Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-08-13
PIEDMONT INDUSTRIES.

PIEDMONT, W. Va, August 12.-The
Chesapeake and Potomac Long Dis
lance Telephone Company have all
their poles erected to Piedmont, and
are now stringing their wires. In
few days Piedmont will have commune
cation with all parts of the country by
telephone. They will have an office in
J. H. Cramer's store and one In the
Kenny House.
Jacob w. Hughes has purchased lot
on Main street, Westernport, and will
build a fine residence on 1t.
The E. J. Fredlock Co., of Piedmont,
are building a fine three story brick
residence in Westernport, adjoining ST.
Peters Catholic church, for the pastor,
Rev. Thos. E. Lyons. The main por-
ton of the house will be 65 by 50 feet.
1t will have electric light, hot and cold
water, hot water heating system, and
will be the costliest residence in this
entire section of country.
The Baltimore & Ohio and the Cum
berland and Pennsylvania Railroads
put neat signs on their depots this week
informing the public that this town is
Piedmont.
The w. Va. Central Railway this
week received a monster shifting en-
CINE to be used at Thomas.
The pooling system has been resum-
ed by the B. & O. helping engine crews
at Piedmont, Rowlesburg and New
burg.
The D. F. Graham Company, of Pied
mont, which will open a branch store at
Covington, Va, at the new pulp mill
plant will increase it's capital stock
to 24O shares of $500 each, at the stock
holders meeting September 18th.
The Piedmont and Cumberland Rail-
road Company sold a lot of ground in
Cumberland to the Elks, who will build
fine lodge building on it costing $l5,-
000
The annual stockholders meeting OF
the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railway was held at Elkins Tues
day All the directors and officers were
reelected The question OF building
several extensions to the main line was
discussed and final action on same de-
ferred until future meeting. The US
ual semi-annual dividend of half or
one per cent was declared. There ap-
pears to be no truth in the statement
sent out from Bedford Springs, Pa, of
a disagreement between Messrs. B. c.
Kerns and H. G. Davis and S. B. Elk
ms. and that a special freight arrange
ment had been made with the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad. One of the prominent
stockholders told your correspondent
that this road was on good and equal
terms with the Pennsylvania and Bal
timore and Ohio.
The stockholders of the Davis Coal &
Coke Company met at Elkins ON Tues
day and reelected each director, who in
turn elected the same board of officers.
The annual meeting of the other Davis
coal companies, the stock of which is
held by the above corporation. also
elected their old directors and officers.
Each concern is in fiourishing condl-
ton. The Davis Coal and Coke Co.
declared a semi-annual dividend of two
per cent. This company virtually owns
the stock of the West Virginia Central
Railway, and proposition was made
to consolidate the two companies. The
matter was discussed at some length,
but action deferred. It is quite likely
that a consolidation VII eventually take
place which will doubtless prove adj
vantageous to both interests and more
satisfactory to the stockholders.
The report that the Davis Coal and
Coke Company had leased coal pro-
perty in Marion county is denied, but
| that firm have purchased 10000 acres
of very valuable coal lands between
Fairmont and Morgantown. They are
opening a new six-foot mine at Hamp-
shire, two miles from Piedmont, and
will soon begin shipping coal from it.
A new iron bridge will be erected
over Georges creek. in Westernport.
Work has been good at nearly all of
| the coal mines the past two weeks, the
mines at Elk Garden being an excep-
ton. The Pattison mine at Blooming
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