The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-11

oalce, Nos. - aud ~ EOur'oon'h street.
LAST Saturday we made an excursion VI

houses, The accommodation train stopped
about Il dozen times between Bridgeport
and Portland. 1t stops regularly twice be-
tween Bridgeport and Martins Ferry de-
not, viz, ut .Etnayille and the Sherman
House, and alter u stop at the depot also
stops ut the Iaughlin Mill, at Deep Run,
ut Raincy's, Yorkyille, TiltonyilIeand sew
eral other places, This is u great change
from the old rcgime-the days Of 1857, for
instance-when the road was opened from
WelIsviIle to Bellaire, and when the gaps
were wide apart.
The G. 4 +, is an enviabIy situated. road
II brings down ore from Cleveland ami
takes bacl, coal in the same cans. The
price Of delivering ore is 81 per ton and
the price Of taking back coal is SI.5O per
ton. It is estimated that freight car will
make the round trip in week OF seven
days, and that it will carry fifteen tons,
This would make its earnings 50 80, which
on the cost Of II car, say Si5O-would he 10
per cent. Allowing GO per cent OF this for
the cost Of transportation, and there would
remain profit OF $40 per car applicable to
interest and dividends. An officer Of the
road whom We met on the cars, tells us
that the earnings Of this year will exceed
BY half million those Of last year.
The c. 4 T. is eminently II local road. It
has u great and growing local business, and
at good local rates-iOr instance 30 cents
from Bridgeport to Portland, or - cents
per mile (Thc New York Central is lin
tied by law to cents,) Freight Is moved
at cost Of about One,half cent per ton per
milo, aud passengers ut about cent per cap
ila per mile. The earnings Of the road
from local passenger travel show yearly
increase, us also from local freight and
this Is the sure foundation Of It's prosper
ity.
New industries are constantly sprnging
up along the line Of the G. &P. Each year
shows an additional number. We discov-
cred new one in the shape OF glass
factory, for the manufacture Of lanterns, in
progress near TiltonviIe 1t isa Pittsburgh
organization and will soon be ready for
business.
The uncqualed coal facilities along the
line Of the c. 4 T. must necessarily result
In large business TO the rOad, not only in
the transportation Of coal but in the Cstab-
lishment Of manufacturing enterprises re-
quiring this coal for fuel.
AtCol. 4. NJ. NOrtOn's farm tjust this side
ofPortland) the Whecling& 4 Lake Erie pco'
pie are getting ready for tunnel. They
propose to bore through from tho Short
Creek side OF his farm to its G. & +. front
age, and in doing so will come out between
his house and barn.-A movement that
annoys the Colonel not little. lie has
spent several years in building and bcanti'
iying Oh this farn, aud he Is very rcluct'
ant indeed to have It bisected SO glaringIy
and irremcdiably.
The debut Of the Wheeling 4 Lake
Erie ut that point on the c. 4 T.
will probably result in quite an
increase Of new homes and new indus.
tries In that vicinity-in fact, all the
way down to Martins Ferry. The day is
perhaps not fur distant when the G. 4 J..
will he lined with connected town from
bridgeport up to Portland. The latter
place, which was q solitary station three
years ago, Is quite II respectable hamlet
now. There will DO II general merger OF
separate identities all along the line. At
oil events, II seems likely that TiltOnyillc,
Portland and Warren will all grow into
one and the same place soon after the w.
4 L. Il. puts in MI appearance In their
midst. Warren and 'riltonvle have long
1iad separate existence, like two chem
icals .hat had no alipity, but that can be
precipitated into unilcation by third in.
1 gredient, which third ingredient the new
village OF Portland seems to be.
Query: Can anybody tell us just how
bid place Warren is? And further, in
wiidt year was II that branch Of the old
United States Bank was established there
Warren WIS in it's glory then as port OF
entry ut the mouth of Short creek, and n
place where people went for fifty miles
around to borrow money. Like the "hnm'
ble.bumble bee" Warren w0s ut its big.
grst when II was born.
However, glory nay yet await that an
cieut villngC They have II splendid rivCl
up that way. And who knows, when tho
two railroads come together Nt Col. Nor
toms farm, and one or two large manu
featuring concerns are started, but that fine
stretch OF water front may not come into
important prominence. Atpresent It Ii
principally monopoliaed by large 81
Louis towboat that sought safety there dur
ing the long dry season, aud reshipped hGi
orc freight to Pittsburgh.
Who ever expected 10 see the Ohio rivei
skired on each shore with railroad
Yet there Is the Cleveland 4 Pittsburgh Oh
the Ohio side and the Pittsburgh Wheel
ing 4 Kentucky on this side. And by the
way, why do these two roads, operated by
tllG same lessee (the Pennsylvania Com
pany) have such different Sunday policy
We had clear track for OFF Sabbath tla,
medttations at Col. NortOn's farm, >,
far as the Cleveland 4 pitlsburgl
was concerned, but our reveries
including the ColoncIs dissertations OF
The beatiludrs Of farm life, were ifeqnentl!
interrupted by the shricks Of the locomo
tives kept going up and down The track q
the worldly.minded T. W. 4 KY people
Why this sabbott.lny diversity by til
same management Let somebody VIII
discovered how II was that Heller pourc
two kinds Of wine out Of the same botll
a. a.