The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-04-08
OFFICERS ELECTED.
Buckhannon and Northern Of
hcials are Selected.
Meeting Held in Pittsburg for that
Purpose-R Road Runs from Morgan
town to Buekhennon- Wabash lets a
big Contract down the State for Eff
ty Miles of Railroad.

ty Miles OF Railroad.
A special received from PittsbErg
TELLS Of some railroad matters which
are full OF interest and pregnant
With great results for Morgantosn.
1t is as follows:
A meeting was held Yesterday at
ternoon in tie office OF A. NJ. Neeper
counsel for the = abash, of the Buck
harmon d Northern link of tue Wa
bash. J. w. Patterson vas elected
Vice President and J. + Walsh Sec
rotary and Treasurer.
Teese offices were newly created.
j. 7. Blair is p. esident of the road
and ). ID. Brady Chief Engineer. Mr..
Patterson is tae President Of the
Pisisburg, Carnegie d Western. The
Buck hannon a Northern is project
ed link connecting Morgantown and
Buckhannon and running through
Fairmont. The link is 80 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 Buekhannon and Northern
completes the Wabash's seaboale
line. The Pittsburg, Carnegie d
Western connects with the Greene
county branch at Hickory, the latter
With the Buchannon a. Northern at
Morgantown, and the latter with the
West Virginia Central at Buchannon
and the Western Maryland takes the
line from Cumberland to Baltimore.
J. 7. Blair, President of the Zanes
Vile, Marietta d Parkersburg rail-
road. yesterday awarded the contract
:or the construction of so miles OF
the no ID from GAINESVILLE to the Ohio
river TO Macarthur Bros. d Co. OF
Chicago at cost of 81, 500, 900. 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 Gilmer 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
a strai CHI line southwest from Zanes-
vile toward Parkersburg resulted in
u saving Of 20 miles. The GAINESVILLE
road will connect at Sharpsburg with
the Marietta, Columbus Il Cleveland,
a 44-mile road, which the Goulds
bought recently. This line runs from
Marietta to Pals. and il will be used
to a Loint near Cutler, almost direct
ly north of Parkersburg and across
the Ohio river.
A line will be built from Cutler to
the Ohio river, 5 miles, where great
steel bridge, 80 feet high and |, 400
or I.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 it
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
grade OF 26 feet to the mile, com
pensated, with curve limit OF bul
tour degrees. Three tunnels will be
driven, the longest, near Sayre, be
ing about 1880 feet long. The
bridge across the Ohio is expected
to cost $4,000 or 100000 add
tional. The bridges, tunDs 5 and
road will be single track. The
Chicago contractors will pG; force
to work at once and will have 1000
men and four or five shovels at work
within a month. They are special
ly noted for their energy on the Chi
caea drainage canal.
j. L. Blair is President, +. i.
Fulton of Uniontown Secretary and
Treasurer and S. ID. Brady Chief
Engineer of the GAINESVILLE road
President Blair held a conference
last night at 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 the company a
hearing in Cincinnati next Wednes
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 Oh the
Pttshurg. Toledo, n Western.
Three Moves Are as Bad as Fire. e
Moving time is when SO many new
articles must be bought for the new