The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-08
From be Cmein,.ali Gaseae.
The Cincinnati aud Baltimore. Central AZ al

The Cincinnati aud Baltimore Central AZ ALL
way Line.
We have before the Tioenty i(lh annual Rs-
port Of the President and Directors of the Baltimore
and Ohio RaiIsoay Company. This road will soon
be completed and makes, as our readers well
know, one of the most important railway conncx7
ions between Cincinnati and the Atlantic citieF.
At this end of the line the Cincinnati and Marietta
railway will make the main Ohio link. Contro-
versies have arisen to the proper point of ter
mnation on the Ohio, and in regard to some local
interests but whether the junction be effected at
Bepre, Marietta, even Wheeling, by this great
work. the distance from Cincinnati to Baltimore
will be much shortened.
by railway distance il will be (even through
Wheoling) but six hundI ed miles. which, in con-
tiDuous line, may be run in twenty four hours.
The present condition OF the Cincinnati and Ma
rietta line Is such that we feel assured thatin
about two years the entire line from Cincinnati TO
Baltimore will be completed From Manchester,
in Clinton county "a point on the Hillsboro'
road,) to Chillicothe, and thence 10 the coal
banks, on the western side OF Vinton county,
Comprising about seventy miles,) the line of the
Cincinnati and Marietta road is under contract.
The engineering parties OF the company are now
surveying the route from Athens to Marietta, SO
that the whole line will soon be prepared.
The report OF the Baltimore company is equally
satisfactory. Cars running west beyond
the Youghiogeny river, being fifty five miles West
of Cumberland Mr. Latrobe chief en- gineer, ex-
poets TO reach Tygart's Valley River Bridge Zone
hundred and three and a half miles west OF Cum
berland) by the LIST of March next and Wheeling
by the end OF 1902. This ID rapid constIu ctIoD.
On the Northwestern road chartered from the
Three Forks to Parkersburg) three parties of en-
gineers engaged surveying. The city Of
Baltimore, and the Baltimore and Ohiopbsnpany,
pledge themselves in their publications to make
the work. If SO, they easily make their con-
nexion with the Cincinnati and Marietta railway
from Belpre.
1t thus appears that this really gigantic enter
prisc-a railway through the centre of the United
States, crossing the Appalachian chain of noun
tains, over ridges two thousand six hundred feet
in height, crossing the Ohio river, and finally at
tanning Cincinnati, in the central West-ap-
proaches its completion. The entire work. from
Baltimore to Cincinnati, (six hundred miles if il
go through Wheeling,) will cost fioe,sty millions of
dollars, and will yield gross receipts 10 more than
four millions per at least. This will be less
cost at least than the New York and Erie, which
twenty -one millions for four hundred and six
ty three miles.
The traffic on the Baltimore railway shows some
extraordinary results, when consider the origi.
nal theory OF railway commerce. Up so 1896, and,
indeed, 1910, engineers, merchants, and capitalists
considered railways incompetent to the Transport
tation, prohtaby, OF very heavy articles. Yet here
is the Baltimore road making profits out of the
very heaviest traffic which can be put ON any road.
Here is coal, iron and flour carried in enormous
quantities. We quote below the comparative traf-
ic in certain articles for lSi5 and 1850. The
parison shows a rapid and extraordinary increase.