The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1905-09-15
COAL FIELDS
OF Big Sandy Are Great Prize
For Railroads.
c.. ii. & DIS PROPOSED MOVE.

building and proposed railroad build- :
ing to the unopened coal fields of
Eastern Kentucky have become inter
esting If not exciting Circumstances
which railway builders may not con
troll are signaling the opening of
construction work by one before an
other gets ahead. II looks as II
there will not be one. but several
outlets for the Goals Of the great
Elkhorn fields.
The most recent plan TO attract
attention is that Of the Cinsinnnti.
Hamilton and Dayton. which is sched-
uled to come from lronton. o., TO ihe
lBig Sandy country, 1t is scarcely
known beyond the dead hills of Pike
and johnson counties that tha Norfolk
and Western railroad is already in
Noruhern Kentucky with a branch
carrying Elkhorn coal out of the
eastern edge OF pike county, Not |
Imany people know that the Ches-
apeake and Ohio opened its branch !
Ifrom whitehcuse 10 Pikeyille July |
In Of this year, rhe road is now in
operation to Marrowbone creek, and
m few days trains will be run
ming through 70 Elkhorn City at the
breaks of Sandy.
The Norfolk and Western and
Chesapeake and Ohio have actual
footing in the country. Still there
Is much 70 be done before the coun-
ltry can be called opened. The linz
litations Of those lines will be seen
later when the lay OF the country
lis made clear. What seems TO be an
inevitable contest between rival
railroads for the tonnage of these
fields is shaping.
Considering the announcement OF
President Zimmerman, Of the Gin
: cianati. Hamilton atnd Dayton, that
! his company had determined 10 enter
!, the field. the coming OF seven 9th
n ar multi-millionaires into the arena
with a railroad from Lincolnton, Va
e 10 the Breaks Of Sandy, $50 miles
ie has the spirit Of dash Of troor
. II horses. The men are Thomas F
n RYAN. Marshall Field, Norman d
> Rean. John ]. Mitchell. James Blair
n rhomas j. Coolidge and George L
n Garter 1t is said that those mer
IN own the South and West railroads ab
s solmely. They have financed Oh
~ corporation among themselves. Tn
u south and West Railroad Compan
g \ going from Lucolnton TO N
d Breaks. 1t is not a project Ii
IN near completion. In thar list Of se'
on IN names will be sean the control I
eh the seaboard Airline, which will me
'n- the south and West at Lineolnton,
di- This South and West road IS Il
'h' most acute factor in the railro9
at situation Of the undevel1ped CO
na- fields. Whatever may be the int
us don of its builders toward kentucl
'ial and o,hsr new railroad projects 4
.wo study Of the map makes certain Vi
ost tissir purpose in coming 10 the Brea
ion is 10 get an outlet 70 the ohioRiN
,asi for the prcdudts Of their own mil
of ON the Virginia side OF the Pi
YER Mountains
sig The Lexington and Eastern II
road appears TO be buying rights
this way for an extension of its
lent. from Jackson 10 Hazard and Whit
OF burg and probably to Pound Gap,
hen terminal.
ents Everything hinges on the ext
for sion of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
real Dayton from Ironion. ii there
n ii 10 be a competitive line TO the h
ange Il the coal fields. Coal men
re assured now that the situation
could their own hands and that
ably one Of several interests must
lives that line II the Cincinnati. H'
eilee- ton and Dayton does not. No rii
hanee of-way have been secured by
the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton
4 the pde. Ii is not probably that it
ich 1t be necessary for them 10 make a
eN- yey. II is more than likely
{ the there is an understanding bet
IN on Them and the owners Of the
riend- Land and Tug River railrOad anS
: ma Rockeas,le railroad franchises
-hi,ra- ,pens The way simply Speakin
re in New York. President Zimmerman
a re he Cincinnati. Hamilton and d
axu,ns,on will be built The
einnati. Hamilton and Dayton
Unitsd ials in Cincinnati say the pI
ha, st has not yet been brought TO
,e BY attention.
buttons ms much is known \ raj
in the bridge from lron,on. o., 10 Ash
ar two Ky is m construction. The G
havs natl Hamilton and Dayton Is
Trough building that a,iier \ private
Trough noration is doing it, but the
,te n : being built to let the cnei
may ht hamilton and Dayton in trom In
ptucky a IN Ashland, Ky, Il Is also !
AZ dis hat the Cincinnati, Hamilton
nd M Dayton has spent sioc'Ooo 'o'
. Is /, state In Ashland, whore
ihen IL and other buildings are 10 es J
IpM w To gV mp the city OF "
a sNs. !, would be neossary 10 II
,r wa, charter, and that has been h
q Erca, ,rransca by using the chart
,ndllng ,he Ashland aud Tug Fork "a
water which gives exclusive r'Hn''
or .aS four miles through ,nc city Of
scmoN' vi, 49,.
"a Fish The Ashland and Tux ter
cars Rockcatlc railroads. both ol
a gIvorlha,o rcu mrveyca clear u
h'nporl lens Nix sppdy country, Nve y
do.lsnpd w the bis o0al ~