The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-03-29
P. Y. &C. R. R. EXTENSION
The Route will be Completed
From West Brownsville to
West Virginia.

Work to be Commenced In Short time
The Line will Cross the Moaonga-
hela at Millsbor0 and Penetrate vast
Undeyeloped Coal Territory in Was b
ingtOn, Greene aud Fayette Count y
IL iIIsboro viii Become Center o.
Great Business Activity-Man o.
lions on Coal Lands Being taken 4.
East Bethlehem Township-ConneIl,.
Vile and Wheeling Road up Whet
Ing aud Down Ten Mile Creeks like l.,
TO be Built this summer.
Washington Observer
/ George Dorsey, of East Pike RI Ii
township, was in town Friday, ard
in conversation with an Observer
representative stated that the exten
sion of the Pittsburg, Virginia and
Charleston railroad from West
Brownsville up the Monongahela
valley to West Virginia was an as
sured fact Mr.. Dorsey has been
engaged in taking rights of way for
the company, and he believes that
the work will be begun during the
spring months and pushed to a
speedy completion.
The engineers have made surveys
on both the eastern and western
banks OF the river and their reports
are now before the officers Of the
company for action. 1t is probable
that the route adopted will be as
follows: From West Brownsville
south on the west bank of the Mo
nonganela river for distance of ten
miles to Millsboro at the mouth of
Ten Mile creek, where bridge
across the river will carry the road
to the Fayette county side. The
road will likely keep to the eastern
bank as far south as the Dunkard
creek, where it will cross to the
Greene county side and keep on the
western bank for the balance Of the
way into West Virginia.
The road will certainly be built to
Morgantown during the present sea-
son and may possibly be pushed to
Fairmont and Clarksburg. The dis
lance from West Brownsville to
Morgantown is 50 miles. Extensive
improvements are also to be made
on the So miles which are already in
operation between West Bro snsville
and Pittsbnrg. More lhan half OF
this has already been double
tracked and the rem ainder will be
put in the same condition at an early
date.
One reason for crossing the river
/ at Millsbcro is to secure the heavy
coal traffic, which is sure to result
from the opening OF several exten
sive mines on the Fayette county
side, where many thousand acres Of
coal have recently been sold to Chi
cago and Cleveland capitalists al
5000 per acre. These new mines will
have facilities for shipping both by
rail and river. Two new mines have
also been recently pened on the
Washington county side between
West Brownsville and Frederic
town. Nearly all the coal in Ea 81
Bethlehem township has been so {
and these mines will be operat &C
actively aud this coal taken out rap
| idly as soon as the extension is cora
! pleted. 1t is probable that Mil 5.
boro will become an important arc
flourishing town. The road probe, t
ed from Wheeling to the Connellsvil |,
coke region, which was surveyed III
the Wheeling creek and down the
Ten Mile creek, will If completed
also cross the Monongahela at Mills
| boro
1t is not unlikely that the Wander
bilt system which operates the Pitts
burg, McKeesport and Youghioghe-
ny road up the eastern bank of the
Monongahela to Fayette city will
push that line ON to the south in or
der to get their share of the GOA
from the upper Monongahela valley
If this be done it will be necessary
for the 2 Mex. and Y. to cross the
river at Millsboro from the eastern
to the western bank. Some railroad
men are predicting that within
years there will be two lines of rail
road running north and south past
Millsboro.