Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-07-20
THE RAILROAD TO WHEELING,

The Baltimore Patriot has no doubt that the
Stockholders Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company will, at their meeting on the 2Sh
August, ra,ily the action Of The Board of nirec-
tors, which recommends .ha acceptance OF the
law Of The las, session Of the Virginia Legisla.
lure, authorizing the extension of the road
through Virginia 10 Wheeling. The Patriot
publishes in full The able report of the committee,
adopted by The Board. II occupies more than
FIVE columns, and presents in an interesting form
the facts and arguments in favor Of continuing
the road at once to Wheeling. We have no room
bu, for The terms concluded with Wheeling:
"Thc examination OF Mr.. Latrobe, as far as il
could be done without instrumental surveys, de-
mons,rated 10 The satisfaction Of the Committee,
,ha, the cheapest roule 10 Wheeling, through The
Stale of Virginia, was that which proceeded BY
The ragne oil Fish creek TO The mouth OF that
stream on the OHIO, and thence by the banks OF
The Ohio to Tic city Of Wheeling. According 10
his examinations, the route by the mouth OF Fish
creek proved 10 be less expensive IN construct,
maintain aud work than The route prescribed BY
the acls Of 1914, and 6, and rejected by the
Stockholders 10y S5l4, 1875, and cheaper than the
route by Grave Creek, referred 10 in the present
law, by 1916 2l3-thus placing i, al the option of
Wheeling, by waving her RICH, TO pay the differ
cnce in the expense Of The second and last routes,
| 10 permit The road to be CONSTRUCTED 10 that city
| bv the mouth OF Fish creek, eDly sixteen miles
| higher up the river than The mouth OF Fishing
creek, and twenty eight miles below The City OF
Wheeling.
"Your Committee deemed il their duty and as
important 10 the interests o, The Stockholders, 10 in
sist upon the option of adopting that route, and Of
touching the Ohio river al the mouth OF Fish
creek il they desired 10 DO SO, and they finally
concluded an arrangement with the Committee
OF The City Of Wheeling, by which That right or
option has been secured, and by which the City
Of Wheeling moreover, agrees to subscribe TO
the stock Of the Company The sum of $500, 600 in
money, or in bonds guaranteed BY the Stale Of
Virginia, and also TO provide the company. free
Of expense, depo, in The city, with right oil
way through The city limits and The use Of The 10.
conceive engines through The streets.
1.-THE arrangement thus concluded is now sub
milled with This report; il has been already duly
ratified by the authorities Of Wheeling, and, If
The law be accepted by The Stockholders Of this
Company, will be binding upon that city. The
Committee arc OF opinion that by this arrange
ment and according to The present law, the Com
pany may secure all the substantial advantages
they ever expected from terminus of their road
at Southern point on the Ohio, and al cos, not
greater than those advantages would fully war
rant.
''The Committee deem il proper to add that IN.
less the obligation it imposes OF constructing The
road 10 Haccling could be deemed Objectionable,
which in the present posture OF their affairs, and
for The considerations they will hereafter advert
10, they cannot admit the present law of Virginia
grants The right of way upon as favorable terms
as any they have heretofore obtained or could ex-
rcct hereafter 10 obtain"
The Report proceeds at some length to sci
forth the advantages of the proposed route, as
securing The trade and travel OF the great roads
through Ohio TO The West. The cost Of the road
to Wheeling by the prescn, law aud arrange
men with that city, according 10 the estimates OF
engineers, will not exceed s5 900 600; being 79o,-
600 less than the road 10 Parkersburg, and 600,-
600 less than the route preferred by the Stock
holders, to Wheeling by the way of Fishing Creek,
and only $50 more than the preferred route
terminating a, The mouth of Fishing Creek.
The Patriot is conference.-the money TO COM
pete the road to Wheeling will be readily OBJ
tanned, as it is satisfied that more than six per
cent. will be realized upon the cost of the entire
road from Baltimore 10 Wheeling. That paper,
therefore, expects the work Of extension 10 be COM
menced before The year is closed.