Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-22
Railroad Notes.

PRESIDENT Ingalls, mas purchased lOT tIt
Chesapeake and Ohio the majority OF the
stock of the Covington (Ky.) Stock Yards
Company. The price paid for the stock pur-
chased was forty. A part Of the property
will be used for a freight yard, and the re-
mainder will be used for stock yards. The
Chesapeake and Ohio people have deter
mined to run stock yards OF their own at
CovingtOn, and hence the purchase.
The editor of the Roanoke Sun, MI. Wv.
Brennaman, who is familiar with the re-
gion into which the projectors OF the
Staunton & West Augusta railroad hope to
penetrate, says of the road: g The forma-
ton of a company to develop the resources
of the northwestern portion of Augusta
county, as announced from Staunton, means
the opening up of a section as rich in min
eral possibilities as any part OF the state.
1t is on the proposed line of narrow-gauge
railroad, running westward by way of Har-
risonburg. AS soon as the company begins
operations and gives satisfactory evidence
of the vast latent wealth of that region,
we shall look for the building of a link OF
railroad from either Staunton OIL Harrison
burg, connecting with the Black Diamond,
which it is announced will shortly be built,
in Pocahontas county, w. Va, distance
of rs OF 100 miles. Old Virginny never
tire.''
The Greenbrier Independent learns that
CAN, OF nearly all, the iron bridges along
the line of the c.. & o. railroad have been
condemned. The one crossing the Green
brier two miles south of Lewisburg, which
was erected in 1872 at a cost of $780, 900, is
now being replaced by a steel bridge three
times as heavy. One span has already been
fitted in, but it will take till April to COM
plete the job. The railway officials are pre-
pairing to put larger engines on the road SO
as to haul larger loads than at present"
1t is stated on authority that Nh. Hunt
ington has offered to sell the Kentucky Cen
tral, no longer of use to the G. & o., to the
East Tennessee, Virginia Il Georgia Rail
way. By it's purchase this company would
get an entrance into Cincinnati.
The gross receipts of the G. & 0. Railway
for the month of December, were $3.50, 1853. 81 j.,
an excess of $3S, 1897 81 over its expenses.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
has let contracts for building four heavy
passenger locomotives for it's Vestibule
Limited Express, which is to be put on the
line early in May. Extensive improvements
are under way on the Huntington Division.
Before the Limited Express goes on the
line, about one hundred miles of that division
will be relaid with new steel weighing
seyenty-fve pounds to the yard. The Limit
ed Express will make but very few stops,
but an additional fast through train will he
run which will make the principal stops.
The G. & o. will sell tickets to Washing
ton and return for the Inauguration of Gen.
Harrison, at $4.55 for the round trip, sold
February Goth to March Sd inclusive, good
to return until and including March 9th.
A telegram from New Y ork, Of Monday,
says that G. P. Huntington will in short
time withdraw from all the roads east Of
the Mississippi, and will retain control of
the Southern Pacific Road only. The New
port News & Mississippi Valley, Chesa-
peake & Ohio, Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnati & Indianapolis, and Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago Roads
will be formed into new system. Presi-
dent Ingalls,, of the Big Four, will proba-
bly, control the consolidated lines.