Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-04-03

town to Wabash lets
big Contract down the State for Fif-
ty Miles of Railroad.
A special received from Pittsburg
tells of some railroad matters which
are full of interest and pregnant
with great results for Morgantown.
1t is as follows,
A meeting was Eheld Yesterday af.
ternoon in the Office of 4 " Neeper,
counsel for the Wabash, of the Luck
harmon & Northern link of the Wa
bash. j. w. Patterson was elected
Vice President and J. I. Walsh Sec
rotary and Treasurer.
These offices were newly created.
j. T. Blair is President of the road
and S. D. Brady Chief Engineer. Mr..
Patterson is the President of the
Pittsburg, Carnegie q Western. The
Buckhannon q Northern is project
ed link connecting Morgantown and
Buckhannon and running through
Fairmont. The link is 90 miles in
length.
AT Morgantown it will connect
with the Greene county branch Of
the Wabash and at Buckhannon with
the West Virginia Central.
The Buckhannon and Northern
completes the Wabash's seaboard
line. The Pittsburg, Carnegie a
Western connects with the Greene
county branch at Hickory, the latter
with the Buchannon d Northern at
Morgantown, and the latter with the
West Virginia Central at Buchannon
and the Western Maryland takes the
line frnm Cumberland to Baltimore.
j. T. Blair, President of the Zanes-
Vile, Marietta & Parkersburg rail
road. esterdav awarded the contract
Tor the construction of so miles of
the 70 & from GAINESVILLE to the Ohio
river to Macarthur Bros. & Go. OF
Chicago at a cost of So, 500, 000 Work
will be completed within one year.
The road is to become part of the
seaboard line of the Wabash and will
tap 100000 acres of Gould coal in
Lewis and Gi.mer counties, West
Virginia.
Plans for the new line were re-
Gently changed. The original surveys
carried the road down the Musking
um from GAINESVILLE to Marietta, but
straight line southwest from Zanes-
vile toward Parkersburg resulted in
saving of 30 miles. The GAINESVILLE
road will connect at Sharpsburg with
the Marietta, Columbus q Cleveland,
44-mile road, which the Goulds
bought recently. This line runs from
Marietta to Pals, and it will be used
to point near Cutler, almost direct
ly north of Parkersburg and across
the Ohio river.
A line will be built from Cutler to
the Ohio river, miles, where great
steel bridge, 80 feet high and l,400
or 1.500 feet long will be thrown
across to the West Virginia shore.
There connection will be made with
the Little Kanawha railroad, which
the Little Kanawha syndicate pur-
chased two years ago. This road runs
80 miles along the Kanawha, and an
extension is being built now from 1t
into Lewis county, at huntsville. An
additional line so miles long will
have to be built through the West
| Virginia hills to connection with
the West Virginia Central at Bel
ington, Pittsburgers are familiar
with the remainder of the route TO
the Western Maryland and to the
seaboard at Baltimore.
The GAINESVILLE line will have a
grade of 26 feet TO the mile, COM
pensated, with a curve limit Of but
four degrees. Three tunnels will be
driven, the longest, near Sayre, be-
ing about 1.S00 feet long. The
bridge across the Ohio is expected
to cost $4,000 or 100000 addi-
tional. The bridges, tunnels and
road will be single track. The
Chicago contractors will put force
to work at once and will have 1000
men and four or five shovels at work
/ Wlluiu nOubu. Il hNt 1fL SSPNth~Al y
ly noted for their energy on the Chi
cage drainage canal.
j. L. Blafr is President, X. ID.
Fulton of U.4ontown Secretary and
Treasurer al S. ID. Brady Chief
Engineer g the GAINESVILLE road.
President lir held conference
last night &C the Duquesne Club
with Captain A. p. Collier of New
York, consulting engineer Of the
Wabash. with respect to the bridge
across the Ohio. The United States
engineers will give tho company q
hearing in Cincinnati next Wcdnes-
day regarding the bridge location
and the length of span. Captain
Boiler will appear for the Goulds.
The height is limited to 80 feet, but
but company will endeavor TO OBJ
tain shorter span to 700 to $50
feet, as is the case at Mingo on the
Pittsburg, Toledo, & Western.