The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1906-03-14
Plans Of Deepwate r
Tidewater Railroad
Recent Moves Toward Completing
the Great System.


turers' Record of the plans of thr
Deepwater. TideWater railroad t.
build a line from a point on th'
main road st Surveyors Station, il
Raleigh county, down Marsh forl
os Goal river and thence along
GOAL river to st Albans and from
there down the Great KansWha tc
the Ohio river at Point Pleasant
directs attention to moves of THU
remarkable railroad which have
been worked out since the publica
ton in this newspaper last year ol
the plans and purposes of this
road to construct q low grade line
through the ccaI fields of West
Virginia from the lakes to the
sea.
Since the Manufaoturers' Re-
oord published the first complete
story of the pIons of the Deep
water -Tidewater railroad to build
one of the greatest GOAL carrying
roads that has ever been construct
ed, there has been everywhere a
vast amount of interest manifested
in the enterprise and in the various
movements of the road yet to be
made before the final and definite
l-cation of the line from West
Virginia to the lakes. In Novem-
ber of last year announcement was
made that the West Virgins off.
oiaIs of the road hid received in
structions from the financial back
ers of the enterprise generally
understood to be Henry II. Rogers
and associates) to proceed without
delay to locate and construct line
from West Virginia to some point
on the lakes. At that time it was
stated by Msjor W. n Page, presi-
dent of the Tidewater and general
manager of the Deepwater, and in
charge of the company's operations
in the field, that no line had been
surveyed for a western outlet for
the road and that the route to be
selected was entirely conjectural.
surveying corps at that time not
having been even started out.
Immediately following this an
nounoement surveyors' parties be-
gan active operations. A line was
surveyed down the Guyandotte as
far as Huntington from the mouth
of Gilbert's creek, to which the
line had already been located, as a
branch of the main line, extending
west from the junction of Barker's
creek with the Guyandotte. An
other party located line from Sur
veyor fork down Marsh fork to
Coal river, paralleling in part of
the course the survey that had
been made for the Coal River Rail-
road, now building and under lease
to the Chesapeake and Ohio.
This survey disclosed an excep-
tionaIIy favorable line for the
Deepwater rosd, and the organiza-
ton of the Marsh Fork Railway
Co, Immediately followed. In the
absence of authoritative statements
from the officers and backers Of the
enterprise, it may be accepted as
fact, nevertheless. that the Deep
water line to the lakes will be
built along this survey from Sur
veyors' Station. in Raleigh county,
to st. Albans, in KanaWha county.
and from thence along the Kama
wha to Point Pleasant. From that
place a very feasible route may be
surveyed to the plateau of Ohio.
where line may be headed to cne
of several ports on Lake Erie.
The fling of the charter of the
Marsh Fork Railway Go, can be
interpreted only as indicating the
final selection of the route named
as the one along which the road
will be built. What route will be
chosen the other side of the Ohio
has not yet developed. Neither is
it settled what other lines the
Deepwater will build in West Vir-
ginia. There is a very general
impression in Charleston that a
branch of the road will strike the
capital city. If 80, details of the
route have not been announced. Il
is declared by those who should
know, however, that such an ex
tension will be built, and it would
seem q not improbable event that
it should be SO st. Albans, where
the Deepwster strikes the Great
Kanawha, is but II miles from