Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-04
WILL PARALLEL.
Pennsylvania Trying TO Knock
Them Out.

Going after the URiontoWn, Waynes.
burg aud Wheeling Road plan if
Carried Ont win Block the Latter
Rush to get into new Fields and
Hold Them against all Corners.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is said to be preparing to paral-
lei the proposed line of the Union
town, Waynesburg & Wheeling. It
is claimed that II this is DONE the
projected railway will not be built.
Superintendent Robert Pitcairn, of
the Pennsylvania, admits that sur
veys are probably being made.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has inaugurated move which
will result in the abandonment Of the
Uniontown, Wayneshurg & Wheeling
railroad project said Jonathan n.
Grassland real estate dealer and own
er of extensive coal lands in Fayette,
Green and Westmoreland counties,
This is TO be accomplished. sby
the construction OF new line from
Brownsville to Wheeling. The Penn
sylvania railroad has already road
from Uniontown to Brownsville. and
the proposed line from the latter point
TO Washington will at some points
parallel the route OF the new company.
From Washington to Wheeling the
Pennsylvania viii join hands with the
Baltimore & Ohio and run its trains
over that company's tracks. It means
a union of the two concerns which
largely control the freight traffic of
the Connellsville coke region to shut
out what in time might prove q dan
gerous rival to both the big corpora
tions.
''The proposed line from Browns
vile to Washington will not touch
Waynesburg, as the route is somewhat
north of that town, but it will run
all along the top of the Greene county
coal vein and that is all that is requir-
ed TO make il a competitor of the
other company. The very fact that
the Pennsylvania railroad will con-
struct such line makes the carrying
out of the other enterprise most un-
likely for the reason that new con-
Germ cannot expect TO parallel a road
backed by such wealth and power as
the Pennsylvania. The Baltimore Sc
Ohio and Pennsylvania have run
branch lines into the new coke fields
OF the Federal Steel Company in the
Masontown district The first trains
on the Baltimore & Ohio branch en-
tered there to-day, and that of the
other company will be ready for SER
vice by Saturday. Thus it will be
seen that the two big corporations
are already connected with the fields
from which the Uniontown, Waynes-
burg & Wheeling expects to get
large share OF its patronage.
of both these lines were to con-
tinue using the long distance routes
for Wheeling this fact would make no
material difference to the success OF
the short line railway, but the pro-
posed Pennsylvania railroad branch
from Brownsville to Wheeling will
reduce the difference between Union
town and Wheeling over both the
big lines to about the same as that Of
the new corporation. Eighty miles
will then be the length OF the entire
route. This places the two big rail-
roads on the same footing as the other
as far as short distance between ter
minal points is concerned
1.-The valuable Greene county coal
lands are what all the companies are
seeking. This magnificent vein will
be the great supply of the future.
Those who own coal lands now and
are sensible enough to hold on to
them, even if offered three times pres
ent market price, will become million
aires in few years. The supply of
good coal in Belgium and England is
about exhausted and all fuel mined
In those countries hereafter will be
required for home consumption. Aus
tria has some coal, but Germany,
Italy, France and other countries
across the sea will soon have to come
to the United States for their supply.
Their own mines are about exhausted
and they cannot purchase from Eng
land or Belgium. This is why / be-
lieve that we will supply coal Inv the
future, as we do cotton and bread
stuffs, to the half of Europe"