The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-08
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Tnr TUgcAnAwAs yAIlEY& & WHEEL

The TuscARAwAs VALLEY & WHEEL
ING RAIIRoAp.-The citizens Of Bridge
port are in earnest in 'thcir efforts to Sc
cure the building OF this road from
Urichsyille to the Ohio river at as early 1
day as possible. They are not only TAX
ing stock in Il themselves but are devot-
ing their time and energies TO awakening
an interest among the people along the
valley OF Wheeling Creek, and also
among the people along tho rival routeG
that divcrge at PattohS, about 15 miles
up that valley. We observe that Mr..
Andrew J. Baggs Is especially active,
having spent agood deal Of time lately in
laying the Importance of thSmOvement
now making before tho 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 theCadia
route) that have been considered, but we
understandAthat the choice is now mar
rowed down to the two named. About
the 1st Of February a choice will prob.
ably be made. Meanwhile the canvass
for stock along both routes is going on.
The company ask subscription Of $780,;
900 to their stock us basis on which to
proceed with the road from Urichsville to
the Ohio river'at West Wheeling. We
presume they will start on a smaller
amount if the S5OO,OOO is not made
up, rs the present owners Of The
road from Cleveland to- Urichsville ARE
apparently quite anxious to see their
enterprise pushed through to 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 ferry
their freight to and from the city, just
as the Baltimore & Ohio used to do at
Bellaire. The expectation is Tat large
ore business will be done, as the company
have a superior harbor pit Black River
on Lake Erie, where they can receive ore
and delircr coal 10 any extent They
are nov, according to tho letter Of the
President to Mr.Rhodes, published yes
terdav moving over $50, 900 tons Of coal
per annum necessita,inr the use OF some
55(, conl cars Exclusive of one hundred
now buildipc) 10 do the work. Thcsscars
need return freight, coming this way, lust
as the coal cars on the Cleveland &
Pit,burgh are loaded back 10 the river
with ore for the. furnaces at Pittsburgh,
Steubenyille and Wheeling, The coal
and ore business is the secret OF the C. &
P's. great prosperity. II enabled that
road to earn for its lesees during the year
ending Juner3Oth 1874 about 100000
net profits. The Tuscarawas Valley and
Wheeling road EXPECTS to compete with
the c. & P..and also tue Central Ohio, for
all the lake ore that now comes to Wheel.
ing and BelIaire, and all the freight Of the
two places moving northwcstward. We
sbaII TINS have n third limo IN tho creot
. ~ III, III '. .,. 80, - M ;, 80, ',s q ~
west anu oc si"' "iuc" 'e''eF 'Ssu'e'' Vi
cheap rates for our manufactures.
In this view Of the case we are earnest.
Iv dcsirous thai the efforts Of the peoplo
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aionS tne i'ne Vi 'ne ~ j" W. .oaN
shall prove successful this time. II Is
now over four years since the agitation
"a, in n, ,b;s crd of ,b.rop,s since that
~ ., - '' eN " '' w., o's' N'.--,',N, 80
TINE 'he Foau mas Dee'' eo"P'e'eu 70
Urichsvlhe, two-thlrds oi 1.-THE way yirom
the lake o,the river. According TO the
letter OF the President in Yesterdays
paper, it is demonstrating its capacity to
do a profitable business and'is earning a
net profit every month. 1t has yOt 70
penetrate the rich county that lies bc-
tween the rivernnd its present terminus.
OF this scope OF country the late Govern.
or Stanton, Of Wheeling, wrote in 1872
as follows: