The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-26
RAILWAY AND
HARD TIMES.

Otthe $4,000 wanted from, and hereto
ors promised on behalf OF, the citizens OF
Wheeling 10 secure the city for the east
arn terminus OF the Cleveland, Tuscara-
yss Valley and Wheeling railroad, there
q aill due, and 10 be collected, +Ae sum
q sbout $4,000. A conversation with
:soi our citizens, specially interested in
q subscription, informs US that pro-
=; in the direction of getting this
-aey is slow, and that while II. sufficient
:1el given, the sum will, eventually,
Z r;aised. slll considerable time will be
a.gired. unIc>. our capitalists respond
-y;s promptly snd readily than they
:aye done 80 Ia.
W. viii 10, a,.in reiterste IN detail
tie advantage, oithI, proposed extension
. Wheeling. These advantages
HesPGea', ard if the native shrewd-
less Of cur bi..ar,- men has not already
presented ,l":a. ~ ii 80 little interest is
's!i the ma. tnlt the articles on the
E.ect -.:'.o.u," published in these
columns, have not been carefully read,
's.s.ement OF them here will hardly do
nlcl good. Still there are one or two
P2la.s which should be again presented,
40 which those interested IN the future
'e.iA;e Of the city would do well to con-
I!e..
,aef'st place, dilstoriness in making
l!ae amount needed may have very
'';'1' effect, and be very damaging to
',s hopes Of all who desire to see Wheel.
ts eventually, the terminus of the road.
.-s'e ssIresdy constructed a line of rail-
'i?' inOwn as the Duck Creek road
'.n Urchsyi!le to Marietta. This road
>" ;' sold on the 18th of June next. 1t
''@' :hioush almost as fine black band
''Aa4 cosl country as the proposed ex-
%-'.n 70 the city traverses, and it passes
'4 70 the Chesapeake and OHIO rail-
D. which will enable it TO form, with
~ Inc al easy connection to the East
" s most probable that, should the
-77.s! money not be forthcoming from
'-'":y' the Tuscsrawas Railway will
''.Ia'e said Duck Creek road at its sale
.. June, and thus the last hope OF
-'s"nss being lis terminus, and the
-!!ent advantage TO our future
'"'F-'I'y to accrue therefrom, will be
= l" Us forever, This is indeed
'"-' 'o' our people to look at and seri-
consider, as the first thing they
lie opportunity now presented will
" passed without chance of recovery.
s'"-we learn from we'll informed
'~"s' that iron ore costs in the matter
gut 10 this point now, Sl.92 per
g.. " taxing the car losd at 10 tons,
" ~ ~
'' per car. Ii this road is built, it is
,s,- -'''ed that the cost ot transportation
's reduced to sl.5O per ton, or SIS
- 81 Ioad, clear saving of - 20 per
NOW say Tor instance, that a
VII. consume 10000 tons of ore
's% mot an extrsvsgsnt estimate
.'s'ej there is presented saving
=. ~ IN ire'Shtaone, in single year.
4" nsy very readily be seen that
subscription on the part of iron men,
. y. E '0:erested in the importation
,,,, ''' - this point, will, after all,
s1t al advance on the treights they
,s,.. o pay, and thst, in very
a., 'Aey will have gotten it all
n..,., wen should the stock they own in
Nv. a' never pay one cent of dividend.
v.,,. are practical facts which ap-
as 49,. and they are so apparent that
a, Iss Is why there is so much de-
subscription fraught with 50