The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-09-09
wheeling, Hopedale and Lake Shore
Railroad. .....
UoPEpALE, HARRISON Co., o.
September Sd, 1870.
To MS MeRtqenesr:

To h6 EntelIiqEHeer:
The corps OF engineers and surveyors,
headed by Jacob Blickenstatter and JACOB
Jarvis, and eleven others, are progressing
finely, and expect to complete the connect
ing liak between the mouth OF Plny Fork
and the Cadiz Branch by Wednesday next
The people all along the route are awak'
ing UP to the benefits that Will accrue TO
them in the building Of this road.
The farmers arc throwing open their
doors and say TO the party, "Gentlemen,
the 'latch.string hangs out; make your
selves ut home, we want railroad"
Provisions arc carried to them In bask-
cts freely, and the boys arc having good
time picnicing, eating their grub on the
ground. Already farms are advancing In
price on the prospect Of railroad.
N ~ A. BIZ!
NoPEpALE, HARRIsoX Co., ONO,
September 8, 1870
To aAs Wheeling LHtGl!IgEncN:
The corps Of engineers and surveyors,
headed by Jacob Blickensderfer and
Jacob Jarvis, are progressing finely, and
will complete the survey OF the connect
ing link Of ten 10 twelve mics that lies be.
tween the mouth Of the Piney Fork and
Cadiz Branch about next Wednesday.
This connects his old survey, made some
twenty years ago, and completes the line
through from Wheeling to Denntson, and
will make connection there with the Tus'
caruwas Valley and Lake Shore Road.
The capitalists OF the country, farmers
and others, are asked to candidly look at
this route, which shortens the distance be-
tween Wheeling and the lakes. II this
route can be secured from DennIson, 0tG
New Philadelphia, Wooster and Monroe
vile, It will shorten the distance between
Wheeling and Toledo from fiily to seventy
miles, crossing or connecting every rail-
road East and West through Ohio north
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Company.
Coal and lumber will be the great object
TO the farmers oi Eastern Ohio. The
local trade will be as good as any other
road in the State. The agricultural re-
sources Of tho country, for five miles on
each side, far exceed the expectations OF
the proprietors Of the Eastern Division,
Of fifty miles iron ore, In Tuscarawas
county, very pure, and coal veins OF five
and a half to seven feet on the east end.
Can any one hesitate and say that this
will not make n paying rOndS We know
IL will, and now ask men to come up and
subscribe literally, and before the year
ends grading can be commenced on tue
whole Eastern Division of fifty miles.
Wheeling look to your interests II you
fail TO make this connection, and you sui.
fer It to make its connection elsewhere.
your city will suffer. The citizens OF
Wheeling are asked now to back up her
City Council, in tho resolutions passed
about o month ago, and secure to this
company now organizing 100000 to the
Eastern Division, of twenty-five miles, to
Hopedale, or the 100000 to the whole
connection to New Philadelphia, or Den
nisOn, Immediately, so that they can go to
work and build the first 18 or 20 miles,
from Portland to the Cadiz Branch, and
this will make q commencement and en-.
able the company to build the balance OF
the route much faster and more economl-
,cally, as they Can do their own work, and
the local trade will pay the running cx'
penses until the connections are made.
These arc facts, and stubborn ones too, and
are laid before you for consideration, for
you 10 view them candidly and honestly.
The city OF Wheeling, as o corporation,
can do nothing until alter the first Of Jan
uary next, and it viii be very late before
anything definite canbe known or done.
Let your business men select a committee
Of FIVE, ten or twenty mon and pledge the
amount for the city, independent Of indt.
vidual subscription, and your road will be
built. JIGiI 'gi ~ LA
Yours truly, r. Z.