West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-11-04
OUR NEW R.tILRO.I IN.
which will Open 60 Pidtsburg Grcat
Fields of Mineral wealth.


italists who are interested in the
building of the West Virginia Rail.
road was held yesterday at the Office
of Colonel A. G HAIRY, the president
of the road, in Bissell block. They
decided to go ahead this fall with the
construction of the new road, which
will be another southern outlet for
Pittsburg.
Our road will be 40 miles long"
said Colonel HAIRY to q Dispatch re.
porter, and will extend from Penn
sylvania State line, through Preston
County, w. Va, to Newburg on the
line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road. The company owns $4,000
acres of coking coal land in West
Virginia, virtually q continuation of
the Connellsville coke field, and will
at once push the line through. The
capital of the road is s., 100000. that
is $l,OO0,OO0 in bonds and $4,000.
coo in stock, and as we have about
made arrangements to place it, there
is not share of it in the market.
1--WE have just closed a purchase
of 5000 tons of steel rails from the
Pennsylvania Steel works at Harris
burg, and as our chief engineer, Jon
athan Barrett, has completed the
surveys, work will be started inn
mediately on the grading. President
Roberts, of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road, has agreed to extend the South.
west Penn. road from it's present
terminus, at 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 uG. We are
practically opening up wilderness
in that section OF West Virginia, and
we will handle cOk!ng coal that is
equal and in some respects superior,
particularly as regards the absence
of sulphur, to the Connellsville coal.
We will be 60 miles nearer to the
Western markets than the Connells-
vile region"
"ln addition to the coal land, we
will open up fine timber distric.
and expect to send a great deal OF
glass sand into Pittsburg. The grades
on the road are easy. and it will be
equipped in a frst-class manner
throughout. The line goes through
MOrgantown, Masontown and Reeds.
vile, and will give the first mention
ed place an all.rail connection with
Pittsburg- Quite number of E tst.
ern capitalists are in the syndicate
formed to build the road, and we ex.
pect to have it completed by next
summer"
Prof l. e. White, the well.known
gcologist, in referring to the territory
tapped by this road, said "The land
in question is located between the
Baltimore and Ohio on the south and
Cheat River on the north, and en-
braces the principal portion of what
has been termed by biologists the
Preston Coal Basin. This area, like
most Other great and valuable coke
deldsf lies in Il geological trough, or
syncline, the western arch of which
is formed by the Chestnut Ridge axis,
while Laurel Hill makes the eaatern
boundary.
There are two important Goals un-
derlying practically all of this valu-
able tract of LANDAU they are known
to biologists as the Upper Freeport
and Lower Kittanning beds of Penn
sylvania system. The former is a
cooking coal of excellent quality in
this great bssin, and its thickness is
such as to render the area in question
the most valuable tract Of coking
coal yet remaining open to develop.
ment anywhere in the country.
That this bed is a genuine coking
seam is evident to every one who has
seen IL, and who knows a coking
GOALS appearance; and besides, it has
been tested practically for several
years in the ovens at Austin, Irondale
and other points"