The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-19

j COUNCIL
The following is the report Of Survey
or Gilchrist, concerning the establish
ment Of the true lines Of Quincy street,
submitted to council at its meeting last
Tuesday evening: rc,
TO tte Mayor and Council, Of ne Ctty %
Observation-Disclosures your resolution
Cconcerninr the lot Of Henry K. List,
| ESQ 4 i I1r6eeedetl 10 survey the south
l line Of Quincy street, and nave ascef-
taIne6 and marked the same as be-
Iieve IL he correct, and from the follow
Within my personal knowledge GER
tain lots were surveyed in that square
in the year 1854, and the base of such
survey was the north line of Quincy
street, as determined by the range of
what Is known as the 4feAfee, now 1oc-
cupied by Messrs. John Hamilton q
Co., @. l.. Zane & Co., and others.
also remember the purchase, subdi-
vision, &C., of the engine house corner,
(noW Hess') and while on a visit to this
city In the year 1857. assisted my uncle
in surveying the corner property OF Mr..
Hess, and believe all parties understood
the line then given-to be the north line
of said street.
again, the Paxton building, on the
Northeast corner of Market and Quincy,
ranges with the line shown by the
Hess and McAiee buildings P; and the
Howell, formerly Hughes, residence is
also continuation Of the same rnDge;
so that we have here a more than
average base of two and one-half
squares Excepting the Stelle house, oc-
cupied by McKelvey, and that base all
on the same addition while on the
South side of quincy, or opposite to the
base, there are no two buildings which
fairly range with each other; and 1t is
very doubtful whether either has the
merit of being exactly parallel with the
| line of the street-aS appears by the
| following measurements:
From the PAUL (now Hughes' stone
wall to the Warden luow Peck) resi-
dence, as measured between stone
work, sixtyssix feet-ths true width Of
the street. From the brick base at
Paxton's Smiths grocery to the base
stone-work at the Rogers dwelling
house corner, there is distance OF
| sixty-seven feet and three aud one half
inches. From the Southeast corner OF
the McAfee building to a point in line
with the North side OF the Pollock Mill,
we measured sixty-seven feet. From
the McAfee Southwest corner to the
Northwest corner of the old Union
House, we found sixty-seven feet and
i've and three-fourth inches. And
from the Hess building, occupied by
himself and others, to the Rogers build |
ing, occupied by FranZell and others,
there is a supposed street of sixty-seven |
feet and six and one half inches in |
width, or eighteen and one-half inches |
more, than was contemplated or held !
by any record or other reliable evidence
a htPh hue within tho nf !
my observation.
In other words, on the north side of |
the street there Is what I believe to be a |
satisfactory range, and an established |
base, while on the south side of the |
street I can find neither.
It was suggested that a survey should |
be made from Union, street, southwark; |
bot my experience (limited though il |
may seeml condemned the proposition,
for thus judged that II an equal dis |
tribution of the surplus in the whole
addition was to be the basis of adjust
ment, then an almost endless litigation
was the result; because the surplus
differs in the three blocks, and the east
side Of'neither exactly agreed with its
opposite side; while to me it appeared
plain that If the dispute be confined be-
low the north line of Quincy, an early
settlement of the question-was at least
possible. On the other hand, If to suit
only one party, that know, the base
of the survey be made south of that
range, then Mesars. Pollock and List
are made to fall back on Messrs. Char
mock and Howell, and they, in turn, on
the next owners, and 80 on through |
the whole square, il the statute of linn
ttation be not previously reached, or
some non-reSlstant be made 10 suffer |
the loss, p-- |
Allow me, gentlemen, twhile on this
subject) to state that have often |
thought and remarked, thatthe citizens |
in general would be highly benefited |
If some method were devised which |
would peAceably and legally settle this |
and many other difficulties existing in |
different parts ofthecity. have often |
privately and freely commented on the |
subject and really think that the future
harmony and well-being OF your con-
stituencies would be promoted If deti-
mite marks or bounds on at least two
diagonal corners of every square, were
lmpartially given and sacredlY kept, |
and II needs be, made as binding as |
law and ordinance could make them,
so that differences of the character I'M
der consideration could not occur.
AlsO here permit me to state that the |
established grade at the List corner |
Southeast of Main and Quincy is very
doubtful unless some unknown orCli- |
nance or an established fact governs the |
case. For find in the ordinance book |
certain elevations and depressions from |
the grade base to the north line of
Quincy; and on actual SURVEY find that |
the result is not the product of the rise, |
Tor instead of an aggregate. elevation OF |
eject % Inches, I hnd one OF feet 8 |
inches; and instead of depression of 8 |
inches from the south to the north line |
OF Quincy, there Is an elevation Of moreI
than 8 inches. The cause of this des- |
crepancy Is to me unknown; and any |
remedy of the McAfee corner is not de- |
sirable, but as the curb at the List cor
ner Is plainly seen to be too low for the |
crown of the street In front thereof, |
would 1t not be-well to make the List |
corner the (contemplatedl three inches |
above the McAfee corner. Essn -
Finally, If i am competent, and II it |
be within my province, would advise |
the settlemento OF the question by allow
ing Mr.. List to build at point on the
east line Of and west line of alley lin |
rear) at distance of sixty-six feet |
SOuthWardly from the brick work OIL
heretofore described, and II necessary |
to quiet the contending party, pay him
a reasonable compensation for u foot, |
50 inches left on the street, although |
the loss may haYe been the consequences
of taking the ranging OF the old Quincy
building, which stood and
still stands In the rear of the compare
lively new brick now occupied as the
southwest, corner of Main and Quincy,
and theniRllOw Mr.. List to rise with the
grade from the McAfee
NO right would be compromised
nor injury ensue.
RESPECTFULLY submitted,
Ssfs. b. ,s-p JAMES GILCHRIST.
WHEELING, Aprit 18Th, 1867. Il
The Recommendation to establish the
north lineof Mr.. Lists lot on the south
side Of Quincy sixty=six feet from the
IETELLIGENcER building, was adopted
bY both hrnnOhaa 0F CyounNf1 and tho