Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1903-02-27
Chesapeake and Western
EXTENSION FROM SToKEsvILLE, VA,
TO EVANSVILLE, W. VA,
WILL Soon Begin.

way from It's present terminus DIT
Stokesvillle. Va, to GrantsvllIe,
". Va, distance Of two hundred
miles, will be begun soon. This
will connect at the latter place with
the Buchanan and Northern rail
road. which runs from the mouth
of the Buckingham river through
Grafton. Paramount and Morgan
town to the present terminus OF
the Green River railroad at point
on the Monongahela river, in Penn
sylvania. The Buchanan and
Northern is Gould road. Ia this
connection it is a significant fact
that the Bowling Green Trust
Company, of which George Gould
is president. has underwritten the
mortgages of the Chesapeake "es-
tern at $35 600 per mile for all OF
| the road now built and all that
shall be hereafter built. 1t is
! said here that the extension OF the
| chesapeake Western is a part Of
the Gould plan to reach Underwater
at Gloucester Point or Primers
Point. This fact is supported by
the Railway ard Engineering Re
view" which says that contracts
have been let by the Gould interest
for the building of several connect
ing lines between Pittsburg and
Grantsville, W. Va.
In addition to the above a special
from Washington, dated Feb. Il,
which came out in the Richmond
News Leader of that date, deals
: more directly with the branch OF
. the Wabash system in when High
land is more directly interested. 1t
also contains statement from the
{ chief engineer Of the c. ". which
5 has an encouraging ring. In part
t the dispatch is as follows:
;, "The Indications are, however
,, that the ambitions Of the Clouds
, does not step with seaboard oon-
nection at Baltimore. }. A. Pat
a terson, engineer of the Chesapeake
: Western railway, which now crosses
< the Valley of Virginia from Elk
-, ton to Stokesville. states that al
Y extension of that road will be bull
Is from Stokesville to Grantsville, W
Va. and that trains will be run
:, ming over it within two years. Th
a distance is 204 miles. Grantsvlll
is on what is the projected mai
line Of the Wabash to the EasI
1t will be remembered. that tn
Goulds have options on all the avail
able water front at Glouceste
lg Point. 1t is not a great d'Stanc
Is between Elkton, the present easter
terminus of the Chesapeake We'
a. ten. and Gloucester Point, and til
80 old Piedmont, Fredericksburg all
by Potomac, the narrow guage roa
between Orange and Frederick
as burg could be utilized in the e,
I. tension between Elkton and Clio
cester. 1t is a moral certainty th
'"S there will be ali eastern extenst
of tue Chesapeake Western, as
w company would build a road aero
10 the entire mountainous State
,ed West Virginia and then leave
eastern terminus at a little TOW
ne like Elkton. 1t is probable TIL
Ar- the Goulds intend to Go as t
Vanderbilts did in the case of t
'ue Chesapeake and Ohio. That ro
'os DIVORCES at Clifton Forge, and o
, end runs down tie James rlv
. while the other comes east by Cha
ion lottesville, thus developing t'
bu- very important sections and at t
'tl- same time have two routes to tic
o'0 water. But what part the Che:
tv- peake- Westerl will play in t
,il- Gould plans is still problematic
rly though it cannot be doubted til
I tee it is to play some part in them"
nc The extension of the Chesapea
-nn Western will pass through
.' NC northern portion of Highland, t
'wo northern portion of Pocahont
o1s the southern portion of Randolr
vi" through Webster, Braxton, Gin
,nS' and into the heart Of Calhoun
'" Grantsville."