The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-28
RAILROAD INTGLLIGENcE
0fMore Than Usual Local Interest TO
Wheelipg People.

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From a Pittsburgh paper, the following
railroad news is taken. 1t is Of decided
local interest:
"The South Pennsylvania Road, the new
Vanderbilt Reading connection, Is to be
built TO Wheeling as certainly as 1t Is to
Pittsburgh" said gentleman who is
officially connected with one OF the rail.
road offices in this city. at was at first
intended to complete the road to this city,
without reference 10 ramiications; but q
careful analysis OF It's Possibilities has RI :
suited in determination to simultaneous.
ly construct both roads. The South Penn.
sylvania Railroad will come as far as
Fayette county before any divergence
Is made. From the neighborhood OF Con-
nelsville road will be builtto the Monon-
gahela river at Belle Vernon. At this
point large iron bridge will cross into
Washington county. Thence the route o.
the road will be through the Pike Run dis.
trict to the waters Of Ten.mile creek,
whence ID will proceed either to Claysville
or West Alexandra, Pa, to the waters of
the Little Wheeling creek, and thence par
allel with the Hempheld to Wheeling. The
route has already been surveyed.
Another route isa few miles south Of
Of the Middle. Wheeling Creek. Both routes
are admirable, and the road by either one
can bs cheaply constructed. The only dif.
ficulty that can be encountered Is at
Wheeling. The city lies in crescent.
shaped alcove, that Is abruptly terminated
bya series OF hills. The northern and
southern outlets are occupied already by
the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati & st. Louis roads, and these
two corporations have pooled issues in or.
derto exclude the South Pennsylvania
from the city. Both ofthem, however, ARE ai-
ter favors from the city, and certain induen.
tial gentlemen are indefatigable in
their endeavors to induce the Councils to
make the granting Of these favors contin-
gent upon certain concessions on the part
OF both companies that will enable the
South Pennsylvania Road to get in. There
is to be a large bridge built over the Ohio
River at Wheeling by the Wheeling &
Lake Erie Road, and by this means the
South Pennsylvania will reach the lake
shore III Northern Ohio. Another means
OF reaching Wheeling which Is in con,em.
plation is from Philipsburg, opposite
Beaver, on tho south side OF the Ohio
River, to Wheeling Junction, opposite
Steubenville, and thence by IN accommo-
dation with the Pittsburgh, Wheeling &
Kentucky, or by an independent line to
Wheeling.
ANOTHER INTERESTING PIECE OF NEWS.
1t is questionable whether the Wheeling
& Lake Erie will be completed to Wheel.
ing as originally projected. Commodore
Garrison Is now in Toledo Strengthening
matters out, and the Toledo Telegram,
probably speaking knowingly, says regard
ing the prospects: "The thirty.tive miles
OF road yet to build to complete the Wheel.
ing & Lake Erie to Wheeling are fraught
with great difficulties. This piece lies in
broken country which is series Of pre-
cipitous hills and deep ravines. It is
estimated that 1t will cost million and
half Of dollars TO complete it. When
Mr.. Griggs became lessee and contractor,
he went at the work confidently and en-
Enthusiastically. Such was his faith in being
able to keep within the estimate and in
the future of the road, that he put all his
own private fortune into 1t. The cost
largely exceeded the estimates and Com
modore Garrison, who was furnishing the
money on the bonds, got tired at last and
there was a halt ordered. Mr.. Griggs as.
signed all his stock over to the Commodore
and the construction account was closed
for the present. This leaves the road run.
ming into the air at Bowerston.