The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-02
Wheeling and Tuscarawas Valley
Railway.

From yesterdaySs Register.
1t was not my intention to so excite the
ire oil tx. Y" as To force him to plead the
cause OF the Wheeling and Lake Erie
road aslf he was pleadinga case in court,
in which all the evidence was against him,
and the only hope he had was to excite
the fears OF the juryor operate on their
sympathies.
In his communication of the Goth inst,
he makes the declaration, italicized, "0oitt.
IN the nert ten days, l haze no doubt, tie
road toIH DO Under contract from here to
Toledo, on a sure stock basis, and on more
favorable terms in other RESPECTS than anu
OTHER road through similar territory evcr
kneO." This would certainly be some.
thing new and strange in the history of
railroad building, to contract for the
construction! and equipment Of two hun
dred miles Of railroad at $S5 900 per
mile, taking the company's bonds "dt par"
without having had even q preliminary
survey OF the line Of the road to be con.
structcd. 1fthis assertion be true, then
there must be a"niggCr in the wood pile"
somewhere.
AS to the statement Of distances OF
which he speaks, It is only necessary to
say that, as neither the Wheeling and
Lake Erie nor the Valley road has been
surveyed, no man, even though he may
be an expert, can give reliable distances
on lines of road running through cir
cuitous ravines as these do, within ten
10 fifteen per cent Of their true length /;
and, as further reply, 1t is well known
70 all business men that rates of freight
are not controlled by distances on com.
peting lines.
My great object in my communication
of the 30th was to call the attention Of our
citizens 10 the fact that while we were
asked TO subscribe TO the Wheeling and
Lake Erie road, and told 1t was our duty
and interest to do so, we have had no data
presented to us, by which we could even
approximate TO tho cost except as we find
asserted In the vsrious communications
through tho papers. Give us your survey
and estimates; your distances and the
grades You have 10 overcome, and also
your various tunnels; their length and
cost ; the important connections and the
various points Of interest that arc usually
made ina tirst.class suvey, and then We
will be able TO act understandingly.
This thing Of bushwhacking round and
saying that You can do this and do that,
and that you will accomplish this and
that in the next ten days, will not suit the
people here when you ask them to vote
to subscribe $500, 600 toward the build.
ing Of your road.
The Wheeling and Tacarawas Valley
railroad has made report In printed
phamphlet from (which was also publish.
ed In our city papers, its grades, cures,
bridges, tunnels and the cost Of It's entire
line from the Ohio river TO Dennison,
showing the cost ofthe entire suprestruc-
ture ready TOR the ties and rails TO be ST.
2S1 1885, which Is less than 5000 per
mile, the distance being flity.two miles,
This survey and report was made by Mr..
Blickensderfer, one OF the most reliable
engineers in the country. The cost oil
ties (e6O0 per milo Of road Mt 30 cents per
tie or $500 per mile) will DO $67, 600
and tho cost Of rails 100 tons oil
iron per mile at $40 per ton) will be
1894, 900, making the road cost altogether
81, 7l3. 1885, or fraction under $4,000
per mile. Now for these figures reiel