The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-04
Company" BY the wheeling and Lake
Erie Railroad Company"
LOCAL SUBSCRIPTIONS.

ported October 7. S72..................--sg7s,a q
Voted by City of sandusky $50 GSS oSS
| Norwalk...- 10000
| N. London 81 UtO
| /" Navarro. 5000
Martins F. 2O,OOU-4s5 90
@4s
Wheeling sub cription- 800,
rotal....................... .sl24a 8;
Engineers estimates for that part 9
the line from Zoar Station to Martin
Ferry, 55.5 mile, and five miles OF sid
ing:
Cost Of road BEDS l1's5 O. O. or s., .%e ss
Total. ,l55 go so sss,s,4 0
For that part from Zoar Station Il
Sandusky, 104.5 miles. and ten miles o
sidings:
per mile
Cost OF road bed .. ........s sDa,Si7 orr 7.7+ Q
superstructure.....-.... ,62o COO " l9'aoS
rotal,...,......s2,4sj,s4 AS, ,s47 SO 3SO4 !
Total per mile from Sandusky TO MarIinh
Ferry -...-... ........-.ssosl 4
At meeting OF the Directors OF thu
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Company, held at Steubenville, Ohio
May q, 1872, the following were unan
imously adopted:
Resolvsd, That Joel Wood, Joseph
Bell and Thomas w. Chapman, the
Executive Committee, or any two Of
them are hereby authorized, on behalf
OF this company, to make any contract
with, and guarantee to, the City ol
Wheeling by which her subscription to
the stock OF this company may be Sc
cured and made available.
Resolved, That in case the city o.
Wheeling subscrbes three hundre d
thousand dollars to the atock OF this
company, said committee or any two OF
them are hereby authorized TO provide
for the issue of additional bonds TO the
amount OF two thousand dollars per
mile of the road, and to subscribe the
same to the capital stock Of q company
authorized to construct bridge across
the OHIO river at Wheeling; taking q
guaranty satisfactory to said committee
or any two OF them, that such sub
scrip,ion, with other stock, sh all secure
the building Of such bridge.
At q meeting held at Steubenville,
November -. 1872, it was
Resolved That the President is here 10
by authorized to contract with the
Valley Railway Company" for the
joint construction, ownership and use
of 40 much Of our line as lies east OF
the point Of junction with said road on
equitable terms, subject to the ratltca-
tion OF this Board.
In reference TO stock subscription, |
desire to say that reports have not been
received from several townships which
are now being canvassed. From these
and other points where additional sub
scription have been pledged, we conf
IDENTIFY expect the amount OF local
stock to be increased to 81 100000 or
81 100000.
The right OF way over q large part
of the line has been granted free Of
charge, and The remainder can be pro-
curei on reasonable terms.
All OF which is respectfully submit
ted. j. WooD,
President W. and L E. R. R. Co.
To the Mayor and Council of the City Of
Wheeling:
The undersigned respectfully show
that BY virtue of an act Of the Leglsla-
ture Of West Virginia, passed February
Is, 1872, and conforming in all respects
thereto, books were opened, stock was
percentage paid, and in pur
suance of notice the stockholders
elected Andrew Wilson, Joseph Bell,
Alonzo Loring, Morgan l. OF, Mason
w. Burt, Thomas OBrlen, Lewis
Baker, George Adams and Thomas
Directors OF the"Wheeling and
Ohio Union Railroad Company" who
duly organized hv electing Andrew VIII
son President; George Adams. Treas
urer and r. H. Cochran. Secretary
delay resulted in not being
able to secure the services at an earlier
dsy, OF a frst-class engineer, but we
at a cost OF over $500, employ
ed Mr.. J. H. Linnville, IF Philadelphia.
who is President of the Keystone Bridge
Company, to make the necessary sound
ings, surveys, plans, rr)tiles and draw
ings and to do all other work necessary
to give the company the most complete
data for their action.
We are advised that the company o
which Mr.. Linnville is President, is the
strongest bridge building company in
this country, snd himself a most skill
iul engineer and practical bridge build
er. Several weeks were spent in sctuaI
under the direction OF this
com ysny, from the notes OF which we
have the preliminary report OF the en-
gineer which we herewith submit Tor
your inspection aad which we find
much more encouraging than we had
expected.
The data obtained by the surveys
will enable the company TO determ
the approximate cost Of a bridge al
auy point from near the water
works to the northern limit
Of the city. Complete prof es, draw =
,ngs and estimates are to be furnished
by the engineer a. rapidly as possible,
and are 10 contain all the detail and
minu,ia necessary to = letting to con.
tract OF oil paris OF the structure, and
to submit to the Secretary OF War, al
the matters required by the acts OF Con.
gress. This and much other prelim-
mary work to be done will require
several months time, aod must
be prosecuted diligently in order to be
prepared to commence the real wor K oI
construction By the esrly opening ol
spring.
With the stock basis promised, and
which We regard reasonably certain, We
have every confidence that the enter
prise can be finsnciered with entire
success, and when the bridge is built
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