Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-06
RAILROAD RUMBLIsGS.
Track Notes and News I'm This Immedi
ate NeighborhoOd.

Hte NetHuDOrhVOus
II seems the statement that the B. & O.
Company has purchased the Ship prop.
erty, corner Main and Twentieth streets, Is
denied.
Trains on the p, W. & KY. extension are
now running to the lower end OF the city,
and il will be comparatively short time
until the line is completed.
On Sunday morning about seventy col
ored men arrived in Moundsville, from
yIrginia--where they had been working
on the New River Railroad-to work on the
Ohio River Railroad. They were marched
IN tine brick building at the creek below
town, where they we're quartered. They
are a Jolly, good natured, happy set of fel,
lows. Another squad of as many more are
expected the last of this week. Those there
appear dissatisfied at the wages offered,
The engineers of the o. R. R. R. are To-
eating a new county road, says the Mounds
willie Reno, ter, from this place to Round
Bottom, over the hill below town, from
a point at Lindsey's run. When completed
this will give our friends below town q
shorter and better road. Heretofore the old
road along the narrows was pasSable only
about four months out OF the year, whereas
nv the new one they will be able to do
their hauling to town the year round, in
stead of being compelled to ship by boat.
Besides this il will be saving to Clay dis
trict IN the matter of keeping the road in
good order and repair.
What has the Pan Handle Railroad done
for Belmont county that her representa-
tive should support the bill to shut the Bal
timore and Ohio out of Columbus, for the
benefit of the Panhandle? What induced
the Panhandle to exert its power and in.
fiuence on the floor OF the House against
the Locke bill providing for new court
house at St. Clairsyille?-T CtdirsVItk Ga
=eite.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany is hurrying up the completion OF the
Streets run branch to Finleyville. From
that point to Gastonville the road is raileo
and ready for business, and force OF car
penters are at work raising the trestles.
The Jarvis Summit cut is the only point
not completed as to grade, but the work on
this big cut is going on rapidly. Prepara'
tiops are in progress for new temporary
transfer across the Monongahela river,
pending the erection OF new bridge. A
transfer similar to the one now used be-
tween the B. & o. and the ?: Il l.. L. Will be
constructed, but on much larger scale and
that transfer abandoned. The surveys for
the new bridge are finished and Engineer
Ackenhall is at work on the plans and
profiles. The bridge will be Of iron, douple
tracked. and will be erected before the fall.
On this new line there are some remarka'
bly, large trestles, one 900 feet long and 81
feet high across Peters Creek, and another
600 long and 20 feet high across another
stream. These trestles are built OF Georgia
yellow pine. The road will be open and
ready for operation by June l.
hA int
ested that the Cincinnati, Wheeling and
New York railroad intends to come
through Belmont county, provided the
people are willing to guarantee $3.50, 900.
the money not to be paid until the road is
completed. If Mr.. Atkinson will make a
public proposition to this effect, We have
no doubt the money can besecured. War.
rem, Union, Richland and Pease townships,
including the towns of GAINESVILLE, Nor
ristown, ST. Clairsville and Bridgeport, are
wealthy and populous and amply able to
subscribe this much money for great
through line of railroad. Come on with
your proposals, Mr.. Atkinson.-Barn1eSriHe
Enterprise
The Quincy correspondent OF the Barnes
vile Ne1rs says: Notwithstanding the re-
peated assertions of the Bellaire papers to
the effect that the Narrow Gauge is made
almost useless by the st. Clairsville and
Northern railroad the records of the sta
ton here show that the B. & o. receipts
from st. Clairsville freight in February
exceeded the revenue from the same source
in the corresponding month last year by
over SO. Express traffic is also constantly
increasing, and the general business OF the
road has never been better than during the
present year. Figures won't lie, and in
that respect they differ materially from
the Bellaire press.