The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-02
From the BrdtUoro (faJ 4NcU Aro.
Railway Project.
A BIG ooMBINATIoN-NEw COAL ROUTE
OPENED TO BUFFALo-wHAT IT
MEANS.

OPENED TO BUFFALo-WHAT 1T
MEANS.
A late number of the Elk County
(Pa) Democrat states that consolida-
ton has been effected between Buffalo,
Brad ord and Pittsburgh Railway Com
pany formerly the Elk Il Mexican
Com pany,) the Daguscahonda Improve
ment Company, the Brandy Camp Rail-
road Company, the Northwestern Min
ing Il Exchange Company, and the in.
terests known as the Shawmut property.
By this consolidation it is proposed TO
open up a road from Wilcox to Buffalo
and Rochester, and thus furnish an out.
let for the mineral wealth Of that part
of Pennsylvania to the west via Buffalo,
and to the east via Rochester. The
consolidated company comes at once
into the possession OF the 263 miles OF
the finished road of the Buffalo, Brad
ford Dc Pittsburgh, five miles of Dagus-
cahonda road, and the sixteen miles of
the Shawmut road, together with
large number of engines, cars, and
many thousand acres Of coal and timber
lands.
WHAT THIS MEANS.
1t appears that the Erie Railroad
Company owns 1000 acres of coal lands
in Elk county, Pa, known as the Shaw
NUT lands. which it bought four years
ago for 100000 These lands are
situated some fifty or sixty miles west
of Emporium and are at present accessi-
BILE to Buffalo only by the b., N. Y. g.
2. and Philadelphia & Erie roads by
long circuitous route. The new route
which it is proposed by the cousolida-
ton to open, would be much shorter.
1t would include the Buffalo 4 James
town Railroad from Buffalo to Dayton,
thence east on the Erie road to Carol.
ton, and thence south on the Buffalo,
Bradford T. Pittsburgh road to Giles.
vile. All this road is now built and in
operation. There would remain to be
built the link between Gilesville and
Wilcox, which in a direct line is about
2S miles. With this constructed a
much shorter route from the Shawmut
coal lands to Buffalo would be opened
than at present exists.
The other parties in this consolida-
ton, such as the Brandy Camp Rail-
way Company and the Daguscahouda
Improvement Company, are works Of no
great Importance within the Sbawmut
coal land region.
ANOTHER PROJECT.
Whether or not this consolidation has
been or will be formed may be a qucs-
tiou through the Elk county papers speak
of it as an accomplished fact We may
add, however, that another project has
been formed for reaching the same
lands. 1t is simply the extension of the
Mexican branch Of the Buffalo, New
York 4 Philadelphia road from Bishop
Summit, which is at the Buffalo Coal
Company lauds, to Johnsonburg, a
distance of thirty-two miles. This
would open route from the Shawmut
lands to Buffalo as direct as the first one
mentioned, and its friends claim the
new road would be necessary to build
would be much less difficult grade.
At any rate the completion of coal
routes is pretty sure to bring soft coal
to Buffalo at the bottom tes.-Bufalo
Erpress.
Buffalo will yet discover there is
coal in Mexican county. She has an
inkling Of it but it took long time to
find out what little is known
Eighteen years ago the Buffalo,
Bradford Il Pittsburgh Railroad was
talked Of and some money furnished to
explore the land for coal. Car load at
ter car load was shipped to Buffalo, but
it was openly declared that the coal was
not taken from Mexican county.
The editor of this paper was associa.
ted with DR. David Dale Owen in max
ing geological survey and report, and
every statement contained therein has
been proved by actual exploration and
mining. Finally road was built
through Cattaraugus county, N. Y, and
Potter and Cameron counties, Pa, to
open up the Mexican county coal.
OF course it was a failure so far as
Mexican county coal was concerned
and this blunder was remedied by add.
ing branch running within six miles
of the b., B. Il P. Railroad, and now
known as the Buffalo g. Mexican Rail-
way.
The Buffalo, New York g. Philadel-
phia r. R. and its extension the Buffalo
u Mexican, are paying institutions, and
the men who built them did much for
Buffalo.
The Buffalo 4 jamestown is also a
profitable feeder to Buffalo, and its pro-
jeclors deserve great credit, but il is
well understood that the old B. B. &
P. R. r. would have answered nearly
the purpose OF both, and made Buffalo a
great manufacturing city more than a
dozen years ago.
Our flowing oil wells are within
seventy miles of Buffalo via Erie and
Buffalo & jamestown roads.
Will Buffalo become the seat Of oil
refneries, or shall jamestown, N. Y,
continue to lead in this matter.
Olean is already agitatiug the er,
ection of pipe line to bring our oil
within reach of competing railroad lines
and canal.
Buffalo mnst wake up and see that a
dozed years hence she shant regret her
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