Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-20
p,iIroad Commissioners
Hold Hearings, Friday.
Rlrhi and CaterpiIIars Threat
en- Names Pine Forests.
.,... Time on White Perch Fishing
At Lake Sebasticook.
srArE HOUSE CALENDAR.
u.e.ino Of Governor and Council
"'~' tuesday. juno %, at 10 A. M.

o,ncemcnt was made at the Of
IS the Board of Railroad Commits
~ .aars Thursday of the receipt OF
s' '.,t;on frora the Bridgton & Saco
%.,,ar railroad Co. asking the APP
nv, nv the board of the location of
pr,onch railroad track to coop
ar,pe factory in the town OF HARRISON
CUMBERLAND county; also that the
.amnany may under the direction or
49, hoard locate, construct and MAIN
~. .",n said extension; also that the
.ord will authorize a crossing or a
S;abvav at grade Herewith and Will
,',ormine the manenr and condition OF
u.oss;ng said highway, and how the
..nerse of building and maintaining
much thereof as is within the
.,.,,. If said location shall be borne
"o.uaen said town and the petitioner.
hearing on the above petltlon VIII
10 held at the West End Hotel at
portland at A. NJ. Saturday, June
hearing was also held on the petit
49,, # .he Maine Central Co. asking
,or the location of branch track ana
.rossine the highway and the tracks
- ,he Fairfield Il ShaWmut Railway
", Fairfield to the mill of the Hume
s1oyrence Co Hon. Forrest Good
lin If skowhegan appeared for the
Maine Central, =. II. Lawrence, one or
tho selectmen of the town for Falf-
seld and Amos F. Gerald OF Falr!leld
for The railway company. The COM
rssi,ners granted the prayer of the
petitioners
netition was also received at the
commissioners office from the Euro
moan and North American Railway
aching for the location of a necessary
rack ON Front street in the city of
poucor. A hearing on this petition
vas ordered to take place at the pas
senger station at Bangor June ~ at
4P NJ.
Hon. A. w. Gilman, commissioner OIL
agriculture, was at the department
Friday and was busy with the affairs
Of his Office. Mr.. Gilman expressed
himself as much concerned regarding
the presence of the pine blight in the
State and said that the situation was
becoming alarming, inasmuch as 1t
threatens one of the natural resources
of Maine. the pine timber. The
bHgh has not appeared in any par
tAllar locality but IS noticed in many
places, the foliage on the trees turning
brown as is the case when winter
killed. Another cause of concern on
account of the pine trees is the fact
that in some localities of the State
they are now being attacked by a
small caterpillar which feeds on the
nine needles Mr.. Gilman saw one
tree where the caterpillars We're work.
ing, and while they We're crawling on
the trunk Of the tree and on the
branches there was on the ground
around the tree fully a peck of them
They clean up everything as they go
along and it does not take great
while for them to strip a tree of small
size,
Notice has been given out by the
commissioners of Inland Fisheries
ant Game of the enactment of the fol-
lowing rules and regulat tons control
ing the fishing for white perch in Lake
Sebasticook or Newport pond:
Section l. There shall be a close
ume on white perch in Lake Sebasti-
COOK. or Newport pond, so-called. sit
aated in the town of Newport. county
Penobscot, from April first to
July first of each year. during which
close time it shall be unlawful to fish
i" take. catch or kill any white perch
III This lake, or have the same in pos
session.
Section Q These rules and regula-
'Uns shall take effect June 10, A. d.,
i'S and remain in force during the
year 1905
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