The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-21

Editors Of the IntellIReaeer
As this mornings issue Of your mana,
Mll close all discussion upon the cues
uon OF subscribing to the p. W, & Kv
hailroad, l desire 10 add o few words by
way Of conclusion to what has already
Dsen said on the subject. THT'
TIE FRIENDS OF TH1s RaTRRPRfss /
have given the public their candid rea.
IONS ior iavoring the proposed subscrip.
uon, and 10 sustain their position have
presented arguments that no one has vel
successfully conhoverted. They have
shown in what respects 1t win be an Nj.
vantage to this city, and they propose now
70 leave It to the people to say whether
they desire this valuable short line Of
competing road to be built or not. '''
BRIDGEPORT TRANSPORTATION.
In order to set my friend Whitney, OF
inc bridgeport Transportation Company,
right ! will state, from information re-.
ceived from one Of the principal officers
o. the r. Q. d St, Louis Company, that,
the intention Of that company is 10 make
the +. W. q Ky. q competing road for All
treights north, west and south from this
point. .r -
THIS LINE OF ROAD
from Wheeling via Steubenville, Column
bus and Logansport, to Chicago, Is 49l
miles long, which Is sixteen miles shorter
than by the Baltimore 8 Ohio and Lake
Shore route. The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
q st. Louis Company controls this whole
line from Steubenville 10 Chicago, and
we cansay to Mr.. Whitney, and his trans.
portaIion company, that, as far as Eastern
and Western bound frelghts are concerned,
i Is not proposed alter the completion Of
this road to pay his company one dollar
per ton any longer, when the same freight
can be delivered upon the track of the
Pitnburgh, Cincinnati & Ut. Louis road
Tor less than % per car load, while Il
would cost via Whitney and the O. & P.
road $l45O to Mingo Junction or Steu-
benville. e5TfI5E"' :, : ~ 4
AS FOR CROSSING BRIDGES 1881
! presume that the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati
q 81. Louis Company and the Baltimore
q Ohio Company stand on the same foot.
ing as regards cost.
Now with all these facts placed fairly
before the people, l would ask why they |
should not come out to day and vote tor |
the subscription. Ifeel persuaded that il /
this road should not be built the CITY Of |
Wheeling will sustain q loss that she will |
never be able to repair; not alone |
In the value OF this road as a
line, but also as res.
poets its bearing on our manufacturing
interests. I'll this road Is lost, we will lose
with 1t the manufacturing sites and coal
advantages that belong to It, and which
will be opened up by It above the CITY.
These sites and coal advantages are mai.
ters OF great moment TO this community.
and Will become more and more 80 every
year. Suppose we now desired to build |
ANOTHER ROLLING MIL. ~
Where, ask any candid man, could we
build 1t on this eide Of the river, conven.
lent to coal and railroad facilities? There
8 not such Q site of the line Of this road. |
Therefore, l say, defeat this railroad to-
day and the result will be that the II
OHIO SIDE OF THE RIVER
will become the field for future manuiac.
turing enterprises. Already that side Of |
the river has attracted our Capitalists to |
seek the advantages presented by this
road. And this will continue to be the
case in the future II this road fails TO be
built. All glass and iron concerns will