The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-01-31

wuEFLTNa AND TUsoARA-
" WAS VALLEY RAILWAY.

ps0or, Of the Citizens Committee.
y, The peoD,e oft city Of IMseItng'
Thc Undersigned, who were appointed
:. ~" ncciinr Of the citizens Of Wheeling,
ny, 4 ~ tho Grant House on the evening
~ m, the nh Of December, A. d. 1871, 10
take preliminary steps Tor llle organize LAM,
,ioo Of a Railroad Company 70 conaecL
with the Lake Shore and IuscalaWs
T T Railroad, now beg leave to report
Th9t they Immediately PROCEEDED 70
r,ncnrc n charter from the State Of ONO,
incorporating q company to construct
Ws;IrpSI COMMENCING at the State line and
,1a line oI the corporation of the city Of
Wheeling, in Belmont county, ONO, run
ming through the counties OF Belmont,
Harrison and TusCarawas, and II deemed
aJvisobIc through the county Of Jefferson
~ lie line of the Panhandle Railroad, ut
or near Dcnniaon, In TusCarawas county,
Ohio .,,n..
ter were, John Mcclure, Thomas Swec::
new and Crispin Oglebey, Of the city OF
Wheeling; W. W. Holloway. Ebenezer
Rhodes and h j. Bags, Of Bridgeport,
belmont county, Ohio; W. $. Streator
and Judah Chamberlain, OF Cleveland,
CuyohOga county, Ohio; and Clement
Russell, Of BIassilon, Stark county, Ohio.
On the receipt OF the charter, the corpor-
ators Immediately organized, anil pub.
lshed notice-in pursuance Of the laws OF
Ohio-that books would be opened Tor
subscriptions To the capital stock Of said
company, which was Incorporated by the
name Of 1.-THE Wheeling " Tuscarawas
Valley Railroad Company" on the 1st
day Of February, 1872,
Our'capitalists, manufactures and bust.
ness man will, therefore, be expected, on
that day, TO manifest "thcir faith by Their
works" ..
Ithas been assumedb your Committee
in their consultations with the officers and
representatives Of the Lake Shore & Tus-
carawas Valley Railroad Company, that
100000 individual stock would be sub.
scribed by the citizens Of Wheeling TO the
capital stock Of this company, and that
the city of Wheeling, in It's corpor-
ate capacity, would subscribe the
additional sum Of 100000. This,
We have no doubt, will furnish US a
complete, lrst.class railroad, in full
and complete operation to all points on
Lake Erie, before the LIST oil October, A.
D. 1873. The terminus and depot OF the
road for the present will be on the eastern
side OF Wheeling Island, convenient and
accessible TO river freight and business,
with convenient arrangements for trans
icrring freight in burden cars across the
river to the wharf or landing on the east
ern side of the river.
We regard the result Of this enterprise
rs fixing and settling the destiny OF the
city of Wheeling for a generation to come.
That the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas
Valley Railroad Company will extend
their connection 10 the OHIO river atsome
point in the vicinity of Wheeling is as
certain rs any other future event. Wheth.
or it shall be at Bellairc, at Portland, or at
Wheeling, is the question that is now to
be determined.
We say that this enterprise fixes the
destiny Of the city, because the business
aud population Of manufacturing or
commercial city depends essentially upon
the extent of the country which its trade
and business can command, by the GaCili.
ties or trade and travel to and from it.
The population Of the city Of Cleveland
in 1850, was 10000.
The population oil Wheeling in 1850
WAS Il little less than 10000.
The population Of Cleveland in 1870
was fraction under $4,000.
The population Of Wheeling in 1901
was little less than "a 900.
Thus II will be seen that while the pop.
ulation Of Cleveland is nearly six times as
much MS it was twenty years ago, the pop.
uIaliOn Of Wheeling is only twice rs much
Ms it was ut that time.
Ii we now permit the city Of Cleveland
to come TO our very doors and take the
trade We now have without providing
ourselves without facilities for competing
Tor it, the disparity in the rate oil increase
will probably be greater in the future than
it has been in the past.
II will he seen by reference to the map
Of Ohio that the Panhandle railroad leaves
the Cleveland u Pittsburgh railroad five
miles above us, and the Central Ohio
railroad five miles below lls, and both run
westward nearly parallel to each other
Tor about fifty miles, and then commence
To approximate one another until they |
come together ut about one hundred miles |
from the river The country between
these roads, about thirty miles in width
and from fifty to sixty miles in length, is,
perhaps, the richest part OF the State OF
Ohio, when we take into consideration its
mineral and agricultural resources
All the surveys and explorations that
have been made of the several
routes from Wheeling to Dcnnison
show that the road will run
its entire distance from Wheeling to Den. |
nison through inexhaustible deposits Of bi:
luminous coal, of the same quality as that
by which this city is surrounded
But, in addition 10 this, the recent gco |
logical survey of the State of Ohio, shows
that the Valley Of the Tuscarawas con.
tains the richest deposits OF Scotch black |
band iron ore that is 10 be found in the
NhltINA ctltCS'
Professor Ncwbury, the chief geologist
OF the State of Ohio, in letter TO DIR. |
Strcator, President of the Lake Shore and |
Tuscarawas Valley Railroad Company,
dated October go, 1871, says: AT Dover
We enter the area Of the black band iron
ore, TIE most raluable ore, and tie 1fehest
iron district in the State. This ore lies In
The hills; is not continuous, but has been
found in Il great number Of localities, and
VIII be PROFESSIONALLY opened in many
Others ! have seen numerous exposures
Of this orc, where 1t formed sheet aver.
aging ten feet IN thickness and underlying
many acres.
"Ihe deposits Of black band orc extend
IMM9lnterruplcdly from Clover Hill to Port
Washington. The specimens Of this ore
which We have analysed, contain in the
raw state about 25 per cent Of iron, and
when calCinCd, over 50 per cent. The
iron made from it is very highly esteem.
81 us isprOven by the reputation Of
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