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4 Neis HGGrrOad in Progress.


The Stockholders Of the West Virginia
Central and Pittsburg Railway Company
met at the office of Shaw Bros. Maryland
Building, saturday, and elected Hon. Hen
ry G, Davis, president s. B. Elkins, vice
president, c. NJ. Hoult. secreta y and trea-
surer, and the following board of directors:
AleYander Shaw, Baltimore; Hon. Angus
tus Schell, New York; Hon. JAS G. Blaine.
Maine; Hon. VIM. II. Barnum, Connecti-
cut; Hon. 5. B. Elkins, New York, Hon.
j. n. Camden, West Virginia; William
Keyser and Jno. A. Hsnbleton, Baltimore !;
Thos. b. Davis, West Virginia; Mr.. Wm.
Keyser presided, with Mr. c. NJ. Hoult, sec
ratary, and among those present were Sec
retary of State James g. Blaine. Senator
T. +. Bayard, of Delaware Senators II. &.
Davis and J. n. Camden, of West Virginia /;
Senator A.. p. German, of Maryland Hon.
VIM. Pinkney Mhyle, s, B. Elkins, 7. Z.
Sickels and Augustus Schell. &C New York ;
John K. Shaw, Alex. Shaw, W. T. Poole,
W. C. West, r. O. Hail and others, Of
Bahimof. Among thc prominent stool
holders, others than those mentioned above,
are Hon. VIM. Window, Secretary of The
Treasury; J. b. Chaiee, r. c. Kerens aud
Us. Cant. r., Of New York.
The company was formerly known as the
Potomac and Piedmont Coal and Railway
Comp ~ AMI 1~as owned Ahd eoutollcd by
Messrs. II. G. Davis & Bro, of West Vir-
GINA. and NGessrs. Shaw Bros, Of Balti-
more. BY an act of the West Virginia
Legislature, at It's last session, the name
was changed to that Ct the West Virginia
Central ond Pit slnrg Railway Company.
The road is of the standard gauge and con-
meets with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
mt a poiH.. near Piedmont, about 200 miles
west OF Baltimore, and is about completed
to Elk Garden, distance Of twelve miles.
Here the company owns 4 large body of
coal lands, containing what is known rs the
great or fourtcen-foot vein, and is now open
ing mines and connecting them with the
main road by inclined planes, and by the
lst of September will be ready 20 place This
coal in the market. Besides this, the COM
pany owns $4,000 acres of coal, oEe and
timber lands in fee in the Piedmont or Po-
tomac coal basin, and + is now its purpose
to Immediately extend lis line from Elk
Garden south, through its coal fields, mp the
north branch of the Potomac through Min
eral and Cirartcountice, thence 10 the south
eastern boundary Of the State of West Nir-
rinia. there TO connect with, the Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad The mai line,
when completed, viii be above 100 miles
long, and viii connect the Baltimore and
Ohio, the Chesapeake and Ohio ard the
Richmond and AIlcghany Railroads by a
direct iine north and south. The first fifty
miles ,.cf the line runs without break
through coal ana timber lands, after which
it reaches the great iron deposit Of West
Virginia and Virginia The capital stock
of the company is $G,OO0,OOO, and is all Ia
ken, the directors being largely interested.
The company propose TO issue S3.OoOi0Oo
bonds. In addition to its railroadand min
ing rights, the company possesses the right,
in the charter, to build manufactures,
saw-mills, furnaces, &c. 1t has contract
with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
pany, by which a drawback Of ten cents
per ton below its lowest rate is offered on
all coal shipped by the railway company to
the canal at Cumberland. Mcssrs. Shaw
Bros, Of this city, have consented to act as
the general agents of the company and to
take charge Of its mininginterests. Mr.. 7.
T.. Sicklcs, formerly chief engineer Of the
Union Pacific Railroad, and now consult
ing engineer, is to take charge Of the works,
and the road will be pushed to early com
pletion. Baltimore SIM.