The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-05-11
OUR RAILROAD BOON.
Lines Being Constructed and
Lines Projected.
Twenty five Million Dollars to be Spent
In West Virginia Within the
Next Two Years.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

West Virginia is to be the fore
moet State in the Union in the limo
of railroad building this year, if
there is any stability in the schemes
and propositions now talked of, and
there can be little doubt on the sub
ject, as the gentlemen interested are
among the wealthiest and best bust
ness men of the country. A rough
estimate Of the money to be spent
within the next two years might be
placed at not less than $25,000,000.
Beginning at the upper end of the
State, the first scheme we find is an
extension of the Ohio River Rail
road from or near New Martinsville,
Wetzel county, up Fishing creek to
Clarksburg, where it will connect
with the b. Il o. and the Clarksburg
and Weston Railroad. The next
one will be railroad from Fairmont
across TO Clarksburg bisecting tho
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connecting with the Clarksburg and
Weston The Clarksburg and Yves
ton, running from Clarksburg to
Buckhannon, now narrow gauge,
is to be broadened and extended
through Braxton, down Elk to
Charleston, opening up an extensive
mineral and timber country. The
Grafton and Greenbrier, now run
ming to Bealington in Barbour coun-
ty, will also be extended through
Randolph to Elk river, running al
most its entire length through
country rich in minerals and timber
Henry G. Davis road, the West Vir-
ginia Central, will be rapidly ex-
tended through Tucker county to
Addison in Webster and Elk river.
This road already has several thous.
and men at work upon it, The
primeval forests through which it
will run are the finest timber lands
in the State. The Marshal Coal and
Lumber Company of West Virginia,
composed of such men as Henry G.
Davis, Stephen b. Elkins, Senator
Camden, James c. Blaine, Abraham
5. Hewitt, Thos. f. Bayard, own
thousands of acres of land, filed
with minerals and timber along the
proposed extension, which will be
developed as rapidly as energy and
money can avail. Below, along the
Ohio, the O. r. II. will extend it's
feeder, now complete to jackson C.
H., to Spencer, in Roane county
Still further down, the proposed road
up Guyan river through Logan and
Lincoln will certainly be built, while
the Norfolk and Western will begin
work down the Tug Fork of the
Big Sandy, thence to its mouth, or
near that point, where it is proposed
to bridge the Ohio river. Then
there is the Black Diamond,
which has awakened from its
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep. This road
will begin at the mouth of the
Little Kanawha, follow that stream
to it head, cross to Elk River, thence
up Elk to Addison andithence across
to Clifton Forge The wealth of
minerals, coal, iron, etc, and timber
need not be enlarged upon along this
line Of proposed railroad The trunk
line from Charleston across the State
to connect with the G. d o. will also
be built. These are not all the roads
proposed, but ali, or nearly all, of
these will certainly be commenced
during the present season. 1t can,
therefore, be easily seen that the
prospect for network of railroads
through West Virginia is better than
it has ever been before.