The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-04
miles nearer Wheeling tha. to Pitts

road finished, there is no 80 miles OF rail.
road or river which now feeds Wbeeling
that would pour one-half the wealth into
her lap that this road would. Every
inch of the way from Bridgeport to Mas
silon is through a prosperous and thlckly-
settled country, inhabited by people well
able to buy and who always have some
thing to sell.
| We pass on north from Msssllon
through well.develop ed coal fields ten
miles to Clinton, where we cross the
road from Millersburg, the county seat
of Holmes county, to Akron, another i'm
portant feeder of our road. Ten miles
further on we cross the Atlantic and
Great Western railroad, which is the
western extension of the great Erie road,
and will give US an additional route
right into the city of New York. Twenty
miles further on we strike the G. G. Q. &
l. railroad at Grafton, twenty-five miles
from Cleveland. Here our regu-
lar passenger trains, and freight
trains hauling freight for Cleveland,
move directly to that city. With this
road the officers of the Cleveland, Tus-
carawss Valley and Wheeling road, have
reciprocal arrangement which is re.
gsrded as very favorable to the latter
corporation. The engines and employ
ees of the former road here take charge
of the loaded cars of the latter and take
them over their track and into their de-
pot grounds at Cleveland, unloading
freight and passengers, without cost to
the g., T. V. IL. w. Company, other
than pro rata share OF the tariff chsrg.
ed over the whole line travelled. The o.,
I. V. Il w. thus gets all of the advan-
tages OF the use OF the great Union pas
seager depot and of the freight depot and
wards of the e. &. &. &. l. road, without
the investment OF one cent.
This road, when completed, will give
US u direct line from Wheeling to Cleve-
land without either change of cars or
other delay at connecting points, an ad.
vantage that will be appreciated by our
citizens who have wasted so many hours
of valuable time, and suffered the vexa-
ton of delay forced upon them in travel
ling between Wheeling and Cleveland
| over the e. il p. road.
But to follow the line of the G. Y V.
& w. road to its own proper lake terml-
nus. From Grafton to Elyria is eight
miles. Here we strike the Lake Shore
road, which is the western connection,
and is substantially under the
| control of the New York
Central, the great VANDERBILT
road which shows itself always ready TO
compete with the other powerful east and
west lines for freights and passengers.
This road is interested in the g., L. V.
& W. road to the extent of owning S4OO.-
600 of its bonds, and it will pro rate with
the latter from Wheeling or any other
point on the road through to New York.
The Lake Shore road is the shortest
route between Cleveland and Toledo, and
at the latter point it merges into the Michl-
gan Southern, which gives US most sd-
mlrable comparative route with both
the Pennsylvania Central and the b. Il
o. railroads 10 Chicago, and the great
Northwest. Thus our road becomes a
part of great independent line from
Wheeling and Southeastern Ohio to
New York and the eastern cities, on the
one hand, and Chicago and the north
west on the ether.
About 8 miles from Elyris we being
I'D on the shore of Lake Erie, at the
mouth of Black River. This is believed
to be one of the best, if not the best, ship.
ping hsrbors on the Ohio border of the
lake. Here quite village has recently
sprung up, and the national government
has spent a considerable amount OF mon
ey in improving the hsrbor. The rail-
road company has erected costly and
extensive docks, machinery and conven-
fences for handling freight, especially
coal and ore. Soft coal is transferred
from the cars to vessels by means OF
great buckets and cranes operated by
steam, almost as tenderly as the market
woman handles her eggs, while the
harder qualities Of Goals are dumped out
OF the loaded cars into immense pockets
and thence into vessels with an expedi-
tion truly astounding. The railroad COM
pany has here built series OF these
pockets out on the edge Of the hsrbor,
over the top of which the track Is laid.
The loaded cars are run out on this track
ard three of them unloaded into each
pocket. AS there are large number OF
these pockets hundreds of tons OF coal
can here be slowed at once. The vessel
comes alongside pocket is opened and
thirty tons of coal is precipitaied into its
hold in "jitfy." At Cleveland, we are
told, it usually requires about three days
for vessel to receive or dis
charge its cargo; at the docAs
of the G., T. ". 4 w. road TIE
anne work can be accomplished IN s
single day. At Cleveland the docks are