The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-22


VIZ had an interesting conversation
Yesterday with Mr.. Boiling, one Of the as
sstant engineers OF the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. lie was present with the
Committee on Streets and Alleys OF the
City Council on their visit yesterday 10 the
scenes Of warfare between the road and
;heP.W. x Ky. Company. Mr.. Boiling is
very intelligent gentleman, and under
standsthe railroad question, asinvolyed in
this contest, unusually well. He takes OF
course view OF the situation that iavors
the position Of his own company, but
nevertheless view that includes in
cidental points OF general interest. He
holds that is not the interest Of the people
9 Wheeling to favor the extension OF the
I. W. Il ny. road to Benwood, lin so do
ing they endanger the speedy extension
OF the HempGeId line to the coke
region. His position, briefly stated, is
this, that il the two roads reach
BenwOod they ut once become compei:
tors for the trade south Of the creek, more
particularly the coke business of thefur.
naces, and that while one has haul Of
only 20 odd miles, and the other a haul
Of l2o miles, they must either agree on
rate remunerative to the longer haul. or
else cut each other down to point that
will crowd out the longer haul, and thus
iRcile it to revenge ut some other point Of
competition where it can intlict counter
yaiIins damage. This power in the hands
Of the longer haul would Of course be
used to regulate the rate on coke, and the
rate would be certainly paying one to 1t,
and in that event the city OF Wheeling
would not reap the advantage that the
lIempfCld extension ought to give her.
Mr.. Boiling contends that the. Hempfeld
extension is the key to the coke position,
and, for that matter, the only key that car
open the door to the maximum of benefits
10 the iron interests Of the city, and there
fore the one that ought to regarded with
special favor in this contest by the people
otWheeling. lie said that iu case the P.
". ( Ky. went to 'Benwood the natural
interest OF the B. & o. Companyin the ex'
tension of the IIempdeld must suffer
some abatcment-l.ow serious an ablte'
mcnt he would not undertake to say-but
twas easy for the people Of Wheeling tc
sce that the Company could not in the
nature OF things feel as much interest in {
speedy extension as they do now. He lait
stress on the grand idea that the highes
interests Of the city, looking TO- the Ions
future, would not be promoted, by Thu
completion of the p. W. 4 KY. to Ben
wood. It's true policy, he thought, wa
20 ioiu hands with the 3. e o. and assis
by every means in It's power in get
ting the IIempliell extension project OF
its feet. lie estimates that it will. cos
three millions to double track the Hemp
dcId, make it lirst.claas road, and com
plelc the extension on the same scale, an,
he thinks that the counties Of Ohio an,
Washington ought to come forward an
subscribe libCally to the bonds Of fin
mortgage on the line.
Mr., Boiling intimates that the B. & {
Company have in contemplation III
building Of an extonsio n from ehicag
Junction to Pittsburgh,-l47 miles-ayer
feasible route, having an average grade
only twenty.six feet, and one that woul
give them an outlet from tho oonnellsvil
coke region to the West, and also tIrnis
them with adcsirablC local business. f
did not say how seriously this project hs