The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1909-03-25
GOULDS MAY
BUILD LINE
TO PIT TSBURG.
Direct From Baltimore By
Way Of the City of
Cumberland
PLANS WORKED OUT
Depends on Decision Of the
Supreme Court Of the
United States.

United States,
BALTIMORE. Md. Mar The
formation os A new Independent
railroad system with q total mileage
of more than 900 miles, extending
from Baltimore to Pittsbng. and toI
Include the Western Maryland, the
Wheeling and Lake Erie and the
h-Pittsburg Terminal and the
West Side Belt Railsoad Of PITTS
burg. is considered today in we'll IN
formed circles as practically assured,
provided the. Supreme Court of the
United States sustains the right OF
railroads to haul products OF enter
prises which they own or ccntfoI
and objections Of certain Interests inl
the properties named are removed.
The foregoing is thesnntiine Of al
plan to reorganize the Gould lines inl
the East now in the hands Of receive
ers. and if IT is carried ort. as it ISL
expected it will be. It viii mean thel
consummation Of the plan originally
intended by George j. Could and his
associates when they acquired con-
troll Of the Western Maryland rail-
road. with the execution that thei
new system VIII not be operated asI
part of the Wabash. which Is also al
Gould property.
The lines which it Is proposed to |
merge own, approximately. 10000
acres of coal land and more than
1000 coke ovens. or this the West
ern Maryland railroad owns 124. 900
acres in Maryland ana West virginia.
and 700 oyens9 The remainder OF
the coal lard is In Western Pennsyl-I
yania. The mileage of the roads
which would form the now system IS
as follows:
Western Maryland ...,...... 900
Wheeling and Lake Eric. ..... 442
Misunderstanding Terminal and
West Side Belt. ........a... SOL
Branch from Cumberland to
New Haven ......,..... So
Total ................. .1241
In order to connect the various
links in the proposed new chain Of
railroads 1t will be necessary to
build, approximately, SO miles be-
TWEEN New Haven, Pa, and arrange
traokage rights with the Pittsburg
and Lake Erie between New Haven
and Clarendon. Pa. At the latter
point connection would he made
with the West Side Belt railroad in
to Pittsburg.
It Is estimated that to carry out
this plan and provide money neces-
sary to lift the receivershiDs of the
companies that would be included
in the new system between $50. .0O0,-
900 and s24,o00,O00 would be re-
quired. Financially, the project
would be an easy matter. as the mon
ey necessary has already been prom.
ised by influential banking interests
in the East
Benjamin F. Bush. former presi-l
dent Of the Western Maryland rail-
road. and at present receiver Of that
system. viii, it is said, sbe the. d.
recting head of the consolidated
lines II the plan is carried ont.
The line between Cumberland
and New Haven has ben suryeSaa
and rights OF way obtained. Bnild-I
Ing of road bed and laying of traok |
could begin at any time. Eventuauy
1T is planned to. build from cum6er.
land TO Wheeling. distance OF 1s4l
miles. This track would phyisicaIlv
connect the Western Maryland with !
the Wheeling aud Lake Erie and give
the new system two lines into pl,ss-
burg, though for the present II isl
planned only to build to New Havas
and nse the tracks of the Pittsb,,rgl
and Lake Erie from there to c,arsns
don, where connection wauld {.
made with the West Side Belt ran
road into Pitsburg.
1t is said that 3. II. Hartman h,s
been acquainted with the details ofI
the plan ana win not anlagpnize., d |