The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-09-14
IRONTON TO THE SEA.
Eugene Zimmerman Will Build a Great
Coal Road to Charleston, s. c.

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President Eugene Zimmerman Of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Ry.,
has announced that the company will
build line from Ashland, Ky, into
Pike, Knot and Letcher counties, Ken
lucky. for distance of 1876 miles to de-
We op 800, 600 acres of coal lands lately
purchased The plan has been financed
and the construction will cost about
$3, 750, 900. The line will cross the
Ohio river by meanc of the bridge
which is to be constructed by the Ash
land & Ironton Bridge Co., descrip-
tion of which was recently published in
the Manufacturers Record.
Mr.. Zimmerman also says that it is
abe purpose of the company to finally
tsecure a through route to Charleston,
S. c., by building further southwark,
by connecting up existing roads and by
making traffic arrangements. To do
this about 200 miles of new road will
nave 10 De constructed.
A press dispatch from Charleston, S.
@ indicates that part of the line may
be composed of the East Tennessee &
Western North Carolina Railroad, the
Linville River Railroad, the Caldwell
& Northern Railroad and the Carolina
& Northwestern Railway. These lines
may form the new route over the
mountains of North Carolina, and would
take it as far south as Chester, s. G. |
From Chester to Camden, S. c., link
of abont 30 miles will have to construc-
ted connecting up with the Northwest
ern Railroad of South Carolina, which
is operated in connection with the At
lantic Coast Line, over which trains
will be run by traffic arrangement into
Charleston.
The report that the Carolina & North
western and Caldwell & Northern rail
roads will be part of the new route aps
pears to be supported by letter pub
iished in the Manufacturers Record of
: June % last from j. r. Erwin, chief en-
gineer of the Caldwell & Northern He
: wrote that the line is laid with 60.pound
steel rail- the roadbed is being sub
} stantially built and steel bridges de-
signed foa heavy traffic are being used.
While an extension from Mortimer to-
= wards Tennesseeis in progress, surveys
have been made from Mortimer to But
Ter, Tenn, distance of 81 miles, and
from Mortimer to Spruce Pine, N. c.,
about SO miles, these being practicable
lines over the mountains.
President Zimmerman is also report
ed as saying that new line of steam
ers will be established connecting To-
Iedo, Ohio, with other points on the
Great Lakes. This will enable coal to
be hauled from Kentucky and deliver
ed to steel manufacturers on the Lakes.
1t may also result in the establishment
. of steel mills adjacent to the iron ore
D regions near Lake Superior
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railway is now the parent corporation
10 of the new Great Central Route, which
has been formed by consolidating, in
us addition to the c., II. & D., the Gin.
cinnati, Hamilton & Louisville and the
Pere Morquette system in the United
States and Canada, making a total Of
3644 miles. Russell Harding, former
ly vice president and general manager
" of the Missouri Pacific, is vice presl
'e' dent of the new system, which is con
- trolled by FL. B. Hollins & Co., ant
allied interests. The line reaches from
mt Ironton to Cincinnati, Toledo, Detroit
es Buffalo, Chicago, Indianapolis an(
Springfield, Ill, and has perfect net
:. work in the southern peninsula {
Michigan, extending as far north q
Cheboygan, with steamer connection
to Sault Ste Marie and other points.
President Zimmerman is furiht
quoted as saying that the construction
z OF the Kentucky line will give his sys
tenn freights both ways, coal bein
hauled north and west from Kentuck
and iron ore east and south from Mich
" igan. 1t is expected that the output {
the coal mines will be from 2, 800, 900
- 5000, 600 tons year. Constructio
m has begun on the bridge across th
= Ohio. While the coal line into Kel
lucky will first be built, plans for ii
extension to Charleston are we'll und,
" way, and it is expected to begin col
struction soon. Coke ovens will |
Nl built adjacent to the coal mines, an
ILL this will be done Immediately III
coal and ore docks at Toldo are beir
-, improved.
NJ t From Charleston it is reported tn
and two extensive tracts of land in the S
ice. urbs have been purchased for the CO
station, and an option has been secur
for freight depot at the foot of O.
houn street. Mayor Rhett, 2.
- Gadsden and President Wilson Of t
Northwestern Railway of South COl
lima are said to have been working
the deal for some time. More th