Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-07

To the Honorable Board Of Railroad
commissioners of the State of Maine:
The Somerset Railway Company, cor
poration established under the laws OF
tn State. of Maine located aha na a Gi ltS
Of Portland in the County OF Cumber-
land and State aforesaid. respectfully
represents:
railway extending from the Town OF
Oakland in the County OF kennebec 10
Kineo Station in lockwood township IN
the County of Somerset, all In the state
aforesaid:
That your petitioner deems 1t neces-
sary and expedient for the convenient
operation of its said Raliway TO MAKE
a change in the location or SAID railway
in the Town of Madison, County or SOM
erset and State aforesaid, opposite
Abenaquis Mill of HollingsWorth q
Whitney Company, so that the ,ililii
track shall deviate from IT'S present i"ca-
ton.
The centre line of the proposed change
in location commences at stake caiieu
Station O in the centre of the man track
at point called Station l0oot o9.o OF lie
location of the Somerset Railroad COM
pany as approved by the County Com
missioners of said Somerset County at
March term, 1870: running thence north
eastery on a curve to the right of 2292
| feet radius, a distance of 1861 feet to a
stake at station 19tl6.7; thence on tam
gent to said curve, distance of 40 feet
| to stake in the centre of the main
| track at station 20+26.7 said stake be-
| ing at station called 16+61 of amended
| location of. Somerset Railroad Company
approved by it's Board of Directors De-
| cember End 1875 and recorded in said
| County Commissioners records in Vol
| ume G, Page l52.
The westerly side of this location is
| parallel to and SO feet distant from,
| measured on "a line at right angles there
| TO, said centre line and the easterly line
| &c daSnrihq6 as follows. hpPinninO at
iron hub at the northwest corner of lot
/ numbered 60 on plan of house lots as
laid out by Snow & Humphreys, Engi-
neers, June 25th, 1900 said plan being re-
corded in Somerset County Registry of
| Deeds in plan Book 3, Page g. said huh
being , rods distant from present centre
| of main track; running thence by =
| curve to the right, to and through an iron
| hub at the southwest corner of lot num-
! bered 81 on said plan: thence to and
| through an iron hub on the northerly
| line of Kennebec Street 10 feet westerly
| from the northwest corner of Kennebec
and Somerset Streets, as marked on said
| plan and - feet easterly from the cas-
| terly line of the present right of way
| of the Somerset Railway Company
| thence northerly to an iron hub on the
| north line of land now or formerly of the
| heirs of Luther f. Edwards, 81 feet ca St
erly from the easterly line of the present
| right or way of the Somerset Railway
| Company: thence ENTHUSIASTICALLY Ia
| stake on eastery side of amended loca-
| ton of Somerset Railroad Company op-
posite station 2042 of proposed changed
| location and 1872 feet from centre line of
main track.
Where greater width than two rods or
| easterlv side of centre line is taken the
| additional width is necessary for eXcava-
| ton or embankment
| This location is made subject to all
| prior rights of said Somerset Railway
| Company in and to any portion of the
| land covered by said location.
| Your petitioner represents that all OF
| the land necessary for said proposed
changed location has been obtained by
| your petitioner, except the westerly por.
ton of lot owned by Ferdinand p. Small
| of Camas, State of Washington, de.
| scribed follows: strip of land off the
| westerly end of lot numbered Il on plan
of house lots laid out by Snow &
Humphreys. Engineers, June 18th, 1900
| said plan being recorded in Somerset
| County registry of Deeds i'm Plan book !,
| Page g, said strip being thirty-nine and
| seven-tenths feet wide on the northerlA
| end (along proposed Edwards Street and
twenty -one and two-tenths feet wide OF
the southerly end; that your petitioner
| has been unable to agree with the said
| Ferdinand ID. Small as to the necessity
for taking said land and that he does
not consent thereto.
SO much of the original locations be-
tween stations lO66-t 69.5 and 16+61 is not
to be abandoned until Railway shall be
| completed and in operation on said
| changed location and the rails removed
| from said original locations
Your petitioner files herewith a mar
| or plan on an appropriate scale and pro-
| file on the relative scales of profile
| paper in common use, dated March 5th
| 1910. signed by Theo. L. Dunn. Chief
| Engineer, showing both the original To-
| cations of the Somerset Railway and the
new location covered by said proposed
change.
| Your petitioner further represents thai
| said changed location does not cross
| anyhiShway or town way.
| Wherefore your petitioner requests
| your Honorable Board to approve the
| said change in location of said Railway
| to be made under the direction of youi
| Honorable Board to find after due no.
| tice and hearing that the above de.
| scribed land of the said Ferdinand ID
| Small is necessary to be taken and held
! for the reasonable accommodation of the
| traffic and appropriate business of the
| corporation, and further requests your
| Honorable Board to consent that its
| trains over said Railway may deviate
| from the track originally built and be
| run over the track constructed upon the
| new or changed location herenbefore
| described.
Dated at Portland, Maine. March 9th.
| 1910.
Somerset Railway Company,
by MORRIS MCDONALD.