The Republican., 1900-03-29
ACTIVITY IN COAL AND LUMBER.
Development of New Interests in Western
Maryland and West Virginia.

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Maryland and West Virginia.
From New York Tribune.
CUMBERLAND, Md, March 24-Mar-
vellous development is in progress in
Maryland and West Virginia, in the
immediate vicinity of Cumberland,
which is largely the distributing
point for coal and lumber. In Gar
rett County, Md, industrial activity
is marked, and it is predicted that it
is the coming county of Maryland,
with it immense coal and timber re-
sources practically untouched. OPP
tions are being obtained on the thou
sands of acres, largely by Pennsyl-
vania capitalists. A railroad is now
being built along the Castleman
River in Garrett County. Itconnects
with the Baltimore and Ohio at Sails
bury, Somerset County, Penn, and
crosses lands rich in minerals and
timber. Coal development in the inn
mediate vicinity of Oakland, the
county SedU, is pTOLulS6u'
Justice William BirminGhmam, Of
Barton, this county, has purchased a
large coal tract near that place from
J. O. j. Greene and others for Eastern
capitalists. Mr.. Greene is to receive
100000 for 1926 acres near Westernport,
this county, on which he gave an OPP
tion, expiring on April 10. The Davis
Coal and Coke Company are troubled
much with water in mining the six
foot vein at West Virgininia June
tion, and in order to afford good
drainage will make new opening at
Franklin, this county, a mile from,
and sixty feet lower than the present
opening. The new opening will en-
able the company to work much
larger number of miners.
All the West Virginia counties con-
tiguous to Maryland will this year
witness marked changes along indus
trial lines if the millions pouring into
them mean anything, and new towns
are building on all sides. Nearly all
of the fifty houses contracted for by
the Southern Coal and Transporta-
ton Company at Berryville, at the
headwaters of Simpsons Creek, be-
tween Elkins and Philippi, W. Va,
have been completed. This is a new
wn. The company is installing a
A4odern mining plant, and two saw
Aills are in operation to supply build
Eg material for the various works
The grading of the Hackers Valley
branch of the Grafton and Belingtol
division Of the Baltimore and Ohio is
being pushed all along the line. 1t
will be double track road.
In the same locality the Century
Coal Company, of which Major Alex
ander Shaw, a Baltimore capitalist, is
the head, is building new town, to
be known as Burnersville. Twenty
double and ten single tenement
houses are being built, and shaft
175 feet deep and 90 by G5 feet in size
is being sunk. The company will
shortly begin to ship one hundred
carloads daily over the Grafton and
Belington branch.
The Smokeless Coal Company has
purchased the Link Railroad running
from Belington to Monroe Junction
the latter place the center of a 5000
acre tract of the richest coal in the
Roaring Creek pocket, and has also
purchased the John X. Scott property
from the Berwing & White Coal Com
pany, the wealthy Pennsylvania
operators. The mines will be opened
at once. The company is negotiating
for other valuable tracts in the same
region.
The Davis Coal and Coke Company
is sinking large shaft at Henry
which is building up rapidly, and
which promises to become one of the
leading coal producing centres of the
West Virginia Central region. 1t will
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shaft. r. Chaffee, of William, w. Va.
is building large tramway, and viii
erect lumber and pulp mill neal
Henry. Blaine, another new town OF
the West Virginia Central, near the
Garrett county, Md, line is develop
ing rapidly, because of it's coal re
sources. Houses are being removed
from Elk Garden, a decaying mining
town, and reconstructed at Blaine
The j. L. Rumbarger Lumber Com
pany, of Philadelphia, is erecting t
large lumber mill at Waldman, OF
the West Virginia Central.
In one section of Preston county
alone, which adjoins Garrett county
Md, $500,000 is being spent in the de
velopment of a coal tract. The com
panies interested are the U. N. Or,
Coal and Coke Company, the Auster
Coal and Coke Company, the Hit,
Coal and Coal Company, and tn,
German Coal and Coke Company
Philadelphia and New York capita
is largely interested in the Orr anC