The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-09

live stock over j Z per cent; manufac-
tured iron about so per cent
The Bellevernon branch now pronny
;ses 10 be a success. The stock VIII
certainty be procured and the line COM
pleted during the coming year. 1t will
reach the Connellsville road in the
neighborhood of West Newton. If it
should be extended a distance of twenty
miles to Washington, Fa., it will open
a new and favorite line to the West.
An extension of the Uniontown
branch toward the West Virginia State
line is projected, and the parties VINO
have recently purchased the Fairchance
Iron Works have arranged ior the I'M
mediate construction of about hve miles
of the road. ..
the extension. of the Chicago line is
heinz rapidly obtained. The recent
visit Of President Garrett to Pittsburgh,
and thence west, has given impulse and
steadiness to this work, and his assur-
ance of the readiness of the Baltimore
and Ohio road to cooperate 7impart
strength to the financial character Of
the enterprise. , 81,
The action of the Chicago board Of
trade evinces the highest appreciation
of the plain but striking truths pre-
scented. 80,
A shorter and cheaper line from the
lakes to tidewater, says President
Hughart, has long been imperatively
demanded. Now, however, is first
shown a route from Chicago-the en-
trepot of the grain trade-the centre OF
lake and railway traffic, passing through
Pittsburgh, the head Of river naviga'
ton, and the most important, if not the
largest manufacturing city on the con-
tinept, cutting off all great angles
taking advantage Of the peculiar bend
of the Atlantic coast. and reaching the
ocean at the wharves Of the second
commercial city Of the country, being
the shortest in actual distance and much
the most favorable in point Of grade.
To this line is already insured the
aid of vast railway influences. 1t vii
receive tribute from lake, river and
ocean. 1t will peculiarly combine agri
culture, manufactures and commerce il
its traffic, and be sustained by the
wealth and organized power of the three
great cities of Chicago, Pittsburgh anc
Baltimore.
The location through Ohio has no
been determined, as there are severa
routes fulfilling all the required condi
tions, and each is anxious!y pressed up
on this and the Baltimore and Ohio
Company. .s..la ..a.-
Beginning at the point of contact Of
the Connellsville road with the State
line, one passes through the great iror
region around Youngstown, theme,
through Akron, and westward; {
second through Salem to Akron, ant
thence westward; third through ALI
ance; fourth through Canton, and s
fifth through New Lisbon, Bellevill'
and Kenton.
They are each being properly mapped
the statistics arranged, and will soon b,
placed before the executive committee
Upon the adoption of one Of them, thu
work, it is hoped, will be at once under
taken and theoretically pressed to com
pletion, The amount Of local subscrip
tons upon some of these lines is very
large. +
The following gentlemen were elected
directors for the ensuing year: Messrs
VIM, Oden Hughart, Pittsburgh; G. L
B. Fetterman, Pittsburgh; VIM. Phil
lips, Pittsburgh; WIN. Baldwin; Pitts
bursh; VIM. S. Bissell, Pittsburgh; Cy
rus P. Markle, West Newton; Cyru
Meyers, Somerset; Johns Hopkins, Bal
timore; VIM. II. Perkins, Baltimore
Israel Cohen, Baltimore; Hazeltine G
Vickery, Baltimore. and Hugh Sisson
Baltimore.