The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-03-21
A Richmond Road.

Richmond Dispatch March ls
Allroals leadt6 Rome. AndRfch.
mond Il somewhat like Rome 10 that
respect Her people are large.mind.
ed enough 70 be pleased when a rail
road is constructed for any commpni'
~ which needs 1t, and content them
selves with hoping that the new
road may 10 some manner contriblte
to the welfare Of their own city
Hence, the heading above, "a Rich
mondroad
But we are not far out Of the way
in calling ia Richmond road, though
il is TO run from Wheeling to Point
Pleasant; for It will connect at Point
Pleasant with a railroad already
leading direct to Charleston, West
Va, and thence direct to Richmond.
The new road was talked about a
good deal last year; but then it was
not contemplated, We think, to touch
at Point Pleasant. The completion
ola railroad between Charleston and
Point Pleasant may have caused a
change inthe plans Of the men who
projected.the s0hio River Railroad"
Anyhow. the prospect for tsconstruc.
tion at an early day seems to be very
good. II will, when completed, al.
ford a new and charming route from
this city 10 Parkersbhrg and Wheel.
ing, and all the towns between these
two cities. The line surveyed fol
lows the Ohio river, avoiding its
bends as mich as possible, Of course.
II will become hundred and seventy
miles long. It will passi full view
Of Blennerhasset's Island, we sup.
pose, where Aaron Burr'streasonable
schemes we're said to have been
hatched or matured, or both. Its
route cannot miss the Writ county
oil region by many miles.
The company is headed by United
States Senator Camden, Of West Vir-
GINA, as president, and associated
with him are a number Of capitalists
from Parkersburg, Wheeling, Phila.
delphia, Cleveland and New York
They held a meeting in Cincinnati
on last Friday to consider matters
connected with the scheme, and were
on Saturday to have awarded the
contracts for building all that part
of The road which will lie between
Wheeling and Parkersburg, or about
twO.thirds of its whole extent. This
part Of the road is to be finished this
year. Before it is built between Par.
kerburg and Point Pleasant the Gin
cinnati and Eastern railroad will be
running between Cincinnati and
Point Pleasant distance Of one
hundred and forty miles.
The syndicate proposing to build
the Ohio River railroad claim to have
sufficient funds to finish it-some
FIVE or six millions Of dollars. There
we're one hundred and thirty-one
bidders known-most of them for the
work between Wheeling and Par
kersburg. This looks as if we might
soon have a railroad along the valley
of the beautiful river"
P.S. Since the above was put into
type The Cincinnati Commercial Ga
sstie, has brought US the following:
"The directors Of the Ohio River
road concluded their labors yesterday,
after awarding the following con
tracts for the completion Of the road
from Wheeling TO Point Pleasant
The contract for the completion Of
the first division Of a distance Of
thirty miles was let to Geo. F. Mills
4 Co., of Holmesburg, Pa. The con
tract for the completion of the second
and third divisions was awarded to
Coleman, Page & Co., of Akron, Ohio.
The work is to be beguna at once, and
to be completed for the running Of
trains by the 1st day of December. "
So that it would seem there can no
longer be any doubt as to the con,
strnction Of the road in question. 1t
will connect at Wheeling with roads
running into Pennsylvania, and will
place Cincinnati a good deal nearer
Wheeling than it has ever been
hitherto.