Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-01-26

TaR HRXPPfRLD RoAD.-We notice that some
effort is now on foot, and has been for some
time back, the object of which is to. set the
stricken and afflicted Hempgeld road on its legs
again. Aswe understand #, acommittee of the
B&o.R R. Company have had the matteriunder
advisenlent for some time back, and have atlast,
either directly or indirectly, given out that they
are ready to adopt some such compromise
measure as this: The merchants and other
citizens of Wheeling are to go on and raise
some eight or ten thousand dollars, the theo-
retical amount necessary to get the road in rum
ming order: and when this is done, the d. & o.
R. r. is to put on sufficient stock to eqnip the
road-set it going and keep It going from the
proceeds.
We are glad to hear of any scheme that
promises anything for our railroad interests,
and especially SO of the Hempfeld-but We
must look into this matter tribe more before
we can view itas anything more than plausible.
In the frstpla eight or ten thousand dollarsis
the nominal or pulative sum, through whichit is
hoped to remove the slides staigh upthe track,
ballast where necessary, and put the road in
general trim. Itisa well known fact, that such
calculations as q rule fall short sometimes 100
per cent sometimes more Of the real cost: but
allowing that double or thrible the computed
sum would be necessary -it is not a large
amountsf for railroad purposes-and here is one
reason Why we dissent from heprojectedmove.
If twill only cost eight or ten thousand dollars,
and tiaei, turn out n good thing in tho hands of
the, sB. & o. r. b., why does their committee
hesitate to close in with the very liberaio offer of
the Hempfeld managers2 Surely, if there is
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possibilityof loss, yet We aretold, thar Sim
ply eieht or ten thousand dollars interfere to
prevent ihs cnrihit frtssrl sel,snt stor.aa.
No would se.to see The b. q %. r. r., on.
any other sponsible party take hold of this
Hempfeld, and thoroughly dress it up, but we
would not like to see our over burdened citi-
zens attempt to doit We all know how mon
ey goes and has gone in all these commune pro-
jects. What Is every citizens business is no
one of their numbers business, and as their
contributions are filtered through factorage af.F
ter fact6Fage, no one is responsible. Let the
Hempfeld be sold out clean and entire, if needs
be, in fee simple. or let it be farmed out for q
term of years TO private parties or corporatons,3
but let us not have another disjointed abOr-
tionized stock Job creation with which to disturb
our quiet
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LAND wARRAs4s-NSe notice by the fnan-
eial circular of Messrs. Sweeny, Rittenhouse &
Co., by yesterday s mails, that land warrants
are in active demand, and have advanced 4 cents
per acre since our last report. The General
Land Office has advertised to berestored to mar
ket, in June and July next, the land on the rail-
roads in Iowa within the sis miles, and offer for
sale a large quantity in the same State, not
heretofore subject 10. entry. The following are
the quotations.:
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