The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1911-11-02
SOMETHING DOING
IN CONNECTION WITH
PROJECTED EXTENSION
Steps Taken Preliminary to Max.
ing Connection With Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway.

That there is something doing il
connection with the ong-projected ex
tension northward of the Carolina
Clinchfield and Ohio Railway is evi
dent, says the Manufacturers Record
A late report from Frankfort announc
es the charter there of the Clinchfield
Northern Railway in Kentucky, with
capital stock of 5000. The incorpora.
tors are all residents OF Johnson City,
Tenn, at least, their addresses appear
so at Frankfort. The name of ]. G.
Stone, treasurer of the Carolina, Clinch-
field and Ohio, heads the list, with
that of Isaac McQuilkin, comptroller,
second, the Others being E. s. Bolen,
III. G. Morrison and w. w. Belew.
The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio
is now about $50 miles long from Dante,
Va, via johnson City to Spartanburg,
S. g., and the approximate Al miles
between Dante, Va, and Elkhorn City,
Ky. Ia terminus of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railway, is put down in the
railroad guides as being under "under
construction, although little progress
has lately been made upon it, accord
ing to reports from that part of the
country. The road also has branch
of about IL miles extending from ST.
Paul, Va, which is ~ miles south of
Dante, to Hurricane.
1t has been reported for some time
that the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
and the Seaboard Air Line were after
the Carolina, Cljnchfield and Ohio,
with view to purchase, the former
for southern outlet for its western
lines and the latter for connection of
its own to large coal fields. Recent re-
ferences to this propective deal indicat-
ed that there was at present little pros
pect of an early consummation of it.
But now comes the announcement
that M. J. Caples, who for several years
has been vice-president, general mana
ger and chief engineer of the Carolina,
Clinchfield and Ohio, has resigned and
has accepted the position of vice-presi-
dent in charge of transportation on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, with
headquarters at Richmond, Va. He
takes up his new duties November 1.
There was also the statement from
Richmond that Maj. James H. Dooley
and Frederick w. Scott, the latter of
Scott & Stringfellow, bankers, resigned
from the board of directors of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio, but if Mai. Dooley's
resignation was presented it must have
been withdrawn, as late dispatch
says he was re elected a director. Mr..
Scott was scceeded by Gen. Thos. HI.
Hubbard, of New York, who is chair
man of the executive committee of the
Chicago and Alton road, also Hawley
property.
Whether these things have anything
to do with an requirement of the Caro-
lima, Clinchfeld and Ohio railway by
the Chesapeake and Ohio does not ap-
pear, but the several items would seem
to indicate that an important step has
been or is about to be taken.
AT Norfolk it is reported that the
New York Central lines have acquired
or are about to acquire the Virginian
railway, that was built by the late III.
HI. Rogers, of New York, as a great
coal-carrying road of easy grades all
the way from coal fields in West Vir-
ginia to Chesapeake Bay, and it is in
timated that the changes in the direc-
torate of the Chesapeake and Ohio may
siderable rivalry and competition will
result between the roads.