The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-11-25
OF WHEELING.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie II. r.
It's Advantages TO the tfty-What
Is Needed 10 Secure it's COnstruc-

WHEELING, November "a.
b.llors the Register.
\ letter from New Lisbon, in Mon
.,y, ht,iligsucsr, and the connection
:ar-r.n named Of this city with the Erie
a.i the Atlantic and Great Western
-..wavs, suggests som" matters OF more
Ian passing interest to the people of
Nar"IHg.
By the route referred TO the distance
.-n. herr. t. New Lisbon is about seven
. @or,. and by another proposed route
about sixty miles.
IN Nav, 1873. the Atlantic and South
.,.,-a Railway Company WAS organiz-
o.. .,trI,ihly t. construct 1t railroad from
I'w Lisbon. rui Sa!incvillc and Hope
s.. 10 Portland, hut really to build to
a.p~iair and then t" connect with the
"a~r.,ng and Lake Erie for this city.
''nc Of the directors Of this new organ
thur, Col. Robert T.. o BrIcn is the
a.e' Engineer and Assistant General
>Nrratcudrnt of the Atlantic and Great
""';"rn Railway Company, from which
. Wi, be seen that that company,
"-'agh one Of lis principal officers, and
20 "iArr ways that might be named, Is
.a,Hg an interest in the arrangement.
tor ncarlya year negotiations have
.~"n pending between the Wheeling "
.AAr Erie Company and the Atlantic X
-ih"a>trrn Company, by which the
-'::"' Seeks the joint occupancy of the
"a.N Of the former from HOpedale to the
'vr-
When it is remembered that in May,
80" by a decree of TIE Court of Com
-''i Pleas Of Cuyahoga county, the Val
~ Hallway Company was authorized to
"a" Martin Ferry, instead Of Bowers
:, 4, 't> southern terminus, il will be seen
'.'' three ner and IRE rGii,ray projects
a. pointing TO the very doors Of our
..r, viz:
- l. Tn" Wheeling & Lake Erie from
'.'dov via Sandusky to Martins Ferry,
:" miles.
: The Valley Railway from Cleve-
,7i Via Akron and Canton to Martin 5
'r''y l5O miles; and,
' The Atlantic & Southeastern; and
,.''ngh it the Erie and the A. & G. w.
: , ID New York via. Niles, New Lisbon,
Iy'.aeyIIic and lIopedale TO Martin :
'r.ry some 6j0 miles.
'ae'e Is every reasonable probability
| ,',I The construction of the first named
IL from ZOar in this direction, will
'S With II t. the river the other two
;aUcd.
rom Sardusky to Zosr, distance Of
..-''y-nlne miles, it is already upon a
IShent basis, and $4,000 more of
=. VIII put it on a safe footing from
y: axe to the river, at Martins Ferry.
u l." 'hi> road can be constructed to
,'''un : Ferry and connected with the
SGPhrId by bridge at the upper end
'H' SIty, 1t will give us another road to
ioFk; and to our city and to Balti-
r.. new, shorter and better road to
rtr&nd. Sandusky and Toledy.
r., = VIII reduce the distance from here to
't'ahd some ten or fifteen miles; from
,y' s 70 Sandusky, Toledo and Chicago
man sixty miles; would put the
""'hed cities and intervening terri
=! on line through this city actually
, niles nearer to Baltimore than they
, NV aFr to New York, and practically
.' Than 200 miles nearer if we consid-
,,, .'s matter Of grades; and plant our
H., n: t'F many years, if not for ages, on
y,..MnoFt snort line from the great West and
yt yy'n"eSt to tidc.watcr.
=. Notwithstanding the many adverse
.,.I instances arising from local jealousies,
a uhes, adverse legislation and judic-
E. Interpretation, the Wheeling & Lake
p,., na' newer relaxed its efforts and
aeyp. PuSe' to succeed, and l regard it ss
d,os dm having been in as promising con-
1In TS as it is to-day.
Il, &c earnest honest desire of its officers
H. zen zen to make Wheeling point, but
,,s oooniFolling voice and bulk of stock
h. Ss'aoaally, but surely, increasing on
In" western portion of the line, and the
may soon be, when this end will bs