The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-05-11
TO EXTEND ROAD
IN KENTUCKY
c. & o. Will Spend Millions.
Garrett B. Wall President
of New Road.
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RIG II MON ID, A.-Special.-
The Louisville COorier-JOurnal
printed the following last Friday:
Plans for an extension of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
through many OF the counties along
the Big Sandy division, i'm Eastern
Kentucky. as well as the double
tracking of the system from Pike
Vile to Cincinnati, have practically
been completed. and II is expected
that within the next few months
every county in the Big Sandy Val
/ ley will have an outlet to the coal and
timber markets OF the world. Il was
learned from an official of the road
last night that since the properties
| OF the Chesapeake and Ohio We're ac-
CURED by Edwin Hawley. of New
York, and Frank Turnbull. OF Chi
cago, the new owners have given
strong evidence of their faith in the
future commercial possibilities of the
mountains of Eastern Kentucky. and
to that end have planned to build
! branches of the road throughout that
section OF the State.
I.aviSa Fork Road.
one OF the first moves to be made
by the new owners was to acquire
a charter for the building of what is
to be known as the LAVISH Fork Rail-
way, to run from the confluence Of
Russell and LAVISH Creeks, up Lavisa
Creek to Grundy, Va, distance of
fifty miles. This road will traverse
one OF the biggest coal and virgin
timber tracts To be found anywhere
i'm the United States. According to
the charter recently obtained. Gar
rett B. Wall, for many years real es-
tate agent OF the Chesapeake and !
Ohio road and for the past few years
assistant to George w. stevens. pres |
ident of the company, is to be preSi- !
dent of the LAVISH Fork road. The /
Big Sandy division of the Chesapeake /
and Ohio at the present time runs
from Catlettsburg to point beyond /
PikeVille to the Breaks of the Big /.
Sandy, a distance of I20 miles. From /
this point a survey has been made /
and the grading done on an extern /
sion which Will give an outlet to the /
coast at Charleston, $. G., and Savan-
completes a bridge over the ohio |
River at Point Pleasant. o.. the
Chesapeake and Ohio will have a di-
rect line from Toledo, o.. on the
lakes, to the Atlantic Coast.
improvements i'm Pike.
Among other improvements and
extensions planned is the building
of the Shelby a." e. ltuch of the
road. distant 90. thirty miles.
through Pike and Letcher counties.
This branch will run through 100, 900
acres of coal and timber lands own
ed 10y the Consolidated Coal Com
pany and over 100000 acres of un-
developed coal and timber lands will
ne tributary 10 TINS DranCh OF the
road Surveys for branches up Mil
ler's Creek, a distance of six miles.
and up Marlboro Creek. a distance
of twelve miles. also have been made.
Both of these branches will run
through valuable coal and timber
lands which are now being develop
"d. and it is planned to have the
roads built and ready for operation
hN the time the mines are i'm work
ing order. The Millers Creek branch
will run from Van Lear. a station on
the Big Sandy division. in Johnson
county, crossing the Big Sandy River
at Van Lear. The coal i'm this sec
ton of the State is regarded as one
of the finest grades of splnt coal To
Marribone branch the product now
being mined is considered a fine grade
for coking purposes.
Will Spend Millions.
Believing that the future dcVeloD- /
ment of coal and timber lands in the
mountains OF Eastern Kentucky along
the Big Sandy River will amply re-
in preparing for that development.
Messrs. IIawley and Turnbun have
instructed their representatives To go
ahead with the work of building all
of the branch roads necessary to meet
the future demands of the section. as
we'll as the double tracking of the
system. II is planned To have the
road from Ashland TO Cincinnati and
from Pikeville to CatIettsburg double
tracked by December /. 1918. These
as well as all of the
extensions planned. are located Who'll
~ i'm Kentucky. and millions OF dol
lars viii he expended by the ChcSa-
peake and Ohio road in this State
within the next two years