The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-04-28
BIG CONTRACTORS HERE,
Last Bid on New Hampshire LINK
Filed Today.


While the developments in the ran
road situation this week have been
mainly in the line of efforts at negotla'
tion between the interested PARTIES
tbe Boston q Maine railroad, tine
Brattleboro railroad committee ana
the Central Vermont rallroad-the
engineer who is to have charge OF
tbe construction of the first section OF
the nroposed Boston & Maine eXten'
sion. George NJ. Tompsdn, has beeh
busy carrying out the orders OF Pres-
ident Charles S. Mellen. Several weeks
ago Mr.. ,Mellen directed Engineer
Tompson to have his plans ready lo5
contractors to bid upon April - ana
to notify contractors to have their bids
on file not later than noon April rs,
That order has been carried out ana
the last of the contractors filed his bld
this morning
submitted bids Yesterday Signed an
agreement to have the roadbed ready
for the rails not later than Dec. l.. IL
tbe road is to be built on the New
HAMPSHIRE side of the Connectlcut
river the contract will probably ne
awarded not later than May .. ms
date is named as the probable one up
on which the contractor who gets the
lob will be notified as that is the date
az the conference between Boston x
Maine and Central Vermont olhclals
referred to above. The contractor TO
whom is awarded the Job will furnish
n hond of 25 per cent of the amount OF
tbe contract or from $250,O00 to S3OQ,-
| 900 The eight contractors VINO SUD
mitted bids this week are Henry steers
company, limited, of New YORK, J9hh
III, o 'Brien of the same city, Goughlah
& Shields company of Boston, Fletcher
Lahev company of Boston A, u.
Tomassello & Co. of Boston, Ryan &
Keon of New York, The Waltz & Reeee
CONSTRUCTION company Of Netcong, n.
r New England Construction com
pany of Springfield Mass, and Hoic
brook. Cabot & Rollins corporation OF
| Boston,
The preliminary survey for the sec
ond section of the road from a point
opposite Brattleboro to point IN the
town of WalpOle on the Cheshire, dlvi,
sion of the Boston & Maine road Will
be complete within a few days and
Fnoineer Tompson s Office force will
start upon the work of cross sectionins
the line that the specifications may be
ready for contractors to bid upon IN
tbe fall. The second section of the
road will tap the Cheshire division
about three miles south of the station
AFT Walpole. 1t will be approximately
is miles in length. The survey fol
Windsor, VT, to West Lebanon. N. II.
has been completed and the locator
filed with the railroad commission OF
New Hampshire 1t is expected tha'
the location will be approved in time
to allow the contract for building the
road to be awarded July l. -,
All of these plans may seem llke
move in opposition to President Mel
lens agreement to confer with Cen
tral Vermont officials relative. to bring
ing his road north from the MassachIu
setts line on the Vermont side Oh IN
Connecticut> river This however Il
not the case. He has discounted ,th'
possibility of the conference endlns
unsatisfactory by making arrange
ments to award the contract Tor ouiid
ing the road. :, ~
Engineer Tompson will fit up a lab
oratorv in the rear of his private, OF
flee in the Market block where all
the concrete to be used in the masonr'
work on the first section VIII ne test
ed. A contractor who will board Tn
italian laborers was in town last wee
TO arrange for the delivery to his caml
when il is established, of 1000 loave
of bread daily. The several contrac!
ors who have been in Brattleboro TN
week were given to understand ina
. the successful bidder must get M