Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-10
READINGS NEW MOVE
1t Makes an Important Connection
Which Will Enable it to
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READING, May 9.-The Reading Rail-
road Company to-day awarded the contract
for the large bridge which will be con-
structed by the company over the Susque-
hanna at Harrisburg in order to secure
western outlet. The bridge will have 25
spans beside approaches. and will lie 4,5OO
feet long. Colrode & Taylor, of PottstoWn,
have the contract 10 construct the orldge,
but the Reading Rolling Mill Company, OF
this city, in which the same trm is largely
interested. will do large part of the work.
An extended elevated structure will con-
meet the Lebanon Valley Railroad at Har-
risburp with the bridge and the contract for
this was awarded to the Phoenix Iron Com
pany. of Phenixville. The cost of the entire
work is over $780, OOO The bridge is to be in
place by the end of this year.
The following is learned here from high Of
fetal source: When the Harrisburg Terminal
is finished the Reading Railroad will have Sc
cured through connection via the Western
Maryland Railroad to Cherry Run, point on
Cumberland.
A WESTERN OUTLET.
This is the most important movement the
Reading has made for many years. 1t has been
the virtual owner of the Harrisburg and Poto-
mac road which runs from point eight miles
south of Harrisburg to Shippensburg, a dis
tance of 40 miles from Harrisburg, where it
connects with the Western Maryland. The con-
struction of the Harrisburg Terminal, a link of
about nine miles not only enables the Reading
to utilize its Harrisburg and Potomac road but
through its connections would reach the South
and West. 1t is this link of road that has caused
the strained relations between the Pennsylva-
MIA and the Reading roads. By this new line the
Reading will have its own connections to the
Western Pennsylvania coke fields and paves
the way for the new South Pennsylvania con-
nection with Pittsburg.
A dispatch from Chambersburg saws that
Chief Engineer Chauncey Ives, of the Cumber
land Valley Railroad with large engineering
CORPS in charge of Colonel w. W. Stewart, left
this morning for Fannettsburg in Path Val
ley. They will tomorrow begin the survey of
line from Fannettsburg across the noun
tains to Newville, on the Cumberland Valley
road, somewhat further north than the in
completed tunnels of the South Penn road.
MAY BE A BLUFF.
This new move is supposed to be in the inter-
est of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, though the
work is being done by the Cumberland Valley
engineering corps. 1t is said that the Penn
sylvania Company is becoming alarmed at the
rapid progress made by the Reading in build
ing its new line through the Cumberland
Valley to tap the main line of the
baltlmore and Ohio Railroad at Cherry
Run, and it has had the engineering
force of the Cumberland Valley road at work
Tor several months making a survey from Fort
London. on the Cumberland Valley road to
Mount Dallas. The latter place is in Bedford
county, on the Bedford division of the Penn
sylyania road which taps the Broad:op coal
region. The line which the party will begin to
survey tomorrow would be the shortest to that
region.
1t is claimed by those in opposition to the
PENNSYLVANIA road that the movement is sim
ply a bluff to discourage the alliance formed
by the Reading, Western Maryland and Balti-
more and Ohio roads to make new trunk line
TO the West.