Does the below mean towns were bidding to see where the railroad would go?  The railroads putting tracts through the town with the higest bid?

Batavia, Genesee County
Progressive Batavian
Friday December 10 1869
Railroad Meeting.--There is to be a Railroad meeting at Pavilion Centre on
Wednesday the 15th inst.  The people are becoming very much waked up about
that Rochester and Pennsylvania road.  The contest is now which route will
bid highest.  We wish our Pavillion friends success in their aspirations.


--
Cindy Amrhein
Town of Alabama Historian
in Genesee Co., NY
Experience the Town of Alabama in Genesee County, NY.
http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/
APHNYS (Association of Public Historians of New York State)
http://www.tier.net/aphnys



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