Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-06-25
From The Ohio State Jouraoi.

BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILROAD
mo. hut enterprise is, in Ohio AMI the
west, not inactive. There is no "iolding of
the hands here. We are '.go ahead" peo-
pie Let me show what is doing IS well as
done, looking TO conncxion by Railway with
baltiinore. The Railway is 50 nearly COM
pleted that it may b. considered done from
Cincinnati to Aenia. From Columbus TO Ne
ma, the stock sufficient To insure the compile
,ion oi the work is already taken, the surveys
nearly completed, aud this link is expected to
he done in from IL to IS months. Sandusky
CITY has put out her Rail Roads southwest
and southeast. The southeastern one will
be iinished, 1T is confidently believed, this
summer, to Mansfield Cleveland is up and
DONG to connect herself with the Columbus
anu Acnia Rail Road, and thus tn have direct
route to acd from Cincinnati. so of Sand,is-
by, not only by the Mad River and Lake Erie
kail Road Connecting with the Little Miami)
but also by Mansfield and the Capital of Ohio.
Now, the point of junction oil the Sandusky
aud Mansfield Rlil Road, whether at Mans
held or It's vicinity, with the Columbus Rail
koad to Cleveland and San,lusky, will be in
direct linc of connection with the Baltimore
and Ohio Rail Road at Wheeling; and even
the latter, now III progress by that Company
before 1t would reach the Ohio--a Rail Road
from the junction of the Cleveland, Columbus
and Sand,sky City Rail Roads, would be com.
pleted to the Ohio River.
IL isnot perhaps generally known, but cucl
is The TACT, that charter for Rail Road. 70,
this very purpose, Was some few years ago OBJ.
tanned, and the stock required by the charter
duly subscribed. With the junction of the
foregoing works completed out little If a,,u
oucr 100 miles Of Railway irould be required
TO connect The baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
ioith ALL THE OTHERS. And that 100 miles
would be speedily done, because 1t would be
amongst the best If not the very best stock uI
them all. 1t would be emphatically contin
nation OF the main stem of the Baltimore ant
Ohio Rail Road west of the Ohio river. Thi,
100 miles (more or lcss) would connect ant
complete a continuous line of Railway from
Baltimore to Wheeling, Cleveland and San
dusky on the Lake, and to Columbus, Xeni;
and Cincinnati. 1t should not be forgotten
also, that at the junction of the Columbus
Cleveland and Sandusky City Rail Roads
whether at Mansfield, Mt. Vernon, OF else
where, the western stem or trunk of the Bal
timore and Ohio Rail Road is then i'm conn:c
ton also with the Ohio Rail Road, and through
it with the Maumee. In this, as well as II
all the rest, the true interests of Cleveland
Sandusky, Mansfield, Columbus, Xenia anc
Wheeling, inclusive Of the Maumee Valley
all harmonizc.
Indeed, it may be laid down as PROPOSE
ton capable OF demonstration, that q will no
say termination, butt the intersection of tn,
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road ut Wheeling
would, best of all Others, serve the interests o
The State at large, and directly unite in com
mon interest the whole OF the counties through
which the National Road passes, inclusive o
Greene and Hamilton, and all that lie north o.
cast OF it. And this is the more apparent
when the question is presented for its inter
section with the Ohio, either there, nowhere
or at the kanawha.
II then it be 80 largely for the interests Of
Ohio, as a State, and for the various Rail Road,
OF Ohio, now made and making, Virginia de.
serves, and will receive much credit for heI
foresight and wisdon in fixing upon the point
she has for the terminus Of that great work
OHIO.