Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-19
THE COMING RoALs
SOME skeTSiN REGARD T6FHe W. &
|. {. ROAD.
Judge Cochran, the Managing Director,
Talks to the Register About His soad-
The Shortest and Most Vallable
Roati From Wheeling to
the Lakes. -...
SOME INTERESTING DATA.

The REGISTER en.last Friday published I;
squib taken from 2 Ganton, o., paper to th,
effect that the Wheeling and Lake Erie
road was bridging into the town of MasSil
lon and would therec run to Canton, le1v
ing out the towns OF Navarro, Bolivar AT
Zoar, and would come to the Ohio river
over the Tuscarawas Valley road, but learc
ing that our borrowed statement was ar
error, a REGISTER reporter nSade il his busi
ness Yesterday to cali upon Judge X. Ii
Cochran. who is the itanaging Director OF
the W. & l.. f. road, for the purpose, not
only OF ascertaining thSsource of the error
but with the additioaai verpoSs OF cleaning
ble-and novel with reference TO the status
| Of fths road.
| The Judge said: II apsrehend that the
error arose from confou-sing she Valley
| road With the Tuscarawas rcsd. The Valley
| road runS from Cleveland through Akron
| to Canton, and is now building AZ eNten'
| sion from Canton to intersect our road east
| of Zoar. Between that road end the Wheel.
ing and Lake Erie road there is an arrange.
| ment of limited unity and effort between
| the cities of Wheeling and Cleveland. but
as between the Wheeling and Lake Erie
| and Tu ScarawaS Valley company there is
|
| effort The latter road is bitterly resist
ing our crossing theirs at grade at Nassil-
| lon. On that subject We beat them in the
Stark county courts some two weeks ago,
| and from that court they carried the case
| to the Supreme Court OF Ohio which also
decided adversely TO them last Friday.
| This decision OF course will give us no
| further trouble on that account and we
expect ero long to I've in Wheeling by our
i -.
rawaS Valley, IL miles shorter from heel
| ing and 3G',shorter to Cleveland.
In a little over year past VIC have
| graded and bridged over one hundred and
| fiftv miles OF road-bcd, and we have OBJ
| tanned the night of way over considerable
more than that. We have laid about one
| hundred miles oi the very best steel rails.
| and have Taost OF that distance ballasted,
| and our line is now ready TO open for traf.
| fic from Massillon to Huron, distance Of
| eighty-four miles. On large portion OF
our line oor depots are built, and Others
| are in rapid progress Of constructions AT
| Newark cur line branches of from
the Toledo division. The track
laying is progressing rapidly from
Newark toward Toledo, and we
hope, if tne weather is at all favorable, to
have the -pad tracked clear through to To-
| ledo by the rst OF February. by that time
We also expect the bridge across the Miami
| river to he completed, so that we Will then
be ready 10 open for traffic from Massillion
to Huron, on Lake Erie, and TO Toledo on
| Lake Eria and to all points between MaSsllon
and Toledo. II il had not been for the de-
! Law caused by the action of the Tuscarawas
| Valley RAILROAD Company III regard TO our
crossing at MasSilOn, We would have run
an excursion train from Massilon to the
Lake and back on Monday and Tuesday of
| this week
ON all the road where our grading is done
| west Il Massillon to Toledo we have the
| right ui way all secured. We have been
working since March last between Massil-
| lon and BowcrStOwn, 40 miles from this
| place. Most OF the right of way is OBJ
| tained east of Massillon to the Ohio river,
| and We expect at the annual meeting, to be
held on Wednesday of this week, to shape
4 the policy for the coming year. with the
hopa that our road will be completed clear
| through to the Ohio river before this time
| next year The jury TO assess the damages
| which the Tuscarawas Valley road will be
entitled to by reason Of our crossing at
Massillon, will visit the premises to make
view of them this week.
The Valley Railway is standard gauge
! Doad now in operation from Cleveland mp
| the Cuyhoga Valley To Akron and thence
10 Canton. BY building about IL miles OF
| road from Canton in a southcasterly direC-
/ ton they would. strike the line of the
/ Wheeling and Lake Erie road, which would
| give an almost airline railway between
| Wheeling and Cleycland-lG miles shorter
than the Cleveland and Pittsburgh road
| and Sc miles shorter than the {. L. q V.
road.
We are IS miles shorter between Wheel
| ing and Sandusky than the b. x o. rail
| road and G5 miles shorter from here to
| Toledo than that road.
| | cannot give you the facts in regard to
our extension TO Harrisburg aud New York,
because have not the data at present. but
| our road will pass through the COnnells'
| vile region and will take in the anthracite
and bituminous coal mines OF Pennsylvania.
cannot say how much shorter
our route will be between Toledo
and Philadelphia and New York than other
| lines. but the distances will be material y
shortened We cherish a hope that We will
strike coal on the line Of our road that VIII
coke equally as well as- the Connellsyiile
coal The distance from Toledo 10 coal by
way Of the Wheeling and Lake Erie. road
is rs miles by the Ohio Central road IT IS
| about ls2 miles, by the Columbus and
Toledo lsG. and by the Il. & o. POI miles.
The distance from Toledo to New York by
wav of the Wheeling and Lake Eric and
| PENNSYLVANIA railroads will he 69l miles,
while bv the Lake Shore, Michigan Central
and New York Central it is ~ miles.
We will not have grade exceeding TWEEN
| ty.six feet per mile from MassllIon 10
! Toledo In going east from the Ohio river
we will follow up Middle Wheeling Creek
| in Ohio county. thence the to Ten Mile
| Region Of Pennsylvania in Green county,
thence down to the MOnOngahela river at
tntn
county. thence down the Valley oil the
Redstone. and to COnnellsville and the bi.
luminous coal fields, f,om whence the road
will run To the anthracite regions by the
most practical and shortest route. by
| adoptinc this route we will become a
through road for the hauling OF coal TO
| New York. and to Toledo and the north
west.
If proper cooperative effort Is secured on
this end Of the line, we can have the raii'
road running into the city of Wheeling III
one year from this date.
| Everything about the road is being done
! in the best manner. We have seven de
| pots finished, which have cost from 81 iOJ
TO q. 600 each. We are putting down 3,DpJ
| ties 10 the mile, instead OF 2,0io, as is gen.
| orally done, and are using the best steel
rails
| Beginning at Toledo. the first principal
town " hich we pass . Fremont. hlVine
about $500 population. Then we strike
CLYDE and Beryiew. each having popula
ton of about 900. Then comes Newark,
with population OF between 700 and
| S.OOO. Wellington is the next town OF i'm
portance and is the greatest cheese ship
ping town in The United States Oryille,
considerable town, is the point ct which
we cross the Fort Wayne and Chicago and
the Mt. Vernon and Columbus. Massillon
is our next town OF importance
and has a population on owe
$3.50. The other towns se strike are WI
lages ranging in population from 900 u
800 There are great many OF tbest
towns, and they are al OF considerable 10
cal importance, being principally ndliin;