The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-02
.D0uVCS OF
RAILROADS
The Chesapeake and Ohio's Big
Sandy Branch Opens Enor-
nous Coal Beds.
TWO GREAT FREIGHT YARDS
Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Preparing to Handle
Great Traffic.
-WO GREAT FREIGHT YARDS

The beginning within q few weeks OF 4
the extension OF branch line or the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad up the
valley Of Marrowbone Greek, In Eastern 4
Kentucky, is a step toward the Develop
ment OF the great Pike county cokfig
coal field. Special correspondents of the
Manufactures Record from that quarter
says:
Tho operators who control territory In
that region are preparing to install COM
plete modern mining equipment. Con-
siderlng the nature of the deposits Of
coal, it will be a matter of but a short
time after the plants are Installed before
q good output OF coal Is obtained.
"The nearness Of the completion of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Company's seventy
mills extension from White House up the
valley OF the Big Sandy to the Virginia
line is greatly stimulating the operators
Interested In the development OF the
vast coal fields embraced in the counties
along tho route Of the limo. Numerous
short branches to extend up the narrow
valleys are being projected, and when u
the line is ready for traffic, which will
be late in the fall. many mines will be !
territory has been under lease for fifteen
or twenty years by investors who realized s
the enhanced value each year I've to
their holdings.
Vast Coal Field. 4s
TT is in Pike county, the terminus OF j
the Chesapeake and Ohio extension and
contiguous territory THAT tho quality
and quantity OF the coal deposits excel.
and ut Is here that a vast coal field,
second to none in the country, will be
developed in few years Thousands Of
coal vii soon be shipped out Of this ter
,ritory to the markets in the North and 4
the central West, and a limo to connect
with the Seaboard on the east Is q pos
sIbilty Of the future.
LIT Is along the Levisn Fork Of the 4
Big Sandy that the operationsBare about
to take place. and initial work gwill 4 be-
bone creek. IN the Elkhorn region 13O, 0OOs
acres OF coal lands have been blocked 1
Into leases which are being subleased to-
and companies. The AZ two 4
principal seams and the ones that Will i
be operated first nre the upper and lower
EIkhorn veins, averaging over five feet
In thickness and extending over tho en-
tire county. * number of large, cbn1--
:panies own territory in the ElkhornS55 re-
gion, and during 1905 numerous mines Will
be opened up and coke & ovens VII be-
built. ZAP s5s VI l3}f * gs
THE veins on N1arrowbone range in
thickness frof3 four feet 4 to six feet, md
all are easily gotten at the branch line Y
to- be constructed up the vnlley will be
eight miles III extent, and The coal q Of
that region willsp1O baby be tho first on On
the market. 5i5 S5
Opening New Lines.
General Manager Doyle OF the Chesa ~
:peakc and Ohio Railroad, states that The
ilew extension. of that line is noW open
from yhite House i g, r e
IN IA SES ia m Prost an b u f g{t fourteen miles
further and this track will i be ready for
tratiic in ten days or two weeks. I, Inc
+ .s to Pikcville.s tl,lrty.one miles
further II rs expected that the entirns
line OF one hundred and rye miles VII VII
be opened to- traffic by Chrlstnl -.
leaves the main line nine miles east
Huntington the limo has been built to y
Logan Courthouse. tWenty-four. mies 5;
his line VII tap the mnerlot ts
has expended more than g mill & ,dol7s
its vast coal beds. Railway tracks and
the the property Irt IS tapped by the Chesapeake
a a ID day is predicted. 5 The completion O
snf ~ o enaaes nff sas
Ohio, already largely III excess q am
previous year. u ~
b In the annual report OF the Board Of
"
statement as to the construction Of the 4
Big Sandy Railway. is made; sfll " ;6S sg8S
title construction of the Bis Sand NJ
Railway. II miles, has pro gress ed stead w
she yss and y ss55 s ssso snee the
auguration Of the work. In order e
provide sufficient funds therefor. tic Big
sanag Ra oood1e be eaaceed
foTiyyear s eeat Sonds essssa
gnaran t.
extensions and Improvement
Two Great Freight Yards.
The Railway World announces that the
Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railway has awarded to Raiter Curtis
and Hall a contract for construction Of a
freight yard at Alexandra, which vii
be the largest south OF the Potomac, and 4
1t Is estimated will cost n million dol
lars. The yard Is said to be for the joint
use of the Pennsylvania. Baltimore and x
Ohio, Seaboard, Southern. Chesapeake
and Ohio and Atlantic Coast Line. The
of the Richmond, Frederlcks-6.
burg and Potomac state that these yards 4
are being built by the Washington and
Southern, but tho two roads and the &
Pennsylvania use and lease the line, ne
recent purchase of the old Exposition
Grounds. In Richmond. and OF Marshfed,
the property Of Mr.. f. q. Leigh. and or
the Beattie farm, all betweeli Elba ana
Acca stations. within and contiguous TO
this city, are said to be for the purpose 81
of constructing similar extensive yards
and sldngs for handling freight traffic
Tho old exposition tract alone Is an area
OF lfty-six acres and the other proper
ties will make tho total average exceed
one hundred, These extensive enterprises
Indicate an immense business.