Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-11-05
The baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western Railroad.

natl and Weste.g Railroad, it has not,
heretofore, been deemed polite to pub
lish their plans, progress and prospects.
But from the following articles
which appeared in the Baltimore finer
lean and Sun OF Saturday last, we infer
that it is no longer necessary for the
projectors OF the important enterprise
in question to keep silence upon the
subject.
1t is a subject in which our citizens
are interested and our readers Will, we
think, be glad to get all the informa-
ton they can concerning it. We there
fore copy the articles referred TO-
From the American
New YORK, October 2S.-There appears
to be no doubt tina. the promoters of the
Baltimore, Cincinnati IL Western Central
Railway, mentioned in these dispatches
Yesterday, mean business, and that the
undertaking is in the hands of men who
will push it through. Who is the official
head of the enterprise does not yet appear !;
but the prime mover is Jay Gould, and
he has surrounded himself in this scheme
with some of the ablest and tmost expert
enced railroad men TO be found in the
country. The rapid progress Of the
Gould system of railroads in Texas and
the far West, and the fact that no under
! taking of this Kind that he has entered
upon has failed of completion, will be
b.. m Aa 70
the new trunk line will before many
years have an actual existence. For the
last three years Mr.. Gould has been seek
ing il short, direct line to the West. He
first sought New York as the seaport of
his transcontineEtal system; but Wander
bilt and Jewett have made that scheme
practically impossible, and the latest effort
(tliat of Il line through Northern Penn
sylvania) has been practically abandoned.
Philadelphia is completely in the Ia nds
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and, besides
that, il lacks tie important advantages
which New York has as the metropolis Of
the country, and which Baltimo re has ~
being the large and safe port nearer by
several hundred miles to the great centres
OF the West than any other large Atlantic
seaboard city. So Gould has chosen Bal
tiuore lis the eastern terminus Of his
system.
Mr.. Rufus Hatch and many equally
well-informed operators on Wall street
have had much to say of late about there
not being enough business TO support eX-
listing trunk lines, and have brought for
ward facts and figures to support their
statements, but tins does not disturb
Gould, rs it is not his purpose q simply
build a road to compete with existing
lines What he is after is the shortest,
quickest route to the SeabOard for his eX-
tensive Western connections. Notwitli-
standing the recent overwhelming defeat
of the Gould party by the Garrett interest
in the .. & VI. election it is not under
stood to- Dc Air. Gould's purpose or eNpec-
tation to especially antagonize the b. d
o., and the fields which the two systems
cover conflict with each other TO but
limited extent. Few even here doubt the
wisdom of the choice of Baltimore rs the
Eastern terminus Of the Gould system.
The following is IN estimate of the cost
of the entire line from Cincinnati to Bal
timore: Cincinnati to Portsmouth, along
the Ohio river, 100 miles, $4,000 per mile
complete. 81 500, 600 total; Portsmouth to
GaliipoIis. opposite Point Pleasant, %
miles, $50, 00O per mile complete. 81 ,OOO,-
600 total; Point Pleasant to Moorefield, 329
miles. less II per cent. 800 miles, $4,000
per mile complete, IS, lZ0, 900 total; Moore
field TO Round Hi, 81 miles, $33, 800 per
mile complete, $2,Sl4 900 total; Round
Hill to Lccshurg, ID miles, $4,000 per
mile complete, SlS0,O00 total; Leesburg
to Edwards Ferry, Potomac river, 8
miles, $4,000 per mile complete; $l25,OOO
total; Potomac river to BaltimOre-CurtiS
Bay, 81 miles, $25 900 per mile complete,
Sl,I25, 900 total. Grand total, Col miles,
ST., 464 600. Average maximum cost for
entire distance, $25, 40 per mile.
a construction company, called the
Union Improvement Company, ! as been
incorporated under The laws of New Jer-
Soy with Il capital of l0,000,C coo to Luild
the r01h. Tie railway company will de-
liver to the Improvement company $50,
600, 900 Of first mortgage per cent. bonds
and the same amount of common stock in
consideration of the construction and
equipment of the railway by the improve
ment company.
The line surveyed for the road is
through rich country. Charters have
been secured in Maryland, West Virginia
and Ohio. The line in Maryland has
been surveyed from Baltimore through
the counties of Baltimore, Anne Arundel,
Howard and Montgomery to Edwards
Ferry. The capital necessary to con-
struct the Maryland section is placed at
$l,000,0 The incorporatOrs named in
the Maryland charter are Charles Z. Ertz,
John ii. Watson Of Cincinnati, Henry
IIellmerS, Herman Ralker and VIM. A.
House. OF Baltimore.
From the SUM-
The Baltimore, Cincinnati and Western
hallway Company, like "NIonS. Tonson
come again." turns ~ now and then to
prove that there is still life in the project.
This time the statement is that active
work will soon be commenced. The read
crs of the Sun will remember that the
charter for this company was obtained
last year for line midway between the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake
and Ohio roads, through Maryland and
West Virginia, To the Ohio river, and then
across that river TO Gallipolis, and on to
Cincinnati, Il distance of nearly 600 miles.
The story is that the cost Of building and
equipping this road will be $50 1000, 600.
The 81 Mon Improvement Company has
been organized under the laws of New
jersey To construct the road. The rail-
way company will give the improvement
company 81, 000, 900 in first mortgage =
per cent. bonds and S25 100000 in COM
mon stock for the building and equip
ment of the road. So much tor the print
ed statements about this project. The
facts are that Col. j. A. Hayden, civil
engineer, is chief of Il corps of men who
have been and are now surveying the
proposed line. Col. Hayden has his office
OH CORTLAND street, Baltimore, where
he opened up Il month ago, as stated in
the sun at the time. Surveyors are at
present at work in Montgomery county
and other points in Mary Wand, and sur
yeyors are working down from West Viz