Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-09-23
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and Tor that purpose 5ye paid q visit with
rate" days 20 theNyhoe line ofthe road
tom The termination at Pratt street to tho
upper section at the forks of the Patnpsco
Tile following statement was furnished
Co us by the contractors and workmen as
$50 went along, and is fully corroboratad
hT oarown observations. Orthc first I3
miles, 'hatis, 90 EiIicotts Mills. there are
ten miles which are i0 a situation 10 re-.
cClvc lhe ra,ls and Of the twelve miles a.
5oyc tac mills, there are nine miles which
ore also ready for the rais-of the remain
ter including ,1e deep cut the bridge al
GwIUn's falls, ,he bridge over the Pa,ao-
sco ,he filling 40 Gadsby's run, aud the
other unfinished parts, there is on o gene
raj average, three touuhs of the work
done. This estimate, we believe TO be
within the mark rather than beyond it.
,le proportion Of completed work being
greater than we have stated.
Commencing 40 Pratt street You follow
.le road, now nearly completed for the
rails, TO the bridge at Gwinu's run, which
IS finished, as is also the superintendent
embaUament-wh.ch last IS fast adyauc-
ING t1 the corner stone. The bridge at
Gwinn's run is O substantial and well built
structure. The stones of the arch are
al. arranged iu parallel courses, on the
principle of brick work, which causes an
equality Of strength thut must ensure I'M
al.eru5la permaucncy. Executed 10 this
manner, there can be no doubt of tho lar
gest arches resisting the heayies pressure
90 which they can be subjected; and while
umay be a dangerous experiment TO con
strgct large arch of the usual masonry
of house building, technically, we believe,
called rubble work, there can be no doubt
of the efficiency of an arch whose course
of stone are ranged and dressed like those
of lhe bridges ON tho first twelve miles OF
the rail- road. The bridge ut Gwiun's
falls has advanced rapidIyin the month
the a5u.moUts are raised 90 the sprInging
of .lc main arch, the CeDtrejng Of which
Is pm, zap, and the arch for the road on the
western side is completed. The impress
sion Is, that Tins bridge will be ready for
the rails boz all October From the bridge
at Gwi1n's falls, the road is ready for The
rails with the exception of about i,lyyarjs
on tho south of the Washington road, TO
,be deep cut-oIong this part of the road
we remarked the rails placed ready for
laying. The bridge over the rail road at
ths Washington Turnpike, viii be opened
by the end of This week. 40 the deep
cut the recent excavation has been i'm
ue1se, the highest rtremaining uneXCa-
waited. being only fifteen feet above the pro-
per level and ibis but Cos O. short distance.
tits understood that the deep cut viii also
be ready for lhe rails iu all October But
O short distance remains open between the
emlon5ment from the deep cut and the hn-
isled section near the Annapolis road,
which being filed with the earth removed
from .he deep cut wi. be finished at the
same time with this last The bridge at
the seventh section Is finished, and the en-
baukua1taroady rises high above II. The
remainder of the cmllnkment. here up
words of forty feet, viii be made from a
Din through which the road passes, and
which is now rapidly disappearing From
this t0 the filling ot Gadsby's run, the road,
including the yiaduct over Gadsby's lane,
IS ready for the aiIs--at Gadsby's run
the necessity of allowing time for the i'm
mc0se embaukmeut of 6tly-six feet to set
de, has for q short period suspended the
employment of the great force heretofore
at work there. Il, is confidently stated,
however. that this section viii be compile
ted bv The first of December Ia readiness
for tho continuance Of the rails which vii.
then have progressed so far on their way
from Baltimore From the deep filling
YOU pursue the course of the rail way, I'M
interrupted. over the embaukmcut, which
is completed, at Still house ran, OF fifty
FIVE feet high and through the rocky cut
TING where tho road first strikes the river,
past tho Avalon works for some distance,
Co bridge now within three or four weeks
of completion
From thence to the bridge of the Pataps-
co. the road, except where two or three ml-
nor bridges unfinished interrupt It for
short distances, not exceeding fifty yards
i0 any instance, Is ready for the rails
The Buzzard rock has yielded 10 the labor
bestowed on it, and theroad passes smooth
'v round DC. The western uhutment of
the bridge over tho Patapsco Is finished;
the centre pier isabova the water, and pre-
partitions aro making for the eastern abut-
ment-Groat part of the stone for this
bridge is already prepared for laying, and
wo arc told, Chat, bv the first Of December,
the road way over the bridge viii be ready
for tbe rails.-The continuance for carry
mo- the stone from the quarry to the spot