New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-21
SHAWMUT ROADS PLANS
HaWiey and His Associates Now
Members of the Board.
WILL GO INTO PITTSBURG
Navigation improvements VIII
Give New Line Route Into
the Steel City.

Edwin HawIey, who it was announced
several months ago would enter the poaro
of the Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad Colh-
pany, has recently been elected director
and with him a half dozen of his business
associat es General Thomas H HUBBARD
H E. Huntington, Frank Trumbuli Iheo-
dore p. Shonts, Harry Bronner ana w. n
Taylor At the same meeting of the board
which had been composed OF seven resi-
dents of Pennsylvania, in which state the
company is chartered, three more Pennsyl-
vania men, Dwight c. Morgan, P. B. Nc
Bride and Frederick Krug, were elso
elected directors.
The Pittsburg &, Shawmut, which is con-
trolled by the principal interests in the
Pfttsburg, Shawmut e. Northern Railroad
Company, of which General Hubbard is one
of the heaviest bondholders, is building a
line 1021s miles in length, extending from
Hyde Penn, on the Pittsburg, Shawmut
&, Northern. to Freeport, Penn, which is
on the Allegheny River, only few miles
from Pittsburg. and with the completion OF
the slack water navigation Improvements
on that river will be enabled to move It's
traffic into the city of Pittsburg.
The line has been completed for forty
miles of its length, and each portion, as
soon finished, has been leased to Frank
Sullivan Smith as receiver of the Pitts
burg, Shawmut & Northern, who is oper-
atng the forty-mile stretch as part of his
system.
The new road, which will be fully con-
structed by next year, traverses a territory
rich in bituminous coal properties, from
which ample tonnage is expected for the
system planned to be formed by the con-
solidation of the Pittsburg, Shawmut &
Northern and the Pittsburg & Shawmut,
probably under the name of the Pittsburg,
Shawmut & Northern Railway Company.
The forty-mile portion of the new road
which is now in operation Is understood to
be earning at present per cent.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the re-
naming part of the line. and contract
has recently been awarded to the American
Bridge Company for the construction of a
bridge across the Allegheny River between
Mahoning and West Mosgrove, at tie slack
water head of navigation. which will have
one span 400 feet long and 80 feet above
high water, with three other spans of $50
feet each.
In addition to the coal, an important
source of revenue for the system is ex-
pected to be the extensive deposits of
clay which were uncovered after the lurn-
Der lands to reach which the Pittsburg,
Shawmut & Northern was built had been
cleared. These clay deposits, which are
controlled by the railroad. are said to be
of excellent quality and are being used in
the manufacture OF freproofing material.
paving brick. sewer pipe and conduits.
Mr. Hawley and his associates, it Is I'M
derstood. have no plans for linking up the
PittSburg &, ShaWnut with any other mart
of their system, from which it Is separated
by considerable distance. The road con-
meets with several of the large coal-carry-
ing railroads reaching this port.
Advices from Houston, Tex, yesterday
said that Mr. Hawley had obtained control
Of the Texas Central Railroad. with the
purpose Of making it part of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, with which it connects at
Waco Tex. Interests in this city identi-
fed with the Texas Central discredited the
report The Texas Central extends from
Waco 26S miles northwesterly to Rotan,
Tex. It has outstanding s., 649, 800 common
and s1,324500 preferred stock.