The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-12-14
Important Railroad COMBINATION
West Virginia Central Railroad
Charter i'm the Hands Of New York
CapitaIists-Thc Road To be Sniit
An Six Years.

CEREDo, December |, 1871.
Editors OF the Register.
A very important meeting was held
in Ceredo on the the 2Sth and GOTH OF
November last, which resulted in a con-
tract that will have n very great deal
to do with the future prosperity of our
State. The meeting was between the
officers of the Kentucky and Great
Eastern Railway Company and the
West Virginia Commissioners, to whom
was transferred the charter Of the West
Virginia Central railway in 1870.
The Kentucky and Great Eastern
railway have charter for road from
Cincinnati to the mouth of Big Sandy,
on the Kentucky side, with privileges
to build branch roads up every hollow
on the line, and to mine coal or iron or
to manufacture any product they may
find profitable, &c. The road is de-
signed as part of the air line road
from New York to Memphis, and
thence to San Francisco. According to
our information the company is strong
in money and influence, and not only
able every way, but determined to build
that road through to Big Sandy, and
from here to the Pennsylvania line as
soon as any such great work can be
accomplished.
The Commissioners on the part OF
West Virginia, D. D. I. Farnsworth,
L. D. Ramsdell, w. B. Crane, J. G.
McGrew, and Spencer Dayton, on the
29th of November, 1871, transferred
to the President OF the Kentucky and
Great Eastern Railroad Company, Col
onel S. NJ. Morton, of New York, the
charter OF the West Virginia Central
Railroad Company, and all the rights,
franchises and property thereof, upon
conditions substantially as follows;
That the Kentucky and Great East
ern Company are 10 commence the
survey of the line from the mouth OF
the Big Sandy to the PENNSYLVANIA line,
within six months from the time OF
signing the contract, November 2sth
1871.
That they commence the work Of
digging and grading within one year
from the date OF the same.
That one fourth of the work Of grad
ing from the Kentucky line. via.Buck-
harmon and the most practicable route
to the Pennsylvania line, in the county
Of Monongahelia or the county OF Pres
ton, shall be done within two years from
the commencement.
And that the whole work shall be
completed within six years from the
time of commencement.
As the North and Southwest Virginia
railroad company contemplate building
a road on a part OF the same route, I'M
PEELED by the advantages OF a short
route link for connection with some OF
the great trunk lines east and west, and
has a country full of minerals and
other products, and the Baltimore and
Ohio will be a rival, as we'll as the
Chesapeake and Ohio, it looks as though
we should have lively times in the next
five years in the way Of internal I'M
provements in West Virginia.
The Kentucky and Great Eastern
road from Ciucinl att to mouth of Biz
Sandy, will be aided and urged forward
BY the Cincinnati capitalists, in connec'
ton with the Ceredo Mineral railway
in Wayne county, which is Of a good
deal of importance to the business In
terests. There will also be the help Of
competition with Louisville, now pre-
tending to help the Lexington and Big
Sandy railroad to secure connection
with Northeast Kentucky. The pros
pect is surely very good. NAT.