Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-03-24
TWO CENTS
C0NNELLSVILLE R. R. YARDS
To be Made Three Times Pres
ent Capacity.
A Large Force Of Men Mt Work Al.
ready-Hope that the Improvement
VIII Prevent Further Bloekakes--
The Trolley Line Coming this Way.

Inc tf0tief Line t0WlhR tntS way.
When the new yards of the Balti-
more h Ohio railroad in Connells-
vile, start on which was made
during the past week, are completed
they will be just three times as large
as they are at present says the Cour-
Ter. A week ago about Loo men
were started To work between the
outer track in the upper yards and
the Youghiogheny river grading for
the first of the new tracks. The bad
weather of the early part of the
week interfered, but the work will be
resumed in day or so. The pres
ent yards hold 900 cars. The new
yards when completed will be able
TO take care of 1900 loads and emp
ties. Blockades will then be thing
OF the past. The number oil tracks
will be more than double and they
will be much longer than the long
est of the present yard tracks, ex-
tending from Gibson junction to
about where Calhoun d Co.'S mill is
now located. Unoilieially it is re-
ported that final plans have been
agreed upon for new shops TO be To-
Gated opposite the Hyndman offices
of the Connelsville Division. but no
time has been set for work tn com
mence, since Calhoun q Go. hold a
lease for two years on the present
site of their mill.
1t is unoflieially stated that the
merger OF the trolley lines in Fayette
and Westmoreland counties will be
effected on April LIST. The eonsoli-
dated lines will be operated by the
Pittsburg, Mekcesport & Connells
vile Railway Company, now opera
ting all the lines in Fayette county
and some in Westmoreland and Al
legheny counties. The Pittsburg &
Connellsyille railway is pushing its
construction work as rapidly as pos
sible. In the southern end of the
county Masontown is now the OBJ
jective point with possible extern
sion later on 10 Point Marion and
Morgantown, w. Va On the north
ern end of the line the links in
Westmoreiand and Allegheny eoun
ties are being connected up TO make
a through line to Pittshurg.
Work on the construction of the
branch OF the Pittsburg, MeKees-
port d Connellsville street railway
from the Leisenrlng branch TO Dick
erson Run and Dawson will be com
menccd within the next ten days.
The sale OF the Western Maryland
railroad this week to the Fuller syn
dictate representing the Vanderbilt
interests may mean much to the
Connellsyille region and the new
territory in the southern end of The
county and the coal fields being
opened up in Northern West Virgin
ia. 1t IS estimated that to carry
out the plans of the Fuller syndicate
in connection with the West Virgin
ia Central IL Pittsburg road will re-
quire S50,000,000. This sum would
provide for the extension Of the
West Virginia Central via Parkers-
burg, to GAINESVILLE, o., where con
nection with the Wheeling 81 Lake
Erie and the Wabash systsms is to
be made; the purchase, reconstruc
ton and equipment of the Western
Maryland railroad, the building of
tidewater extension and terminals
in Baltimore city, and the construc.
ton of the new line from Hagers-
town to Cumberland, to connect the
West Virginia Central and the West
ern Maryland. The completion OF
these plans would include extension
OF the Vanderbilt interests from
their present terminal at New Hav-
en- and on the Monongahela river
into southern Fayette county and
West Viruinia