The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-06-07

RAILROAD NEws.-The McConnellsburg
Republican says:
We are indebted to friend Of this place,
for the following railroad article: The peo-
pie will be glad to know that the Pittsburgh
& Atlantic Railroad Company is not, as
some thought, defunct and buried among
the rocks of the Alleghenies. but is full OF
life and energy and what is still better, has
plenty of money TO complete all its under
takings. Col. Stewart, one of the chief en-
gineers who made the survey through this
county last fall, arrived here last Wednes-
day and is now engaged in securing the
right of way from Knobsyille to Rhoms
Gap.
Our faith in the construction of this road
at an early day has never been shaken, and
it now affords US much pleasure to assure
our people that there is not much reason to
doubt that this road will be built. Thepa
ties comprising the company are gentlemen
of ample means and the highest integrity,
and have large individual interests at stake.
From the time the engineers were first put
upon the line the work of surveying has
been pushed with the utmost rapidity and
is now about completed and most OF the
route west of Everett located.
The route, we are authoriively informed,
| is tavorabIe and satisfactory to the COM
pany. Careful estimates how that the ex-
pense of construction will not exceed the
average of railroads In the State. All the
money needed is within the ready grasp OF
the company il will not need to mort
cage the atmosphere to raise the necessary
stamps. We fsI safe in saying that the en-
tire road ffpa, Chambersburs to Connells-
Vile will SOON be luder contract, and with
in three years Fulton county will have
railroad communication With New York.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington,
Saws the Bedford Gazette Several months
ago the Pittsburgh & Atlantic engineers
suddenly disappeared from this neiShbor-
hood and we were beginning to think
that the projected road had been Abandoned.
Last week. however. our exchanges inform
ed us that the road would certainly be built
and Saturdays papers contained letter
from Franklin B. Gowen. president of the
Reading railroad, in which it was stated
that the p. a A. would be completed within
two years. Ata meeting of the Reading
stockholders in London, April 81, Mr. Cow
en-. in lengthy speech upca the financial
condition and the proposed extension of his
line, said "a new line has been projectsa
and will be constructed from Harrisburg TO
Pittsburgh. the western metropolis OF Penn
sylvania. This new line viii be twenty
two miles shorter between Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh than the Pennsylvania railroad.
and forty miles shorter to New York. 1t
does not run through the same country as
the pennsylvania railroad, and will, there
fore, not interfere with the local traffic Of
that company but it is located through
the southern tier OF counties of Pennsylva-
MIA, which produce iron. limestone and
bituminous coal throughout the entire ex-
tent. This line alone will produce q miner,
al trsfic greater, possibly, than any line
west of Harrisburg in the United States.
Apart from that, It will connect at Pitts
burg with other lines, making the shortest
line from Cleveland to New York and Phil
adelphia. All these new lines are intended
to bring new business 20 the company.
The Chambersburg Herald says We hage
received information from reliable source
that within the next ten days Major Boyne,
the civil engineer. will commence work at
Chambersburg in locating the line of the
Pittsburgh and Atlantic railroad. He will
work westward from this point through this
county, definitely fixing the route and
thence across the mountains into Fulton
county. following generally one of the ex-
perimentaI lines already run. Colonel
Stewart will work eastward from Bedford 10
meet Major Boyne and as socn as the
line is located the contracts viii be award,
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