Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-06-05
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MENTs.--Among n number OF important
improvements being perfected by the Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Company for the
more expeditions transaction of its great
and growing freight traffic, the following
programme for Keyser, w. Va, isput down
| by the Baltimore tSun for Inauguration car
| " this month:
The next and most extensive of these inn
provemcnts is at keyser formerly New
/ Creek. w. Va, where the company has pur-
clasel nearly one hundred acres of land
for the purpose of establishing great cen
trail station and which it proposes, upon the
change of timetable, to make the end of tho
second division. 1t has recently erected
at this point fine brick and stone
station, the lower portion for the ac
commodation of passengers, and the upper
for the offices of its employees. 1t has al
so erected an engine house of fortyfOur
stalls, similar to the one at Riverside, and
is constructing machine and blacksmith
shops capable of doing the running repairs
for this station 1t has also Just finished
extensive slock-yards, with ample stablmg
for horses, houses for sheep, and pens for
cattle and hogs. In the construction
of these yards all the latest improvements
have been adopted, insuring the conven-
encc of the drovers and stockmen, as well
as the CLEANLINESS; and comtt ri of tie ami
mails.
| Owing to present and prospective growth
of the companys business, its managers,
forcsecing that its terminal facilities at
Washington and Baltimore, while large and
conveniently arranged, would soon
be taxed to their utmost capacity, have de-
rilpl N raljeyp those npJpts ny the pStaD-
lishmcnt of great drill-yard at kcyser,
where cars from all parts of the West, AS
wei. as the coal regions would be made up
into trains for the different stations and
points of delivery to which they are dcstin-
ed, thus obviatng the necessity of separa-
ting trains and distributing the cars upon
their arrival here. To accomplish this the
company has just completed two addition
al tracks between Piedmont Gts intCrsec-
ton with the Cumberland and fcnnsylva-
MIA railroad, leading into the coal-ticlts,)
and kcyscr, to be devoted exclusively to
its coal traffic, thereby securing four tracks
between these important points.
The great drilling ground at Kcyser will
be more than one mile long, and wide
enough to accommodate fourteen side
tracks It's entire length, and here trains will
/ be made mp for direct delivery to all points
east and west. This arrangement is design
ed to prove of great advantage TO the com
pany as well as to its patrons, increasing
the prompness and dispatch with which
goods will reach their destination.
TIE Nevs learns that there will be "a
mail sent from Cumberland to each postof-
/ flee along the Cumberland and Pcnnsylva-
railroad on the train leaving here at a. M,
and a return mail on the 1870. This will
not be done by sending the mail messenger
along the route ON the train referred to, but
by making a pouch in the Cumberland of
/ flee"
This is very nearly the improvement we
don't want, and we don't believe the Depart
mcnt is going to treat us with any such
halfway arrangement. When the addi
tioaal service comes it will be complete.
Meanwhile, what we most need at the right
time is the eastern mail that misses connec-
ton at Piedmont, whence it is returned to
Cumberland to reach Us nine hours later.
\ correspondent sends us communica-
ton signed "Collmbus." 1t is a scathing
commentary upon local editorial re-
report entitled an Another Nine" which
appeared in the Georges Creek Press Of
last week In pursuance of out policy of
lcnicncy for the course of that paper to-
ward Us We withhold it from publication
for the present.
THE gentle rain 50 long needed, fell
Thursday morning. Everything green
looks grateful.
FIRE HINT-Bcforc leaving your place
of business see that all lights and fires are
ont.