The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-11-13

fully Presented for TIL Delecta-
ton.
Some of the dreams inspired by Sat
| urday's announcement of the organ ~ &.
| tion of The Delaware VALLEY and
Kingston Rairoad company are
, enough t. make Sc amor hair stand
IN end. one CT them taken IT, - tt.
| New York = urnal tnl lrinted in fu''
| below 'rake3 Scranton the prirCIpll
| city on au ,... line starting Mt New
| 'ork ami ,csing its ,If somewhere Up
| in the great Northwest The dreamer
! evidently woke up before he could de-
! finitely locate the other terminal. It's
! "A good story even though it is frayed
| slightly at the end.
Locally there has also been some
| dreaming and while it is not of the
soaring. pipey kind that the great
| metropolitan dream book furnishes It
is nevertheless quite roseate. and
! though only dream, must he pleas
! ant to Scrantonians to contemplate
Is NOT IMPOSSIBLE
The local dream is not altogether i'm
possible of realization. In fact it is
not at all difficult to give it strong
coloring of probability. Its main
! feature is the ultimate Punishment OF
| soft coal from the east. This is to be
the result of lower rates on anthracite,
consequent upon the competition that
will ensue when the new railroad is 4
reality.
At present. soft coal is carried so it
! ie oil iyf hn atif i'm
posed on hard coal. The new road can
build it's line at a remarkably low
cost. because of the cheap right of
way and there being practically no
grading to do, and it's cost of opera
ton will be correspOndingly small by
reason of the fact that the road is eX-
tremely level. The cost of cOnstruc-
ton per mile. according to George c.
| Williams, president of the Chemical
National bank and a director Of the
new road, will be $35,OOO per mile, as
against five times that much, the cost
! of same of the coal carrying roads
AS to operation, it is figured that It
will be possible to haul 5000 tons with
one engine. from Winners Summit to
| tide water.
Saturday last. S. D.. Coykendal
whose foresight contributed the canal
bed to the new enterprise, secured pDs-
session of all the Delaware and Hudson
company's real estate on both sides Of
| Roundout Creek, between Kingston
| and IGddyville, including the big coal
| pockets at the terminus of the Old
! cana. The consideration was $4,000
| 1t is possible that the company will
| lighter its coal from Kingston to New
York It was at first understood the
new line would reach New York from
Kingston over the West Shore.
WILL START At HAWLEY.
As stated in The Tribune the new
line will be built from Hawley. The
| charter calls for a road from Lack
AWAKEN to Kingston, but actually It
! will be from IIawley. The link be
! tween Hawley and LackawaXen will
| be built as an extension Of the Erie
and Wyoming.
The latter road was originally built
| to LackawaXen but the section between
| Hawley and LackawaXen was leased
TO the Erie and that lease is still in
! force and will continue in force for n
number OF years yet. The new COM
pany cannot wait for the expiration
of the lease and not being willing 10
! have itself tied up with the Erie even
for SO short a distance, decided to
! build another line between Hawley
and T.ackawaxen and have through
| Independent route from end to end.
The organization or the new COM
pany of course means the death or
at least indefinite shelving of the New
| York and Wyoming. the much talked
Of independent operators road.
The operators association will meet,
! at noon today in special session to re-
Ceivc a report of the committee APP
pointed to find an independent outlet
to New York. F.. l.. Fuller was the
committee. +. l.. Fuller devised and
/ carried out the organization of the
Delaware Valley and Kingston road
T.. l., Fuller will report to the associa-
ton today that he has found the relief
looked for. The ratification of his re,
port will be a matter of form.
THE JOURNALS DREAM.
Appended is the beautiful dream that
appears in yesterdays Journal accom-.
panied by charts, diagrams and por'
traits
The wonderful industrial activity o.
the country and the unprecedented need
of coal in consequence of it, together
with the demand for raw materials o.
all kinds, are making great changes il
the railroad map Of the East and Can
ada.
The most important addition to be
made in this region will be the build
ing of a rival line of the Erie railroad
to Erie, Pa, brought about by the ac
tion Of the Pennsylvania Coal compan!
in determining to build its own lin,
from tidewater to the coal fields o.
Eastern Pennsylvania. The eastern
terminus will be at Kingston, n. Y.
The establishment of additiona
steamship lines on the lakes from Eric
to Sault Ste. Marie, and the building
Of a new railroad tapping the Canadia'
Pacific north of Sault Ste. Marie, on,
tario, and running to St. James bay, I
southern water of Hudson bay, com
pletes a new scheme of development no
so fascinating but perhaps of create
Industrial Importance than the open
ing of the Yukon gold fields.
While the action Of the PennsylVa
MIA Coal company is prOfessedly an in
dependent operation, it is too coinci
dental with the other plans not to b