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Show PRICE PAID FOR THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO j New York, Jan. 27. The price paid ! for the Ktihn. I.eb holdings in Ches-;peake Ches-;peake & Ohio, is believed to be about $C0 per fchare. The Chesapeake & Ohio owns and operates through lease about 1,85') miles of ro.id. Its chief points or roniact are from Newport News, Va., and Washington, D. C. to Cincinnati and Louisville, with numerous branch linfe. Of Its capital stock there is out-Ftandlng out-Ftandlng about $63,000,000, in common i-hares. with only a nominal amount of preferred stock. Us bonded debt Is very large and was recently Increased Increas-ed by . the Issue of an additional ( 30,-1 000,000. ' It is significant that Kuhn, Ixeb & Company, through whom control of the property was secured, aro the tin-auclal tin-auclal agents of the Pennsylvania. |