The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-11-30
SURVEYING FOR AN
EASTERN OUTLET
P. l. & E. May Use Route Originally
Planned BY Carnegie.
CORPS NOW IN THE FIELD.
New Plan OF Extension for the Little
Kanawha-RamSey is Directing
the WOrk-The Links in the Big
System now Under Consideration.

uaWHd-f<dHlSSy Is DlTtSlllS
the WOrk-The Links in the Big
System now Under Consideration.
Surveys now being made for
new railroad in Fayette county
are believed to be in the interest
of the Pennsylvania and the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, in the devel-
opment and extension of the Lit
tie Kanawha syndicate line, which
was recently purchased jointly by
the Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt
interests from Joseph Ramsey and
his allies. Within the past few
weeks, or since the closing of the
Kanawha deal, which was consum-
mated about November I, there
have been a number of surveying
corps at work in Fayette county
in the vicinity of the Youghio-
gheny river which are said 20 be in
the interest of the new owners to
the Ramsey lines.
The survey now being made are
along the south bank of the
Youghiogheny river just east of
Connellsville, over the old road
/ laid out by Andrew Carnegie, when
as the head of the steel company,
he projected to build line to tide
water as an independent system for
handling the Carnegie steel COM
pany tonnage to the east. This
project was practically abandoned
as soon as Mr.. Carnegie sevred his
active connections with the steel
company. 1t was rumored from
time to time that the rights of way
had been taken up By the Gould
interests during the administra-
ton of Joseph Ramsey, as presi-
dent of the Wabash railroad and
the director of the Gould projects
in this territory. The Carnegie
line at the time was said to be the
proposed outlet for the Goulds tC
the east.
Andrew Carnegie planned tc
get an outlet to the east by a roat
other than the Pennsylv ania or the
Baltimore and Ohio, and to thi;
end completed surveys for line
from Pittsburg to Baltimore as al
eastern terminus. The rights o
way were secured, it is understood
for a greater part of the distance
and the entire route laid out, bu
lust when work was about TO b.
started Mr.. Carnegie retired from
the steel company, and the plan
were abandoned. Later it is saiC
that Joseph Ramsey acting in tn
, interest of the Gould people, o
under the direction of the Little
Kanawha syndicate managers Sc
cured an option on the Carnegi
project with a view to completing
the line for a Wabash outlet.
1t is stated in local circles nov
that with the sale of the L1ttl
Kanawha properties and in anita
gonism to the Gonld people VIII
recently ousted Ramsey from tn
executive control he has been i
getting the Pennsylvania and tn
Pittsbur9 and Lake Erie peopl
control of the properties which b
originally intended to use as
Gould extension to the east. 1t
D now said that the surveys bein
" made in Faye,te county are for a
extension of the Little Kanawh
- line to the seaboard which was II
purpose under which the propert
= was taken over by their new owl
ers. The engineers are usir
, many of the stakes driven by II
Carnegie engineers some few yea,
ago. 1t now appears that the Lal
Erie, instead of seeking an easter
outlet through the south, will bui
to the east over the line original