The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-10-09
DIRT is FLYING
AT MANY POINTS
Connecticut River Power Co.
Hustling Things.
HIGHWAY CHANGES.
Fully 800 Men Employed in This Sec
tion on Work Connected With the
Dam-Big Change in the Road Below
the Cabinet Company's Plant.

II anyone is of the opinion that the
Connecticut River Power company does
not fully intend to complete its man.
moth dam at Vernon and set back the
water in the river within a comparatively
few months-before next spring in fact
| he should make a tour of both sides OF
the river between here and the dam-site.
Such trip is not only extremely inter
esing but it is conclusive evidence that
the enormous undertaking, in which Brat
| tleboro people have been so greatly in
to them, is rapidly nearing completion.
Despite the fact that 400 men are act.
lively engaged in work on the dam itself
and concrete is being slapped into the
forms at the rate of about 800 cubic
yards a day the force at the dam is only
part of the number whose work is direct
ly due to the enterprise. On highway
work alone fully $50 men and a large mum.
Der of teams are engaged, and nearly half
this number is working on the improve
ments which are under way on the island
opposite this town and the Brattleboro
Retreat meadow. Then, too, there is a
force of more than 200 Iaborers employed |
on the Central Vermont track a short |
distance below Brattleboro. Taking it |
altogether fully 800 men are employed
in Brattleboro, Vernon and Hinsdale on
work connected with the dam.
Aside from that On the main dig
gngs" the largest force directly in the
employ of the Loring Farnum company
is the one at work changing and raising
the highway near the Hunt farm. Fully
a mile of entirely new road is being CON
structed. This road DIVORCES from the
present highway at point several hun
bred yards south of the Brattleboro Cabi-
net company's plant, crosses the Hunt
meadow diagonaly to point directly in
front of the cascade and then continues
southwark along the edge of the hill I'M
til it converges with the present highway
several hundred feet south of the Hunt
farm. This road will be built to a grade
he crest of the dam and will be % feet !
n width. To accomplish this fills vary !
ng in depth from six to II feet are nee :
,ssary across the meadow, while along !
he edge of the bank back of the Hunt !
arm buildings large numbers of stumps
rave to be removed by dynamite. The !
arth for filling is laid in layers foot !,
eep, each layer being thoroughly rolled !,
With three-ton roller. The men engaged
n this work completed, recently. about a ;,
uarter-mile of new road just this side of "
he Broad brook bridge, cutting away 9
ortion of the high embankment at this l.
oint, greatly improving the approach to !;
he bridge and raising the structure itself u
o the required level. II
From a point just below Broad brook G. :.
S far north as the Central Vermont u
clubhouse, distance of about mile, d
he railroad track will have to be raised a
rom two to seven feet. This work is be- VI
lg done by the Central Vermont Railroad " ~
ompany, which has fully 200 men and a.
on the job, but the power IL /.
,mpany will have to bear the expense. "
! is estimated that five or six weeks will =,
e necessary to complete this undertaking u
nd during that time traffic over the line o.
i'll be more or less congested on account 81 81
the necessity of running all trains at a ~ ~
w rate of speed over the track which is u u
cling filled. A beginning on this work n u,
as made last week, but the big force did pi
ot start until Monday Many of the la III
orers arrived last Saturday and found 3
eat difficulty in getting food and lodg- ~
g over Sunday
On the Hinsdale side of the river near
e foot of Sand hill about Is men are at M
ork building a new highway to take the Az
ace of the one which now crosses what
known as Stearns fiat, and as soon as
is is completed the highway just beyond W,
e Little river" bridge will have to be or
ised for a short distance. Between 30 wi
ID 40 men and number of teams are at du
,rk on the island itself, which is under W
ing extensive changes. Two of the ity
uses on the island have been raised sa
veral feet and concrete foundations will tic