The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-08

Eastern freight, and oil Northwestern
freight Vid Cleveland & Pittsburgh, over
the Steubenvllle bridge, (which they now
ownD by that road into the city. II I am
correct In my views then Mr.. Mccullough
will not put in too or three hundred thou.
sand doILdrs0 trniSh he matter at once"
The editor makes the Wheeling & Tus.
carawas Valley Road a kind Of side show
to the great and important Wheeling &
Lake Eric and bridge project. This may
be good policy, or 1t may not. II the
bridge Is built on the site proposed, the
Wheeling tS Tuscarawas Valley Road
cannot use It. 1t would cost almost all
that Wheeling Is asked to subscribe to this
road 70 get from Bridgeport to the bridge.
The Animus o! the City Council appears
to be to kill the Wheeling & Tuscarawas
Valley enterprise, and they are making
progress to accomplish their purpose. The
Wheeling q Tuscarawas Valley Road was
designed 10 be an extension Of the Lake
Shore Il Tuscarawas Valley Road from
Dennison to Wheeling. This last named
road will be finished from Elyria to Den.
nison in October next; 1t will not stop
there; 1t will have an outlet to the Ohio
river at some point. The city OF Wheel.
ing can and will determine that point.
The present policy Of the Railroad Com.
mittee and City Council will drive this
road up the Saltwater Valley to Barnes.
vile. By that route II taps all the
ore and coal fields 1t will need
for fifty years to come, beside
avoiding the heavy expense Of crossing
the dividing ridge between Saltwater and
Wheeling Greek. Are the business men
OF Wheeling willing to allow this, when
a comparatively small effort on their part
would put It beyond question in less han
sirty days?
The resources OF the Lake Shore s.
Tuscarawas Valley and the Wheeling g.
Tuscarawas Railroads, were fully set forth
in pamphlet by the Wheeling Commit.
tee, A report was also made by Presi.
dent Woods and Contractor Wilson Of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie. The editor of
the Register, with his practical skill as an
engineer CO and an eye single TO the in.
terest OF the city, speaks in glowing terms
Of Its advantages and prospects. With
all due respect for their opinions, l must
say they have been misled; the parties
from whom they received their iniorma.
tion have sadly misrepresented the facts.
LIST. 1t is more than 100 miles to San
dusky; when you get there, she has no
trade 10 put on the road; thisn Is
clearly shown by the small amount of
business she gives the b. s. o. r. r. to.
and from that point. She owns no yes.
sells, has no Lake Superior ore bank or
lumber regions OF any importance. The
capitalists Of Cleveland, Toledo, Buffalo,
Detroit and Chicago own them and will
control them in the interest OF these cities,
without stopping at such way stations as
Sandusky city. I'd. The Wheeling g.
Lake Eric has no IS towns on the line ofI
their road. They have no coal of magni-
tude or quality-it Is farce; but little OF
1t is marketable only as the most com.
mon coal atloat. The road passes through
next to no black band ore; the Zoar Fur
mace never had any black band ore OF
any Importance. This is the great reason
that said Furnace has done so little. The
sand stone quarries are of no commercial
value. Sd. It does not cross or make
connection with any railroad that will
give 1t any business worth mention,
from the fact that they are all competing
lines
The principles that should determine
the location Of road are all violated In
the proposed Wheeling s. Lake Shore
Road. The estimates OF business and
traffic are predicated on false basis.
The travelling attorney of the Wheeling
d Lake Erie Road very kindly informed
the citizens of Wheeling, that stockhold-
ers in Ohio corporations were liable for
double the amount OF their stock. Will
not the same law apply to our city as a
subscriber to the Lake Shore Road! Isit
more safe there than in other Ohio roads
Are corporations or cities exempt where
individuals are liable?
From the present outlook the city will
spend 800, 1000 and have but one road to
use the bridge. NORTHWEST.
May Z, 1872.