The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-01-23
v. c. HOBARTs ANNUAL
REPORT
Read ut the Recent Business Meeting
OF the Somerset Farmers CO-0pera-
tive Tel. 20.

pldHueu lOI llit year, LOT TWO OF three
reasons.
We had a great deal of trouble and
a good deal OF work on account of
State Road work and it was all scat
tered; Arson, Caratunk, Norridge-
wock, and Scion. distances that took
time and from a lack OF interest or
application OF both. il took still long
er, and when We got to the end, and
everything else seemed out of the
way, so We could do something. one
man quit.
We had Mr.. Glen Taylor with US
for few days. just long enough to
appreciate his worth as a Lineman for
the Company, but owing to personal
reasons he was Obliged to return
home. We now have ii from him that
he will be ready to 90 TO work for
the company again, permanently, and
we most heartily recommend him, and
hope his service may be for years
rather than days, for the longer such
man is with you the more valuable
he will be TO the company.
Our first work was the building of
Trunk line from North Arson to
East New Portland which made some
changes in North Arson necessary;
setting a heavier pole and taking
nearly all of the lines from the roof
of a blacksmith shop and what guy
ing and reinforcement was necessary
We then started to make the Trunk
line from Scion to Skowhegan a me-
tallic circuit, by putting up the sec
ond wire. To do this, and make ready
for the Athens trunk and another line
the same direction out of Skowhegan,
required a lot of changing in Show
eral old ones to set over, and lot
of heavy guying as well as cross
arming. We took off sx-pin cross
arms from Lawton and North Streets
around to Court Street, down to the
County Jail, and replaced them with
ten-pin arms, making two ten-pins on
each pole and from Lawton up North
to ,Iewett Street We put on the second
lot of siX-pins, the New England
giving us permit to lower their arms
across the plains" in order to do so
as they are under us there. From
the junction of the two roads, at
Cold Brook we reset all of the poles
up over the hill, past the DR.. Smith
place, putting in two new, good sized
ones, and having it all on the west
side of the road, while before We
crossed the road three times, getting
up over the hill. We then followed
the line all the way through righ-
ing up, re-setting, guying, and cutting
the bushes.
In the meantime we had crew
working from the Scion end, bringing
back two wires to the top of Williams
Hill, that We might divide Line II
(Twelve Corners Line) that was heay-
lily loaded To do this we set about
fifty (50) poles new, inches top from
Zina Norton's north to the first cor
ner, meeting the poles going to the
river road, and made the connection
for the Twelve Corners that way and
saved the wire on the other road from
Williams Hill to Bicknell's Corner
During this time our poles had been
cut peeled and delivered around Cass'
Corner seventy-nine (79) of them. a
first class lot of poles, ;" tops and
good butts to make the connecting
link for the Athens Trunk from Fred
McCollar's to Eaton's Corner.
We then hired a farmer to set the
poles, after stalking out the line, with
instructions to put them down 4 feet
and lamp well and, on the ledge, to
blast for them. He used Is sticks of
dynamite and did permanent first
class job. We managed to get up four
or five miles out of Skowhegan on
this line and all of our second line
to the home of Maurice Magoon. re-
setting and guying a lot of poles and
cutting the bushes. We then got two
faithful young fellows with but little
experience to finish the Trunk line 10
Athens with instruction to guy all cor
ners and to cut clear all bushes and
they did very satisfactory work.
During the time, we have delivered
on the south side of the river in
Skowhegan. one hundred and seven
400 poles about half of them peeled,
all five inch tops and a nice lot OF
poles We have them set down past
the cemetery to the last house in the
village on the back road Mr. Cas-
wells and we have seventy (70)
more poles strung along the same
back road to make the connection With
the Fairfield line now built to what
is known as the Old Coburn farm.
to bring those people into the Skow-
hogan switch, and to give us direet.
through. metallic circuit, Trunk lin.
sometime into Wateryille.
For what We have done We have pur-
chased, 2i5 poles at cost of $4,000,
1870 coils of line wire; / coil OF No. {