The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1884-02-20
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n The Pittsburgh Disp0tci of Tuesday con
tains a sensational article in which it IL
stated upon the authority of some levelN
\ headed" indiyiduathat the South Penn pro-
.iect is to be abandoned. If the aforesaid
4 leyel-headed individual were to take a trip
through this county, he would be quickly
\ undeceiyed. There is not a particle of truth
Nm the story.
A correspondent sends the following to
the Fulton Democrat In an account publish
ed two weeks since, in the Dem0crt about the
Il. r. work in this township, you made an
error in crediting Kentuckey with the CON
tractors they are from Virginia, the mother
Of President and Contractors.
Messrs. Mason, Rinchart and Co., the
contractors at Tuscarora Tunnel, have the
contract for five miles, beginning at the old
Dubbs property, and run west TO Col.
Woollet's They have sub let three sections
or miles, the first to Porter and Vaughan
who are building on the Ali property occu-
pied by J. W. Miller. the next section to
Martin and knight, who are putting up
buildings on the old Andrew Anderson
property. The next two sections will be
worked by Masons, Rinehart IL Co.-The
next section by g. G. McGehee who is build
ing on property of George Wilson on road
leading from Fort littleton to Nc Connells-
/ burg Messrs Masons Rinehart & Co. have
put up buildings on the John Walker prop
erty and are about ready to 20 to work.
You will see by the above that small
/ towns will be thick in our township, as
each contractor puts up boarding houses
and stores in addition to from twelve To
twenty cabins.
The contractors at Sideling Hill Tunnel
reduced the wages of the Italian and Hun |
garian laborers on the 2nd inst. making the
same loo per day. The iaborers got very
angry and threatened to make a general
strike some of them showed their anger by
throwing theirtools in the air and stopping /
work. one Hungarian who kept at work |
was threatened with hanging but he stuck 4
TO his post and is still at work.
In a conversation with Mr. Edward .
Barnes, the engineer in charge OF the ALE .
ghany tunnel, and son Of chief engineer, .
O. W. Barnes, of the South Pennsylvania .
Railroad on last Saturday, we learned that /
work on the great cut, three miles east of the
Allegheny mountain tunnel. was begun on
Thursday 10y the contractors. Charles Nc
Faden E Sons. This cut will be % feet deep
and about two thousand feet in length, and .
will be the largest railroad cut in Pennsyl-
vania and probably the largest in the United
States or anywhere else He also stated that
work on all the tunnels along the line is be
ing pushed forward as fast as practicable
Bedford Republican,.
\ special to the Times from Huntingdon
says that agents Of the Seaboard, Pennsyl-
vania and Western Railroad are there solic-
iting the right Of way from landowners for
the new road They report that they met
with no difiiculty in Mifilin county and say
that if they meet with the same success in
Huntingdon the road will be completed and
the cars running on it 10 Huntingdon by the
first Of January. -
r The Carlisle Volunteer thinks there must
be about million of men at the tunnels
beyond Roxbury," from the number report
ed to have gone there during the winter.
On this same subject we can say that every
drunken loafer and whining beggar who
happens to strike this locality is on his way
'to the tunnel at Rays Hin if moving
eastward, and going up to the Allegheny
tunnel if migrating westward.
The Hagerstown Globe says there are in
creasing indications that the alliance be-
tween the Western Maryland and Wander
bills South Pennsylvania railroads will be
consumnated. In the House Of Delegates
of Maryland a bill authorizing the Hagers-
town and State Line Railroad Company to
sell or lease its railroad 10 the Western
Maryland Company OF 10 any other railroad
company whose roadway connects with that
Of the Western Maryland railroad by means
Of the Hagerstown and State Line Railroad
Company, has been introduced at the in
stance Of the Vanderbilt party. The State
Line will complete the connection between
the South Pennsylvania and the Western
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