History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . inancialembarrassments ensued and operations were abandoned. The project wasat length revived, however, and on the 2(lth of March, 1S4U, legislativeauthority having been granted for an extension to Williamsport, the namewas changed to the Catawissa, Williamsfwrt and Erie railroad. It wasopened to Milton in 1834. The company having defaulted in tlie paymentof interest on its bonds, its property was sold at judicial sale, and the pur-chasers reorganized with the name of the Catawissa Railroad Companyunder legislative authority secured on the 21st
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . inancialembarrassments ensued and operations were abandoned. The project wasat length revived, however, and on the 2(lth of March, 1S4U, legislativeauthority having been granted for an extension to Williamsport, the namewas changed to the Catawissa, Williamsfwrt and Erie railroad. It wasopened to Milton in 1834. The company having defaulted in tlie paymentof interest on its bonds, its property was sold at judicial sale, and the pur-chasers reorganized with the name of the Catawissa Railroad Companyunder legislative authority secured on the 21st of March, ISGO. ? The lineenters Chillisquaque township a short distance east of Pottsgrove and passesthrough the county to Milton, where the West Branch is crossed; thence theroute continues through Union and Lycoming counties to Williamsport, towhich it was opened in 1871. This road has been opei-ated by the Phila-delphia and Reading Railroad Company since the 1st of November, 1872. The Shamokin, Sunbunj and LeicisbHrg Railroad Companij was. c,.^~r^^^^C\^^_^^^.,^^^ IXTEENAL IMPKOTEMEXTS. 327 chartered, February 10, 1SS2: the corporators were S. P. Wolverton. H. , Ira T. Clement, John Haas, Le\-i Kook. A. H. Dill, and John Smith,of whom S. P. Wolverton was the first president and has filled that positioncontinnonsly from the organization of the company. On the 4th of Febru-ary, 1SS2, an agreement was entered into between the Xew York Centraland Hudson River Railroad Company, the Fall Brook Coal Company, theJersey Shore, Pine Ci-eek and Buffalo Railroad Company, and other com-panies, on the one part, and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com-pany on the other, to build a railroad from Shamokin to some point on theCatawissa railroad at or near Danville. April 1, 18S2, through the influenceof S. P. Wolverton, a supplemental contract was made by the companies atinterest, by which West Milton, on the line of the Catawissa railroad, wassubstituted for Danville as the nort
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