New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-07
RAILROAD INTERESTS.
THEY SAY THE ROAD WILL BE BUILT.
PROJECTORS OF THE NEW LAcKAwANNA. CATS
KILL MOUNTAIN AND BOSTON DE-
CLARE THAT THEY WILL co on

KILL MOUNTAIN AND BOSTON DE-
CLARE THAT THEY WILL co ON
WITH THE WORK.
Delhi. n. Y. Feb. 6.-The projectors Of the new
Lackawanna, Catskill Mountain and Boston Rail-
road declare positively that they will go on with
the work 1t Is intended build the railroaA
from Deposit n. Y. to Rotterdam Junction, In the
Mohawk Valley In the last few months the pro-
jectors have spent between $4,000 and $4,000 on
right OF way and surveyors and In the Schoharis
Valley they have secured option on the right OF
way at an average price OF 1850 a mile. At
meeting in Delhi Monday f.. l.. jerks. civil en-
glneer declared that II the property owners WOULD
get together and guarantee the right OF to cost
not more than 81 800 a mile ground would be broken
at once The contemplate ed line will be about 10
miles long and par, OF the distance, about fifty
miles. is traversed at present by no railroad
benjamin s. Harmon. Of No. As Wilam-st. at
torney for the I.ackawanna, Catsiil Mountain ao1
Boston Railroad Company. was seen in reference -
the foregoing dispatch He would not talk for pu0se
cation further than 10 say that the company was
in earnest. had spent too much money 10 back
out" now and was buying right Of way every week
John b. Kerr. attorney Of the Dr!ario ana ,, :.
paralleed by the road It Is built bad little %
y to b sie smSsSS Watkins 0' Of rano
were the supposed promoters OF the serene , "a
prominent official Of the Delaware and HUDSON VINO
would not be quoted openly, said: A..
simpson & Watkins are the promoterrss OF tn, me
scheme They are large shppers a yanhs
cite. AT present the ontario and western t ana
amounts to probably about $4,000 tons annually
They cannot handle for any iess m ns,I, ,hsrs
would be nothing in building the road with an eye eye
to profits afterward. as the greater part or tne
the road is likely to be built all the same. and
simpson & Watkins will be the construction cop CON-
They shrewd managers and may De ape 10 20
tn II
show that the local traffic is likely to be large
xnisn tho RSn road de Is Sn think win te sale
The local traffic between Delhi and Walton VIII
be split two the bigger haf sqns to t the e 0nt rna
v Would cross the lister and Delaware the nsw road
When is directly north OF the northern limit Of the
Lackawanna anthracite coal fields about fot I,S
the Erie, from which il could get us Tonnage owe,
Gould sou tap the valley the ontario
and Westerns scranton division oy e,,a ns,
Catskii Mountain and Boston Railroad say they
prepared to build an independent lime l,ns a91
miles For thirty miles Of this distance the new rcse
would parallel The Ontario and western o an" LATER
using the same tracks. The road from Depo; 1t
S to ibs 0p wGpd and G
cally the distance, and their scranton aiv,s''
S Wak fG had not spent Sr good deal
this sheme te attention would be paid 70 "a ns.
and looks as / they were in ea hag ,bs active
SUPERVISION OF the building OF the ontario ana
Westerns Scranton division four years ago. 49,.
Mr.. Torrey. sales agent Of the Delaware anu
| Hudson Canal Company. was In town Yesterday
| He said that Simpson s. Watkins were large snip.
| uers of anthracite, and shrewd operators ana tnat
| II was understood AZ his house In Scranton tnat
| thay were the promoters Of tho iAckawanna sal.
XIII Mountain and Boston. Asked as TO the tesSI-
| bility of another competing line in the la"xa-
| wanna Valley from the north he gave II as MS
| oninon that the road would be expensive 20
| build as the Lackawanna Valley AT different points
"a narrow and already occupied by railroad tracks,
| but he added that Il could be built.