SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2B 
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and 
Work of Construction to Be Begun as 
Soon as Preliminary Surveys 
Are Completed. 
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Special to The Washington Post. 
Hyattsville, Oct. 2?,— Articles of In- 
corporation of the Washington, Patuxent 
River and Drum Point Railroad Com- 
pany were filed witli the secretary of 
state at Annapolis to-day. The promo- 
ters, represend by Wells & Wells, attor-. 
ners, propose to irnmediately begin tlie 
construction of a standard guage, double- 
track, steam railroad from a point on the 
existing- Chesapeake Beach Railroad, 
probably at a point near Pindell Station, 
f.jid from thence to run througli Calvert 
County to Drum Point and Solomons 
I Island, on the Chesapeake Bay, a dis- 
i tnnce of about thirty miles. The pre- 
I liminary surveys are now being" made, 
i Avliich show that but little filling- or g:rad- 
1 ing will be required, and only two or 
three small bridg-es required. It is stated 
that no obstacles will be encountered in 
securing- necesBa.ry rights of way, 
C. A. M. Wells, one of tht> firm of 
Wells & Wells, when intcr\-iewed to-day 
concerning- the matter declared that while 
the affau-s of the company were prac- 
tically in a definite shape, tliey were not 
sufhciently developed to pJlow him to an- 
nounce the names of the officers and 
tJioss most prominent behind the venture. 
*'Soon we shall have a meeting: for a 
complete org-anization/* declared -^Mr, 
'and I am assured that then there 
remair^ no doubt about our ability 
intention to immediately construct 
operate this rati road. I have had 
a roiig-h estinu-ite made of the ijrobable 
freight and passenger traffic, which is 
very promising', and an assurance that 
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Wells, 
will 
and 
and 
the road v>'ill pay frorn the start., I hna 
that the people of Calvert County will 
be earnest and liberal in their support 
of the venture, and it is my object to 
enlist their interest, as much as possible, 
in the enterprise," 
The promise ssecured from Secretary of 
the Navy Bonaparte by Congressman 
Mudd that he would embody In his an- 
nuod report a recommendation to Con- 
gress for the establishraent of a United 
Hta.tes naval station at Drum Point, 
I renders the consiunmat'on of the scheme 
' rdghly probable, and wiifi tise estab- 
t lis h men t of sucJi a station, the 
railroad connection is 
regarded 
need of 
as^ im- 
J pei'alive., TJh? conytrTu:tion of this J'oad 
A« I would give the products of tlie fer!"ilo 
! soil of Calvert County accessible markets 
in Washmg't:: 
15 ei 
Itlmore. and F.h.iiadei- 
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ith 1 
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phiaj a.nd ■^■\oukl be an incentive for per- 
sons to ere',;t summer reoidences all along 
tlie Patuxent Ri\'er and Solomons IsIUnd. 
T,he pCfCple now llvi'og a.ioni^ the river and 
this "section of the nay are nov/ depend- 
ant upon inadequnto st-'-amboat facilities. 
Hi 
PBOPOSEB K-EW ROAD. 
i Important Bill ratroduced in Mary- 
; land House at Annapojis. \ 
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