The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-08
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Ie(I Bridgeport Monday, January sOlh'
Az matters pertaining 70 the interest," o.
Wheeling have met me wherever nave
heen /. with your permission, WIZ give
them 10 your patrons and citizens through
tbe columns Of yOnr paper. -.
Wherever | have Travelled ! have Deen
Intercepted, with more ihai Ordinary ny,
interest, las ! am known ALL az along inc .e
rontes) concerning what "Wheeilhg Is
Jnin1 or willio toward building railroads
w he Northwest" My answer was In
EesnIng with what will appear hereafter.
"'S EioT1, the line Of the Wheeling 4 Lake
Eric Meei WoOl's) road, | found the peo-
nle divided IN sentiment as to the practl-
rabiIity and probability oil the road being
SniIt from Wheeling some warmly ad.
vocSting and others opposing the project:
discovered there had been ., good deal
ollood.winktng and woOl.pulling by the
advocates Of the roadto work i uplo the
pitch they have II on paper. They repre-
sent that "Whceling has pledged three
hundred thousand dollars 10 the road
that there are almost insurmOuntable dill.
lcultles 70 ovefcome in building the Lake
Shore g. Tuscarawas Valley road, and
thai the land along the latter, especially
along the Wheeling Greek gardens, Is SO
valuable that It will be impossible TO Sc
cure the right Of way without mourning
too much experise-that II will cost much
more than the w. & Lake E, road"
In reply, I informed them that Wheel
Ing had not pledged that or any other
amount TO theJ Wood road-that It Is alb.
surd to draw q comparison as 10 the cost
OF the two roads, there not having been
a survey made whereby to predicate q
comparison neither was 1t known to be
practicable route.
ltispatent 10 all who know anything
about Eastern Ohio, that the river was,
and to some extent still Is, the thorough.
fare for transporting the products Of that
region; that the wagon roads leading 10
the river follow the deep ravines, and do
not cross them at right angles, and that,
as the railroad would pass through one Of
these ravines, there are but few wagon
roads door can reach 1t TO bring produce
10 IL anu tnaho ~ PaJLn6 Aoou, AOCaily.
Besides this, the route IS SO adjacent to
the c. & P. and the Panhandle roads that
it cannot be made paying road, unless 1t
be that part north Of the T. 81. In con-
trast with this, the L. 8. y Tus. V, road
will be remote from competing roads, and
will cross at right angles the many wagon
roads leading from Harrison and through
part of Belmont counties, to that great
lhOrOughlarc, the National Road, where
by much greater amount Of produce
will reach the railroad and make it a pay
Ing road.
In Cadiz, l discovered that the j. Wood
road gets the cold shoulder. At Barnes
vile, was told they don't want 1t built
south Of that point, or 10 the river that
they ican reach Wheeling Uid Dennison,
mine miles distant) and the L. s. & Tus.
V, road.
At Leesburg l found opposition to the
W. Il l.. E, road on account that no sur
vey nor location had been made; that the
road, ifbuilt, at all, might be located far
from them. Indeed, the sentiment seemed
Al.