The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-12-07
Tho wheeling & Lake Etlo Railroad.

Tho wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad.
We are indebted to Judge COCHRAN,
who returned from Saudusky Saturday
night, for sandusky papers Of Friday and
Saturday, and from him and them we
gather several items Of interest concern.
Ing tho Wheeling s. Lake Eric Railroad
Company. Messrs. WooD, COCHRAN and
CHAPMAN, Of the Executive Committee
Of the Company, were over most Of the
line last week, taking up remaining stock
books and arranging generally .ior the an.
nusl meeting to DO held at Norwalk on
the 10th inst, and for tho early resump'
ton oI work on tho hundred miles from
the coal fields to the Lake. On this trip
they obtained additional stock books to
the amount OF nearly $500, 900, and all the
subscription books on their line from
Martins Ferry 10 sandusky inclusive are
now in the hands OF the company. The
SsnduskY Register reports assurances
from Mr., WooD that the road would be in
operation from there 10 the coal fields
before the close Of 1876. and says that
Mr. sHANIY will be there this month and
will make that city his headquarters.
The road Is located through the towns
oi Hopedale, Leesville, Zoar, Bolivar,
Navarro, and Dalton to Lodi, and thence
conditIonally through Wellington, Nor.
walk and Milan to sandusky, and 1t Is
probable that, as the conditions are about
met, that the conditional location will be
made absolute on or before the annual
meeting on the 10th, making distance
from here to sandusky of 1853 miles, and
to Toledo Of 1OS miles.
The present Board Of Directors were
elected and classified last December as
follows:
Joel Wood, Martins Ferry,3 years;
Joseph Bell, Wheeling, 8 years; R. Il.
Cochran, Wheeling, 8 years; Simon
Better, Zoar, 8 years; Thos. W. Chapman,
Navarro, years; Nathan Husser, Smith.
field, 2 years; Cyrus McNcely, Hopedale,
E. D. Oils, Dalton, . years; I. G. Lock.
wood, Milan, . years; a. w. Hendry,
sandusky, year; Henry Ainsworth,
Lodi, l year, L. NJ. Roby, Leesville, /
year; James Kerr, Martins Ferry year.
The meeting on the 18th Is to elect
Iour Directors for the term Of three years
to fill the vacancies then resulting from
the expiration of the term Of the last four
Directors named. Thus, while arrange.
meuts are maturing for the construction
Of the hundred miles from the Lake in
this direction, matters arc not quite so
clearly defined as to the tilty.eight miles
from ZoAr TO the Ohio river.
From an article in the Cleveland Sun.
day Morning T0ice, OF November Goth,
copied in the Toledo Commercial! OF Fri
day last, we see that the survey OF the
Valley Railway from Cleveland through
Akron and Canton, "contcmplates a con.
nection in Fairfield township, TuscarSwas
county, with the Wheeling & Lake Eric
Railroad thus opening two now routes to
the Ohio River" and We learn that prop.
ositions looking to the connections named,
have been made to Wheeling, but how
nearly negotiations have been matured
we are not advised. Propositions have
also been made by the Atlantic and South
Eastern Railway Company FOR Connec,
tion with the Wheeling and Lake Eric
Railroad at HopedalG by which they desire
10 reach the river. This Is understood to
be an arm fostered by the Eric and tho
Atlantic and Great Western Companies
by which they seek the Ohio river at or
near this point These movements II
mstured present rather promising and
formidable combination by which either
Of the companies named, and the local in,
terests, may be largely strengthened.