The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-29
ANOTHER NEW
The West virginia RAILROAD Company Duy'
Its Rails,

The West Virginia RAILROAD Company Duys
Its Rails.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch has the follow.
ing concerning the West Virginia Railroad
Cumpsny's projected road:
"Our road will be forty miles long"
said COLONEL HAIRY to a Dispatch reporter,
"aud 1t will extend from the P~ennsylva-
mia State line through Preston county, W.
Va, to Eewburgh, on the line Of the Bal
timore 4 Ohio railroad. The company
owns 10000 acres Of cOking coal land In
West Virginia, virtually q continuance OF
the Connellaville coke field, and will at
once push the line through. Tho capital
Of the road 10 100000, that is 81, OO6,0 900
in bonds and 5 100000 in stock, and as
We hAvs about made arrangements to place
It there Is not q ghare OF i in the market
"We have just closed apurChase oil
5000 tons Of steel rails from tho Pennsyl.
yania Steel Works, OF Harrisburg, and as
our chief engineer, Jonathan Barrett, has
completed the surveys, work will BIZ
started Immediately on the grading, Pres.
ldent Roberts, Of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road, has sgrped to extend the Southwest
Penn road from its present teFmlnous, OF
FairchanCe, In Fayette county, to the
State line, to connect with our road. This
extension will cost about 100000. 1t is
also very likely that the Baltimore and
Ohio and the Vanderbilt roads will be ex.
tended to connect with US. We are prac-
tically opening up q wilderness In that
section Of West Virginia, and we will
handle a Coking GOAL thgt is equal. and In
some respeOts superior, particularly % re.
CARDS the absence Of sulphur, TO the Con.
nellsYills coal. We will also be 90 miles
nearer to the western markets than The
Conceivable region.
TN addition 10 the coal land, we will
open up o fue timber district, and expect
TO send Q great deal OF glass sand into
Pittsburgh, The grades on the road are
easy, and It will be equipped in a 9rst
claEs manner throughout. The line goes
through Morgantown, Masontown and
Reed5vills, and will give the fret mem
toned place an all.rail connection with
Pittsburgh. Quite q number Of capitalists
are In the syndicate formed to build the
road, and we expect To have 1t completed
by next summer"
Professor l. O. White, the well.known
geologtst, In referring to the territory
by this road, said: 1.-THE land
in question 10 located between the Balti.
more 4 Ohio railroad on the south and
Cheat river on the north, aud embraces
the principal portion Of what has been
by geologists the Preston Coal
Basin. This area, like most other great
and valuable coal fields, lies In ageo.
trough, or synCline, the western
arch OF which Ia formed by the Chestnut
Ridge axis, while Laurel Hill makes the
eastern boundary.
"There are Two important Goals under.
.ying practically all Of this valuable tract
i land, and they are known TO geolegiSts
ls The Upper Freeport and Lower Kittan.
ling beds Of the Pennsylvania system.
The former Is Coking coal Of excellent
In this great basin, aud It's thick.
less iS such as 10 render the area In ques-
ion the most valuable tract Of coking coal
ret remaining open TO development any.
yhete In the country.
''ThSt this bed 10 o genuine Coking seam
} evident To every ono who has seen II,
nd who knows q cooking GOALS appear.
nee; and, besides,it has been tested ptaC.
Ically for several years In the ovens Of
Justin, Ifondale and other points"