The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-08-09
SOUTHERN COAL FIELDS.
What is Doing in Eastern Kentucky
The Railroad Lines Interested
Millions Spent On Short
Lines.

passed In Pennsylvania or anywhere,
and there has also been made posi-
Bile ali the activities which usually ac-
company railroad construction into
country heretofore isolated and unde-
veloped. but rich in timber and other
resouces. The conditions here are
Of large commercial significance, and
are interesting from every point Of
view. Thus writes Albert Phenis from
Pikeville, KY, in the Manufacturers
Record.
'In the remarkably accelerated de-
velopment of the West Virginia coal
fields there has been a notable rail-
way construction, both Of branch
roads and new lines. Here in this
section there is seen the more extra
ordinary spectacle Of s4,00O,oo0 being
spent on road but 76 miles in
length, whose construction at this
time was brought about almost sole
ly as a feature of the development Of
a coal field from which not one pound
Of coal has as yet ever been shipped.
cit is easy to believe that all the
roads of the south would like to get
into the Elkhorn coal fields, and there
is plausibility in the project announc-
ed having that end in view. Without
now taking up each case separately
and in detail, it may be stated as al
together in keeping with the logic Of
the situation and in harmony with
surface indications that the syndicate
which has bought the Carter inter
ests in lfe South & Western road, in
operation between Johnson City,
Tenn, and Spruce Pine, N. c., to-
gether with the Clinchfeld coal prop
critics, will carry out the Carter plans
Of building on through the Breaks of
the Sandy in one direction, and in the
other to a connection with the Sea-
board Air Line at some point in North
Carolina.
..Thus there would be secured to
the Seaboard the great advantage Of
access to the Elkhorn coal field and
to the cities Of the north, and, through
connections with the Chicago. Hamil-
ton & Dayton, Detroit, Toledo & IRON
ton formerly Detroit Southern.) Erie
and Big Four roads, new and most
direct trunk line would be establish
ed between Cincinnati, Chicago,
Cleveland, Pittsburg and other cities
of the middle west and the Carroll
mas, Georgia and Florida.
.sThe activities Of the various inter-
ests which promise at least consid-
erable construction of road to develop
not only the Elkhorn fields, but those
of Wise, Dickinson, Buchanan and
other counties across the border in
Virginia, are, significant as showing
the wide extent of the present interest
in southern coal lands"
The petition for a Brice law elec-
ton in Darlington county to vote out
the dispensary has been signed By
1864 voters out of the $500 qualified
electors. The election will be held
in September.
Spartanburg has voted to issue
$1,000 in bonds for street paving.
There were only votes against the
issue.
VIII Blueshirt, negro wanted in
Cherokee county for murder, has
been captured in Knoxville, Tenn.
Miss Ellen Carnes, mill operative,
was killed at Rock Hill Tuesday by a
Southern passenger train.
Capt. W. D. Mann, formerly sheriff
Of Abbeville county, died Tuesday
night.
The Laurens court adjourned Tues
day. There were 20 cases on the
criminal docket and there only two
acquittals.
The Southern Railway and the At
lantic Coast Line will operate excur-
sion trains from Charleston to the
mountain resorts August 16. The
tickets will be good to return on any
Of the regular trains until August 30.
julius H. Hayward has been ap-
pointed by Judge Brawley as standing
master to take evidence in the Lucas
Miiliken cotton mill case.
Senator Tillman has accepted an
invitation to address mass meet
ing at Edgefe!d on Saturday, August
. III on the .EeSr Met hOd of Dealing