The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-24
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most charming. II was a real golden
September day" and "a We passed over
the route aud saw everybody busy, farm.
erS and railroad laborers, and saw also so
many evidences Of thrift and prosperity
on every side Of us, including bountiful
crops Of corn and potatoes, Just now being
harvestedi we began to feel that perhaps
tits true that better times have come
again.
In the city one hearsso much blue talk
about dullneSs and depression, about low
prices and no profits, that il ia really ro.
freshing TO get out, even for a few
hours, Of anIatmosphere thus .thickened
with the present murkiness Of trade, into
one where the voice OF nature still has n
chance 10 be heard; into sphere OF lie
where no lOaiers are 10 be seen-where
men, although working for a dollar per
dny,are nevertheless employed, and there.
by rescued from vagrancy and vagabon.
dacy, and where they are doing useful
work for society by helping to build a
new hiShWay,iwhiCh, when finished, will
do more than we can now see TO develop
the country through which it passes, and
togiye to Wheeling increased facilities
for the cheap manufacture Of iron.
Although work has been in progress
only a few weeks on the limo Of the Tus.
oarawas road, yet great deal has been
done in the way Of grading the survey,
and number Of handsome and aubstan.
tial abuLments for bridges at various
points on the creek have been wholly or
partly completed.
The contractor for the eight miles over
which we passed on Saturday Is Mr..
Whisper. He seems to be pushing sort
OF Il man, and has detachmcnts Of labor.
ers at work wherever the right Of way
has been secured. There are several 10.
calities where this important matter has
not been settled, and where the assistance
Of the law has been invoked by the
friends Of the road, and where iurics will
within the next few days assess the dam.
ages to which all obstructionists are en-.
titled.
When we see man owning piece Of
ground not more valuable than the land
Of his neighbors, some Of whom have
donated the right Of way, refusing every
thing like customary and reasonable
damages for passage through his acres,
We can very forcibly realize what is
meant by saying that certain people put
themselves on tho track Of progress and
endeavOr to impede the spread oil new
ideas. They want to compel the world
TO stop outside Of the line OF their preju-
dices. Tic lesson that history teaches is
that the progress Of ideas does not stop
but successfully asserts lis right Of way
through ard over every obstruction. So
it Is with the typical locomotive. tbs
bound 10 come through. As well try to
stop civilization.
And this reminds us that midway be.
tween Kinsey's Mill and Patton's tunnel
lives an old Mr.. Hardesty, who, now that
the road is really at last building, is al
most ready to say with old Simeon" now
let thy servant depart" He has seen We
know not how many surveys OF this
route, beginning with that Of Randolph,
40 years ago, and continuing on with
those OF Jonathan Knight and Jacob
Blickersderier in later times. His mem.
DRY Of the various surveys has out lived
all the marks ofthe engineers, and he was
able to designate with so much cxactness
the lines which they had run as to be Of
material aid 10 Mr.. Card and his party
when laying out the present route Of the
Tuscarawas road. He had about lost
faith in the enterprise and concluded
when the last canvass for theriGht Of way
was making that ii was the same old
frnitless agitation over again and that it
would never amount to anything in his
day. His faith now, however, ia good
deal larger:than grain Of mustard seed.
And this reminds US TO say that there
are some people who believe that the
work now going forward on the line Of
the road Is not real dead earnest work,
but simply work inaugurated to save the
subscriptions from expiration, aud to
enable the Company to collect them.
Nothing could be further from the truth
as any one can see who will take pains to
inform himself OF what Is going on all
along the line between Bridgeport,
and UFiChsville. Fully nineteen Of the
ffty.four miles have now been graded,
and great number Of abutments built,
and work is going on at the deep cuts
and tunnels. The Company have settled
and pablo nearly all the right Of way, and
in every conceivable manner have shown
that they mean to open the road to trade
and travel next year. They are building
the road so much cheaper than they ex.
pected when the subscriptions were oh.
tanned that they will be able to build it
somewhat straighter than it was frstlaid
out; and SO well will It be built, and SO
promising are its prospects for earning a
fair dividend on its moderate capital, that
tho directors apprehend no difficulty in
negotiating its bonds 70 decided advantage
when they are ready to put down the iron
and purchase the rolling stock.