The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-12-13

your city. II
other Wheeling gentleman, viii notify
me at any time oil, their wish and DESIRE.
l will freely take the trouble to show
them over the whole line from Wheel.
ing to Saudusky city. to satisfy them.
selves BY personal examination Of the
line and personal acquaintance with
the people along the line, tina. it is to
your interest to lay all prejudice and
rivalry aside and "tie" to live project
and to men who mean business. L
would say to Wheeling, as I have said
to some Of our committee on the Con.
notion Valley, Gentlemen, now is not
the time to stop to swap horses. Delays
are very dangerous. Switches are good
things in their place, but not good for
cities, especially railroad switches, off
of other roads, owned aud controlled by
business men OF other cities. Sandusky
has within two months sent committees
twice along the line to Wheeling. and
they have gone home with the full de.
termination that, let Wheeling do what
she will, they are going to build a road
into our coal fields; for this reason,
that coal costs delivered in their city
from four to five dollars per ton, and,
and they have learned that if this road
is built they can get coal from the New
York Coal works on the Ohio river at
81 per ton delivered in that city, and
also that if they can secure this
road, it will be to them just what the
Cleveland and Pittsburgh road was and
is to Cleveland-an outlet for their ore,
lumber, fish, grapes, and their noted
Sandusky lime. AS we have before
stated, we have no objection to any
rivalry OF lines outside Of the terminus,
but we do object to having our faces
scratched and efforts made to defeat as
by underhanded trickery. We have
made no statements that are not true.
Having myself secured the release OF
the right of way over one hundred and
thirty farms besides six miles of your
lands, and by the efforts Of the people
along the line, nearly one million OF
dollars have been pledged outside OF
Wheeling, and a large amount Of this
already on the books in black
and white. For instance, Congress,
WAYNE county, reports $4,000 sub
scribed out of $40, 900 pledged; Orange
township and Carroll township report
$4,000 subscribed; Bolivar reports
$4,000 subscribed out OF $l5. O0O
pledged; Zoar, in the same township,
has subscribed $4,000 and will double
this or grade the road through their
land. Mr.. Lockwood, committee from
Milan, reports on the 4th Of this month
(December) that West Salem has
secured fifteen miles OF the right Of way
and about one-half OF the amounts
pledged; Fairview reports the old
S. W. r. r. subscription books for
$4,000 burned, and pledges made
to make it the same TOR
this company; Mr.. James Alkens re-
ports, last week, one third of the
amount raised in the town, and no
effort as yet made in the country;
Martins Ferry, $4,000 subscribed.
Deep RIM doubling their subscription.
Piney Fork men are doing the same
We leave the matter with your Rail
road committee and our friends 10
Wheeling to say themselves what they
will do for this company, and on their
own terms, if they are made IN good
faith and are reasonable, and DO not
REQUIRE the company first to spend
million to get two or three hundred
thousand dollars.
Ash have said, this committee has
spent eighteen months Of valuable time
and large sum OF money to awaken
an interest sufficient to build the road.
Our success now depends upon the PEG
pie of Wheeling. This is that railroad
again" alluded to the by Intelhgencer
some months ago. can officially state
that it has always been the wish and
desire OF not only every member Of the
original committee, but also OF every
of the Board Of Directors, that
this road should, at least tor the present,
terminate on the Island. leaving
bridge over the river into Wheeling for
future determination. The question
now resolves itself into this proposition:
a through road to Sandusky City, less
than $50 miles in distance. running
the richest coal. agricultural
and mineral regions OF Ohio. at a cost Coz
to Wheeling of from $3OOOOO to $4ooi1
600 as they may deem advisable; or a
switch to Freeport, costing the city
100000, and before they would get
through with it. another Hempfeld road,
or perhaps another down river road, or
worse still perhaps no road at all.
A. B. PAUL, Secretary.