Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-17
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Projected from Brownsville, Pa, to
Wheeling.

II WILL DEVELOP RICH COAL
LANDS-A CHARTER GRANTED
TO PITTSBURG CAPITALISTS.
BIG MEN BEHIND THE ENTER
PRISEIOTHER BUSINESS NEWS.
Yesterdays Pittsburg Dispatch had
the following, of decided interest to
Wheeling manufacturers and business
J men:
Negotiations looking to the revival
Of the Brownsville Wheeling railroad
| project have opened. A meeting of the
interested parties, Pittsburg, New York
and Philadelphia capitalists, was held
yesterday at the Office of Willis L. Nc
Cook. The Company was incorporated
| five years ago as the Pittsburg, Monon-
gahela and Wheeling railroad. The
directors are Colonel j. NJ. Guffey,
Willis l. McCook, Pittsburg; R. c.
Broadbent, Philadelphia; General A. NJ.
Dodge and General F. w. Dacey, New
York. Mr.. McCook stated yesterday
that indications favored the early con-
summation of the original plans of the
projectors, but that the railroad would
probably be built by Eastern capitalists
who are interested in coal lands.
''The proposed beginning of the line
is at the terminus of the Pittsburg, Nc
Keesport and Bellevernon railroad, on
the north side of the Monongahela
river, at Pigeon creek, on the outskirts
of Brownsville, Fayette county. 1t was
the original intention of the incorpor-
ators of the Company to bridge the
Monongahela, continuing the railroad
along the valley of Pigeon creek UP to
Bentelysville, a distance of twelve
miles. From this point it was the in
tention to continue along the other side
of the divide to Wheeling. The route
that the proposed road would follow
| would make the distance from Browns
vile to Wheeling only thirty-five miles,
or about forty miles shorter than the
present nearest route of railway travel.
"Three or four years ago the route
was surveyed from Brownsville to
Bentleysville by Engineers Wilkins and
Dawson, but the furtherance of the
project at that time was not deemed
feasible and the surveys were discOn-
| tinued. Since then, however, large and
| valuable tracts of coal land, lying prin-
| cipally to the south of Bentleysville,
| have been quietly purchased by an
| Eastern syndicate. This coal Is said to
be of good steam and gas quality and
| is to be found in thick veins. The syn
| dictate which now owns this acreage is
supposed to be the same as that which
| now proposes to secure the charter and
right of way of the Pittsbqrg, Monon-
! gahela and Wheeling Railroad.
"The building of this line is essen
tial to the development of this coal
| field, it is stated, and a representative
| of the Eastern syndicate which Is after
| the charter of the old company stated
yesterday that the construction of the
| line was a question of only a short
time. It is understood that full meet
| ing of the officers and directors of the
incorporation will be held shortly to
consider the propositions of the East
ern capitalists and render decision"
A A A TJON
Boston Globe.
The personal equation must be an
important determining factor in trusts
as well as in individual enterprises If
men with a capacity for handling a
million dollars capitalize themselves for
hundred millions they will fail
Water on the brain is a disease to
which trust is just as liable as any
human being. A man may try ever so
hard to lift himself by his bootstraps
into the eminence of a Rockefeller, a
Havemeyer or a Morgan and yet sink
into the obscurity of Hooley. AS we'll
might some of the reigning sovereigns
of the old world set out to place all the
continent of Europe into a trust be-
cause Napoleon did it.
COMPETITION TO BE DESTROYED.
Philadelphia Record,
Fire and light, fetching and carrying,
public Accommodation, food and
drink-these are the essentials with
which the gigantic monopolies now or
ganized to levy public tribute propose
to deal on a tremendous scale and at
first hand. Competition is to be not
only restricted, but absolutely destroy
ed, and the judicial objection to COM
binations in restraint Of trade is to be
met by the affirmation that trade is alb
solutely unrestrained, being all under
the control OF a single huge and all
powerful agency Of production and dis
tribution.
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