Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-25
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BALrINoRE AND TIE LAKEs.-The three impor-
can't links in the great chain Of railroads which will
unite the city Of Baltimore with Sodus Bay, on
Lake Ontario, and also with Lake Enc, are now
in progress. That which appertains directly to the
city of Baltimore is the Susquehanna Railroad, ex-
tending from Bridgeportto Sunbury, and for OBJ
tanning subscriptions to the stock of which commit
tees have just been appointed. The second link
is that between Williamsport, Pa, and Elmira, N.
lY.-the movements for the immediate construction
of which are now being made with decision. In
reference to the third link, whose northern end IS
on Lake Ontario, we have the following state
ment: Z ia; tsA - 81
The whole route of the Sodus Railroad under
contracts and the "breakng OF ground" for the en-
terprse took place last week with appropriate cer
emonies, The whole cost of the road is estimated
at less than half million. It's route IS from Sodus
to Vienna, thirty-Seven miles, and from thence
twelve miles TO the Jefferson road unless the Gem
esee and Ithaca road shall be constructed when the
connection will proba' ly be with that.
CENTRAL ONO RAmRoAD.-The GAINESVILLE Ga
zette of the 18th inst, referring to the progress OF
the work on this road between Columbus and Zanes-
vile, says:
The railroad will, we are we'll assured, be com
pleted to Columbus this winter, and, probably be.
fore the LIST day of January. A force Of over 200
men and 40 teams are engaged on the big section,
and in FIVE weeks of even ordinary weather, for the
season, the tracks will be laid over the whole line
The Mt. Savage Iron Company of Allegheny
county have an efficient force engaged in making
the necessary excavations and embellishments fol-
laying alongside of their present Railroad another
track from Cumberland to the Western end Of the
mNarrows," where this Railroad is interSected by
that Of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company,
| This improvement is made necessary by the in
creased facilities for transportation demanded by
the coal trade of the valieS of jennings aud Brad
docks runs.
Philadelphia paper says:
Capt. Kennedy has just completed reconnoiS-
Sance of line for extending the Railway from Ma
rietta to Wheeling, thence to connect blythe Hemp
field line with Philadelphia. He pronounces the
route good with easy grades, and no curves. 1t is
expected the road will be run from Marietta tc
| Wheeling in ninety minutes.
An additional line OF eighteen miles of the Viz
ginia Central Railroad, West of StauniUn, has re-
Gently been put under contract TO be completed
next year.
The near approach of the completion of the Bal.
tirnore and Ohio Railroad to Wheeling is noted with
interest in various quarters. The Boston Daily
Advertiser has the following article on the subject:
BALTIMORE AND ONO RAILRoAD.-The people Of
Baltimore are looking forward with confidence to
the opening of their railroad TO Wheeling, on tbs
first day OF January next, thereby making it, in
fact what il has hitherto been for the last twenty
five years only in name, railway connecting the
city of Baltimore with the Ohio river. The final
attainment ofthis object willm an epoch in the
history of the city, which they have looked to with
impotence, and sometimes with SolIcitude lest II
should be accomplished at a far more remote date
than that now named. twill be the achievement
of an enterprise which promises great benefits to
that CITY, in uniting it more directly than any other
Atlantic city, by channels OF easy and rapid inter-
course with the principal commercial cities of the
Western States.
The mercantile community of Baltimore reason
ably anticipate, from this facility of intercourse
with the West great increase of their trale, not
only in merchandise Of the descriptions which ave
been hitherto transported across the mountains but
in such as has found their way only by water, by
the circuitous route of the mouth fine Mississippi
II is anticipated, for example, that there will be
through this channel a large trade in cotton and
tobacco, as well in the products of Europe, and
the Atlantic States, with Memphis, louisville and
other parts in the West.
| Much discussion has already arisen on the qucs-
ton of freighls, and attempt is made to induce
the Directors of the railroad to establish them on
very low SCALE for the purpose of afording an inn
mediate encouTa cement to this new traffic. The
President of the Company has very prudently plu=
ced himself on his guard againstihe hasty adoption
of extremely low rates of freight. The greatest
danger which the several railways leading from the
Atlantic States to the West have to encounter, is
a ruinous competition founded on the reduction Of
fares and freightS below reasonable Temuneratng
price. We may, perhaps safely say that it seems
hardly improbable that they will split upon this
rock and that the interests Of stockholders will be
sacrificed to All insane rivalry between competing
routes for an undue share of the traffic, which, il
fairly divided between them according to their re-
sPecve facilities at reasonable rates OF compensa
ton, would afford satisfactory income for them
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