Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-05-06
COMING THIS WAY.
Morgantown to be on the Wa
bash Lines After all.

Lines will run South From Mouth of
Ten Mile Greek up the River TO
Belingt0n-Big CeaI Purchases In
This Section Have Impelled this
Move to be Taken -Parkersburg is
loss is our Gain.
Morgantown will probably be on the
main seaboard trunk line of the Wa
bash as The result OF orders issued by
George j. Gould and President Ram
sey. All work has been stopped on
the Little Kanawha and the proposed
extension through western West Vir-
ginia, which was TO have been part of
the seaboard extension. James w.
Patterson, President of the Greene
County Railroad, has been directed to
make all haste in the awarding OF
contracts for the construction of that
road through to connection with the
West Virginia Central at Belington.
An immense tract of coal land has
been purchased at Fairmont by Mr..
Gould and his associates in the new
enterprises in order to insure good
tonnage for the proposed trunk line
Tracts over 120, 900 acres In extent
were purchased in Lewis and Gilmel
counties, w. Va, by the Little Kan
awha syndicate, OF which ]. T. Blail
| is President, the idea having been &c
| use 1t in connection with the Little
Kanawha and connecting roads.
The reason given for the sudder
change are the expected long delay
in the construction of the big bridge
across the Ohio at Parkersburg and
the high cost Of labor and material
but more particularly because the en-.
gineers have discovered that the
Greene County Railroad will be muef
shorter THAI the Little Kanawha
route, will have easier grades, viii
have larger and more concentrated
tonnage and will rea h more import
ant tonnage centers.
The Greene County railroad must
be built to reach the Connellsvillt
coke region, and short connection
along the Monongahela only is nee
essary to reach the West Virginia Cen
trail. The building Of two long line
at this time was deemed unwise, anC
the decision 10 make the trunk lin,
pass through this way was arrived
! at.
A change in the connection of thi
Greene county road with the Pitts
burg, Carnegie & Western near Hick-
DRY will be made, and five corps of co
neers will endeavor to have all work.
ing plans ready for the contractors or
the Greene county road within tn
next 10 days. The Buckhannon &
Northern, which will connect viii
the Greene county road at the mouth
of Ten Mile creek, will run along the
Monongahela to connection at Bel
ington with the West Virginia Cen
trial. 1t will cut through a tract o
coal of $1,000 acres just purchas
ed at cost of over$1, 900, 600.
5. ID. Brady, who has been working
on the Little Kanawha, has beer
transferred to the Buckhannon &
Northern, and he now has a numbe
of engineers corps at work preparing
for contractors. The work on boil
roads will be rushed through at once
1.-THE reasons for the change Of
plans" said Mr.. Ramsey, sis tina
our bridge over the Ohio is not suite
iently far advanced to make it neces
sary that we should continue worl
there at present and, further, tina
some of our plans in that distric
have not yet been passed by the Gov
eminent. We have removed thes
contractors to other work, which viii
give us connections with our new Goa
fields in West Virginia and in tn,
Hooking Valley district and also hast
en- our entrance into Pittsburg.
at is not true" he added, sthai
we have abandoned work on the Lit
tie Kanawha extension. We have on
ly postponed it. We are not neglect
ing work necessary to complete GU
trunk line to the seaboard as soon a.
possible.
"With regard to our purchase o
the Fairmont coal lands, this wa
completed quite recently and involved
a sum reaching some millions of dol
lars. F"