Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-24
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Mr.. BUTLER of Knox: Mr.. President,
I would like by unanimous consent Of
the Senate to reply to the Senator from
Lincoln, Senator Boynton.
The PRESIDENTS: 1t is perfectly in
order to discuss why the matter should
be continued.
Mr.. BUTLER: 1 do not wish to be &C
cused, and I do not think l can be ac-
cused of delaying this matter. ] would
like the indulgence of the Senate to have
this matter taken up next Thursday
morning and l assure the Senate that
it will be promptly taken up at that
time, as far as / am concerned. And
Senator Chatto very kindly consented to
that arrangement. There will be no fur
Their delay so far as we are concerned.
The motion was agreed to and the re-
port was retabled and assigned for next
Thursday.
The President laid before the Sem
ate Report A Fought to pass, and re-
port (ought not to pass from Com
rnittee on Ways and Bridges on Re-
solve in favor of building State Road
from Jackman in Somerset County to
lockwood on Moosehead Lake.
The PRESIDENTS: The question is on
the acceptance of either report
Mr.. COLBY of Somerset: Mr.. Presi-
as member of the Ways and Bridges
Committee. this is the first time that
the genial Senator from Waldo and
myself have ever differed on that Com
mittee. Being the Chairman of that
Committee, it seemed fair to me that he
should have tine floor first but as he
has just come to me and said that as
was one of the members that signed re-
port A. he thought that I ought to have
the floor. SO it didn't seem wise to dis
pute abut that matter
/ This resolve calls for S22J 800 as an ap-
preparation from the state. The total
amount of the resolve calls for $4,000.
Assuming that the State will appropriate
the $4,000, it is in the resolve that the
County of Somerset will appropriate
$3.50, the citizens of lockwood. or peo-
pie from lockwood or interested in
business. at lockwood. $4,000 the Plan
tat;on of Jackman 5000 and the Plan
tation of Long Pond s3oO0 This makes
the total si6 600 The state in no way
would be obliged TO appropriate their
part unless all of these conditions were
fulfilled.
In addition to these conditions in re-
gard to money, the road would run over
a stretch of road owned by the Hollings-
worth Il Whitney Company in Misery
Township, known as the Tarratine Road
Another condition of the resolve is that
those three miles Of road shall be given
over to the state. free of charge. by the
HolinesWorth X Whitney Company.
There are also two and one-quarteI
miles of road on the lockwood end OF
the proposed road. now belonging to the
Great Northern PAPER Company. An
other condition of the resolve is that
this should be given to the State free of
charge.
\ great many Of the people. even in
our OWL section Of the state. seem Ia
thinl; this would he an entirely new
road, that there never was any road
there. or any thoughts of a road before
this was proposed, but that is mistak-
On idea. There is a very good road in
su",-ica for puckboards. about ten miles
in Ter gt.l. between Jackman and Long
Pond. Then it is necessary 10 cross from
the fco: of Long Pond to the Tarratine
r Dad owned by the Holljncsworth 4
Whitney Company, where there is three
miles OF road which has already been
built and will be turned over to the
tate by the IIollingswortl & whitney
Company. That would leave seven miles
Of new road to be built between Long
Pond and Tarratine Road. and then
from Tarratine Road. on the Canadian
Pacific to kinco Station or lockwood,
so-called. the distance is about ten
miles. OF these ten miles two and one
quarter miles has already been built BY
the Great Northern Paper Company, and
this road, j. so happens covers the very
hardest part OF the entire road, SO far
as the cost of construction goes
OF actual new road to build that would
leave about fifteen miles. The hardest
part of the road to build would be the
shore stretch between the foot of Long
Pond and the Tarratine Road. distance
of about seven miles, and that is not
at all difficult, as there are no very steep
grades and there is any amount OF
gravel all along the proposed right-of-
way The rest of this road is through
burnt land and open growth, and could
be built very cheaply, as there are no
hills of any size whatsoever to bother.
At lockwood within the past year or
so, LANCE amount of money has been
laid out in new enterprises. Among
them are the American Realty Com
pany's plants, Lamb Saw Mill Com
pany. Great Northern Paper Company s
machine shop and other work shops
The town also contains two churches, a
new school house and hall recently built
at an expense of over 5000, six stores,
all of which are of good size and carry
a nice line of goods. and has an average
population Of about 800 and 30 dwelling
houses. a great many Of the people
here find employment working on the
farms in the summer, guiding in the
fall, working in the different manufac-
turing plants that are around the Lake.
There are about a dozen large farms
under good cultivation which this road
would come down through.
During the past two years the Ca
madam government has put out sew
eral hundred thousand dollars in i'm
proving it's road from Quebec to the
Maine boundary, and they are laying
out largo sums Of money on the
highway between Montreal and Que
bee, also between Montreal and the
New York state line. This means that
eventually, with good roads through
out the northern part TO Somerset