Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

w. II. Cannon, Baltimore and Ohio car
inspector at Sand Patch, has gone to Gold
nelu. New, with a consignment of ffty
soI9olas 10 the Gold Mining Company of
Loidneio: On one of the cars a shanty was
erected for Mr.. Cannon
New Oil Pipe Line.
The Pure Oil Company. of which Lewis
n1iherS' Jr', the late fusion candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania is said to he ono
VI the heaviest stockholders, has filed an
application for pipe line to run from
Wetzel county, w. Va. to Marcus Hook.
near Philadelphia, a distance of two hun
dred miies. This company is a rival of the
standard OIL Company and will parallel the
latters pipe line along the Mason and
DIXON line The Haas Hotel at Connells-
vllle, one of the best known hostelr es along
the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
was sold this week by Andrew Haas who
VIII retire from business, to NJ J. Roland
Ior S'oOoo. roland was formerly proprietor
OF the Columbia Hotel New Haven pa
The men employed In opening the old
Pompey mine at Vale Summit cut through
into an Old opening In the famous burning
mine Yesterday They found the heat SO in
tense that they were compelled to close tho
hole they had made and change their course
In order to get sufficient air to continue a t
work The mine has been burning over
thirty years.
The Business Mems Protective Associa-
ton of Frostburg elected the following Of
ficers for 1907: President Charles F. Retz.
vice presidents Henry Mayer, William III
COOK. M. Rodda; secretary, Peter Lammert:
treasurer, John ]. Price; executive commit,
tee, Duncan E. Shaffer, Henry N. Schnei-
der. Several important matters were dis
cussed, one concerning the bad stretch of
the National pike between Frostburg and
points in Garrett county which greatly in
terferes with trade. The attention of the
road directors will be called to it.
Opening New Mine.
Noah g. Keim, the republican leader Of
Randolph county. w. va, who is a leading
business man at Elkins; Shannon Hardman
and others have begun the development of
mine on their tract on Cheat mountain. in
Randolph county, w. Va, purchased about
month ago from DIR. G. B. Harvey. They
believe they have found gold in paying
quantities. According to those interested an
assay shows quartz gold in a ratio of $3.50
to a ton. Several assays, they claim have
yielded the same result. A number of men
have been employed to continue the inyesti-
cation and blasting is in progress Mr..
Keim will leave for the east in a few days
and will take number of specimens with
him for assay number of conservative
business men of Elkins have become inter-
eSted in the project of development The
property on which the discovery was made
was originally purchased by company
headed by Mr.. keim for an angora goat
farm.
MIS- lSSildH DUN Is utdu at 0er nome,
few miles south of Berkeley Springs, W..
Va, at an advanced age. She leaves one
daughter, Mrs. Bette Cross. Several BROTH
ers and sisters also survive her. She was
daughter Of the late John Culp. Her hus-
band died some years ago. Mrs. Buck had
the distinction of being the only pensioner
of the war Of 1912 in Morgan county W. Va
Rev. c. D. Basin of Lttlestown, Pa,
has accepted call to the Lutheran Church
at Keyser. w. Va. and will enter upon the
new pastorate March 1. ~