The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-17
THESE TWO ARE ONE,
THE :cAMoEN AND WARNER ROADS.
CIueIuaau Gentleman who Thinks the Ohio
River Road aud Warner syndIeas are In
'CshootA" to Reach the Qussn CITY.
Z Reach or Gould and Huntington. 9

CINCINNATI, March l6.-The Commercial
Gazette says: 1t does not look as though
the Cincinnati & Eastern road is to have
u full sail, good wind and a calm sea in
the matter OF eflecting an entrance into the
city under the hill as it has said it pro-
posed to do. 1t was not long ago that the
road entered condemnation suit in the
Court Of Common Pleas, which were the
initiatory steps to procure the right ot way
OF the old tunnel that was originally con-
templated "away back yonder"-a few
yearsaiter the D Declaration Of Independence
was declared.
1t now seems that there has arisen an
objection to the use Of the right Of way, and
it may be some time (if at ally before the
road can hope TO have an independent
right Of way into the city. In addition to
the trouble and delay that may beiall the
company, il is alleged that they will have
to pay well for whatever privileges they
may have granted them. Said a gentleman
to Commercial Gazette reporter yesterday:
"Ifthe road has to pay big for the use Of
the old tunnel, it may as well shut up shop
now. The have not enough money to COM
plete much more Of the road, and ain in.
clined to think the Syndicate is having con-
siderable difficulty in placing their bonds
on the market. President McGill, learn,
has for the past two months been attempt.
ing to raise money, but from all reports
understand he has signally failstl."
"But will not the Camden Syndicate,
which recently formed the Ohio River
Road, to run from Wheeling to Point Pleas.
ant, lend helping hand to the Eastern, as
it is understood the two roads will be
joined at Point Pleasant or Gallipolis, and
operated in harmony with each other?" u
~ don't think anything OF the kind. The
fact is, the Camden crowd, and the Warner
and Blaine crowd are one. II the Camden
fellows form an alliance with any road at
Point Pleasant it will be the Warner road.
Both OF the latter Syndicates are the works
Of the Standard Oil Company, and you can
nut it down as a fixed fact that il one road
is built the other will be also"
.'Do you think the Warner road will be
success?"
~ am emphatic in the opinion that it
will not. There is not enough territory to
support it, and besides it can never COM
pete with the river transportation"
"What do you think about the Hunting.
ton system constructing road from Ash
land to this city on the Kentucky side Of
river?"
"a road on that side OF the river would
pay better than one on this side, from the
TACT that it would not encroach upon the
territory OF any other road until it reached
Ashland, and then only with the Big
Sandy Extension OF the Chesapeake & Ohio,
which belongs to the Huntington system.
There is no more danger OF Hunting.
ton building the road from Ashland
here than there is Of his building
one from Buffalo to Chicago. The
Huntington system Is not what It once was
in this part OF the country. Huntington
has his dreams Of Texas and the South.
west, and there is where he will buy and
build roads. don't think the time is far
distant when Huntington and Gould will
own every mile OF road In the Lone Star
State. Mark my prediction and you will
write it as the truth within two years
from to-day" AT this junction the
able railroad man suggested the idea
OF turning the corner" and "commun.
ing" with friend, to which the able
reporter nodded Yves" as is bis usual
custom on such occasions, but before the
sparkling fluid had disappeared to the spot
where it does the most good, the able rail.
road man voiced the belief that the Gin.
cinnati Northern would be equal to any
emergency, and compel the Eastern to use
the Northerns tracks in gaining an en-
trance into the city. "They must come
through the Northern's tunnel or they
will not come at all. and don't you make
an error about It" After this the beverage
was taken in chorus, and the interview
ended.