The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-14
acknowledgement.
n,,p WHEELING CREEK 4 TUs-
l"I CARAVANS RAILROAD.

Tha Present status Of inc Eu'eIPII'SS
w prosress In subscriptions and
D,,St Of Ways.sThe Advantages
nat May be Gained BY Building
80 Miles Of Railroad.
10 ,be Editors Of the IntellIgeReeF.
From some questions asked by cores
ronjepS Of your paper, ,as well as the
P.T,trr and from remarks Of members Of
the civ Council, there y either inexcust
sbIc ignorance Of orSa determination, 10
make wrong and Injurious impressions
sraipst the above named road. My only
affect In writing this mtiCle Is togiVe
INCH Information as will enable any one
iOIudge whether this road Is 9 "myth As
A prominent member Of the H. Il. Com.
mIttee choosesltucall II, or 20 fraud" as
member oethe Council, whose age and
position IS 4 citizen should give him that
teSnect FOR the opinion Of Others. sold
and deeply interested In the future OF the
civ a. himself as would have prevented
bi1, from making such assertions Id re.
aard 10 any enterprise they may choose
Ia advocate. l ask the attention Of your
readers 10 tho following extract from the
report o. the Lake Shore i Michigan
Southern Railway: 10, '..rs
"ThIs company is consolidationot the
Buffalo s, Etie Railway, the Lake Shore
Railway and the Michigan Southern &
Northern. Indiana Railroad, which under
the above. name form continuous line
from Rnialo 70 Chicago, q distance of540
miles. Besides this, the company owns
branches as follows: AShtabula 10 James;
town, 80 miles; .Elyria ria SandlskY to
Nnbury, 74fmiles; Toledo 10 Elkhart 1873
miles; Adrian,t to Jackson, 40 miles; and
Adrian to Monroe, SS miles, Id addition
10 these the following roads are undersep.
srste organizations, but the capital stock
thereof Is owned wholly by this COMP
The Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Railroad
10 Detroit, 65 miles, and Kalamazooi&
White Pigeon Railroad from White
Pigeon 10 Kalamazoo, 81 miles"
Then we have the following roads oper-
a,ed by this company under leases: The
Jamestown & Franklin Railroad, from
Jamestown to OIL City, 81 miles, and the
kalamazoo, Allegheny g. Grand Rapids
Railroad, from Kalamazoo to Grand IA.
pIds, IS miles. ~
The whole number Of miles Of railroad
owned and leased by this company Is one
thousand and seventy.four.
Under the head OF neD railroad connec.
lions we have the following:
1.-THE Cincinnati & Springfield Railway
Company have completed the cOnstruc.
ton Of their railroad, from Dayton 10 Gin
cinnati, and II Is expected that II will be
ready for operation in May. The can.
,trtsetian Of The Lake Shore q 7uSedraGaS
Valley Rdi2wGy, extending from Eipta
Duthrdrdly through Tie 1uearawas coal
fields torard the Ohio Tirer, waS commenced
during 1871, and Is nOp IN operation torty
miles south Of Grafton"
| will add, and is to be finished to
l'neltrilk in October OF this wear.
(CrChSville is the point In place of Den.
nSon, on the Steubenville s Indiana rail.
tosd) This place is within 50 miles OF
Wheeling by the Wheeling Creek route.
This Lake Shore & Tuscarawas Valley
road has eight engines and eight hundred
passenger, freight, coal and other cars
now building, and all this without
one dollar from tho city of Wheeling;
aud yet the Chairman Of the Railroad
Committee, and that other Councilmen
cries "a myth-a fraud" And WHY?
Simply because the President Of that
road came to our city at the request of
prominent citizens, and upon earnest SO!iti.
il'ion Of some Of our leading business men,
made proposition to extend this road 10
this city. On examination of the laws
0iOhiO, his charter could not be amended.
and for this reason alone he proposed a
separate organization, with tho following
conditions: That said new organization
should be called the Wheeling i Tuscara.
was Valley Railway Company, with a
capital Of two millions dollars. That 80
sOohas said company was organized and
aid's basis oil stock Of 100000 to be
nI'ed by the city Of Wheeling and on
The line Of said road, then be would agree
TO consolidate the two roads.
To show his own good faith in the
whole transaction, he with other direc.
Tors Of this road, allowed the use OF their
names as corporators, and yet more, to
give double ASSURANCE, be got q PROPOSE.
lion from Horace r. On II. President of
The Lake Shore = Michigan Southern
road, stating tR6t,the same accommoda.
Mons, or endorsement, that was given 10
The Lake Shore s. STuscarayas Valley
i03d, would be extended to the consolids.
ed road. Also, the same arrangements
9' passengers and freight. With this ba.
MpFovlded, Dr.. Streator agreed to under.
axe to build this road. Will any better
Proposition ever be offered 10 Wheeling
Oyany road or companyg On the fore.
gong conditions q charter was obtained
ana gentlemen in Ohio in good faith went
Forward, and have secured iour.ff(hs
o. lle right of way through
10 UrichSvllle over each OF these
routes (Flushing and Athens) and
nave In addition to this eighty
thousand dollars Of stock subscribed on
i 10; inst sixteen miles Gncluding me
bridgeport subscription.) Also on either
o. The competing routes Flushing or Attn.
s3Sl eighty thousand more; this will make
100000 stock on the first 30 miles, which
= = over 5000 per mile. In addition toI
I4ls understand, from Freeport toward
Inchsvllle, there are subscriptions to the
amount Of $4,000 more. Responsible
men inform me that these are moi prom.
lses, Olt both right OF way and stock
Ate In black and white" and all this with.
Dut one dollar from Wheeling or her Gill.
Eens' With fourtllths Of the rIrht Of
Wy, and 100000 stock offered to us Nv
Calo, how can any OF our citizens talk
a0oHs "6IIIdtng roads in Ohio Tor Bridge.
port, &C." -''uSe'
Let any one take map or railway
SSulde, aud examine it, see the locations Of
Iaese roads connected with and oncreted
Y The Lake Shore road, reaching into
I'VE States, with over two hundred stS.
IONS west Of Cleveland, a number n,
Thich arc cities Of the first and second
lass, as well as many large towns and
hen consider that the building of 10 niles
Of railroad will giveus close connection