Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-03-12
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OFFICE OF THE
GEoEGEs CREEE AND CUMDERI, AND

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To sic Hone, abiS, the Board Of Public
Works ef the State Of Maryland, Anna
Ola, Nd,
The Georges Greek
and Cumberland railroad company
respectfully represents to your Hon
orable body that it was incorporated
under the General Laws of tho State
of Maryland for the purpose Of con-
structing a railroad from the coal
mines at or near Homecoming to the
city of Cumberland, and that it has
now completed the construction of its
road and fully equipped the same at
a large cost, and is now ready for tie
transportation of coal from the mines
to Cumberland, and that the main
purpose Of the heavy outlay made in
the construction and equipment Of its
road was to provide means Of de-
livering coal from the mines to the
canal at Cumberland, at much lower
cost than the hitherto oppressive
charges which had such depressing
influence upon the coal industry of
the State as to render it absolutely
necessary for parties Interested there
in to undertake the construction of an
independent road as an essential meas.
ure of relief if the trade was to be at
all maintained.
This road having been completed
to point in the city of Cumberland
on the South side of the tracks of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad near
Hanover street, and upon land i'm
mediately adjoining thereto, the G.
@. & G. R. R. Co., under the power
and authority given by the Act Of
1878, chapter l55, and more particu-
larly the fifth section thereof, and the
contract between the B. &. 0. R. R.
Co. and Chesapeake and Ohio canal
company and the State of Maryland,
made in pursuance Of said Act, APP
piled to the B. & o. r. R. Co. for
connection of its road with the rail-
road of the B. & o. R. r. Co. at
point at and within said city of Cum
berland thirty feet wsstwardly from
the intersection of the west side of
Hanover street extended across the
tracks of the said B. & o. R. R.,
which point of junction with the
tracks Of the said B. & 0, R. R. was
made known to the B. & 0. R. R. Co.
by the G. @. & G. R. r. Go. The B.
& O. R. R. Co. has dissente1 as to the
point so designated and refused to
Permit that or any connection to be
made, and therefore the G. G. & G. R.
R. Co. makes this application to your
Honorable Board for the exercise of
the rover and authorities vested in
you by the laws of the State to APP
prove such point of connection and
determine the point or place where
such connsc ton ehall be made and
the rights Of the parties in the premi-
ses as speedily as conveniently may
lie done.
The G. @. & G. R. R. Go. begs leave
to state that the main consideration
on the part Of the State for the pass
age of the Act referred to, by which
large rights and claims Of the State
were surrendered to the B. & O.. R.
R. Co., was to secure the right of any
railroad then existing, or thereafter
incorporated, to m axe connection with
the tr ,cks of the B. g. O. R. r. at or
near Cumberland, or west thereof, and
to bind the said B. & 0. r. r. Co., its
successors and essigns to receive and
transport from such connection, ever
its main stem and the branches there
of, then or thereafter to be construct
cd, and to deliver at the basins of the
G. g. 0. @. Co. on the line Of said B.
& 0. R. R., all coal, lumber, pig iron,
ores of all hind, and stone intended
for shipment on said canal, and that
the manifest object Of these provisions
was to protect the vast interests of the
State in the G. 4 0. c., and to enforce
the public policy of maintaining that
great work and developing the min
eral interests of the State, whose
prosperity, and that Of numerous
population identified Herewith, large
ly depends on convenient and reason
ably inexpensive access to the canal.
The purpose of the law was to OBJ
lige the B. g. o. r. r. to act IS feed
er to the canal, and prevent it from
becoming permanent obstacle to the
coal interests of Western Maryland
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