The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-01-24
Few Short Links Of Line
Only to Be Constructed
TOT Complete Great System
Only Forty Miles Of Road To Build
To Connect With
Pittsburg.
MOVE IS NOW ON FOOT.
West Penn Railways Company and
Others Are At the
Head OF II.


traction line down the river is soon
to eliminate, It is now believed, in
the system in Clarisburg becoming
a part of system of lines covering
fully two hundred miles and CON.
Meeting Clarksburg with Pittsburg as
well as several other cities in Penn
sylyania. lines that will traverse the
best Industrial region of the world.
Experts and representatives Of the
West Penn Railways Company have
been comforting with the manage
ment OF the Fairmont & clarksburg
Traction Company and the Union
Utility Company at Morgantown
along the line of al consolidation Of
interests in the operation of the trac-
tion lines, or at least as to the mat
ter of the construction of few links
necessary. to connect up the several
systems owned by the companies
mentioned.
clarksburg has as All know sys-
TEN of number of rniles. with ex-
tensions to Grasselli. 0'Neil. the new
Fair Grounds and the Tin plate mills,
the last under course Of construc-
tion and all the others in actual OPP
Grafton.
Down the River.
Next here is the line 10 Fairmont.
where the city is covered with a belt
line, thence there is AMI xtnsion to
Barnsvill of thre miles III the direc-
ton of Morgantown.
At Morgantown the UIbion Utility
Company has nine milest in opera
ton in the city up DecAer's creek
and on the west side OF 4he river.
That company has three miles under
construction along the east side of
the river toward the BarnAville line
and another extension building into
South Park. suburb of Morgan-
town. AT Morgantown thhre is a
good power plant. with p lenty of
floor space for more dynam(os and
other equipment
Links Necessary.
Surveys have been made frtom the
mouth of Cheat river from Morgan.
town, and county franchises granted
Between the Evansville terminal and
the Morgantown system 1t is but six
teen miles and link that length
would connect clarksburg andl Nor
gantown by trolley.
The West Pen Railways COMPANY
has lines from Pittsburg to Green's
burg, McKeesport, connellsvillel I'm
iontown and Fairchance, and the fin
est power plant in the world at Con
nellsville.
An extension from Fair Chance to
Masontown has been projected, rights
Of way partly secured and surveys
made. There is another contemplate
ed extension from Uniontown Ito
Masontown, through the Klondyke
coal field, also a line from Mason
town to Brownsville under construe-
ton, thence to Masontown. And
from Masontown to Point Marion j
survey has been made. rights of way
secured in part, an so on. This last
is about 10 miles long and 10 more
miles to Morgantown, 16 miles from
Evansville to Morgantown and one
small link in the line beyond Green's
burg, about 40 miles Of links In all
would complete system covering
over two hundred miles.
Il WIN Pay.
The splendid patronage the line
between Clarksburg and Fairmont is
receiving is an index in way Of the
paying proposition such system as
stated would prove. Between Fair
chance and Connellsville the electric
line has the B. & o. and Pennsyl-
vania railroad paralleling It, but las.
year increased its business fifteen per
cent.
The experts and representatives of
the West Penn Company made an ex-
haustive examination at Morgan
town. with the assistance of Hon.
George G. sturgiss. gathering data,
cost of construction and operation,
and knowledge of business condi-
lions. They then came to Fairmont
and conferred with the management
of the Fairmont 6 clarksburg sys-