Frostburg mining journal., 1880-08-07

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Frostburg conceived the idea of ar
informal visit to Mr.. Henry Lover
idgs, president of the Georges Creel
and Cumberland railroad, with refer.
ence to the proposed branch road
The matter was laid before Mr.. Lover
idge during the afternoon with the re-
quest that he name the day. He was
pleased with the suggestion andstated
that Thursday would be most conve-
nient for him to receive the party.
This gave but little time to make up
the company, but anyhow few were
hastily seen. Some couldn't go; 9TH
ers promised, but failed to appear.
Mayor John B. McCulloh, Messrs.
Owen Kitchens, B. Stern, Walter Ed
wards, G. 81. Hamill and J. B. Oder,
boarded the early train, upon which
they were surprised to find number
of Homecoming gentlemen whom Mr..
Loveridgs had invited to visit him
also. AZ
At Cumberland the Frostburg party
was invited to Mr.. Loveridge's room
and brief conference held, the prac-
tical conclusion Of which was that the
branch connection of our city with
the new road was mutually indispen-
sable. This and nothing more, ex-
cept that the president announced
that the visit had afforded a fitting
occasion to invite his guests to repair
to Hay street depot where a train was
in waiting to convey them and
a number Of other gentlemen to
the present terminous of the track,
about eight miles west of Cumberland.
Shortly after 10 a. m. the train
moved up and up the road, and as
the Times tells of the quality Of the
new work very nicely we quote:
We passed through the two tunnels
one constructed by Messers. Percy g. Co.,
and the other by Messrs. Piatt & Shep-
herd. Owing to the lightness of the rock
and soil the latter tunnel has been braced
throughout with solid wood supports
foot square. Arriving at the first fill be-
yond the tunnel, the guests alighted and
witnessed the operation of laying the
track, about one-third of a mile of which
is completed daily. The company are
using the latest pattern of steel rails,
weighing 81 pounds to the yard and joint
ed by heavy plates two feet in length.
They are calculated to last twenty years,
For new road climing the rocky
and crossing deep gorges, the
Georges Creek and Cumberland railway
is complete success. The grace is regu-
lar, the ballasting is excellent, the rails are
flrst-class, the cuttings are perfect, the fill
ings are broad and the trestling is as solid
as bridge-work.
Then the NeaUS says:
When the train stopped at the terminus
of the track the party alighted and looked
for few moments at the operation Of
track-laying, which, together with the
ballasting, is being pushed rapidly for
ward. After viewing the work for a
while the party remounted the car and
were pulled by the big, sturdy, substan-
locomotive back to the city.
At the engine house the party
alighted and inspected the five loco
motives. These were the most i'm
posing types of the magnitude of the
work in hand, and the entire party
was evidently SO impressed. They
are mastodons among locomotives,
weighing Sc tons and capable of run
ming away with about three ordinary
coal trains.
After brief addresses by presidents
Schley and Loveridge (the latter un-
der protest. the party dispersed, the
Frostburgers returning home especi-
ally pleased with all they saw and
heard.