The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

the many large mining settlements. In
Wise county a good roads subscription
of $4,000 Cor similar amount) was
recently voted almost unanimously,
and steps will DO taken Immediately
looking to the carrying out of the
protect. AT present macadamized roads
are being constructed from Wise the
county seat, to Norton, sis Miles. and
from Big Stone Gap TO Appalachia,
two miles, at a considerable. expense.
Other counties in Southwestern yir-
GINA have taken on the spirit of good
roads including Russell, TaIewell.
Scott, Washington and Lee, and have
voted on road bonds. ana the next few
years will see rapid strides made upon
the Improvement OF the public high
ways of Il section that has long neg
lected her roadways
Reaching westward.
Railroads now protected and actual
~ being constructed III Eastern Ken
lucky, in which the whole of South
western Virginia is Interested. are the
Lexington ahu Eastern, the Wasioto
and Black Mountain. the Kentucky and
Virginia, the Chesapeake and Ohio, the
Kentucky North and South, and Sow
eral short-line roads. The Lexington
and Eastern, controlled by the great
Louisville and Nashville system, began
shortly its extension from Jackson, In
the door of Kentuckys coal district,
and Will penetrate about 100 miles
through the famous lGlkhorn coking
coal field. and SO on into Wise county,
near Pound Gap, connecting at or near
Norton with both the Louisville and
Nashville and the Norfolk and West
ern. The Virginia end of the road will
pass through considerable territory in
l,u, u,
opening UP rich coal deposits. one
hundred miles of the Lexington and
Eastern is now being rapidly con-
structed, and Is to be completed during
1911. Winston {; Co.. of Richmond
nave the last twelve mile section of
the road. III Kentucky. ending near
Pound Gap. Another road of much in
terest to Nirginians is the Wasioto and
Black Mountain. how nearing compile
ton rom Wasioto, Ky, up Cumber-
and River, bordering Virginia, from
the fact that engineers are now To-
eating branch of il TO run from
Glover Fork through the Big Black
Mountain coal district, on the border
OF the two States, to Legg, Lee coun-
ty, where connection viii be made
with the main line of the Louisville
and Nashville. The Wasioto and
Black Mountain Road is also said to
be backed by the Louisville and Nash
Vile.
\ Chesapeake and Ohio Extension.
The Chesapeake and Ohio, besides
meeting the Carolina, Clinchdeld and
Ohio from Virginia, will also construct
line about thirty-tve miles long
from Shelby Station UP Shelby and
through the great Elkhorn coal field
TO a point few miles from Pound
Gap, Wner'e connections will be made
with the Lexington and Eastern
Plans have been definitely arranged
FOR this extension of the Chesapeake
anG Ohio. the line located and right
of ways secured. Actual construction
work Will be started within the next
ninety Gays. he Kentucky North and
South Railroad was recently incor-
porated with q capital of $4,000. 900,
and VIII be built according to plans)
from point near MANCHESTER. O.,
through a half-dozen Eastern ken
lucky counties having no railroads,
through the Beaver Creek coal field.
and so on through Pound Gap and into
virginia, connecting with one or more
OF the roads entering that section. The
survey is being made. Among the
numerous short-line branches that will
be built in Eastern Kentucky is tho
Consolidation Coal Company's line up
Jennie's Creek from Paintsville; the
CONSERVATION Coal Company's line into
Boone's Fork; the Haley Coal Com
pany's' Tine, the Kentucky River Con-
soltdated Coal Company's short line:
the Lctcher Coke and Railway Com
pany's short line, all to reach their re-
spective coal properties. forming al
most a perfect network OF railroads
In this section of Kentucky's great
coaT held.
Great Coal Interests,