The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-30
NEW RAILROADS
In West Virginia. Some Proposed
Plans for Developing the State.


Rapid progress is being made on
the new railroad between Martins
burg and Winchester. Grading is
being done and the whole line will
be ready for ballast within the next
six weeks. The new depot at Win
chester will be a commodious build
ing and quite handsome, of the lat
est style Of architecture, and will
meet the requirements of the travel
ing public in the ncighborhood.--
This new road will be one of the
greatest convenience that was ever
erected in that neighborhood, and
bids fair to be profitable invest
ment to the stockholders who EN-
barked in the enterprise.
We also learn that articles of in
corporation were recorded last Tues
day in the courts Of Garrett county,
Maryland, by Joseph U. Crawford
and James Exyard Henry, Of Phila-
deIphia, and +. J. D. Cross, Edward
~. SiIkman and George d. Penni.
man, Of Baltimore, Incorporating the
( Yough- Manor Land Company oi
Garrett county. The capital stock
Of the company is 800, 900, divided
in shares Of 500 each. This CON-
pany comprises the capitalists inter
csted in the construction of the new
railroad from Confluence and the de-
yelopment of the timber and mineral
lands Of the Upper Yough region.
The main Office of the land company
will be at Manor Lands, Maryland.
The same parties interested in the
above corporation will in few days
file articles Incorporating the new
railroad. It will be known as the
Oakland d State Line Railroad
Company. This railroad will leave
the Pittsburgh division of the Balti-
more & Ohio at a point near Confu-
ence, crossing the Youghiogheny
river below Sloan's Ford and contin-
uing along the river on the Fayette
county side to Somcrfield. From
there its course to Garrett county
will be practically direct After
crossing the Maryland line the road
passes on through Selbysport,
Friendsville and the "Sanging
Grounds" thence, probably by way
of Deer Park to Oakland, at which
point it will connect with the main
stem Of the Baltimore 4 Ohio road.
1t will pass about six or seven miles
from the Preston county line at
Glade Farms and GAINESVILLE.
Another road that will add TO the
material welfare Of the southern part
of the State is the extension of the
Norfolk d Western. This will take
place soon as it is stated upon the
best authority that within sixty days
1000 men will begin the work of
grading for the extension Of the
Norfolk d Western Railroad from
Elkhorn, Mcdowell county, to the
Ohio river, running through Logan
and Wayne counties. tits said that
all the arrangements have been made
TO push the work forward to imme-
diate completion, and the money Sc
cured, $4,000, 5000 of bonds having
been sold in London recently. The
road will develop one of the richest
coal territories in West Virginia,
and its operation will save 600 miles
OF transportation in reaching the
Western markets-Cincinnati, Chi
cago, st. Louis and other Western
cities. There are already 1000 coke
ovens in the Elkhorn region and
1000 more are under contract.
The new road will be 160 miles in
length and. as said above, will save
600 miles in reaching Western mar
kets. At Ceredo the Ohio river will
be bridged, and Ironton, Ohio, will
be made the terminus of the diyis-
ion, where it will connect with other
Western roads, satisfactory traffic
arrangements having been made.
The route of the road from Elk
horn to the Ohio follows the Tug
river through Mcdowell county to
the mouth Of Pigeon creek, in Logan
county; thence up Pigeon to the
mouth of Laurel, up Laurel to its
head; through a tunnel 500 feet
long, with grade of -48 feet to the
mile, on the head waters of Twelve
Pole, and down Twelve Pole to the
Ohio at Ceredo.
| The great salvage of distance to
the Western markets for the coal
and coke Of this great region can
readily be seen, when it is considered
that at present the route from Elk
horn West is through Chattanooga
and Knoxville, Tenn.
The survey for the Guyandotte
Railroad, extending from Hunting
ton to Flat Top Mountain, in West
Virginia, is about completed. The
length of the road will be I35 miles,
and it will open up rich coal and
timber lands The route Of the new
road was laid out last summer, but
owing to the wildness of the coun-
try it penetrates, progress on the
survey was greatly retarded. The
company is composed principally Of
New York capitalists, who have pur-
chased extensive tracts of land
thickly timbered. Work on the road
will be commenced as soon as the
weather will permit Of grading.
U.xp