Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1881-11-19
Parallel to the B. & 0.
THE NEW TRUNK LINE THAT is TO
COMPETE WITH MR.. GARREIT'S
ROAD AT ALL POINTS AND
FROM END TO END.
CHARTERS SECURED IN THREE
STATES, THE LINE LOCATED
ANDLEADING CAPITALISTS
ENLISTED IN THE EN-
TERPRISE.

New York World, Nov. s.
A new railway known as the Baltimore,
Cincinnati and Western Central Is TO De
constructed from Baltimoreto CINCINNATI,
following a line as nearly direct as posi-
BILE midway between the Baltimore ana
Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio roads,
nearly parallel with the former and with
q route which il is claimed is far superior
to either in cost of construction, grades
and local resources. The new line has en-
listed the aid of some of the richest men
and ablest railroad managers OF New
York, Cincinnati and other cities; they
have been thoroughly convinced that 1t
will prove a profitable enterprise. The
project was originally started under the
name of the Baltimore, Cincinnati and
Western, but in December, 1880, charters
were taken out in Maryland, West Nir-
ginia and Ohio under the present name.
Since that date the work of organization,
the final location of the line and the per-
fecting of the financial plan have been
pushed vigorously, and now almost all the
details preparatory to active workare per-
fected.
THE ROUTE DECIDED UPON.
Five routes were surveyed, that selected
Cincinnati, the line follows the north
bank of the Ohio River to Portsmouth,
then to Gallipolis, on the Ohio River
distance from Cincinnati of about lou
miles. Crossing the Ohio River there in
TO West Virginia, the line follows the
Great Kanawha River distance OF NIFTY
tour miles TO Charleston, where 1t con-
meets with the Chesapeake and Ohio Kali
road, coming up from Richmond. From
Charleston the line turns northeasterly,
and follows the valley of the Elk River
for some l67 miles to its head waters at
the Allegheny Mountains; crossing there
through a remarkably low gap, upon a
grade of only seventy-three feet to the
mile. il passes a distance of about nine
miles to the north fork of the south branch
of the Potomac River, and thence by the
banks of same for some sixty miles to
Moorefield, near the boundary OF virginia
and West Virginia. Thence the line
crosses the country, via winchester ana
Leesburg, TO the Potomac River, dis
lance of about l04 miles and crossing that
river at Edwards Ferry, it passes thro'
the State of Maryland about htty-seven
miles to the city of Baltimore. Thus the
line extends total distance OF 6Ol miles
from Baltimore to Cincinnati, OF when
distance 3sl miles, nearly two-thlrds the
entire length, are along the banks OF NV
ers, an advantage possessed by no other
railroad of equal length in the United
States, and securing to this road very
low cost Of construction.
AsCoMPARED WITH THE B. s o.
Bv this route there will be but two
large tunnels, as against several long ana
numerous short tunnels on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad between the Potomac
and the Ohio Riverat Parkersburg, with
no grade in West Virginia to exceed "a
feet to the mile, as against ll6 feet per
mile on the Baltimore and ONO. The
work to be done and the difficulties to be
overcome through West Virginia do not
compare in extent or magnitude with SIM
liar features of either the Baltimore and
Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio roads, and
the cost OF construction will approximate
about one-half of that actually incurred
upon corresponding portions of the other
roads. The most difficult section of the
line is, of course, that in the region of the
Allegheny Mountains. The following Ia
bic shows the favorable result of the sur
veys: