The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1902-12-31
COMING this WAY.
Purchase of c c & S Means
Another New System

or Railroads In This State Senators
Elkins and Davis are Undoubtedly
In Thorough Harmony in Moves
Which They Have Made Morgan
town on Che Line.
Another big railroad system is to
bee ontructed in West Virginia, sep
arate and distinct from the Penn
sylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio,
the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Nor
folk aud Western and the Wabash
systems. 1t is to be a thorugh
line from Charleston to Morgantown
and thence to Pittsburg, and will be
built through entirely unopened
country. and country which is filed
with coal and timber OF value greater
perhaps than any yet traversed by
the existing railroads of the State,
says the Parkersburg Sentinel.
The sale of the Charleston, Glen
DENIM and Sutton road to Henry G.
Davis, reported Saturday from Pitts
burg. 10 to figure in the construc
ton OF the system ana that rad al
ready cor structed for distance OF
about seventy miles up the Elk riv-
er from Charleston, is to be . part
of the new line, while Senator Elkins
Senator Davis and their associates
are 10 be the owners of the road.
Senator Elkins it not known in the
purchase of the Charleston, Cleo
DENIM ana Sutton Railroad, nor is
Senator d Wis known IN the p rchase
by Sentor Elkins of the Morgan
town and Kingwood out of Morgan
town. But both are to be connected
up and become part Of the same
great system.
When Senators Davis and Elkins
sold their holdings in the West Vir-
G MIA Central road to the Wabash
syndicate, they we're practically
without any railroad holdings for
the first time in many years and at
the same time had pocket full of
idle money waiting for investment
They longed for a new railroad aud
quietly they began to prepare for one
which would be an independent out
let for their coal holdings and would
pass through territory in which they
might invest atresh. The result is
the purchase by them of several
links which will be connected up TO
make one line from Charleston to
Pittsburg by way of the Elk river,
Belington, Grafton, Morgantown
and the Monongahela valley.
Senator Davis some time ago pur-
chased She Roaring Creek aud Char
lesion railroad running from Bellng-
ton, at the junction Of the B. s. o.
and the Wabash roads, some forty
miles into the woods. He now has
400 men at work extending the road
in the direction of the Elk river and IL
will become a part Of the new system.
The line as contemplated will follow
the Charleston, Clendennin and Sutton
from Charleston to the terminus Of
that road, 20 miles up the river. The
road will be built from there 70 Sut-
ton and Palmer, at both OF which
places it will connect with the B. g.
o. and at Palmer it will leave the
Elk river and pass up the Holly river
over the Holly river railroad owned by
John Z. McGraw who is to be inter
ested 10 the new railroad. Some ten
miles or so OF this road will be used
and gap will then be constructed
from there to the Roaring Creek aud
Charleston extension, being built now
to meet it, At Belington the roa,l
will be met by the Elkins road, the
Morgantowu and Kin2wood, which
GAS already been built for some dis
lance out OF Morgantowu. 1t will
follow This road u Morgantown.
From there to Piltsburs the route has
not yet been selected or II selected IL
has not been made public.
The road will open up what has
been pronounced TO he the richest coal
Geld In West Virginia and will pass
for most OF the distance through ter
ritory entirely undeveloped.