Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-14
Three Decisions By the
R. R. Commissioners.
Many Visitors al Fish and
Game Department.
-Four New Corporations File Their
Certificates Here.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Friday, Aug. 20, at 10 A. M.

Three important decisions were
handed down Thursday by the Board
Of of Railroad Commissioners.
The petition of the Maine Central
Railroad Company. for location of
tracks to its coal pocket in Portland,
upon which a hearing was held Tues
dav, has been granted with modiflca-
lions of the location asked by the COM
pany.
The location asked for was from a
stake marked 80" on the westerly side
of the county road leading from Com
mercial street in the city of Portland
in an easterly direction on a curve to
left of GS2 40 feet radius a distance Of
3S3 feet to station 3 plus SO; thence on
a tangent bearing north So degrees 3i1a
minutes east a distance of 653 feet to
station 10 plus &c on the eastcrly side
line of Overs or DeakeS West wharf,
SO called. The land covered by the 10
cation is described as follows: From
station O to station the width is four
rods wide two rods on each side of the
above described center line. From sta
ton 2 to station 8 the sOutherly boun-
Diary in the harbor commissioners line
and the northerly boundary is the
southerly side line Of a Travelled way
so feet wide. From station to station
10 plus 36 the southerly boundary is the
harbor commissioners line aud the
northerly boundary is line two feet
northery from and parallel to the cen
ter line Of location.
The above DIES cribed location crosses
the highway or county read known as
Cape Elizabeth NrosSing and the elec-
tie railroad of the Portland Railroad
Co
Ir their discussion, the commissioners
say:
THE condition at the present. pro-
posed crossing make it Impossible u
90 what IN our judgment would be hes,
for all parties Interested, but some
thing must be done if the Maine Cen
tral Railroad co. is to be allowed tC
occupy It's wharf for the purpose nee
essary to do it's business. We believe
that two rods on the county road IN
stead of four rods in width Of the land
proposed To be taken will be sufiicien,
for its present purposes, and we allow
this location of two rods in width with
the full hope and expectation that in
the near future all the tracks on the
county way will be crossed by an over
head bridge which Will eliminate all
the grade crossings on said highway
The location asked for in this peti-
ton is hereby approved and the talk
ing of the land covered by said loca-
ton is hereby authorized with the. ex-
Ception that the land taken upon the
county road shall be but two rods fr
width, and that part lying upon the
northerley side of the location n:
shown upon the accompanying plan am
as described in the petition"
The petition of the Bangor &c ArOoS.
took Railroad for changing the course
cf tn" highway along the Medford eX
tension. so called, was granted, the
commissioners deciding as follows
after a careful examination of tn,
ground we decree that the highwa,
shall be changed SO as to run upon the
westerly line of the right of way of The
saiG Bangor & AroOstook Railrna,
from a crossing near station 1861 till i
Joins its present location nearly oppo
site station lo4f. as shown by the plar
submitted with the petition and hercb!
made part of the decree"
The third petition is that of Ruff:
i1ui IettlNtf III the HtDd7tlCo'k N
Moosehead Railroad Company for thu
right to build Il branch track extending
from it's main line in Palmyra to il:
gravel pit near Thompson's crossing
in Palmyra. The petition was granted
Ey the commissioners. who say:
I'VE hereby approve the branch tract
as prayed for in said petition and order
that the same may be constructed
The crossing of said highway shall be
at grade and shall be constructed ani
maintained and properly planked by
the said railroad company. Suitable
provision for surface drainage"
The date of the three decisions I:
August r. 1908.