The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-30
SOUTHERN PROGRESS
SITUATION VIEWED BY MANU-
 LECTURERS RECORD.
Railroads Penetrating Farther and Farther into the Ccal Fields,
 and Other development
 Steadily Continues.

Baltimore. Md. April 2o.-tSpecial )-F. s. Lendstreet, Vice-President of the Wes- tern Maryland Railroad. which Is to form the eastern outlet at Baltimore tidewa-
 ter of the Gould system of railroads. al . poses in an interview in this weeks S. sue of the Manufacturers Record of the rumors that the Goulds have any flea of gong to Hampton Roads or elsewhere on the coast for another eastern tid V water terminal When asked whether there was any connection between the Wabash and the lately announced T de- water Despwatcr railway plan to build q railroad from the West Virginia coal re- giofs to Hampton RoaJ or with the late Norfolk and Southern deal. he said:
 There is not the least correction Our purpoe is being carried out to make Bal timore our terminal at tidewater. and it would be very foolish for us to be also seeking another outlet further down the bay. This point Is as good as could te desired. The Baltimore & Ohio has found 1t good enough. and If harbor conditions should ever become so congested as 10 demand that we have more room we could get it without going far. The B. & O. did not find 1t necessary to go far ther than Curtis Bay. and there is plen- ty of unoccupied land on the south side of the Patips With this all before u3. 1t would be silly for US to build n lire parallel with the Chesapeake to a Inc point further down. It woid only give us that much farther to haul co1l before loading 1t on vessels" s. No continued Mir Landstreet. we, have no connection with that new line. nor with any possible tidewater exten- sion of the Coal and Coke Railway. Our plans are to get through line into Bal timore, and We are working on them steadily. Our relations with tn road you mention are very friendly. but that is all.
 This reference to the Coal and Coke Railway was caused by an alusion made by tbe interviewer to the recent report from West Virginia that former Senator Henry G. Davis was planning to build a line called the Central Railway Of Virginia from some point in Pendleton County, West Virginia, across the State 0. Virginia to the Chesapeake for the purpose of taking to the coast the coal and coke produced along his line of road. which has for some time been making
 srrveys in Randolph and Pcndleton coun- ties. Concerning this report the Senator
 recently said that although the prospect
 of building to the sea had been consd-
 cred. nothing definite had been decided. MT. Landstreet was also asked about the progress on the Buckhannon and North ern Railroad, which is the name of the Wabash's line in West Virginia north from Belington towards Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania end of the proposition be- | ing called the Greene County Railroad. No work is now being done on the
 Buckhannon & Northern replied MT.
 Landstreet. About 30 or 40 miles of grad | ing are done, and as soon as some mat
 ters in litigation there are settled 1t will
 be resumed and then pushed through as fast as possible. This will enable the
 contractors to do rapid work, for all will
 then be plain sailing. Had there not been
 delays here and there by litigation and
 condemnation proceedings, the contrac-
 tors would have completed our South | Side extension in Baltimore by February | 1 of this year."
 | While the railroads are penetrating
 further and further into the coal fields of
 the upper and middle South. the develop
 ment of other supplies of fuel oil, stead l fly continues. Extensions of pipe lines
 and additions to refineries mark progress | in the Texas Louisiana field. where the
 search for new oil territory Is unrelaxed
 and from where shipments are made by
 rail to different parts of this country and | by vessel to the eastern seaboard or to
 foreign parts. In Kentucky. especially in
 the. Cumberland region. the showing is so promising that the necessity TOT more piping is pressing and plans have been
 made to build line of thirty-eight miles
 length to be completed by July. In the
 first two weeks of this month there were
 2S compilations of borings in Kentucky
 and the runs have approximated 29,OOO | barrels The production is steadily in- creasing from month to month, the March | runs having been 5000 barrels in excess
 of those of the preceding month. More
 work is now under way in the Southern part of the State than ever before. the number of wells going down being 70. while there are about 40 rigs at work in the upper fields Large contracts for new
 work are being made, and work during the summer promises to be more active than ever.