Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-17
that il viii certainly have 4 great future.-

that ii will certainly have d great fasure.-sl
We are glad to- learn that the energetic
President of the Marietta aud Cincinnati
Railroad Mr.. N. L. Wilson, of Chilicothe,t
has recently returned FROM Europe, where
he has met with abundant success in pro-
curing the necessary financial aid to put
his roadtin complete condition. It is well
known that the Marietta and Cincinnati
Road has labOreCh under serious disad Van-
tages since its opening il. 1887, for the
want of money With which to build its
tunnels aud TO finish it generally, even in
moderately fair condition. Up to this day
the temporary zig gag tracks are obliged
to be worked at great expense and some
loss of time, because the main tunnel has
been opened for use. Some considerable
difficulties in other respects have been la
bored under, buttWhich are now being very
rapidly and successfully removed. Indeed,
the Marietta Road will soon rank among
the best constructed aud best equipped
lines in the country, SO that, with the adj
Inirable practical management of its af-a
fairs by its excellent superintendent, Mr..
John Durand, late of the Little Miami and
Cleveland and Pittsburg Roads, the Balti-
more and Ohioewill have init an ally of
the greatest value.
that neither the Marietta nor the Central
Ohio line will be adequately developed
as a connection of the Baltimore and Ohio
road, until suitable railway bridge is con-
structed over the Ohio river, so that cars
can move between Baltimore and Cincin.9
natl and other Western points without
break of bulk 1t has,iperbaps, been over
looked that at a recent session of Congress
an ample generalElaw was passed, allowing
the construction of three railroad bridges
over the Ohio-one st SteIbenyille, for
the Pennsylvania road connections, anoth-
er below Wheeling for the Central Ohio,
and the third between Parkersburg and
Belfre, to connect the Marietta with the
Northwestern Virginia branch of the Ball
timore and Ohio road. We learn that all
three of these structures are likely to be
early completed, that at Steubenville; iu-
deed, having been begun and partially built
some five years since, when il was stopped
by an injunction which the recent law te-
moves. AS to the bridge near Wheeiing
we have no special advices, but tue Mari
eta Company has with great energy all
ready provided, with the Baltimore aud
Ohio railroad, for the erection of ii first
class iron railway bridge at Parkersburg g
1t only needs, therefore, in order to
make this line perfect between Baltimore
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built, and the tunnels on the Parkers6urg
road permanently arched as they are upon
the main west of Grafton. We presume
this will be done at an early date by the
Baltimore and Ohio Company, or perhaps
| by our city authorities, who manifest such
q laudOble interest in the line 'E
The Baltimore aud Ohio Company would
doubtless be fully adequate to all the un-
dertakiDgs necessary to the development
of its connections, as wellas for more i'm
mediate home improvements, but for the
heavy losses it has sustained .fromittie war,
1t is true that by extraordinary exertions
and the most laborioas efforts on the part
of its management, the road has success
fully sustained itself through all the trials
which the last two years have brought
upon 1t, but its revenues have uot been of
/ that redundant character which is over
flowing the treasures of its rivals, and
which would certainly have, in perhaps
even larger measure, been reaped by it but
for the frequent and protracted Interrupt,
lions OF its through business, and the re-
peated destruction ordamage of its tracks,
buildings and equipments by the Rebels
We have seen that the revenues of the
Pennsylvania Central road have swollen,
from between five add six millions as their
highest amount previous to the war, to
nearly twelve millions in the past year.
thus giving that great work an Immense
financial strength, winch it is wisely using
IN stretching out its Briarian arms in all
directions, to grasp the trade for Philadel-
phla which its connecting roads will seua-
Die 1t to secure. Even now, that road
tand other Northern lines) is reapiug adj
vautages from its suppose immunity from
Rebel raids, with which timid people and
rival agents are constantly threatening the
Baltimore and Ohio line.
With all its difficulties, however, the
Baltimore and Ohio Company, we believe,
is still proving its ability to maintain itself
successfully even under the worst of cir
cumstauces. For almost the entire period
since its reopeuing in January it has been
taxed to nearly its utmost capacity to do
the business brought upon it. Immense
Trans OF loaded cars continue to arrive in
Baltimore, the number of cars averaging
qally, as we learn, over four hundred for
weeks at time and upon one day in
MArch nearly six hundred cars arrived,
making a continuous line of trains, loaded
with the products of the Vest and the
mountains along the road, of over three
miles in extent.
AS an evidence of the interest felt in this
route at the West, VS. quote from a recent
editorial in the Louisville Journal by Mr.
Prentice, who says:
''This important and valuable thorough
fare between the East and West. as our
readers are advised, was reopened early in
January, after an interregnum of four
months, caused by the Antietam campaign
and d the destruction of some thirty miles
OF Its track and bridges by the enemy un-
der Stonewall Jackson in person. That
was the third time in which this energetic
corporation has, since the beginning Of the
war wa. risen, Ph@nixelike, from the ashes Of