The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15
! new OPENINGS IN
OUR COAL FIELDS
additional Companies Organized,
Investments Increased and
u Business Being Extended.
SOME SHORT RAILROAD LINES
Work of Construction Going On
in Small Way in This and
Other States.
Especial 10 rhe TImes-Dlspa,cli.l

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BALTIMORE MD. March IA
Though established coal operators in
the coal fields centring about the
point are not expecting, any itnmedi-
ate relief from the prevailing low con.
diton of tile coal market, they are
not altogether discouraged ana. ac-
cordlng to- correspondence In, this
,veek's issue of the Manufacturers
Record from Barhoursville. Ky. many
are showing their faith in an early
return to normal conditions by IN
creasing their Investments, while sew
eral new companies have lately been
formed. One will install at once a
mining plant upon n lease of 26p acres
in the Straight Creek District OF Bel
county, upon which there are two
seams of workable ecoal. foun feet ana
forty incres respectively, in thick
ness. Another new lease Is of 9oe
acres of territory on the border OIL
Knox and Bell counties.
At Four Mile have Just been COM
pleted a new opening and one =, or u tn ne,
largest tiphouses i'll Eastern KentuckS..
at Warren core drills were installed
last week for testing the seams OF cohi
in holdings aggreEating 2.oVv acI 11,
and 100 foreigners have been brousn !.
in from the East to work in the mines.
and in the I've Fork section of the
Knox county field "a railroad slnils :
two miles long is being extended W
tap workings controlled by. knoNvill1
('Tenn.) operators. Several hundred
acres on Brush Creek. in Knox county
will be opened up, this spring. Oh. tne
Virginia side of the line coal mining
and coke making are gradually being
resumed.
ItniIrond Construction.
Some small activity in railroad con-
struction is also noted. The Coal and
Coke Railway Company is reported to
have obtained right OF way through
Sutton, w. Va, and is soon to begin
the construction of it's proposed branch
from Gassaway, W. Va, by way of
Sutton and Mount Holly Junction to
Webster Springs n distance of forty
miles. to reach valuable coal and timber
land. The Georgia and Florida Rail-
way Company has given a contract
for thirty mile line from Naldosta 10
Nashville. Ga. connecting link for a
trunk line from Augusta, Ga, 20 Madl-
son, Fla.
The South and Western Railroad is
continuing work on its lines between
! Bull Run, Va. and johnson City, Tenn,
Bridge and North Cove n. c., seven
teen miles. and between Marion and
Bostic n. c.. twenty-eight miles. Per-
T mission has been asked for an issue
I now extending from Savannah to
Springfield, Ca. for the purpose of
extending the line beyond Springfield
Survey has been completed and the
profilcs have been made for about for
ty miles of the proposed railroad to
extend from Simmons City TO san
Antonio, Ten and cash is now ready
to begin survey. to obtain rights 81
way and TO do all other preiiminar!
work on the proposed Lawton, Dento.
and Dallas Electric Railway.
To Drain Prairie Lands.
Illinois parties have purchased ESQ
acres of wet prairie lands and hav,
contracted to drain about 10000 add
tional acres within a few miles o
New Orleans. La. The drainage oper
alton will involve digging twelve mile
of canal. thirty feet wide at the top
twentythree feet at the bottom am
from six to oght feet deep. the cana
not only providing for the drainag,
of TIL tract. but also giving dircc
navigation between Paradis and tn
Bayou Des Allemonds, opening waite
route to New Orleans.