Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-07-16
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD
Its Connections with all Leading
Roads East, West, South
and Northwest.
It's Financial Condition.

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We clip the following interesting
statement from the Baltimare Gazette
of the Sd inst.
By the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and its connections we are connected
directly and inseparably througa the
mastery administration of its officers,
with Washington, Richmond and the
affiliated Southern roads, penetrating
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Louisiana. Through
Harper's Ferry and Winchester we
penetrate the Valley of Virginia, and
are now completing our Southern
connections in that direction. Through
Grafton we strike Wheeling and Par
kersburg from the latter, extending 10
St. Louis ard its connecting Pacific
Railroad, and from the former uniting
with that network of railways which
ramify through Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan and Illinois and the far north west.
The Cunnellsville and Pittsburgh is
opening in connection with our Balti-
more and Ohio road another grea line
of travel and traffic, which will acquire
increased importance when the indie
pendent Baltimore, Pittsburgh and
Chicago road is finally completed.
sHORTEs LINE TO TIE NORTHWEST.
That line will be the shortest, Cheap
est and most direct FROM the Northwest
to tidewater. New York has been hith-
erto the objective point of ChicOgo on
the Atlantic. but by this new line Bal
timore will be one hundred and fifty
two miles closer to Chicago than the
average distance of the existing lines
used to New York. BY the New York
Central road, from Chicago to n. York
it is 1S5 miles further than from Chica-
go to Baltimore by the New York and
Erie, 166, and by the Pennsylvania road
the distance is 1O4 miles greater to New
York than by this new route from
Chicago to cur city.
AND TO THE WEST.
From Louisville to Baltimore the
distance through Cincinnati is 696 miles
or 291 less than to New York by the
Ohio and Mississippi and New York
York by the New York Central, and
155 less than the Allentown route of the
Pennsylvania road.
IHIOuSu tllC OlllO dIlO NiSblSSjp
road to Cincinnati, and the Marietta
and Cincinnati road thence, the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad presents alone
2I0 miles less in distance to Baltimore
from st. Louis than the average dis
tance by the three trunk lines used
from st. Louis to New York. The
Baltimore and Ohio Company now
controls and works, under permanent
lease, the Central Ohio road from Bel
laire, on the Ohio river, to Columbus,
the capital of the State, and it has also
a line which extends from Newark, or
its Central Ohio division, to Sandusky,
ON the lake. The new lines of the Bal
timore and Ohio, in connection with its
Metropolitan branch from the Point of
Rocks, reduce the distance from Pitts
burgh to Washington city, as compared
with the route via Harrisburg, full Is
miles.
FACILITIES FOR BUSINESS.
Shortened distance is, of course, a
main element for transportation but
facility for transfer and cheapness of
handling are not the least of the mate
rial advantages sought for in the COM
petition of commerce. The rapid en-
largement o. the business of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad at its marine
station on Locust Point has caused ad-
ditional space and facilities there to be
desirable, and with this view the large
property extending from the line pre-
viOusly owned by the Company to
Fort McHenry was purchased for the
sum of 1000, which gives them now
water front of one and one-half miles.
This vast space is lined with ware
houses, freight yards, coal docks, land
ings for emigrants, magnificent sys-
tenn of grain, elevators for loading f0r-
eign vessels, or for storage purposes.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE B. e. o. {
RAILROAD.
The last railroad to enter the field of
competition with the West has been
the Baltimore and Ohio. Although
less known and appreciated, this COM
pany is by no means the least impor-
tant in any one essential point, but bids |
far to not only hold the balance of
power, but to outstrip all its formida-
bic rivals. Let US compare the situa-
tion us we find ii at the opening of the |
present year.
1t is only necessary to group the pre-
sent financial exhibits of the corpora
tiOns which are mainly parallel, and |
are competing for the same class of
business.
The statement is instructive:
Niles Operated.
New York Central SOL