The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-31
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ohio Marrow Gauge Railroads
Rapid Increase.


We publish, aa very interesting piece
Of information, the following list Of mar
row.vuugc railroads, finished, under con-
s,ruction, or seriously undertaken m
Ohio, amounting altogether to some eight
hundred miles. The information is from
. friend who has unusual facilities for
obtaining knowledge on the subject, and
whose statements can be relied upon. II
presents a significant intimauon Of the
rapidity with which this new method o.
cheapening travel and transportation /.
rising in public favor, recommended a
itis By relative cost, compared with the
standard gauge, so low as to bring It's
lines within the reach OF every well set
tied neighborhood throughout the coun-
Dayton & Southeastern, lo5 miles
Contract given out, and working on H.
To be finished ready for the rolling STOCK
October /, 1876, at $4,000 per mile. H. w.
Corwin managing director; !. Bleckens-
derier, IT,, chiefenginecr: n.. 10,
Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy, III
n;Ias Gonrrnct given; to be ready for
Is miles and iron laid by May !, 1917, at
sIl,4OO per mile. Jas. Emmett President
and ". c. Agnew chief engineer, both at
Wheeling 4 Lake Erie; graded part
way for standard gauge, but changed to
narrow-gauge, because they could not
rai.e money to build the standard gauge,
but have plenty for n narrow.gauge. The
road. equipped and finished for large
business, $4,000 per mile. They have
one mile Of tunnel, cost per foot, $40.
Road 1879 miles long.
Wheeling, Alliance & Lake Erie; part
graded; 7. W. Kellogg contractor. This
road is about to form connection with
The gainesville & youngstown narrow.
gauge. There will be over 100 miles to
make the road from Wheeling to Alli-
ance.
Toledo, Maumee & Grand Rapids; 23l
miles long, y miles finished and running
Oni The u miles cost equipped, with
rolling stock, about $1,000 per mile. II
was not expected this road would pay for
several years, but 1t paid big from the
very first, and now no one can buy the
stock at any price reasonable.
The Toledo & Ohio Is short road run.
ming from Minerva, Ohio, 10 Carrelton,
and is to be extended. Gen. Ackiey, Mi
nerva, President.
Toledo & Ann Arbor; 70 miles long;
graded for standard gauge; now being
finished for narrow.gauge. Only short
distance in ohion
Bellaire 4 Southwest; grading is now
going on; length over 100 miles; |. Fl. Sui.
Ivan, President, Bellaire, Ohio.
Cleveland, Collamer & Lake View is
now standard gauge; going to change to
narrow gauge; acknowledge their mistake,
and say they are out over So, 900 cash by
using dummies" and not making 1t mar
row gauge at first. Road is " miles
long; YIN. West, President, Collamer,
OHIO.
The Miami Valley narrow gauge will
be 40 miles long, now being surveyed.
Cincinnati & Westwood narrow gauge;
iron partly laid and locomotive running,
~ miles long. W. E. Davis, President
College Hill narrow gauge; iron purity
laid; locomotive running.
Smithfsld & Rush Run narrow gauge
is Just starting; will lie miles long.
Lebanon & Cincinnati narrow gauge is
Just starting; don't know length, but about
20 miles.
Toledo & Petersburg narrow.gaugc; 20
miles long; now Being graded and nearly
ready for iron; 10 good hands; will be CIV
en- to Eve men, who will iron and equip
the road. Residents along the line give
these men the road.bed and ties already
to lay track.
I'M. Cook, Toledo, Ohio has project
about completed to build narrow.gaugc
from South Haven, Mich.
Toledo, via. Paw Paw and Ottawa,
Mich. Will be 40 or 90 miles in Ohio.
These are all in Ohio, or partly SO, and
together over 800 miles OF narrow-gangc
now being built.
This note which We append is from our
informant;
The average cost OF Ohio standard
gauge roads, now running, is over $4,000
per mile, while you can build narrow
gauge roads for one-iourth Of that amount,
completely equipped, and can haul ton for
ton Of a paying load at the same rate OF
speed and is per cent less cost Of operat'
ing. You cannot get the Pittsburgh, Fort
Wayne & Chicago railroad to let you take
their cars beyond Chicago without much
vexatiOn, aud coaxing, &c. II you ship
on some Union, White or Star line you
have to pay additional charges, more than
equivalent to q transfer. AT Chicago you
have to pay a transfer charge, the same
whether freight ia transferred or not, OF
two cents per bushel on grain; actual cost
Of transfer being about one.ffth Of cent
per bushel. Consequently transferring
don't hold good against narrow gauge.
The transfer will be the other way in less
than seven wears.