Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-30
RAILROAD NEWS.
PROBABLE CONSOLIDATION OF SEVERAL
RAILROADS IN THE OIL COUNTRY

PROBABLE CONSOLIDATION OF SEVERAL
RAILROADS IN THE OIL COUNTRY.
FoxBURG, PA, March l5.-Some
DAYS ago an order was issued for II
meeting of the stockholders of the sew
eral narrow guage railroads in this
county, to be held at this place to-day.
4 proposition was favorably considered
for the consolidation of the Foxburg,
st. Petersburg and Clarion, the Emlen-
Shippensville and Clarion and the Fox
! burg, Kane and Bradford Railroads.
. The latter road is the line contemplated
| from point in this county to Bradford
via Kane. Another conference will be
held Thursday next when final action
will he taken. The several companies
! agreed to the consolidation to-day, and
in view Of this fact there is little doubt
as to the result. Should the merger
be effected it is stated on good uthori-
ty that the work on the connecting link
between Kane and this place will be
commenced in very short time. Not
withstanding reports to the contrary it
is stated on good authority that the
sale of the Parker, Karns City and
Butler road has been made to persons
in the interest of the Baltimore and
Ohio From Butler the connection
with the narrow gauge line to Pitts
burgh will lie made via Harmony. This
will be followed by closing the gap be-
tween Parker AID Foxburg. The COM
pletion of continuous narrow guage
line from Bradford TO Pittsburgh will
then he perfected without difficulty.
ON TO KANg-PITTsBURGH, BRADFORD 4
BUFFALO RAILWAY.
The E. S & c., +. st. p & c., and
the Foxburg, Kane & Bradford rail-
roads having been consolidated, are
now merged in the new company to be
known as the Pittsburg, Bradford &
Buffalo Railway On Tuesday last the
officers, consisting of President Marcus
Hulings, General Manager, j. NJ. Dick
ey, Secretary, w. j, Welsh, and Supt.
Vaudeville. arrived here in special
train, and after taking dinner, proceed
ed to the terminus of the road at Ar
thur, on business visit to Gen Mix,
Superintendent of Bagaley's Mill, and
then returned home.
The building of the extension to
Kane will be commenced as soon as the
weather will permit, and be pushed
through as fast as men, money and en-
ergy can do it, to completion 1t Is
expected to have the new road in run
ming order by September lst.- Clarion
Republican GazeAe.
THE CONTINENTAL RAILWAY COMPANY.
A circular, received from headquar-
ters, says: The Continental Railway
Co. was organized by Special Acts of
the States of New Jersey, Penn Viva
MIA and Illinois, and under the general
laws of Iowa, Indiana and Ohio, MAX
ing dopble-track line from the city OF
New York to Chicago, St Louis and
the Missouri river 1t crosses the Del
aware at Belvidere, GA miles west, and
and reaches the anthracite coal fields Of
Pennsylvania at Sumr,it, 104 miles
from New York. The line crosses the
Susquehanna river and the Philadel-
pha and Reading railroad at Milton,
Pa, l64 miles distant and then passes
through the bituminous coal fields and
oil regions of Western Pennsylvania,
crossing the Allegheny river at Mahon-
ing, Pa, 3l2 miles from New York. 1t
passes through the camel coal field,
and then runs west through Akron,
Ohio, crossing the Maumce river Just
south of Fort Wayne, Indiana, 63I
miles from New York. From thence
it proceeds direct to Chicago, distant
1856 miles, having branch to St. Louis
througbtthe great coal fields of Illinois
The line crosses the Mississippi river
at Rock Island, Illinois, and the Mis-
souri, river near Council Bluffs, Iowa
The grades for the east-bound trans
portatiOn will not exceed three-quarters
of one per cent, and foI west-bound
transportation they <will be equally
light to balance dead weight against
paying weight, and all curves will be
avoided. The cost Of operating twenty
feet of ascending grade, or the overs
coming of $50 degrees of curvature, are
either of them equal TO the cost OF oDer
ating one mile Of the dead level road.
The location of the Continental Rail.
way was made so as to accommodate
| IuO buIOuSA DuSlutSS, do III lS well
known the local business naturally
grows up along short lines between
commercial centres.
| The line crosses more than fifty ex-
isting railroads, which are natural feed
ers to the Continental Railway system
1t also affords unusual facilities for
New England business, besides fur
nishing cheap coal to New York and
the Eastern States.
Contracts have been let for building
AGO miles of the line west from Akron,
| Ohio, to Wisconsin, Illinois, with n
| branch to Bureau Junction.
The road is bonded at $4,000 per
mile, for doube,track, which bonds can
be issued only on completed road.
Limited express passenger trains
will be run between New York Chica-
go in twenty hours. No freight delays
can possibly occur on this road. Lock
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