The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-20
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1871.
The question to be Voted on TO-dny

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1871.
The Question TO be Voted on To-day
The vote is to be taken today IN uli'
county on the question whether the
Board Of Supervisors shall be invested
with the discretion Of subscribing, or not
subscribing, $4,000 or less 10 aid in the
construction o! a railroad from the Brooke
eoupty line to this city. The Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati * 81. Louis Railroad Company
iyirrqaIly the Pennsylvania Central agree
that il Brooke and Ohio counties will
grade and bridge the roadway from that
road at the eastern END Of the Steuben-
vile Briigcto Wheeling, The p. G. Il 81.
Louis Company w!!.pl. on the ties aad
rails, build depog, equip with rolling
stock-In short put the road in running,
order, and run It; taking mortgage on
the roadway as security iortho outlay, and
paying over the profits to the Company
chartered and organized tor the conslrnc-
toa o, the Road, Ghe Pittsburgh, Wheel
ins l. Kentucky Railway Company
An agrccmen; OF this kind was first
made with the people OF Brooke for q
road down to WeIIsburg. The money
for that has been raised, and the road will
BIZ made that FIR in any event The
proposition WAS enlarged for an extension
20 this city, and Brooke has made pro-
vision to build her proportion Of it, from
Wellsburg to the OHIO county line, if this
county determines TO build It from that
line to this city Whether the road will
come below WcIsburg will therefore de-
pend on the vote OF this county today.
The distance from the county line to.
the city is about nine miles, and it is be-
lieved that ten thousand dollars mile
will secure the right OF way and construct
the roadway, outside Of the city, But it
will cost something extra to bring it into
the business part ofthe city; and hence in
submitting the question: the supervisors
allowed the margin Of from $4,000 to
100000, in proposing subscription Of
$l50OO0.
The terms offered by the Pennsylvania
Central are objected to by some rs giving
that Company too great an advantage
1t is apprehended, too, that the road will
not be profitable enough TO pay the inter.
est on the bonds given that company, and
that ultimately the mortgage will be fore.
closed and the roadway be sold out and
fall into the hands Of that company, as the
HcmpAcld did into the hands Of the Balti.
more & Ohio. In that event, Ohio county
would simply lose her stock, as
she did in the IIenpAeld, but the
amount Of loss would be much less.
That is the worst that could happen. We
would still have what we believe would
be ample compensation, in the advantages
afforded by the road rs line Of travel and
commerce. We have said before and still
think that if this road could be obtained
in no other way, the interests Of this city
md county would be promoted by max.
Ing an absolute donation OF the proposed
$4,000. II our subscription secures u,
the rOad, the worst that can ultimately
happen Is that it may become u
donation As we sec no prOba,
bility that the road will ever, or fol
many years, be built, il the present Op,
portunity be not improved, it seems to us
it would be best to make the subscription
and take the chances that 1t may some
day become donation. We do not
share the apprehension that the road will
not pay, and that the holder of the mort.
gage will have TO take It, The line
will be but twcnty.One miles long,
through country already very rich
and pOpulous, and one that will take
n new growth as soon as this line Of
railroad is run through it. All the Ohio
bank from Wheeling to Holidays Cove
IA admirably adapted for manufactures Of
any md every kind, and in time will be
dotted with them and villages created by
them. The building Of this road will
give an impulse to such enterprises, and
help make business for itself that will
steadily grow from year to year, But il
everything there stood still ms it surely
will noO we do not see but this line, uniting
Wheeling & Pittsburgh, shorter by thirty
or forty miles than the line now used be-
tween these cities, ought to doa good liv,
ing business in carrying through ffCights
and passengers and such local business us
the present condition Of the country along
the line would afford. The stock OF the
Company would be held by the counties
OF Brooke and Ohio, the PENNSYLVANIA
Company not taking stock, but lending
the cost Of track and equipment, SO that
Ohio county would control in the affair.
oFthc Company. OF course, il the Pennsyl
vania Company did all the business anc
handled all the money the success of the
road would depend on the honesty will
which they rendered an account Of theil
management. That would depend again
on the ultimate contract made with that
Company by our Supervisors, or by the
p. W. " X. II. r. Company
II we do not authorize them to sub
scribe, that is the end Of the present
movement II we do, 1t docs not follow