The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-12-28
RAILROAD ITEMS.
The River Railroad.

The River Railroad.
Mr.. George W. Thompson, Vice
President of the Wheeling, Parkers-
burg and Charleston Railroad, is en-
gagged, with Col. Robert White, Of
this city, in obtaining the right of
way for the company. Mr.. Thomp-
son spent last Sunday in Washington
City, and returned to Parkersburg
Sunday night, accompanied by an
engineer, who is to take charge Of
another party, in addition to the one
now operating under Engineer Nc
Cornell. Mr.. T. informed the writer
that the work of location and right
of.way.getting was progressing quite
acknowledgement more favorably than
had been anticipated. Every effort
is made to meet the views of the
farmers through whose land the road
will run, both as to location and as
to accommodations that will be &C
corded them.
One thing Mr.. Thompson is doing
which we cannot commend too high
ly; he is inserting in the deeds con
veying the right Of way, where that
is given freely, as one of the condi.
tions Of the cession, that the railroad
COMPANY shall sup at least vne trai II
each wagon being tlagged-at a
point on the farm to be agreed upon.
to take up or put off either passen.
gers or freight. This will give every
man on the line Of the road station
of his own-he and his family can
step on the cars at his own door to
ride to the city or to the nearest vii.
lage to do business, or even to ride to
the next neighbours on an Grand or
a visit. Thus, the road will prove to
those who live along its line as great
q convenience as the street cars are
TO the people of a city, except the
trains will not run so frequently
The produce of the farmer can be
shipped from his own door, on any
and every day, whether the river is
full of water or has little water,
whether it is frozen up or is dried
up, and he can receive his supplies
from the city or his nearest town
with the same certainty, frequency,
and at q stated hour.
In addition Senator Camden in
formed the Register representative
that it would be the policy of the
road to make local fares as low per
mile as through fares-for the pur-
pose of encouraging local travel
He will endeavor to make the local
fares so cheap and the flag stations
so numerous that one neighbor may
ride over and see another neighbor,
or ride to his county town on the cars
cheaper than he could saddle up his
horse and ride it. 1t will also be the
policy of the road to reverse the pol
icy usually adopted by railroads in
regard to freights. Senator Camden's
Experience with the Clarksburg and
Weston road satisfies him that it is
possible to carry given amount of
freight short distance cheaper than
u long distance, aud he will try that
policy on the river road. 1t will be
the study of this company to encour-
age and build up by every means in
its power local trade and local enter
prises.
Mr.. Thompson expects to have the
right of way and everything ready
for the contractors to commence work
by spring. He thinks the plans,
specifications and all information for
bidders may be got ready in April, so
that active work may be commenced
with settled spring weather.
The miserable accommodations now
existing between Wheeling and
Moundsville, were discussed, and Mr..
Camdcn's theory is, that the plan
adopted by most railroads in the i'm.
mediate vicinity of large cities, ought
to be applied to the territory referred
to. He said he had often wondered
that the authorities of the B. & O.
railroad did not run a train between
these two places each way as often at
the least as every two hours; but sup.
posed that the immense freight bus
mess and the number of through pas
scnger trains running over the B. &
o. road made it difficult to do in this
way what a new local road could do
easy enough. IJ1ecling Register.
Tho w, P. & C. railroad has been