The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-25
The KENTUCKY
coal FIELDS
Various Railroads Seeking Entry
Into Thorn from the East.
SURVEYING PARTIES { AT WORK !
Chesapeake and Ohio contempIates
Building IA Line Through the
Breaks of the Big
Sandy River.
tspec,., p,,pateh to The Times,


BALTIMORE, April a-Paraileiins
wholesale anancicring in New York al
fecting directly and indirectly great rail-
road gystems in the South, and the STEADY
work of those lines to improve their phys
ical condition, there is a constant seeking
10 bring the railroads into closer touch
with tho raw material for industry. Con-
siderable activity is manifested in eastern
Kentucky in efforts to reach the coal
fields. and the Manufacturers Record Is
Informed that the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company contenplates building
a line through the breaks of the Big
Sandy River, though full definite arrange
ments have not been made. 1t is under
stood. however, that this line will be an
extension south and southeast of the Big
Sandy division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway. Engineering parties have
been locating the line, and at one point
about 200 men are said to be at work
upon actual construction.
Other surveying parties in the same field
are credited to the South and Western
Railway Company, OF Pike county, KY.
which it IS expected will connect with
the Virginia and Southwestern Railway
and the Ohio River and Charleston Rail-
road. with an ultimate outlet to the At
Iantic Coast by way OF Lincolnton, N. G.
The South and Western Railway also
has its eyes on the Kentucky coal fields.
and it IS thought will be constructed to
the Ohio River for q. connection with the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rall-
road.
INTER-URBAN LINES.
In kentucky too, the movement for
inter-urban lines of electric railways is
quite active. One Of the systems as re-
Gently reported proposed, will radiate
from Lexington to the cities OF George
town, Paris. Winchester, Mt Sterling,
Richmond, Versailles. Frankfort, Nicho-
lasville and possibly Harrodsburg and
Danville. An officer of the system writes
the Manufacturers Record: ''These cit
les are all county seats in the center OF
the counties surrounding Fayette, of
which Lexington is the county seat. The
system practically covers s!ie entire Blue
Grass region Of kentucky, which is rec
ognized as ono of the most fertile and
beautiful districts in America.
The recently incorporated Charlotte,
FarInrille and James River Valley Rail
way Company, which has already ar
ranged for its rolling stock and partly
for its rails, contemplates constructing
lire about 125 miles long from Rosney,
in Buckingham county, the terminus OF
branch line of the Chesapeake and Ohio.
10 Danville, through a mineral and tim
bered section, crossing the Norfolk and
Western. Chesapeake and Ohio and South
cln roads
The stockholders Of the Lafayette Rail-
way Company are to meet within the
next ten days for the purpose Of au-
thorizing the issue of bonds for an ex-
tension of the road from Lafayette. Ala,
to Motley, touching a rich territory lying
between Motley and Ashland, in Clay
county. The company has already con-
1racted FOR 60-pound steel rails for the
improvement of its trackage between
Cpei'fa and Lafayette.
LIRECT- ROUTE TO TIDEWATER.
Business men of Raleigh. n. c.. have
subscribed s2l,ooo toward the proposed
Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Rail-
road. to extend about ninety miles from
Raleigh to Washington. N. c., by way
.. Wilson and Greenvilie, and giving
Raleigh a direct route to tidewater
through fine timber and agricultural
belt The Manufacturers Record is in
formed that the plan for a. road between
Wilson and Stantonshurg. for which about
enough money has been pledged, is de-
layed pending the possibility Of the con-
struction of the Raleigh and Eastern
North Carolina. Road.
Other projects of the kind are an ex-
tension of the Darien and Western Rail-
road, in Georgia, from Walthoulville to
Nidalia, through. a fine timber belt; the
extension of the Caney Valley branch of
the Southern Pacific system, in Texas,
twenty miles beyond Van Week, its pres
ent terminus: the extension OF the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway from
Stevens to Guthrie and Oklahoma City,
distance of about two hundred miles,
and an extension Of the Mississippi River.
Hamburg and Western Railroad, twelve
miles, to the town of Crossett, Ark.