Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1849-05-30


The Board Of Directors of the Balti
more and Ohio Railway Co, had meet
ing at Baltimore on Wednesday, the 9Th
inst. 1t has been at last determined &c
extend the road from Cumberland west
by Fairmount on the Monongahcla river
to Wheeling, Va. Contracts have alread y
been let for a part Of the way, between
Cumberland and Paramount, and the res.
idue will be let in few weeks. The line
to Paramount may be completed by the Is,
of June, 1850, and the whole line to
Wheeling by the LIST ofJune 1851, should
the enterprise meet the favor of the pub
lie. Six millions Of dollars are required
TO complete the road 10 Wheeling Should
the Company be left to its own resources,
without subscription the work will be de-
layed a much longer tine. The twenty
sections let, have been taken at less than
the estimate price. and these are the mos,
difficult sections on the line.
The route adopted by the Company
comedies, says the President, with the
Company's proposed route to Fishing
Creek, to point within so miles of the
Ohio river-thence it pursues favorable
line along the valleys of Peters fork of
Buffalo Creek and Of Fish Creek, to the
mouth Of the latter. 16 miles above Fish
ing Creek, and SO miles below Wheeling.
and thence passes up the valley of the
Ohio river to Wheeling. The grade
adopted is l16 feet to the mile. the obIec-
tons to which the Board regard as unim-
por.ant, and equally applicable to any
route by which connection could be
formed with the Ohio river.
The President stated to the board tn IT.
'.In the selection and final location of
their route to the Ohio river, this Compa-
ny have left nothing undone. which the
most abundant caution could have suc-
gested. They have looked closely to the
interests of the stockholders and the COM
munity: Every foot of ground between
Cumberland and the Ohio river has been
carefully and diligently explored, by the
Engineer corps of this Company. But
the Board did not rest satisfied here
They called to their aid, two of the most
eminent and practical Engineers in this
country; and il was not until the whole
ground was re-examined by them, and a
report made to the Board. that the pres
ent route was finally adopted. 1t might
be proper to state further, that the Chief
Engineer OF this Company and the con-
sulting Engineers, thus employ Il to CO.
operate with him. rcre unanimous, in the
recommendation upon which the Board
finally acted.
"This Company had now the shortest
and most direct line, to the trade, for
which they had been so long s,riving!-
Columbus was the point at which the New
York, Pennsylvania and Maryland lines
must eventually meet. in competition for
the central Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri trade. This road had never
looked to Cleveland or the Lakes. From
Columbus to Baltimore by the Companv's
route was 5l8 miles, and from the same
point to Philadelphia, by the Central road
when finished SO miles. Distance in ia
vor of the Baltimore route 6 miles. which
might be increased to n miles, BY the
adoption Of the knobly route hereafter,
as second track. for passenger business.
We should be nearer to Cincinnati by $50
miles, than New York, by the Erie Rail-
road and Dunkirk, and 50 miles nearer
han Philadelphia, on her shortest route
through Pittsburgh