From the Chenango Telegraph of Norwich, NY
Saturday, June 10, 1871

DeRuyter

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   It seems to be a fixed fact that the Cazenovia and Canastota Railroad is to be extended at once to DeRuyter, thence via the Midland to Cortland and connection with the Ithaca and Cortland road. Gen. Wm. L. Burt, of Boston, has been in town examining the proposed route. The preliminary survey is finished ... The Midland is located to Cortland and will be under contract at once from Truxton ... Our citizens are getting up an old fashioned Fourth of July ... On Monday afternoon a lot of wood on Crumb Hill near the railroad track was burned up ... The Midland track is laid quite a distance into the town of Cuyler ... James Bulger has reopened his inn. He applied and was granted a license on the first Monday of June ... A car load of cheese was shipped over the Midland last week.         Carl Von Schmidt.