The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-05
THE WABASH EXTENSION.
Obstacles In the Way of The Pitts.
burg Project About Overcome.
ITS CONSTRUCTION A BIG UNDERTAKING
New Line VIII Be Sixty Miles Long and
Can Not Be Completed Within
Less Than a Years Time.

president Joseph Ramsey, Jr., Of the Wa
bash, Colonel Ed r. Clamp and Private
Secretary Robert Woods returned to head.
quarters yesterday from the East, says the
st. Louis Globe Democrat Of the I'd In
slant. Mr.. Ramsey is a very busy man,
and he Is frequently called to Pittsburg IN
connection with the affars Of the Wabash
eastern extension to that city, which is
creating such oommotlon In the railroad
world. The work is going steadily ahead,
but 1t is gigantic undertaking involving
the building Of two bridges two tunnels
and over sixty miles of road, and It can
scarcely be completed in less than a year
from the present time. The early legal
difficulties appear 70 have been swept
away, aud there will be no delay In that
regard
lne Wabash gained a conclusive victory
last Wednesday when Judge y A, Nc,
Chung of the common pleas court declined
to grant the injunction sought by the city
OF littshurg to prevent the erection of Il
bridge across the Monongahela. The Wa
basd is proceeding under the state coustl-
tuition OF 1872, which is superior TO al
municipal legislation. The Pittshurg, Car
negle and western Is the pane of the
company organized TO build the extension
of SIXTY miles from the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad t. Pttshurg. In connection
with the Wabash it Will give the Nils
souri, Pacific and associated tines an indie
pendent route to tnat city. The PITTS
burg, Carnegie and Western was form d
July IL by consolidation of the Washing.
ton County ana Pittsbu' and Mansfield
Railroad companies a contract made with
the Carnegie company prior to its passing
under the control OF The United states Steel
corporation Is Still in force. promising to
the new road a large tonnage
Referring to the Strategic position Of the
Wabash. the New York Evening Post says
Its recent development dates from lS96,
and 1t has been about as substantial aud
well earned by capable operating methods
and wise and conservative financial policy
as that oil almost any railroad In the
country. With Its operating results show
| ing such excellent exhibits OF careful and
| progressive railroading. and with Its cred
| II established on such basis as TO enable
1t to dispose of per cent bonds around
| par. the Wabash has come prominently
! before the public within the last sly
months by the disclosure of It's plans tt
| reach Plttshurg, the greatest treiglt pro
! ducing district of the United STATES. The
| Pittsburg extension plans of President
! Ramsey show fertility of resource. bril-
| liancy of conception, courage to meet grCal
! obstacles and capacity to plan broadly
| hut the value or the line seems to ll'
! chiefly in greatly improving the strategic
! importance of the Wabash. 1t will hay,
| tremendous power to disturb settled trafh'
conditions and the line TO Plttshurg viii
| give the Gould system what no other com
! hinat!on OF railroad capital can claim II
! the same scnse-a line from far beyond "a,
! Miss ur across the Mississippi beyond Chi
cago and ST. Louis to the Alleghenies TIT
/ Gould management should be free from al
! tacks on its traffic when II completes IT.
! Pttshurg line aud gains the power whtci
/ Wabash alone 1t will have good lines frCI
Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines I,
| st, Louis, and thence to Chicago. peroi
and Buhglo, as well as Toledo and also Z
and via the Wheeling and Lake Erie an,
the new extension to Plttsburg,