Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-03-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

THE NEW ROUTE OF THE CHESAPEAKE &
OHIoTO Observation-Disclosures FRAZIER
MADE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GIN
CINNATI AND HUNTINGTON DIVISIONS
DOUBLE TRACKING THE C. & o. IN WEST
vIRGINIA-THE BALTIMORE & oHIO's
INCREASING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TATE
COMMERCE DECISION.
&C., &C., &C.
The Chesapeake & Ohio surveying corps
have surveyed two routes, for the new
line to Washington. One is from Crozet
Station and run through Albemarle, Greene,
Madison, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Eau
quier, Prince William, Fairfax, and Alex
andria, into Washington City, and is all
all-rail 125 miles long. The other is from
Gordonsville through Orange, Spottsylvania
and Stafford, to deep water at Quantico.
and to go thence by boat, "a miles, into
Washington City. This route is 1876 miles
long from Crozet Station. BY the first route,
125 miles of new road will have to be built;
by the second only so miles will have to be
built. The engineers estimate that it will
cost 81, 100000 more to build the all-rail
line of 125 miles than it will to build the 60
miles of mixed rail and water line. The
calculators are now figuring out whether
the productive counties of Albemarle, &C.,
through which the 125-miles line would run,
would furnish additional freight and passen-
ger traffic enough to compensate the road
for the greater expenditure. At Quantico
the road can avoid the boat transportation
by hiring the tracks of the Fredericksburg
& Potomac road, but that would do away
with the independence of the new line,
something the company is building it to
achieve. 1t is stated that Culpeper, Kappa
hammock, Greene, and Madison, would be
willing to subscribe 100000 each to the
road, in order to get it to come that way.
The office of Superintendent Of Main
tenance of Way Oh the G. Il 0. road
has been abolished and Harry Frazier,
who filled it, has been transferred to the
position of Superintendent of the Cincin-
natl and Huntington divisions, with head
quarters at Huntington. He will have I'M
der him an Assistant Superintendent of the
Cincinnati Division located at Cincinnati,
and an Assistant Superintendent of the
Huntington Division with headquarters at
Hinton, w. Va. The Assistant Superin-
tendents will be in charge of all transporta-
ton matters on their respective divisions.
These changes take place April 1st.. The
OF way will be under l.. B.
Jackson, Chief Engineer of Construction.
The West Virginia Court of Appeals has
given decision in the suit Of the Fidelity
Insurance and Trust Co. representing the
Central Improvement co., against the
Valley Ry The amount claimed
by the plaintiff was 81 900, 600, and the deci-
sion gave them 1928, 224-the full amount
of the second mortgage and income bonds
allowed it by agreement, but preference is
given to the first mortgage bonds held by
the Fidelity company.
The Interstate Commerce Commission,
on Friday last, decided that "a difference
in rates upon carloads and less than car
loads of the same merchandise between the
same points of carriage so wide as to be de-
structive to competition between large and
small dealers, especially upon articles Of
general and necessary use, and which under
existing conditions of trade, furnish a
large volume of business to carriers, is un-
just and violates the act"
The Chesapeake & Ohio commenced, last
week, with a large force at the mouth
of Greenbrier river, donble-tracking the
road from Don to Brooks. 1t is said that
other sections of the road are to be treated
the same way during the summer, and that
at an early date the whole road will be
double tracked from Hinton to Clifton
Forge.
The Richmond Chamber Of Commerce
Committee on Railroads has under consi-
deration the matter of better freight and
passenger connection at Gordonsville.
Waynesboro, and Staunton.
The administrator Of A. D. Woolwine,
the telegraph operator who was killed at
Big Bend tunnel not long since, has COM
menced suit against the G. & o. Ry. Co.,
for $4,000
1t is said the G. & 0. will soon buy the
Elizabeth, Lexington & Big Sandy road,
which is now under lease by the Newport
News & Mississippi Valley Ry. Co.
J. I. Harahan, who was for few weeks
General Manager of the G. & o., has taken
the same position on the Kentucky Union
Ry.
The business of the entire Baltimore &
Ohio Ry. system, for the last five months,
shows an increase of net earnings over the
same period in 1889, of 81 ,024,944.
The earning of the G. Il q. for the second
week in March, were $3S, 276 over the same
week of last year.
Goshen's Boom.