The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-08-20
Various RumOTS About This
New Line.
A Persistent Report Says the Norfolk
{ Western Has Purchased
the Road. -.

Official announcement is made
that the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio
Railroad will be completed to Elk
horn City, KY, where It will connect
with the Chesapeake & Ohio, within
the next three months, and that the
promoters of the project have defi-
nite.y decided to extend the line from
that point following one or thu
forks of the Sandy, to connect with
the Norfolk L. Western, distance
OF about 20 miles" ".
III the foregoing paragraph, copied
from an exchange. big mistake is
made regarding the time the c., G.
& o. railroad will be completed to
Elkhorn City. Our authority for deny
ing the correctness of the statement
made as to the time Is the follow
ing from New York:
New York, Aug. 1.-THE Caro-
lima, ClinChfield & Ohio Railroad,
now in operation for 211 miles from
Dante, Va, on the edge of the
Cliachfield coal properties, to Bostic,
n. c., where 1t connects with the
S'aboard Air Line, will open COM
Hercial traffic from Bostic to Spar
tanburg, S. c., about "a miles, dur
Ing the month of October.
"The TDute OF extension on the
other end Of the line from Dante TO
Elkhorn, KY, has not been definite
ly decided upon, but several surveys
have been made and estimates pre-
pared. 1t is expected, however, that
work will start on this line shortly
after the. completion of the Spartan
burg division.
with pINsent equipment of
1904 engines and cars, the company
Is transporting coal from the mines
of the Clinchfield Coal Corporation,
where the present rate of mining, 1t
is said, exceeds 100000 tons per
mmum. Within twelve months from
the completion of the line to Spar
tanhurg it expects to haul at least
100000 tons of coal annually.
A, its Elkhorn terminal the road
will have direct connection with the
Ohio river and beyond over the
Chesapeake & Ohio, affording a new
direct highway through the Cumber-
land and Blue Ridge mountains be-
tween the Ohio valley and the South
Atlantic states"
1t will be seen from this that the
route from Dante to Elkhorn City
has not been agreed upon and that
work on any agreed route will not
be commenced until after the COM
pletion of the road from Dante to
Hostic, n. C. That the road to Elk
horn will be built, however, and very
SOFA, there is no duobt. A recent
writer says concerning this road:
This will take the road through
2S5 miles Of the richest mineral and
timber country in America, much of
which is undeveloped, and will pro-
vide a short line from Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Chicago, Indianapolis, St.
IoLis and other important cities in
the West and Northwest to Atlantic
seaboard points and into the great
cotton mill district of the South, re-
smting ultimately in the saving of
from eight to fifteen hours running
time and a consequent reduction of
passenger fares, which are based on
the short line.
at is officially acknowledged that
traffic alliances have alredy practi-
cally been made with the Chesapeake
&; Ohio and the Norfolk & Western
to become effective Immediately upon
the completion OF the connections,
and the management of the c.. c. 4 |
0. has but recently placed orders for
1000 coal cars of 100 tons capacity
each, which are to be delivered in
time for the opening of the new
through lines into the coal markets
Ct the West.
The road is being promoted by |
New York capitalists. who are the
direct representatives of interests
closely allied with the Seaboard Air
Line, and the statement is made that
,he cost of construction to date ag-
close to the $5O,OOOOOO
mark" |