Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-10-29
FIRST STAKE DRIVEN
Actua> Surveying Begins On
New hoe of Railroad
HIGHLAND RE-A>SURED
BEGINNING ON DIVIDE AT MONTE
REY, CORPS OF ENGINEERS
ARE WORKING TOWARD
KEYsER ON THE BAL
TIMORE AND OHIO

kEYSER ON THE BAL
TIMoRE AND ONO
Those of cur people who have
been impatiently waiting for devel-
opments and tangible evidence
upon which to base their hopes and
pin their faith will be gratified to
learn that actual work has begun,
and the Recorder is authorized to
re-affirm, in the most emphatic
terms, the purpose of the company
to construct the line of railroad
from the C. & O. to the B. & o.,
an enterprise which means so much
to Highland county, crossing as it
will her entire length from north
to south.
Mr.. j. j. Stoutenburg, who rep
resents the New York syndicate
which is back of the enterprise, and
who has never failed to "make
good" in all the arduous prellmi-
nary work the thousand and one
details antecedent to undertakings
of like magnitude-came from Hot
Springs to Monterey in an automo-
bile on the evening of the Goth, and
Immediately upon his arrival, Or
ganized an engineering corps to be-
gin the running of the preliminary
line.
Mr.. Henry A. Slaven, whose rep
utation as a civil engineer is no
longer local, is in charge, and those
assisting him are: Olin Beverage,
Hunter Shumate, Byron Beverage,
Roy Snyder and Dan Ralston.
The first stake was driven at the
lowest point on the Monterey di-
vide, the line crossing the pike be-
tween the bridge and Mr.. o. Will
sons residence, bearing to the
right and following the foothills
east of the creek, which is the head
of the South Branch.
The news that the Recorder is
able to give relative to the pur-
poses of the company amounts SIM
ply to re-iteration of the former
statement, viz: that the road wilt be
built, but it is given out that graft
flying success has attended the pre-
liminary work, whereby two impor-
tant points are settled: The termi-
nus on the G. & O. will be Clifton
Forge, one of the leading industrial
young cities of Virginia; the other
point, growing out of conditions
which settled the first, is that the
company is in position to begin &C.
tive operations at compal atively
early date, and we are assured that
construction work will commence
as soon as the best possible loca-
ton is ascertained.
The proposed line, crossing as ii
does, the two states, will, as a mat
ter of course, require two separate
charters, one for Virginia and one
for West Virginia, after which they
will be combined and operated un'
der one name. Further, develop
ments along this line may be ex
pected soon.
Mr.. B. H. Hiner, the well-knowr
and popular attorney of Franklin
is now interested in the enterprise
and will be one of the directors O
the new line, thelaw governing sucl
cases requiring, as we understand
the selection of at least one direc
tor from each state through whicl
the railroad is built.
Another feature : repeatedly EN-
phasized = and a most pleasing on
to Highland, the "burnt child"
that not a penny in the form c
subscriptions or bond issues will b
asked of her or any county throug
which the company proposes t
build. The concessions asked fo
have been solely of q reciprocal c
cooperative character, and look t
the development and utilizing
that which is dormant and worth
less in the absence of adequate caI
ital.
Highland has had much alon
this line to try her faith, has bee
the victim of blasted hopes, bl
there are points and features in ii
present outlook which, to reasons
, BILE men, are re-assuring and calc1
lated tc inspire confidence. Fro
the earliest conception of the plal