. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . John river into the British provinces where theywere sawed into long and short luml^er. With the completionof the extension of the Bangor & Aroostook road to Fort Kentthere will be opened an avenue of transportation from the \alle\- that will transfer a material part of the manufactureand shipment of this vast \-olume of lun:ber from Canada to theterritory of our own state and nation. Two miles below Ashland the railroad extension crosses theAroostook river at a grade GO feet
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . John river into the British provinces where theywere sawed into long and short luml^er. With the completionof the extension of the Bangor & Aroostook road to Fort Kentthere will be opened an avenue of transportation from the \alle\- that will transfer a material part of the manufactureand shipment of this vast \-olume of lun:ber from Canada to theterritory of our own state and nation. Two miles below Ashland the railroad extension crosses theAroostook river at a grade GO feet above the bottom of thechannel. The bridge, a noble and shapely structure. 777 feetlong, is composed of four central and four shorter end .spansresting on piers of quarry-faced ashlar granite, with concretefoundations carried up as far as the water surface. A few milesfurther along, near Little Machias lake, the line passes the crestof the river water shed and descends to Portage, onPortage lake 18 miles from Ashland, hor the remaining 38miles to Fort Kent it follows the Fish ri\er .^riNIM. I .VKIS I-KOM HILL ID HIIL,
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