Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.

PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL.
PIEDMONT. W. VA. March 97.-Hon.
\. G.. Dayton. Hon. Lloyd Lowndes. c.
NJ. Heudley. J. T. Davis and g. H. Robb
have Incorporated the Hamilton Coal
Company. The property owned by this
company is embraced in the Swan tract
of land on the line of the West Virginia
Central railway.
W. L. Percy, OF Frostburg. Nd. has
purchased The Neff properly at Elkhart
Mines. The properly consists of seventy
five acres. containing a coal mine OF five
acres of Georges Creek soft coal. Con-
siderauon, $500
The Cumberland and Pennsylvania rail
road has decided to change the track at
Franklin. Nd. near Piedmont so as TO
avoid crossing the creek so often. and thus
dispense with several wooden trestles,
which are washed out periodically.
The business men OF Alaska. Mineral
county. are talking Of building a canning
factory a, that place.
The officials OF the Georges Creek and
Cumberland Railroad Company are max
ing preparations TO replace the present
wood treStles over Clide's hole with a
important and costly Improvement and
shows the enterprise and foresight of
President Nllholland and his aides.
John Sliney. the Pittsburg coal operator,
has closed the deal with an Eastern syn
dictate and the latter will in short time
begin 10 develop the coal near Fellows
vile. Preston county. W. Va. where Mn.
S,iuey has been securing options and leas-
ing for the past nine months. This field
contains about 1900 acres of the finest
vein Of coal Where opened for examina-
ton il showed on the face about eleven
feet Of very fine coal.
Work on the Cheat River Railroad has
begun in earnest. \ large force OF hands
was put to work shovsling dirt Saturday
. The contractor. John NJ. Miller. of Tyrone
Pa. IS engaging hands as rapidly as he
/ can secure them. Several carloads OF
I horses, mules and tools have arrived AT
D Rowlesburg. which for the present, will
: be the headquarters for the men. The
road is to be a standard guage good solid
/ roadbed. and first class steel rails will be
| used. II will extend from Rowlesburg on
/ the Baltimore and Ohio 10 Point Marion,
! Pa. where slack water navigation will
/ give a splendid outlet for an almost un-
limited coal field and tracts of valuable
/ timber.
/ The Dry Fork Railroad have a large
| force OF men at work on each end of their
road and It is thought will have their
\ trains running in two or three weeks.
The coal shipments from the Georges
/ northumberland region by rail for the
week ending Saturday, March 90 aggre-
gated T1.SS1H tons. During the same
| period q 990.0S tons Of coal and 3,S741C
I tons Of coke were shipped from the Elk
I Garden and Upper Potomac region OF
/ West Virginia. The total shipments for
/ the year from the Cumberland region
| aggregate 100. 521O2 tons, an increase OF
I z. 26312 over the same period last year.
| The West Virginia Central shipments
/ show an increase Of 11.7i6O9 tons during
/ the same period.
/ The widow Of DR.. Theo. w. Price has
/ sued the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
railroad for so, COO for the death of her
/ husband.
I Baltimore coal men are much gratifed
/ over the provision in the Onsley tariff
/ bin restoring the former duty of seventy
| five cents a ton on coal. Most Of the coal
J shipped through Baltimore goes to New
/ England. and since the Wilson bill, Gu;
/ the tariff 10 forty cents that market has
/ been seriously invaded by Nova Scotia
/ coal. About 100000 tons of the latter pro-
/ duct has been coming into New England
/ annually and the prospects were that this
amount would increase each year. With
/ the increased protection. however. New
I England viii now turn again TO the coal
fields of Maryland and West Virginia, and
shipments from Baltimore will receive the
| benefit Of a renewed stimulus
] There Is some danger. however. that
I Canada may indulge in retaliatory meas
ures. and increase its tariff. which Is now
/ about sixty-six cents Should the domin-
/ ion raise its rates to S.C0-about the same
/ raise as made by the Dingley bill larg-
/ or marke, in Western Canada may be Of
/ fered the Nova Scotia mines. They now
ship as far west as Montreal. while most
/ of the section west Of Montreal. known as
! The Niagara Frontier. is supplied by Penn
svlvania and Ohio mines BY raising the
tariff :hirty-fve cents the Nova Scotia
mines will be enabled to ship coal several
hundred miles west Of Montreal The
MARYLAND. West Virginia and Virginia
mines will be distinctly benefited by the
new tariff rates.
The Baltimore and the Ohio shops closed
down Thursday evening until April 1st.
the monthly appropriation having been
exhausted.
STEUBENVILLE INDUSTRIAL.