The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-06
ROADS REACHING
FOR: 4. COAL { ! Fields! / !;
Big System Planning to Get in
I Close Touch With the Great
Coal Resources.
OPEN " new FIELDS
Progress on the Virginia Rail-
way to Lead to Extensive
Development.
OPEN UP NEW VIZ FIELDS E:l.l:|
to Tho Times-Dispatcll.

3ti Especial to The Enthusiastically
BALTIMORE MD, October 3.r-Spec-
lial correspondence from Charleston, w.
Va, in this weeks issue OF the Manu-
.facturers' Record Illustrates the plan
ming OF railroad systems to get in close
touch withs the great coal resources OF
the country. The deal Just consum-
mated sbetweenY the New York Central
and the Coal and Coke railroads, ich
on the surface Is mere traffic ar
5rangemcnt, is regarded as an advanced
step toward the development OF vast
coal properties In West Virginia. The
New York Central owns seventy-flve
per cent. of the stock OF n syndicate
which has large coal holdings in Gil-:
Smer. Upshur, Monongahela and other
counties, and the Coal and Co Ike peo-S
pie have 2 $1,000 acres of coal in prac-
gtically q solid body along the line OF
their road. Two plans have been dis
cussed bearing upon this coal devel-
opment. One is for the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railway. which Is New
York Central line. to build to Morgan
town and go3thence to &Rowles burg,
over the Morgantown and .Kingwood.
already completed to that point, from
there building glino to Parse rs to q
connection with the Western Mary
land, over which it would go into y +
<ins to gconect with the Coal and Coke
The other plan, which will probably
be followed out, Is to build from Nor.
Eantowns{up the tNIonongahela river to
Fairmount, and thence up the tygart
Valley through Grafton to Pelinston.
At tile latter point 1t would connect
with the Roaring Creek Road, and by
way OF that with the Coal3and Coke.
Progress made upon the Vtrginian
Railway in West Virginia points to the
opening OF now fields. AT Gutenberg,
where the chesapeake and Ohio and
the Virgninn parallel each other for
some little distance, there IL already
bigfcoal operation,g md \ seems to be
the Intention to ship the output by the
Chesapeake and Ohio for the present.
but It will boz an easy matter for the
company to take advantage OF two
shipping lines, II the Yirginian Rail
way shall decide to build down Coal
River it viii enter the largest unde-
yeloped coal territory in the State.
IAnother brtlnchi3line that the Yirgtnian
people seem to have in contemplation
would take tho road thirty-iye miles
Ito the head Of he Guyandotte River.
and every foot OF It will be # through
4 coal OF the highest uuallty and Of
i great thickness. s & Is sg,; (. 5
Reports furnished to tho Manufnctu-
rers Record by the managers of the
cnterIlTlaes SHOW .tuat etuHI4!h y NV NJ
gust and September. plans were made
flor tho installation in the South oi
! i177,S77 spindles. OF which about sew:
l!enty- three per cent. Is to bes installed
.lfby new companies and the rest by es.
4 tabished ones. The. totals by State.
We're: Alabama. 1900; Georgia. q /, !,
/, asst North Carolina, S0.5S9 South Car.
ollna, 3a,S40, and Texas. 1850 The
lao, sea spintlles for the new mills, al
Investment OF Sprobnb bly, abou $a.a7l ,725
land theAIO0s spsndles for theol mills
Fan Investment of about III sl,175,aU0
S|slneans q total q e t77,S77 spindles. I,
q 5cost about $4.al6,0a6 g. i may he ad