The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-31

Navarro, has been transferred to the
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad,
which has been largely increased, and
will amount to $500 in a few days.
/ get this information from men of the
most unquestioned raspectability at
Navarro and Orrville, one of whom is
in q position as to that company to
know whereof be speaks.
On last Friday stepped into the
Office Of one OF the most influential
citizens of Massillon, and asked 'how is
the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley
railroad progressingT The answer
was ~ have taken no interest in, and
paid no attention to it, since it sold out
to Chamberlain. l know that the peo-
pie are stubbornly resisting the right OF
way"
l am advised by people living in the
neighborhood, that towards the north
end where they profess to have the road
graded, the road bed is three or four
ieet below high water mark Of the val
ley through which it runs. Twenty.
eight miles of an old road bed to which
they now claim title was wrested from
its owners BY fraud, and to which
their title is not clear by any means.
There is more faith in this Lake
Shore and Tuscarawas Valley road
right here, where it is not known, than
there is where it is known. People
have no confidence in it many believe
it will never come south of Massillon.
For some thirteen miles of its length,
it runs almost in speaking distance"
OF the MassiIlon branch Of the Cleve-
land, Mt. Vernon and Dayton railroad.
1t crosses the same roads at less advant-
ageous points than does the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad, and heard
a Director of the Lake Shore and
Tuscarawas Valley railroad say within
the last three weeks, that he would
not give one share ofthe Wheeling and
and Lake Erie company, with its pres
ent prospects, for fifty shares of the
Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley
railroad and its present prospects.
There are many other things that
mightwith truth be said about this road,
and which, perhaps, it was my duty as
a citizen of Wheeling to make known
before. have given what have with
reluctance and because l felt it neces-
sary in reply to the upprovoked article
OF A. B. In such road, with such a
reputation where it is known, who can
have confidence? Who can believe in
all its fuss about prorate arrangements;
Vanderbilt, the guaranty OF its bonds,
and all such big talk; and who will
subscribe on such promises without first
seeing the bonds and papers2 Where
will they get their stock outside OF
Wheeling2 / venture that between
here and Dennison, including Bridge.
port, the road cannot get $4,000. II
the neighborhood of Athens boasts Of
$4,000 as big share for her, what may
we expect from other localities With
one or two exceptions, there is no en-
thusiasm. They must get 100000
subscribed and then thirty days must
elapse before they can organize. This
road expects 100000 from Wheeling
to 6sqin with, while President Wood, OF
the Wheeling and Lake Erie road, asks
her for 100000 to finish with.
1t seems to me that A. BIS road had
better get million or two Of stock over
in Ohio before they ask Wheeling for a
100000 or a half million.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie road is
a through road and independent; the
other is switch of road without
character. The one is on a capital
basis of $4,000 per mile; the other on
an unknown basis. The one can be
constructed and equipped at $4,000
per mile, taking the companys bonds
at par; the other, with its bridges and
tunnels, will cost sos, 900 to $4,000 per
mile. One has the faith and confidence
Of the people along the line; the other
is but branch of a diseased trunk,
without hope in the world. The one is
nearly ripe for the constructors pick;
the other seeks birth and maturity in
Wheeling to-day. The one will enrich
its stockholders and our city; the other
will impoverish it's stockholders and
advance the private speculations at
Chippewa and the mouth Of Black river.
The one will be owned and managed by
it's stockholders; the other, it is pro.
posed, shall be turned over before
maturity to the Fisks and Syndicate OF
the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley
road.
As between the two roads and their
advantages to our city, whether consid-
cred in manufacturing or mercantile
sense, the comparison of the one to the
other is as day to night.
ia. B. is satisfied with the compari-
son, we'll; if not, clay on Macdutf
r;,L ,orr up,oraaponn and more anon