The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-04
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Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Kentucky
Railroad Company.

Railroad Company.
A radical misconception is afloat in
this community with reference to the
purposes, objects and scope Of the pro-
posed vote on the Goth inst. on the
question of allowing the Board of Su-
pervsors Of Ohio county to subscribe
to the capital stock of said company
such sum as they may deem proper, in
their best judgment, not exceeding
$4,000. 1t has been broadly circulat-
ed through this city, through the
agency of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road company, who are actively at
work, through their private agents, to
defeat this road, that the county Of
Ohio Is expected to donate the sum Of
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to this road. This is not the fact The
county of Ohio is asked to subscribe
to the capital stock Of this company
the sum of one hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars, or less as may be. The
county of Brooke has already subscribed
one hundred thousand dollars, and her
private citizens twenty-one thousand
dollars, making with the county Of
Ohio's proposed subscription, two humid.
red and seventy -one thousand dollars.
This constitutes the capital stock Of
this company to construct the road
from the Steubenville bridge to the city
of Wheeling, and is sufficient for con-
structing the same so far as they are
required to do so. Upon their perform
ing their part of the work, which this
fund is sufficient to perform, the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati IL st. Louis Railroad
Company, of which Thos. A. Scott is
President, whose single name is suffi-
cient to guarantee the performance OF
any contract be may make, and which
this company has in writing, proposes
to lay down the cross ties, to erect de-
pot buildings, make siding, furnish roll
ling stock, lay down the iron and gen.
orally to complete the road, and take
in payment thereof the bonds Of the
company, payable twenty years after
date Is not this a fair proposition
Who is there who would not build q
house on such loan1 The Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company is in the
field to oppose this vote. They will de-
feat it if they can. They know that
the construction Of this road will make
through line to the East and West
which will control their exorbitant
determinations, BY which for eighteen
years they have oppressed the shippers
of freight from Wheeling to the East,
and from the East to Wheeling. 1t is
known to you all that shippers from
Boston to Wheeling can afford to ship
their goods to Cincinnati and re-
ship them to Wheeling by beat, and
make money by the operation. The
mere saving in freight to Wheeling peo-
pie, which consumers have to pay, will
more than pay the annual interest on
the proposed subscription.
Look to it, voters Of Ohio county, that
you do not longer mortgage yourselves
to the Baltimore d Ohio Railroad Co..
which has heretofore corruptly con-
trolled your Legislature, skulked just
taxation, and by its odious discrimina-
ton against Wheeling shippers has
placed them behind competition with
Cincinnati and ST. Louis shippers, for
like purposes. If you desire this state
of things continued. vote against the sub
scription. If you desire it put down,
vote for that which places the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company in Wheeling
TO compete fairly with the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad and thus compel
them to make q proper tariff Of rates
for the benefit Of Wheeling. P.