Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-21
SININIERS COUNTY

SUMMERS COUNTY
has voted q subscription TO the Hinton
New River and Western railroad, which
is To- follow the New river from the
Chesapeake and Ohio az Hinton TO a
connection with the Norfolk and West
ern just across the Virginia line. Sur
veys are being made and the road Will
DE built. The distance is only about 30
miles. and will save several hundred
miles i'm the distance by rail between
the New river and the POcahOntas coal
fields. To is expected TO be q paying
road from the start and i'm addition TO
the general business il will do. will open
up and make accessible large Quaries of
the fine brown stone found in that vici-
nifty
From BrOwnstOwn. on the C.. & o.
near Charleston a railroad is being sur
veyed up Lens Greek. which is chartered
90 cross over % Coal river and follow
both Big and Little Coal to their head
waters. To is called the West Virginia
and Southern. but for the present only
some five or six miles Will DE built 70 de-
veiop coal property.
New MartinsviUe Is the proposed ter
minus of the Two rival railroads from
the Harrison and Marion county coal
fields. One of these roads is the one
which Senator Camden and his associ-
ates pr0pise 20 build from the Mon0nga-
hela River railroad 20 the Ohio river and
the other the one T. VI. Jackson, ThOS.
q. Brady. and others propose TO build
from Clarksburg 20 New Martinsville.
Senator Camden says that his road will
start az Enterprise Station on the Mon
Ongahela River railroad and run up
Bingamon and down the Trice fork OF
Fishing Creek. It Will be about fifty
miles in length and the only tunnel Will
be through the divide between the waters
Biugamon and of Fishing Creek. This
suuuel viii be about 1400 feet long and
e. is proposed To- begin work on il az an
early day so that il may be completed by
the time the grading and track laying
reaches TO-
ENGINEERS ARE AT WORK
and the route is being determined The
contract for the bridge across the West
Fork river az Enterprise has been let
and the masonry is almost completed.
This bridge and tunnel will be pushed
forward rapidly so that the building OF
the road viii not be delayed ON that ac-
count
BY the West Virginia Short Line it
viii De ninety-two miles from Clarks-
burg 90 Wheeling. which will be reached
6y way OF New Martinsville. Mr. Brady,
of Clarksburg. secretary of the COM
uany. saws the surveys have been made,
The route located and the right of way
I an bought and paid for, except in a few
/ places. where condemnation proceedings
viii be necessary. He expects to have
the contracts let next month for all the
grading Some of the grading has al
ready been completed. several miles
having been done by the railroad COM
/ pany with its own men, but next month
they propose 20 let the contracts for
grading the entire line There
WILL BE TWO TUNNELS
on the road each about 1900 feet in
| length. The maximum grade going
west viii be thiry-tw0 feet 20 the mile,
going east eighty feet 20 the mile. Mr..
I Brady is very enthusiastic about his
road. He says that it viii pass through
$1,000 acres Of coal lands and twenty
/ square miles of oak timber The COM
pany has three miles of river front al
I New Martinsville for terminal facilities,
and expect that coal from the interior
Will De taken over their road 20 the
river and shipped thence by water. Mr..
Brady says that they already have pro-
/ Positions from q wagon making concern
employing @ thousand men. 100000
iron plant and a -annery employing 400
men to- locate along the line of the road.
p of course il is probable that an of the
roads mentioned viii be built at once,
but out of the number enough will be
built To- make the busiest season i'm rail-
road work the STATE has had for several
I years.