The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-11-28
[From the Buffalo EXpress.1
Inn pOrtQHE PrGieCE.

Catta@augus County Rai1cay Com,
Pday-A Chance for getting Chem
Coal into Bu6i,1o Nect ycdr, &c. dc.
A very important m Getting in connec-
tlon with the Buffalo and Washington
hallway enterprise was held on the 18th
inst, at the Office of that Company. at
which results were reached which prom.
lsed to give us cneapened coal consider.
ably in advance of the completion of the
Is. q W. Il. to its terminus at Emporium.
The meeting was for the purpose Of a
conference Of the Directors, Of the B. &
w. Il. Company with a number Of gem
tlemen from Pennsylvania, New York
city and Oattaraugus county, who repre-
sent the project Of railroad from Great
Valley, on the line of the Ere Railway,
to Machias, to connect the LAFAYETTE
coal branch of the Erie with the Buffa.
10 and Washington, substantially accom-.
plishing the old project of the Buffalo,
Bradford and Plttsburg Railroad
1t will be recollected that the Eric
Railway Company some time ago took in
a portion OF the abandoned Is. B. d p.
Railroad, and completed it to Carroton
on the Erie Line, to Lafayette. in Nc.
Hean county, Pa, where it taps the coal
mines. This branch Of road it has had
in operation for a year OF more, bringing
out coal which it has carried to Dan.
kirk, from whence a consid cradle SUP.
ply has been shipped to this city during
the past season, What is now sought
is to accomplish a practical extension of
that coal load to Buffalo, by filling the
gap between the proposed line Of the
Buffalo u Washington and the nearest
point on the Erie. This was the object
OF the meeting held yesterday, the gen
tlemen representing the Cattaraugus
county enterprise coming here to confer
with the B. d w. r Company upon the |
subject. The following were present:
Gen. T. L. Kane and II, Yarnall, of |
Kane, Pa. ; DR.. W. r. Irvine, ofIlyine.
Pa; Frederick Collins, Esq, and II.
Clay, Esq, of Philadelphia; D. b. Ea>
ton, ESD, Attorney OF the Erie Railway;
lSfk Hty i nD6!ctAI?aa ESa, CaN2r
D. Scott, Messrs. Il. Harmon, e. S
Stewart, S. King Skinner, S. Mccoy,
John Mcmahon and L. D. Northrup, of
Ellicottville; George Brewer, Esq, of
Great Valley, and Il. L, Whitcher, Esq
IF Machias.
In the full aud free discussion which
ook place it was shown that the project
depended entirely upon the securing of
/ third rail on the Buffalo and Wash
ngton Railway from Machias, to give a
'ix foot gauge into Buffalo, and that,
furthermore, contemplated extension
~ the Erie Railway Company OF its
Jarrolton and Lafayette branch some
distance further south into the heart Of
he coal region depended upon the same.
Strong assurances we've given that if
he proposed connection with Buffalo
'an be formed, by the building Of the
Great Valley and Mashias lin d, and by
he laying of third rail on the B. &
W. thence to this city, the Erie Compa-
~ will expend Immediately not less
han S750,000 in extending and equip
oing the Lafayette road, to open one of
he greatest sources of coal supply in
oennsylv ania to this market
When full discussion of the matter
lad been had in open meeting, with the
gentlemen from abroad present, the Di.
eotors Of the B. & w. Railway retired
nd held brief consultation, the result
# which was stated or their return by
Ir. Adams, the President of the Com
,any, substantially as follows
That the B. & W. Railway Company
lesires to have the proposed connection
made, and will do all in Its power to ia.
ilitate it; that it will, if possible, lay
he required third rail from Machias to
Buffalo, and that if it is not able to do
0 it will permit any other Company to
ay the rail, charging for the right of
ransit fair and equitable rates, to be
determined in case Of disagreement by
he Companies concerned Or by the Su-
rene Court.
The gentlemen representing the
treat Valley and Machias project and
he Erie Railway expressed themselves
ntirely satisfied with this assurance, as
eing all they require to give substan'
Ial foundation to their enterprise, and
he meeting broke up with ateeling on
Il sides that the mar keting Of Penn
ylvania coal in Buffalo is consumma,
ion which may be realized in another
oason, instead Of waiting the completion
f the Buffalo and Washington Railway
D Emporium. f ...
This arrangement gives an entirely
ew aspect to the B, & w. enterprise and
ne the importance of which cannot be
yes estimated. The people of Catarau- {
us county are evidently earnest in the
natter, of building the connection from
lachias to Great Valley, and are salts,
ed that they will meet the b & W, at
he former point at soon as its rails can