The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-10
JOEL WooD, President of the Board Of

JOEL WooD, President of the Board Of
Directors. These statements stand upon
their own merits and need no defense
from US. But If any one doubts that
there are eighteen towns on the line
Of the proposed road, we will show him
q list of twenty towns on that road
whose aggregate population exceeds
$4,000, il he will take the trouble to
call at this Office and make the inquiry.
As for the coal and the ore, and the
sandstone we submit the report of
the State Geologist Of Ohio, quoted
in the prospectus referred to and which
fatty eontradicts the assertions made
by the Intelliqsncsr correspondent.
Take one instance. The correspondent
says, "the Zoar Furnace never had any
black band ore Of any importance. "
The Geological Report Ohio, 1871, page
As, says of this ore, "on the old Zoar
Furnace property, in Fairfield town
ship, it has been worked nearly forty
years." 1.-THE black band ores OF the
region under consideration are certainly
of great Importance. Now which
shall We believe; this distinguished
Attorney whose geological researches
have been confined to "Coke on Little
ton" and who knows more about
Blackstone than black band ore? or
shall we give the greater credence to
the Professor who, unconnected with
the railroad interest and caring not a
straw for the Wheeling and Tuscaravas
Valley railroad, has made an official
report of the geological resources OF the
State of Ohio?
But here is the unkindest cut of all.
3rd. 1t does not cross or make con.
nection with any railroad that will give
it any business worth mention, from
the fact that they are all competing
lines.
We have before us little pamphlet
issued in the interest OF the Wheeling
and Tuscarawas Valley railroad in
which the projectors Of that enterprise
plume themselves upon the fact that
their road crosses and may make con-
nection with six important railroads
running from east to west or from
northeast to southwest through the
State of Ohio. The Wheeling and
Lake Erie road crosses the same six
roads at points equally advantageous
and crosses also three others Of equal
importance.
But Notwithstanding the two roads,
the Wheeling and Lake Erie and the
Wheeling and Tuscarawas Valley, run
through the same section Of country, so
far as the latter road proposes to run
at all, we are told that "the principles
that should determine the location of
road are all violated in the proposed
Wheeling and Lake Shore road"
The word "Shore" is doubtless typo
graphical error and the Wheeling and
Lake Erie road is meant. If we are
to Judge from the devotion which the
Northwest" writer Ranifests toward
his tender bantling, the Wheeling and
Tuscarawas Valley project, we must
conclude that it has been Matched in
accordance with "the principles that
should determine the location of road.
These are that it must come down
Wheeling creek, put its depot either in
Bridgeport or on the Island, send all its
passengers and freight across the Sus-
pension Bridge, and employ member
Of the City Council as its solicitor and
attorney. These seem to be the prin-
ciples that are "all violated in the pro-
posed Wheeling and Lake Erie road
"Hinc lilac lachaymae."
We are sorry that this article has
grown to such unusual length but the
subject is the most important one that
has come before the people Of Wheel
ing for determination during the past
twenty years. The building of the
bridge and the opening OF a railroad to
the northwest will mark a new era in
the history Of this city. 1t will
give fresh impulse to every de-
partment OF trade and start the
city upon a career of pros
perity such as she has never before
enjoyed and can never attain in any
other way. 1t would be a pity and a
shame to see this opportunity thrown
away forever, simply on account Of a
little jealousy between rival routes.
Let us look at the interests of the achole
city and labor for the general good. If
we can't have things to precisely suit
our own private and individual notions,
let us do the next best thing and help on
the progress of general Improvement.