The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-10-22
Col. lYGRAW
HOLDS THE KEY
HIS RAILROAD is AN. IMPORTANT
Il LINK lN#PRoPosED GOULD
EXTENSION.

i sbnAfi oNI -Oct, i22.--Enut another
important news item in the railroad
world will come out from West vir.
glnia within the next few days is
/, practically certainty from the fact
that President B. F. Bush, OF the
Western Maryland. Gould interest
and the Hon. John T. McGraw. OF this
city, who owns the West Virginia Mid
land, are ut the present time making
/ a trip over the route of the proposed
extension OF the latter road by which
a connection can be made with the
(, Chesapeake and Ohio for the west anil
/ the latter road will have an opening
!. to come up into the coal fields OF cen.
! trail West Virginia and get a part OF
the picking which has been had al.
most exclusively by the Baltimore
and Ohio in this section until the
Western Maryland got into business.
/ RHmors have been flying about
during the past week to the effect
that Col. McGraw had about complet.
cd a deal whereby he would turn over
the. West Virginia Midland to the
Gould interests MS represented by the
Western Maryland but this on the
face of 1t to those who are acquainted
with the conditions and the amount
OF territory both coal and timber,
that Col. McGraw holds. MS well rs
the absolute control OF the situation
he has in that section through which
his road already runs and has been
surveyed, Is absolutely u joke. Col.
McGraw owns In fee simple, $4,000
to 10000 acres Of coal and timber
land In that section of the State COM
prlsing Webster and the other coun-
ties through which his line runs and
in addition has fully as many moro
acres under lease, and 1t is pointed
out that he would have to be crazy
to think OF selling unless he could
close the deal for many thousand
millions of dollars
The exact status Of the present trip
of irsnnct,o, thot 10 ho,,a ,,o,o H.,
Col. McGraw and President Bush is
that an arrangement is on foot
Whereby traffic agreement ,s 70 he
consummoteJ nv wb;cbs tho nraso,,
line of the West virp,n,, nt,JIo,,
will be made n standard puope ro,d
and the proposed extensions wb,c,,
have been held nm for some t;mo ara
to be made so TINT the road vii, bovs
a terminus not only ON the Po,timorc
and Ohio Mt Holly Junction but alec
on the Chesapeake and Ohio nj a no;,+
in GreenbrIer county If ia also st..,
ed that nm agreement vii, be o0octea
! whereby the west Virginia M,,,,rd
' will get close tn the Goa, and colo an,
that the lines os TINT ro,d which ,r,
closely allied with tbo Could into.
ests. In the Western Morv,orJ wi,,
be used for the purnoso NJ pott,n.
coal to tho eostern and wostorn r,,r
kets.
It is n posItiye fact that n, Mo,
Graw along with his narrow p,,are
road and that part of it which has
not been constructed has almost alb.
solutc control OF about 10000 to 20.
900 acres of what little Is left of the
! famous New River vein. locate,
down In the southern end of tho stote
and also that IN in this section tho
Coal and Coke, Elkins, Davis Kerens
and others who are identified with
that road have large holdings Of the
Pittsburg vein. The West Virginia
Midland is very valuable link ba.
tween the Coal and Coke and the West.