When the property of the defunct Olean, Bradford and Salamanca Railway Company is struck off to the highest bidder at a referee’s sale in the Corporation Room in the First National Bank building on May 25, it will officially mark the passing of a street railway line which has existed in Olean for almost forty-eight years.

Source: Arcade [NY] Herald, 18 May 1928, p. 4, NYS Historic Newspapers.