New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-28
COAL ROAD RUMOR.
FOR BOSTON and MAINE?
Delazcare s Eastern SAID 10 BE
More than Local Project.

wall Street men allied with anthracite coal in
terests assert that the Delaware & Eastern Rail-
road now under construction, is to be new coal
carrying line from Wilkes-Barre to Schenectady
and is to connect with the Boston & Maine Glitch
bure) at Rotterdam Junction. in the Mohawk VAL
lev near Amsterdam. formal announcement or
the Boston & Names plans with reference TO the
financing OF the new road is expected soon- 1t Is
also said that the Pennsylvania Railroad is behind
the project
The Delaware & Eastern Railroad Company is
building line from Arkvle, on the Ulster & Della
ware Railroad, south along the east branch of the
Delaware River TO the village of East Branch on
the Ontario & Western, about forty miles. When
the companys application for a route was before
the State Railroad Commission last year the pro-
motors insisted that the little road was TO De LOT
purely local business. Both the Ontario & west
ern and the Ulster & Delaware officials opposed
the grant alleging that there was no business to
sustain the proposed road.
Now it appears that the Boston g. Maine is be-
hind the project, and that instead OF merely con-
Meeting the Ulster & Delaware with the Ontario
6 Western at obscure points, the plan is to drive
the road further down the east branch OF the Della
ware, crossing the ontario & Western at East
Branch and the Erie at Hancock. twelve miles
further down the river. and thence across the
Wayne County Hills 10 Honesdale Penn, and
finally to Wilkes Barre. to a connection with the
Lehgh Valley. Jersey Central. Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western and Pennsylvania On the north
the plan to be to extend the line from Ark
the Catskls, down the Schoharie Valley and
thence to the Mohawk Valley at Rotterdam juno
ton. reached by the Boston Maine.
About twenty miles of the road from Arkvtne
south has built in the last year, and trains are
running A heavy bridge is being constructed at
Each Branch across the Beaverkill branch of the
Delaware The engineers have been working for
two weeks around Hancock. The route from East
Branch to Hancock N. Y. and Honesdale Penn.
was surveyed fifteen years ago by the old Phila-
delpha Honesdale & Albany Company. organized
by Philadelphia syndicate The grade is
easy The distance from Wilkes Barre to
Hancock would be about seventy-tve miles; from
Hancock to Arkville about ffty-fye. and from Ark
Vile to Rotterdam Junction. about eighty miles,
depending the grades, a distance altogether
of about two hundred and ten miles.
The Wall Street argument for the building of the
road is that the Boston & Maine people are handi
capped from lack of getting coal Cheaply for nte-
rior points and that If it had a line of its
had a large interest in a line of the kind outlined
IL would be able to make il pay handsomely.
The Ontario & Western. fifteen years ago, built
it's Scranton branch from Hancock on the main
line 10 Carbondale and Scranton. 1t great
money Garner almost from the start. In spite of
a steep grade between Hancock and the top of the
hill leading Carbonate, it has hauled an enor-
nous tonnage for single track road. Its coal
business has compelled the double tracking of the
main line between Hancock and Cornwall The
success of the Ontario & Western people has slim
ulated the Boston & Maine interests. il is UNDER
stood build the Delaware & Eastern over the
route outlined