Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-09-05
weatern Railroad.


| EpIToR WHEELING lSTELLIGENcER:
/ The project of building this road, from
noint opposite the city of Wheeling, up the valley
I Of Indian Wheeling Creek, and across TO SILVIA
ter and thence down the valley of that stream, TO
n connection with the Railroad now in operation
| or in course of construction in the valley OF the
'TuscarawaS,' has been before the public for near
year; but the immense Importance of the meas
u.e, to the city of Wheeling, and, no less So 10
Baltimore andP Philadelphia, has not YET oeeh lully
appreciated by those most deeply interested II
will be perceived, by all who will give the SUBJECT
thorough and impartial investigation that the
contemplated road will be of incalculable benefit
TO the city of Wheeling. 1t will opena communl-
cation, and form an intercourse with large and
popuIous region of the Western country, from
which the city must foreper be shut out, unless
this road is built.
BY this improvement Wheeling will be brought
so miles nearer large portion of the great West,
than Pittsburgh. and Is nearer than Steubenvile.
Give the Wheeling manufacturer facilities for sup
plying that vast region with their manufactures,
and they will be able, most efrectualy, to COM
pete with those of their rival cities. In CONNER
cia point of view this road will be of no less i'm
portauce it will open the best and most direct CONF
munication flom Baltimore, by Wheeling to our
immense Northwestern Territory, and from Phil
adepha by the Hempfeld road, 20 the entire west
ern region.
The obectional features in the charter, under
which it was intended, originally, to build this
road, have been obviated by availing ourselves of
the provisions of the chatter of the Cleveland, Me-
dina, and Tuscarawas Valley Railroad, which has
been so amended as to extend to The Ohio river OPP
posite the city of Wheeling. Under this charter
the Company will be enabled TO form all tie con-
nections with the great iosb loOrk of railroads,
passing through Ohio, that will be necessary. The
adoption of this charter has removed all the OBJ
jectons raised 10 subscribing under the former one,
hence the inhabitants along the whole line have
resolved to aid all in their power, TO push forward
tie work, 10 an early completion. We have aSsu-
RANGES that $3.50, 900 will be raised, by individual
subscription, along the line. If Wheeling, Balti-
more, and Philadelphia will each give like sum,
we shall have sufficient means to complete the
road. This road will tap the Naysville and Pitts
burgh Railroad at Freeport; the Steubenville and
Indiana, in the Tuscarawas valley; the Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati at Mount Vernon; and the Cleve-
land, Columbus and Cincinnati at Mount GIlead;
making the line in each case, shorter by Wheeling
to the eastern cities, than by the more Northern
routes. The most increiuous can be fully con-
WINGED, on examining a correct map of the United
States, that this road, in connection with the Bal
more and Ohio Railroad and the Pennsylvania
and HempGeld roads, will form the most direct and
natural channel of communication between our
great Atlantic cities, and the Western, and North
western regions of this great confederacy.
1t is contemplated to have the location of the
road made this fall, and put under contract the
ensuing spring, with view of having it completed
before the close of s55.
In conclusion, it cannot be too strongly urged,
on all interested in the early completion of This
wo:k, to act promptly in the matter of subscrip
lion to the stock of the road, and in aid of making
the location. D.