Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-11-28
CONSOLIDATION.
Two Immense Concerns in this
State get Together.

State get Together.
west Virginia Central Railroad and
Davis Coal aud Coke Company Com
bine New Reads Projected Nor
gantoWn IL TO be Che Locus OF large
Part of the improvements TO be made
For several months past the con
solidation Of the vast interests Of
the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railroad and the Davis Coal
and Coke company have been under
consideration by the directors and
principal stockholders of the two
companies. On account of certain
stockholders having no interest in
the other and other minor details,
! the matter has been delayed from
time TO time anti now when ali pre-
| liminary arrangements have been
perfected satisfactory to all concerned
aud the two interests were merged
into one company. As the railway
charter is much more liberal and ex-
tensive the coal company passes out
OF existence and the business will be
conducted under one management
hereafter. The name may be slight
ly changed and it will probably be
the West Virginia and Pittsburg
Mining and Railway Company"
A great many details are yet to
be arranged. Senator 5. b. Elkins
is now in the east and Senator Hen
ry G. Davis will shortly follow him
and on his arrival in Washington
conference will be arranged. This
will be held with their consulting
engineer regarding the several routes
surveyed for branch road from or
near Elkins in Randolph county to
the forks of the Greenbrier river on
which he had been instructed to ex-
anime and prepare estimates of cost.
Col. Thomas Davis brother Of Henry
e. Davis stated in an interview that
this road would certainly be built in
the near future so as TO connect the
West Virginia Central and the
Chesapeake Il Ohio. He also said
that his company had virtually de
eided to build branch from Beling.
ton in Barbour county towards
Clarksburg TO meet the New Short
Line Railroad now building from
that place to the Ohio river The
Short Line people have given assur-
ances that they will meet the w. Va.
! Central some where east of Clarks-
| burg.
This link will enable the Davis
road to get it's coal and timber to
the Ohio river by short and direct
route and from there by water to all
parts of the world. AS the company
ships much coal and coke to Mexico
and the Pacific coast this link will
be important to it, The West Vir-
ginia Central also expects soon to
extend its lines south from Huttons-
vile finally having direct line to
Charleston. Col Davis is also con-
vinced that the Pennsylvania rail
road will shortly build line up the
Monongahela river from Brownsville
as far as Clarksburg and that West
Virginia will soon be network of
the lines Of the Davis system.
| The company is also negotiating
with large number of the owners
of coal lands in the effort to consoli-
date them with the vast tracts that
have recently been purchased by it
under the name Of the New York
Coal company A great deal of the
coal land lying in this section along
the Monongahela Valley has been
bought by this syndicate The West
Virginia Central is already one of
the greatest producers of coal in the
country and it will continue to in
crease its daily production as rapid
| ly as possible. Over half million
of dollars has been spent in this
county alone in buying coal lands by
those interested in the Company.
Lack of building material has pre-
vented the erection of ovens but sew
eral thousand of them are to be built
in the early Spring in this vicinity.
Morgantown is to be the location of
one Of the greatest of the coal and
coke companies which is to be I'M
der the direction of Davis Elkins,
son of the Senator.