Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-04-06
CHANGE OF ROUTE?
Report Comes From Waynes.
burg about the Wabash.

Surveyors are said to be Running a
Line through Greene and this Coun-
ty by way of Blacksyille to Fair
mont-Coal Region of this Section
to be Covered with Net Work of
Linse.
The Waynesburg Indepe ndent OF
this week has the following about
the Wabash:
The Independent last week spoke
of the work of an engineering corps
on Smith creek and pointed out the
possibilities of short line route to
Fairmont, w. Va, and from thence
via the West Virginia Central, etc,
to tide-water. The prediction is
being verified, as it is now under
stood that corps of engineers left
Fairmont recently, and moving in
the direction of Blacksville, will
meet the Waynesburg corps this
week. 1t is also known that these
engineers represent Wabash inter
ests. The topography of the county
is such that this preliminary survey
Will show route over which road
can be built at low cost, on good
grade and through one of the richest
coal fields of this section. This. in
connection with other movements,
make it entirely possible that the
first coke smoke in this vicinity will
be seen up Smith creek, and that
Waynesburg will be one of the i'm
portant junction-p points on the Wa
bash lines.
Does this mean that the Greene
county railroad is not to be built
east from here? Certainly not. 1t
rather means that the shrewd mana
gers of the Wabash system are plan
ming to cover this corner of Pennsyl-
yania with such net work of steel
that they can have complete control
of the entire section.
And why shouldn't Waynesburg
become a railroad centre? There is
plenty of territory here on which to
build, 1t is territory that is ready
for development. Like Pats orchard
out of which the poor beasts were
fenced, it's mighty good pasture for
the ones that get in. 1t is known
by those who have studied the sub
jeet that the coal of this section has
been shut out of the market prac-
tically, until very recently, because
operators had enough in other fields
to meet the demands, and the rail
roads had all the coal and coke
traffic which they could handle.
But such is no longer the case. We
are confronted with new conditions
and the conditions are making it
impossible for our district to be
longer Disseminated against The
coming of railroads is not whlm,
or an accident as it has been in
some places, but a illogical necessity,
growing out of these new conditions.
On every hand the Wabash work
is being pushed. The Pittsburg
Post announces the purchase, from
the Baldwin Locomotive works, of
twentyseven large compound
freight, passenger and switching
engines, at cost of about $500, 600
These are to be delivered during the
next SIX months, and will be used
on the lines in the vicinity of Pitts
burg.
At Pittsburg the work is being
'held up" to some extent by the
strike of the bridge workers. How
long this may continue, no one can
tell. mo settlement of the Pitts.
burg strike unless the American
Bridge Company settles its strikes
at all other points," is the slogan
which Local No. 3 of the Bridge
and Structural Ironworkers of Pittss
burg put forth Monday. This was
brought about by the report that
5he New York offices of the bridge
company had instructed the Pitts
ourg officers to treat with the union
acre for the purpose of settling the
strike.