Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-05-10
CONTRACTS LET.
Joint Lines to be Built in Fay
cite County
Coal Roads Being Built In Every Direc-
ton important Roads Hunt Better
Facilities for Getting out Traffic.
Big Development soon to be Extended.

When the contracts that were
let this week are completed the
Pennsylvania and Plttsburg d Lake
Erie Railroad companies will have a
Joint line into the Lower Councils
vile coke region IN Fayette county.
Through Col. j. M. Schoonmaker
and j. u. Crawford, the contracts
for the building of the Monongahela
River railroad distance of / miles
south of Bridgeport, at a cost Of
about $500, 900 were let on Thurs
\ day last. The new road will be com
pleted and in operation in Decem-
Der. 1t is to be rushed at a record
rate by Kennedy Crossan and D. f.
Keenan,, prominent Philadelphia con-
tractors, who have been doing heavy
\ work for the Pennsylvania for some
years. The extension will open up
new Lower Connellsville coking coal
fields and will become the principal
route west from that big tonnage
center. 1t is believed that this new
route will greatly relieve the Penn
sylvania main line.
The Pittsburg- & Lake Erie is now
being extended from Fayette City by
Contractor H. S. Kerbaugh. Between
that point and Brownsville Contrac-
tor Crossan was recently awarded a
joint Lake Erie and Pennsylvania
contract by j. U. Crawford, Pennsyl-
vania engineer of branch lines, to tear
out the old tunnel, erect new stone
viaduct over Redstone creek and
grade the new extension to Fayette
City This short connection brings
together the Pittsburg, Virginia &
Charleston and Lake Erie. Through
the towns Of brownsville and Bridge
port the companies have so far award
ed no contracts.
To Contractor Crossan was awarded
the contract for the first 81 miles
south OF Bridgeport. The first three
miles are heavy and the most difficult
OF the new road. To D. f. Keenan,
was awarded the nine miles immedi-
ately adjoining to the south and ex-
tending to Adler's run, just north Of
the Gates mine of the American Steel
q Wire Company and near the natur-
al outlet of the Lambert mine of the
same company. The contractors
have agreed to complete the grading
OF the extension by October lst. The
Pennsylvania and Lake Erie will lay
the ties and rails. The work will be
rushed ahead and it is expected that
the road through Brownsville and
Bridgeport will be completed by the
time the Keenan, and Crossan CON
tracts are finished.
Railroad officials and coke operators
look upon the Monongahela river ex-
tension as one of the most important
undertakings for some time Coal
tracts along the Monongahela have
been recently purchased by the Besse-
mer Coal Company, w. j. lutte and
Others and large number of mines
will be opened when the road is in
operation. All of the coke and coal
CT the Klondike, or Masontown fields,
will be hauled west over the new
route. This tonnage now comes west
in a roundabout way through Union
town over the Southwest Pennsylva-
MIA, to the Pennsylvania main line.
All Of the coke will be divided be-
tween the Pennsylvania and Pitts
burg & Lake Erie. The haul west is
with the grade and the natural eco
nomical way out