The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-19
TIE RAILROAD AND BRIDGE.
WHEELING, Nov. IS, 1872.

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TEE RAILROAD AND BRIDGE.
WHEELING, Nov. IS, 1872.
Editor Of the Register:
In your paper Of to-day you publish
an extractfrom Cleveland paper show
ing that the people Of that city, on the
10th Of December, are to vote on giving
= million of dollars to the Valley Rail-
road. Will you please inform your
readers what relation, if any, the Val.
len R7ilroad sustains to our city, and
what is being done in behalf Of the rail
road and bridge upon which our city
voted so emphatically q few months
ago. Have they all been abandoned,
and is our CITY to stand still and see
railroads running all around, us. only
accessible to freights and passenz ers BY
meaus OF horse power transportation
with all the horses sick with epzoouc
Please tell us where we are, whittier
we are tending, and whether your noble
efforts in the past tor railroads and I'M
provements are to be fruitleSs.
INQUIRER.
For the Information Of our friend we
state briefly that the Valley Railroads
q new road projected from Cleveland
to wheeling, some twenty miles shorter
than the present Cleveland and Pitts
turgh road. JAMES FARMER, OF Cleye-
LAND, the old President and father of
the Cleveland and Pittsburgh road, is
its President. They have been work.
ing it up some two years, and have
ve-v able Board Of Directors who, with
Mr.. FARMER at their head, are pushing
matters vigorously. THIS road will
strike the Wheeling and Lake Erie
railroad somewhere between Bowerston,
in Harrison county, and Zoar, in Tusca-
rawas county, Ohio, fifty or sixty miles
from this city. Mr.. FARMER met
with the Board Of the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad, at their
meeting in Steubenville last Tuesday
and spent the remainder Of the week in
company with President WooD in ex'
aiming this end of the route:
On behalf OF the Valley road Mr..
FARMER proposes to pay one-half the
cost of the construction OF the Wheel
inc and Lake Erie from where he
strikes it to this city, and to take one
half of the four hundred thousand
dollars stock which that road is pre-
pared to take in our new railroad
bridge. The road bed and everything
but rolling stock from the point of in
tersection to this city will be partly
owned by the two companies, but oper-
ated separately and independently.
This will be most valuable arrange.
ment for both roads and for the bridge.
and more than all for our city. 1t
equally divides the cost Of the most
difficult part OF the Wheeling and
Lake Erie, and permanently secures
two new roads for the bridge and city
and gives us the shortest possible out
let to Cleveland, Sanduskv, Toledo and
the great Northwest No better or
brighter opportunity was eve: offered
us than we now have, and we are
pleased to say that railroad matters are
progressing quite favorably and as rap
idly as could be expected. The Rail-
road Bridge Company Of our city, at an
expense of near two thousand dollars,
have had, during the last three months
most thorough surveys and estimates
made for their bridge. These were made
by Mr.. J. H. LINNvILLs, Of Philadel-
phia, the President and Chief En-.
gineer of the keystone Bridge Com
pany, probably the greatest bridge build
ing Company in the world. His pre-
liminary profiles,l plans and estimates
are now in the hands Of the Secretary
Of the Company in this city, and show
that substantial, all iron, permanent
span bridge can be built forless than q
million Of dollars. Everything is pre-.
pairing to break ground for the bridge
and railroad with the earliest opening
OF spring, and we are not without hope
that we are on the right track, are
tending onward and upward, and that
"our efforts in the past Tor railroads
and improvements will be fruitful Of
good to the growing interests Of our