yea -,
except along T:oni brook. The land on
which the buildings We're erected was
there wien the Witness came to the
city.
The stone abutment wall is now
about 500 feet in length. of which 400
feet was in place when Mr.. Elwcll be-
gan there The rest has been built
since 1870 ana the original 400 feet was
in the same shape, but has been top
ped out" The wall is six to eight feet
wide ut its base ana while in some
places the base is entirely out of water,
in others the base is three feet below
the &urface. 1t is all laid dry.
All the buildings with the exception
Of mills l and and storehous" 10. |
have been built since Mr.. Elwcll l1-
came connected with the company. the
storehouse being new when he cane.
Asked III 1tS'tIu ~ lll' l'biiis'Ni''''' -
No. 4 mill l,c stated that in some places
they were eight feet on the bottom and
IN others IL ar &c feet in width. The
heighth varied from eight to Il or Is
feet.
He was asked about the depth Of the
water Just below the dam and gave as
the extreme depth 80 feet. but he
didn't know how wide place this was.
He didn't know the average depth.
close to the dam the water was 20 10
80 feet deep. The west side OF the
dam sets on ledge, the east SIDE on
gravel. but no one knows what the
foundation is in the middle. He tcSti-
fled that there are ten wheels on the
east side of the river. three operated
hy the kcnncbcc Light and Heat Com
r&ny and the other seven by The CusfI-
noe Paper Company. He believed
that the pulp mill had 1850 horscp"W-
cr and that the light company used
$50 horsepower. The witness under
stood that the wheels that had been
put in by the paper company were the
property of the Edwards Company in
the sense that they would hav" To be
left there in case the paper COM
pany moved.
Asked as to the size of the head
gates. the witness stated that they
We're eight by eleven feet and that
there were six of them. When the
mill is running full speed and the wat
er permits of a 15-foot head. the gates
are opened wide open.
Going back to the No. | mil. the
witness testified that the braces were
On the timbers in that mill When he
went there as were also the braces
to sustain the canal walls. 1t looked
as if the canal was built that way
Tho freshct of Dec. 16. 1901 was re-
fcrrcd TO. Mr.. Elwcl said that II was
not caused by an ice jam down river
but just by the exceedingly large val
umc Of water that came down the
river.
The witness was asked concerning 4
lot of new piping that was noticed by
the attorney for the city during the
recent view. when it was installed He
stated that il was nut in two wears