The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-04-12


RAr,roAD NEws.-The Bedford Iagx;r~
says: A week or 30 ago the corps which has
been in charge Of Col. Stewart at Everett
took their departure from this county, and
there is now no corps Of the Pittsburgh 4
Atlantic at work in this county.
The Pittsburgh Commercial Gaseis Of 6at-
urday last says: AN engineer corps COM
menced work at Connellsvilie yesterday
putting in the slope stakes for the new Pitts
burgh & Atlantic Railgoad Company, which
is designed to connect the coke region sx-
tension of the Pittsburgh 4 Lake Erie rail-
road and the Reading railroad. The work
of grading will be commenced at once. The
company has Just won an important vic
tory Some time ago. It win be remember
ed, application was made in the Bedford
county courts to restrain the South Penn
sylvania Company from occupying IN inn
portant point known IS the narrows, which
is the only passage wsy through three
mountain chains, and which was claimed
botn by the Pittsburgh 4 Atlantic and South
Pennsylvania companies. A preliminary
injunction was granted, and as the South
Pennsylvania made no defense the injunc-
ton was made permanent this week. The
Pittsburgh & Atlanticpeople earecorTespond-
ingly happy" &
If the Pittsburgh 4 Atlantic people are
''correspondingly happy" they are little
previous, as the only action Of the court
taken in the case was the granting of q rule
on the South Pennsylvania to plead, demur.
or answer in thirty days under penalty Of
having Judgment entered against them by
default.
Mr.. Reon Barnes, of the lattef company.
arrived in Bedford few days since and has
been in consultation with the represents
tiyes Of the company here, and on Wednes-
day visited Everett. The result of his visit
this time is not yet known.
The Wheeling, West Virginia. Lateuigen-
cer in speaking of the enterprise says: There
is every reason to believe from what has
come to light that this is Vanderbilt
movement Vanderbilt has very heavy
interest in the Reading road, and therefore
no doubt knows what he is going to do
east of Harrisburg. 1t is believed that he
intends to strike right into the territory Of
the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania
roads in the west and southwest, and hold
them level with line about which there will
be no question of differential rates, such a.
has for long time past complicated the re
lations of his New York Central and Lake
Shore with these roads. The time has ar
rived when step of this kind is necessary
to protect his immense interests in those
lines. The projected line from Harrisburg
to the Connellsville coke fields Is very
straight, and the distance only about lao
miles. From ConnellsvilIe 10 Wheeling,
via waynesburg. it is not so straight, but
the distance will be only about IS miles,
which is about the same as by the Hemp
field. The whole distance from here to
Harrisburg will be about EOS miles. From
Harrisburg to New York 1t is $50 miles, via
the Allentown route, or from Wheeling to
New York 355 miles.
The latest rumor in regard to a railroad is
that the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company
have a corps of engineers now engaged sur
veying line for railroad up the Black
lick, and that it is the intention Of that
company to extend their road from Johns
town, northward, crossing the Indians pike
one mile and half west of this place, the
work to commence early this sumner
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