Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-12-28
THAT RAILROAD DEAL.
b. & 0. Considers M. r. r. a
good Tributary Line.

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Transportation Business OF Large
Coal ferritory-Coke Industry is al
so throwing in That Section.
AS related in this paper a few DAYS
ago an important deal was consum-
mated when the b. Il o. bought the
Monongahela River Railroad.
Possession of the new property will
pass in April next. The road Is said
to have cost s., 900, 900 10 years ago
and the price paid is reported to have
been SO, 600, 600.
Ex-senator Johnson n. Camden and
his associates, who owned the railroad
made the sale. The road was built by
the ex Senator who was the chief own
er OF the property, as we'll as of the ex-
tensive coal interests OF the Monongah
! Company which was affiliated with
! the railroad. In the sale to the Bal
/ timore and Ohio Railroad the Monon-
gah Company retains the coal inter
ests, which include over 10000 acres
of coal lands located in the Fairmont
and Monongah districts OF West vir.
ginia The effect of this deal is to
turn over To the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad the transportation business
in this territory and 10 divorce this
interest from the business OF coal
mining.
Ex-senator Camden was one of the
pioneers in bringing into prominence
the coal mining possibilities OF West
| Virginia, and was the moving spirit
in building the West Virginia and
Pittsburg Railroad, which has also
been taken over by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The West Virginia
and Pittsburg and the Monongah rail-
road were both feeders of the Balti-
more and Ohio before becoming parts
of the system.
In carrying out the deal for the Mo-
nongah Railroad, ex-senator German
and ex-Gov. A. B. Fleming, OF West
Virginia who were also interested and
j. e. Sands and j. A. Fickinger Off
GERS Of the railroad were in conference
with ex-senator Camden much Of last
week.
The railroad runs from Fairmont to
Clarksburg and unites the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio system running
to st. Louis with the line running to
Chicago. 1t Is built along the face of
the the nine-foot Pittsburg coal vein
and through its connections at either
end secures exceptional facilities for
reaching the markets of the east and
the west. The product of this field
is bituminous steaming and gas coal
and already there are 90 mines opened.
The most modern methods are en-
ployed In this field, and the use Of
electricity driven machinery is fea-
ture, owing to the recent date of the
plants.
When the strike in the Pittsburg
coal district several years ago forced
number of leading markets to look
to other fields for coal this district at
tracted attention, and the coal then
taken in an emergency created a per-
manent demand from these products,
which resulted In the opening of
number Of new mines.
The Monongah Company is the pro-
pretory company, and leases the lands
to the various coal mining companies.
This year the output will be abou
5000, 900 tons, aud this amount would
have been much larger had it not been
for the scarcity of cars which limited
the movement. Next year the output
will be about 5000, 900 tons, and this
is expected to be further increased by
new mines 10 100000 tons year.
At this rate, such is the compact AMI
unbroken character. OF the field, the
next half of a century, it is figured,
would not exhaust its resources.
The production of coke is also COM
ing into prominence In this district
and further development in this con-
nection is expected. In general way
the valley of the Monongah in which
the coal field lies, is a rich agricultu-
raj and grazing section.