Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-01-13
The TEIsyarslWas Valley and
Is kpesiJsg EsaiirOaH.

The citizens in Bridgeport are in ear
nest in their efforts to secure the build
ing of this road from Uhrichsville to
the Ohio river at as early day "a pos
sible. They are not only taking stock
in il themselves but are devOting their
time and energes TO awakening an in
terest among the people along the val
ley of Wheeling Greek, and also Oamong
the people along the rival routes that
liverge at Patton's, about ID miles up
that valley. We observe that Mr.
Andrew J. Baggs is especially active,
having spent good deal of time lately
in laying the importance of the move
ment now making before the people
along the rival routes.
These two routes are known as the
Flushing and New Athens routes. both
of which have their advantages. There
are one or two other routes Zone is the
Cadiz route) that have been considered,
but e understand that the choice is
now narrowed down to thetwo named.
About the lst OF February choice will
probably be made. Meanwhile the
Stock along. both routes is going on.
The company ask u subscription OF
$500 900 to their stock as a basis on
Uhrichsyiiie 10 the Ohio river at West
Wheeling. We presume they will start
on a smaller amount if the 5000, 600 is
not made up, as the present owners of
the road from Cleveland to Uhrichs-
Vile are apparently quite anxious to see
their enterprise pushed through 10 a
natural termination at an important
point like Wheeling. The programme
/ is to make West Wheeling the terminus
! for the present, and from that point to
| fry their freight TO and from tne city,
/ lust as the Baltimore x Ohio used 10 do
! at Bellaire. Tie expectation is that a
large ore business will be done, as the
company have "a superior harbOr at
Black River on Lake Erie, where they
can receive ore and deliver coal to any
extent. They are now, according to
the letter OF the President to Mr..
| Rhodes, moving over $50, 900 tons of
icOal per annum, necessitating the use
of some $50 coal cars exclusive of one
/ hundred now buildipg) to do the work.
/ These cars nsed return freight, coming
this way, iust as the coal cars on the
/ Cleveland and Pittsburgh are loaded
back 10 the river with ore for the fur
naces at Pittsburgh, Steubenville and
| Wheeling. The coal and ore business
! is the secret OF the q. q P's. great pros
perity. It enabled that road to earn
I for lis iesees during the year ending
June 30th 1874 about 500, 600 net profits.
The Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling
| road expects TO compete with the 4. L
! P, aud also the Central Ohio, for all the
lake ore that n0W comes to Wheeling
and Beliaire, and all the freight OF the
two places moving nOrthweStVard.
/ We shall thus havea third line to the
great west, and be that much better as-
surei Of cheap ra;es for our Inanulac-
lures.
In this view Of the case we are ear
nesiy de5irous that the efforts of the
people along the iiBe of the L. Y. & w.
road shall prove successful this time.
/ 1t is now over four years since the agi-
tati0n set in at this end of the route.
Since that time the road has been COM
pleted TO Uhrichsville, two-thirds of the
way from the lake to the river. Ac-
lcording to the letter Of the President
in yesterdays paper, il is demon
/ IstratiDg its capacity to do a profitable
/ business and is earning a net profit
every month. 1t has yet 10 penetrate
( the rich country that lies between the
river and lis present terminus. OF this
scope Of country the late q vernon
Stanton, of Wheeling, wrote in 1872,
rs follows:
cit will be seen by reference to the
map of Ohio that the Panhandle Rail
road leaves the Cleveland and Pitts
burgh Railroad about eiiihteen miles
above Us, and the Central Chic Rail
read fTe miles below u, and both run
westward nearly parallel to each other
/ for about fifty miles, and then COM
mence 10 approximate one another un-
til they come together at about one
! hundred miles from the river. The
country between these roads, about
thirty miles in width and from fifty to
sixty miles in length, is, perhaps, the
richest part of the State of Ohio, when
we take into consideration its mineral
I and agricultural resources"
In local point Of view the opening
up OF This rich section Of country by
rail 10 the river and lake will be an i'm
portant event not only to the people
thereof but 10 Bridgeport and Wheel
ing, and in connections with The I'd
vantages Of he route as IA through line
cannot is L TO enlist .he hearty good
will of the people as this side oi the
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Tae bonded and floating debt Of
Newark is estimated at $4,000.
The proprietor of the Stark County
Democrat. Of Canton, has made an as
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