Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-15
RAILROAD RACKET.
Talk of the Track i'm the City
and Vicinity.

Z. SCHUMACHER, Sr., has the founda-
ton of the round house nearly COM
pleted
THE I. o. Department will establish
mail route on the b. * S. w. rs soon rs
the road is completed to Woodsiield.
THERE are now about scventy-live
men grading and repairing the road bed,
and they are doing some good work this
fine weather.
JONI DoHERrY, who has the contract
for changing the county road at the foot
of HOLSTERS Hill, is getting along well
with his work
HALL d TRUAN have finished their
work at the top OF kecpherS and are
now dressing up the track from that
point 10 the tunnel.
A GENERAL jolifcation over the COM
pletion of the h. Il :. w. r. Il. is To be
held i'm Woodsfeld on Thanksgiving day,
if the road is then completed.
THE tunnel contractors who are tim
bering the tunnel will have their work
completed before the tracklayers reach
it, so there will be no delay at that
point
FRED. SToEHR is working away at the
depot building at this place, and lac has
the frame up. lie will put on more
force as soon as he can get it, and will
complete the building as soon as posi-
bic.
WE understand the Directors OF the
b. d S. W. II. r. look with no favor on
the plan 10 build a road from Jerusalem,
bv wav OF Somerton, to the Muskmgum
river, and a part OF them do not think
the proposed river line a necessity
BeiiGire Independent.
HARKGNs' force finished the heavy
rock cut on Benjamin briggs farm on
Tuesday, and his force and Louis SulS-
bergers are now finishing the grading
along Cedar Run. They will keep out
OF the way of the tracklayers so that the
track will be laid at the rate OF one-hali
mile per day.
OK Wednesday night the track was
laid To Ozark, which Is - miles from
Bellairc, > miles from Jerusalem and :
miles from Woodsfeld The passenger
trains commenced running from Ozark
TO Bellaire Yesterday morning and one
train will run each way until further
orders, leaving Ozark at = O'Clock 4. NJ,
and Bellaire at O'Clock +. NJ.
The control which a good locomotive
engineer has over his engine is some
thing remarkable \ long time ago
some of the depot attaches noticed that
the l:l5 train from the South seemed to
stop daily at the sell-same spot when
coming to standStill az the depot, ami
about two months ago mark was made
10 designate the precise locality. Since
that time the train has not varied SIN
inches from the mark, and some OF the
| friends Of the engineer have presented
| him with a bouquet in acknowledgment
Of his sklll.->DriDgf@G, Mass, ta,o"
TINS is the way the Bellaire hdpsDd-
| sHt urges upon the ONO men the matter
| Of Il river railroad: Persons here from
/ parts below on the Ohio river report the
/ feeling in favor of a railroad rs growing
I rapidly. No doubt the people ON tins
/ side will soon understand that il a road
| is built on the Virginia side, they viii
/ be left without one for a century; but 10
/ the line is 10 be secured 1t can only be
done by immediate organization, AMI
| liberal subscriptions of money.
/ We take the following paragraphs
/ concerning the Brllaire and Southwest
ern road from the Monroe county, O.,
/ Gd-stf, of WoOdsficld:
The track of the b. * =. w. railroad
was finished To Jerusalem at noon on
/ Saturday last, and the first passenger
/ train arrived in the evening, there be-
ing quite a number OF persons present
10 witness the arrival Of the iron horse.
/ The citizens Of Jerusalem gave the track
/ men and train crew a splendid supper.
/ The distance from Bellaire 10 Jerusalem
Is SO miles. This station will be one Of
the best on the road, as II will
supply the people OF SOmertOn,,
Malaga, Miltonsburg, and other towns
on the northern and western sides OF
the road. A new station-house Is Icing
erected at this point 10y Morgan ~
/ Gatchell.
The Wellsburg Herald says: A COM
pany is being organized for the purpose
Of seeing what can bee done in the way
/ of extending the F.. w. * Ky. railroad
according to the original programme, in
the direction OF the Big Sandy, though
il is proposed now to have narrow.
gauge only for the present. Capt John
Mcclure is to the fore in this business,
as he was in the long and tedious
proceedings that got the road into It's
present prosperous shape II ever a
section OF country needed a railroad, II
certainly is that wide scope extending
from Grave creek to the mouth OF the
Kanawha on the Virginia side OF the
river. and those counties will never
see their proper development until
their people put their shoulders to the
wheel and push themselves into rank
with the living balance Of mankind.
We have little direct interest in the
matter up here, bnt We would be very
glad to see that project put through.
he Eplayed truant from school, and af-
ter he had taken him across his knee
and administered some stern admoni-
ton, he said: "My son, why will YOU
ha such an idler9 Why don't Won fol.