Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-08-20
Railroad Notes.

Mcfarland aud Mcdonald secured the
! contract for Gaping the piles that are
| being driven into the Boyd and Mackev
I bottom land, and building the trestle
work upon them. The idea of the K. K.
| Co. is TO start the road on these piles and
trestle-work and then fill in solid around
them
The contract for the substructure and
stone work on the Butler < Pittsburg rail
road bridge, crossing the Allegheny river
at Denny station has been awarded 10
Joseph Giauini, of Pittsburg, for SI53, 900.
The bidding for the work was spirited,
and many large contractors took part.
Work on the structure will be begun in
10 days, and will be finished under the
contract within six months.
The bridge is Que of the heaviest and
most costly pieces of work on the new
ore line. It was designed by Engineer
E. K. Morse II leaves the south shore
of the Allegheny river at a point about
one mile below Blacks Run, on the Allie
gheny Valley Railroad, and crosses to
Denny station on the West Penn Rail
road distance of about ) 900 feet. The
channel span, which is directly along the
south shore, is 500 feet long, and the re-
manning three spans are each $50 feet
long. The bridge crosses Fourteen-Mile
island at height of 90 feet, the total
height OF the piers being 100 feet, The
bridge ends on the north with tresae IS
feet high and !, 400 feet long.
DR.. Martin of Grove City, is making
trouble for the officials of the P. S. & l.. E.
R R. and has caused some arrests to be
made on charges of violating the provi
sions of the interstate commerce law.
He SAYS that year ago Samuel Dick,
President of the railroad company, pro-
missed him the sale of $4,000 tons of coal
in Montreal The Enterprise Coal Com
pany started to mine the coal, but they
found they could not get cars from the
railroad company to haul it. The rate
made to them was 81 per ton to Buffalo.
The found they were undersold there at
s. As per ton. While they were refused
cars, DR., Martin alleges, it was discover
ed that the mines with which Wick and
Filler were dealing could get all the cars
they needed,
Last April, it is charged, President
Dick, of the railroad company, told the
Enterprise Company people that they
need not take any trouble to get the Mon
treal coal trade for this year. He said to
Just put in their bid at 81 IS per ton to
Buffalo. The intimation given was that
it would be all right and they would get
the trade. They put in their bid, but did
not get the contract.
When the time came they found that
President Dick himself had taken the
contract and was putting the coal from
competing mines into Montreal at the
rate of 81 Is to Buffalo. This was 20
cents per ton less than could be done at
actual cost at freight rate of 81 per ton.
President Dick, Filler and the Bell,
Lewis and Yates Company, of Clearfeld
county, it is claimed, are getting all the
contracts along the line of the railroad,
or else are giving them TO such operators
as they please. They can do this by the
discrimination in rates, and the discrimi-
nation varies as much as IS cents per ton.
The consequence is that mines that are
not favored have no show at all, and are
shut our OF business.
Certain mines it is stated, were never
successful until few months ago, when
Filler got control of their output Now
they are running full The Enterprise
Company's mines, in contrast, have been
forced to shut down and are now filled
with water. This has made the owners
desperate, and stirred them up to make a
fight.