The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-30
Wheeling n~ u ltniirpnii Ccnttr-Imp0rt-
ant Events nj Hand.

The ISrELiIGESCEn is informed by high
anthorily-authority that sets all doubt 1T
rcs,-that the Baltimore & Ohio llas pur-
chase, Ike Pittsburgh Southern
road between Pittsburgh and Wash
ington, p.l,, and will ut once pro,
coed to rebuild about one half the line
and make the whole OF it Grst.class
standard gauge road. When this line is
overhauled and rebuilt it will be tile B,lti-
more 4 Ohio line between Pittsburgh aud
the West, yin Wheeling. It will cross the
Mononglhela at II point where it will, by
an casy grade. run into the present depot
OF the Pittsburgh, Connellsville & Cumbcr-
land division Of tho Baltimore & Ohio. 1t
will also participate in tho present facilities
OF the Pittsburgh 4 Lake. Eric
road (vanderbi!t's IineJat Pittsburgh, and
receive great deal OF business from that
roa.. sgEf.f p1Hsl.
il seems that the Baltimore & Ohio conf
pany have abandoned all other projects Tor
II railroad from Pittsburgh to the West,
such as have been discussed and projected
for years pist and 1T last laid hold Of. TIE
Pittsburgh Southern MS atlorlins ut once n
practicable and desirable route via tbs
city to Chicago and the Southwest. The
company expects 10 do heavy business
out OF Pittsburgh in the way OF transporta-
ton Of iron goods, and will also at an early
day run coke cars between this city and
Conuellsvile over this line.
Meanwhile the company is pushing lis
llcmptield extension. !. Mr.. Garrett has
discovered that the "South Pennsylvania"
is in dead earnest, and further that it has
been trying TO get upon Il portion Of his
located line, and therefore that it is high
time, rs the saying goes, to "hump" him
sell unless he is willing to be left out in tho
cold. Rights ofway DO not lust forever in
Pennsylvania, but lapse under the law OF
the State when they are given for specific
uses and not appropriated to said uses. The
old man is said to he n; last impressed that
it is time to quit fooling with the people
and go TO work in good earnest, and to this
end Col. J. a. Boyd Is diligently at work
on unsecured rights Of way. ,4FS i7s
The "Sou,h Pennsylvania" will parallel
the llcmpiield extension portion Of the
way. This is the. iac. that has melted Mr..
Garrett to his present energetic steps. 1t
is coming here, and no mistake, from Har-
risburg via The Connellsville coke fields,
and will be let to contract perhaps US soon
rs the uemptield extension, maybe by the
lst Of january.
Speaking of,this. road, tho Harrisburg
Telegraph says:
" Robert II. Sayrc, who has just resigned
from the position OF Superintendent and
Chict Engineer OF the Leltish Valley Rail.
road Company, will take the Presidency OF
the South PENNSYLVANIA Nailroad, which is
to hc built from Harrisburg to Jacobs
Greek, on the foughiosh eny River. The
new road, which passes through the south.
crit tier OF counties Of Pennsylvania, has
been surveyed during the past eight
months by Il corps Of fifteen engineers,
under the charge oil, Oliver ". Barnes, the
chief engineer, who states that the work
will soon be ready for construction, as it is
to be bails Immediately. The object Of
the road is L through route from Philadcl.
phia to Pittsburgh and Wheeling, West
Virginia, which IS TO bo accomplished by
using the Reading road 10 Harrisburg, ind
there taking the new line, which follows
the following route: From Harris.
burg through Perry county; n por-
ton Of Huntington: Burnt Cabin, in Eul.
Ion; Bedford, in Bedford; Somerset, in
Somerset; through Westmorelaid, and
crossing tho Youshiosheny ut jacobs
Creek and ,,hc Alononsahela at Greenfield,
and from thence by direct lines 10. Pitts.
bureh and Wheeling. Mr.. Barnes, tho
el,iei engineer, informed q reporter yester-
day that the characteristics OF the line are
favorable for a large traffic. Tho maximum
grade in each direction being 52 $40 feet
Der mile, cxcep. nj tho ascent Q! the eastern
slope OF the Allegheny mountains, between
Bedford and The summit, GS feet per mile
Is used, The distance from the Susque..
hanna 10 Wheeling will be about eo6 miles,
and by means OF a bridge to be built at the
latter place the road will be put in connec'