The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-05-31
CONTRACT LET
To Build CIinchfieId Extension
Of c. c. & 0. Railway.
Strategic Road from Dante, Va, to
ElkhoTn City to be Completed in
Eighteen Months.

President Mark W. Potter of tbs
Carroll -. Clinchfield & Ohio Raj.
way authorizes the Manufacturers
Record TO announce that the COM
pany is now letting contracts for
its Elkhorn extension. the work 10
begin Immediately. 1t will take IS
months to complete, and will cost
about s5,OOO,OO0.
The general contract will be award
ed to the Rinehart G. Dennis Com
pany OF Charlottesville, Va, and
covers the entire extension north
ward from Dante. Va. to Elkhorn
City, KY, 80 miles. The work will
begin as soon as possible under the
direction aud supervision or Ward
Crosby, chief engineer, whose head
quarters are at johnson City Tenn.
The route of the extension Is
along the Mcclure and Russell forks
of the Big Sandy River, and the ap-
proach to Elkhorn City will be
through the Breaks of Sandy.
pass in the mountains on the boua-
dary line of Virginia and Kentucky.
All the way the line Is through
rough country, and, as has been
heretofore remarked, the work will
be as heavy as any done upon the
great line Of the Clinchfield through /
the North Carolina mountains. amid
the peaks OF which route of easy
grades was found down to Spartan
burg, S. G, There will be 10 tunnels
on the new extension. one of them,
at Sandy Ridge. 1-2 miles long,
while the is others will range in
length from 800 to 1900 feet. Bridg-
ng will consist OF six crossings of
main streams, the longest requiring
'ne deck truss of 270 feet span and
he Others being plate girder spans
'f from so to 100 feet long. Most of
he construction will be in Dicken- |
ION county, Virginia, but there Will !
'e a small amount of 1t in Pike
ounty, Kentucky. {
The new line will bridge the gap
xis'ing between the Clinchfield
Hallway and the Chesapeake and
,hio, and in connection with the
after will afford a through route
ii the way from Chicago to Charles
on, because the Clinchfield more .
han year ago made arrangements
nth the Southern Railway and the .
-tlantic Coast Line to handle traf- .
C from 1t to the South Carolina y
saport. Either of these roads can "
rovide route from Spartanburg to a.
harleston or they could handle the 81
'affic by combination of portions u
their two routes. ~
While the construction of th,.
sw link will give an outlet to the
est for the great stores OF coal
listing in the Clinchfield region OF
irginia, 1t will also furnish q south
n outlet for the coal from the ~,
onsolidation Coal Co.'s big new ~
'velopment at jenkins. Ky. 1t win ~
rry out the Consolidation coal -
er the G. and o. up via Ashland A.,
be transferred to the B. and O.
lus 1t will be seen the new Dante :.
khorn link will also give access a.,
the B. and o. and other railroads -,
addition to the c. and o. The -.
uisville and Nashville may like -,
Sc be advantageously connected "a
tn the new line. for there has ~.
en- rumor that the l.. and N. would
lid over the mountain from vir- 4.
Tia to its Letcher county coal ex- ~,
Ision. iu
his line OF the l.. & N. like the len
nsolidationCoal Co.'s road is also abl
)roaching completion, and will mn
'bably be put In operation In sew nu,
] months. At any rate, the L.
N. already touches the Clinch- Mr.
d at st. Paul. Va. and will reap sen
re or less immediate benefit from ven
extension which the latter will S
Id. hoo
low that the Cllnchfield has de- Ma,
ID TO construct its long-proposed wer
to Elkhorn n NAV also 10 -