Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-17
THE STOCK QUOTATIONS OF YES
TERDAY SHOWED AN ALMOST
STATIONARY MARKET.
SOME RECOVERY FROM FRIDAY.
The Views of Henry CIews Upon the
Situation in the Metropolis.
wheeling steel and Iron--Big In
dustriaI Enterprise in Fayette
County, Pa.-Other Business News.

ability that that region will soon have
direct railroad communications with
this city and the Ohio river.
The Pittsburg Dispatch OF yesterday
reviewed this comparatively new field
Of enterprise in a very extensive man
ner, and from that paper the following
facts are CLEANED:
The story of this new field, with its
railroads, mines and coke ovens, is al
most fairy like. 1t transforms prim-
tive country, where mail came over
''star" routes and single daily steam
boat was the only communication with
civilization. Along the Monongahela
river, it was known as the sixth pool
Back in the country it was German and
South Union and Menallen townships.
1t was parcelled into fertile, prosperous
farms The tenants had in many in
stances lived there for over half CEN
fury, with biennial trips t. the city.
Tie largest town in this section had a
population of 600.
But certain wise capitalist came
and saw and read the geological reports.
He lost himself for time among the
hills and gathered up a few quiet OPP
tons. Then another capitalist who jeal-
ously watched the first came on his
trail and got another bunch of them.
Came then other men with blanks and
an eagerness to raise prices until the
staid but bewildered inhabitants found
themselves against a perplexing game.
This was the beginning of the end.
Pretty soon the daily steamboat began
to unload cement and gangs of I'M
couth foreigners to blast limestone
from the hills. Then there were other
men in droves and much leveling and
digging into hills and-this modern
Utopia was doomed. 1t had succumbed
to the desires of brace of mighty
trusts.
Now the millennium as viewed by
these up-country residents, meant the
building of a railroad somewhere
sometime. For twenty years the ru-
NOR had been kept preserved and drag
ged forth every time the Pennsylvania
railroad sent an engineering corps into
the hills.
But the rumors came to naught. Sur
vey after survey was made and every
thing done, save to turn the first shov-
elful Of earth. Then the rumor retired
for another period. Roads had been
planned for every conceivable point,
and if all of them had been built the
Monongahela river would nave been
covered by bridges two and three feet
apart.
1t required the forehnger of a fat cor
poration to rub the magic lamp. No
sooner had the Federal Steel Company
planted itself in Fayette county than
1t sent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
They came. The Federal Steel Com
pany-and one or two neishbCrs IN the
new field-desired a few railroads in
the new field; in fact, would build them
themselves if need be. The Pennsyl-
vania and Baltimore and Ohio thought
it over and decided to get down to
work. That was three months ago.
Now the coke region is to be traversed
by a network of lines, which will be
In operation by the middle of Febru-
airy. And just to show that business
was meant the Federal Steel Company
proceeds to take out charter for an
entirely new line, the New Salem and
Masontown railroad, and has it built,
along with the others.
The railroad system, as it has been
planned for this new coke region, is a
rather intricate affair. The chief feat
ure is the erection OF line by the
Pennsylvania railroad from West
Brownsville, the present terminal Of
the Monongahela division, through to
the West Virginia State line. 1t is the
intention to make the Monongahela
division trunk line for through coke
shipments. Rights of way have been
secured for good portion of the line
and work is to begin early in the
spring
The railroads actually under con-
struction at present include an extern
sion of the southwest branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad from Uniontown
through the new field to the Mononga-
hela river, with various branches: an
extension Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, from Smithfield to a point
near the Monongahela river and the
building Of an entirely new line from
New Salem to the main plant of the
Federal Steel Company, which may Ill
timately be the entrance of the Van
derbilt road into the field The Pitts
burg and Lake Erie is trying very hard
to get an acceptable route surveyed.
Several corps of engineers are in the
field. The Pittsburg and Lake Erie
say the route most favored Is from
New Haven, on the Youghioghenv riv-
err, the present terminus of the Pemicky
division, through Uniontown to New
Salem.
Some knowledge OF the various cor
porations established in the region is
necessary in order to understand the
railroad scheme. The Federal Steel
Company has the largest holdings. 1t is
doing business under the name of the
Eureka Fuel Company.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany, whose interests adjoin those of
che Federal Steel Company, has pur-
chased one-half of the stock of the HUI
ron Water Company, and will receive
equal benefit with it. Other corpora
tons desiring water, will pay for it at
rates to be fixed by the company. Will
son-Snyder pumps are to be used, at
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