Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-01-16
RAILROADS.
a Comprehensive Review of What
i, Is Being D9ns
sin This Direction by The People Of
Our State.
Projects Which VIII Develop the
Unlimited Resources
(Of Sections Exceeding Rich In
s Timber and Orc
4and make Nest Virginia a Leading
- Commonwealth.

sinia. IL also shows the lines Of railway
Ain The territory Immediately adjoining this
stats. Something of q contrast is pre-
ecs,- led Ohio has ei2hty-eight counties.
PWe believe every county in the State is
q pierced by at least one railway, and ma
jority of the counties have competing lines
through their territory. The same thing
holds good with Pennsylvania. The por-
lions of Maryland and Virginia which lie
immediate to West Virginia are equally
well supplied with railroad facilities. Our
? map shows what We say to be true. Those
Black lines are railway lines, and they
cross each other and parallel each other
like bars on grid.iron, in the territory
which surrounds West Virgins. A glance
at the map will convince the reader that
West Virginia is not 50 well supplied with
this great aid to development intelligence
and wealth, as are her neighoors.
More Than One-thard of the Counties
of West Virginia have no railroad commu-
nication with the outer world and almost
none of them have competing lines. The
Baltimore and Ohio and the Chesapeake
and Ohio are the two chief lines Of
:. way in the State; but they do not come into
competition any way so IS to benefit our
people. At Wheeling and Msrtinsbury
the Pennsylvania system touches our terri
tory, bat to no very beneficial purpose to
the people of the State. The mutual
uDh, me to pool their issues" where peo-
! PIE are to be plundered by great railroad
monopolies, illustrate the fact that 'compe-
kition does not always compete"
tAs ue IRON the roads mentioned, Senator
Csmden has almost completed a line be-
tive en- Wheeling and Parkersburg which
we show on this map. The cars will be
running on it within 80 days after such
weather comes as will make it possible to
go shesd with the work of construction.
This road will open up q valuable portion
CT the counties of Marshall and Wood,
both of which are penetrated by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, and will, in add
ton. give Wetzel, Tyler and Peasants
counties rail communication with the
cities of the country.
The Next Most Important Line Of Road
is fifty mile section Of the Pittsburgh and
West Virginia Central, which ex-senator
DAVIS, to whom We are indebted for this
move, has built from Piedmont. across the
northern end Of Grant county into Tucker.
Grafton, and has already added immense-
ly to the developed wealth of the exceed
ingly rich section which it penetrates. In
the spring il will be extended to Lewis,
about six miles further into the territory
of Tucker county. Here q town will be
built and the chief shops OF the company
will be located. IL is m the midst Of
timber region Of exceeding great value, and
the workable veins of an excellent quality
of coal in this vicinity sggregate full nifty
five feet in thickness. At this point will
grow up a great manufacturing town.
In the early spring Mr.. DAVIS will take
up and seriously consider the question OF
building another line of road from the
toyr Of LAWS, in Tucker county, up
through Grant, Hardy and Hampshire to
Winchester. In that vicinity he will md
competing outlets TO the East over three or
four different lines. The people OF the
counties interested are alive to the import
snce Of this great work, and have recently
signifed that fact by voting local aid TO 1t.
The next
most Important and Promising Rail-
road Enterprise
~ this State now under serious considsra-
zion ia the extension of the narrow gusge |
system, which has proved of gieat value
Ia Lewis and Upshur counties Tue peo'
|Dle of the counties of Gilmer, Calhoun, |
Roane and Jackson are interested IN ex'
ending this system TO the ONO riNer-
bepetratipg the very hearts OF the counues
named, The counties OF WOOD ana VIZ
aTe also also alive TO the importance oil
r,ercipg the rich territory lying between
Psrkersburg and Glenyille with marrow |
uaIge branch. .I.;
Y Word cCmes to US in the most authentic
amer that both the Baltimore Y ONO
Ssnd the Pennsylvania companies Will ontIu
I;nes up into the territory OF this STATE,
= fnToxfrs the valleys Of the Monongohela
liver and it brsnches-thus bringing sharp
krompe tition for business 10 the very doors
If tbe people Of Monongalis, Marion and
Z Harrison counties. With one end OF the
narrow gusge system upon when me Ia
terior Of the State must depend lor Us ue
n,ornsnts meeting these competing
;nss AZ CIarksburg, on the north, one prong
"a the other tapping the Ohio River rall-
tSosd on the west and another prong the
fHS;a Central and the Chesapeake x ONO 81
Cbarleston on the south; eventhe farmers ot
.n..s Iuserior Counties Will be
Renehted.
oy the competition which the great riSai
kcompauies will find it to their interest to
Ss n Il now there is no compei ion with,
~ this State between the Baltimore anu
ohio and the Chesapeake ana onao; o;ns Ve sscb
,bey do not invade at any point 1 eac1
othsr's territory, nor are they eonnectsa
othe linz which serves as feeder to
I'm But when the narrow gusge sysIsh
sbsII have connected the two rosasIoo
shsll have connected at one END Win tne
Baltimore and Ohio ana ~iS1 tte ,tsr Iii r;IG
ser at another point which lsiter wiz
se,t with the Chesapeake ana Onlo-
No great systems will at once become
D snpetitors for the business OF the narrow
mage. aud in this way composition Is
k6roGght even to the people who have ou'
fnis on. s,t;cIs headed Railroad Rumors"
from the pen Of our intelligent and wide
wake correspondent at Fairmont, vas
,r;nted in the SUNDAY REGIsTER snd VIII
PfIso snpear in the WEEKLY REGIsrEs. Tne
writer bas no doubt but
a. Animated Race II Being sua
hstveen two powerful systems, the Balh-
,;roore a Ohio and the Pennsylvanis, for
"a rich patronage Of the Mononganela ana
tributary valleys in West virginia
ss fact ought 10 stimulate with new zsaI
people Of Gilmer, Calhoun, hoSns
Jackson counties in behalf OF Insir
row gauge. The outer xorid Is
"a waiting to pay them good prices -
-,tsh Icr their timber, coal, grain, mesS
boultry End all the products OF thels nca
k;fIs sfd yaliies. The public spirited men
bf these counties should give themselves no
Etst neither day nor night, until tne PEG,
he sre brought to extend most eotoini n
1 Eelcone 10 the new enterprise, wnicn Wiz
Sspt fit every citizen Of the county.
Below win be found well-written ana
lkslusbIe article from Professor hiad, oi
'Nbs Glepyille Normal School, addressed
EQrticulsriy to the people OF Gumer eoun
~ On the 24th Of this month the peoPie
q Gilmsr
win vote Upe. the Prepositien
N.s ,hs coonty making subscription 10 the
Ea AZ sso OOo. and Professor Kidds ex-
tsI,snt article VII aid the people IN eom-
~. to : correct conclusion IN the premises
NE S50. 600. II voted will Al % e1genoeJi
Ei,hsn that county, and half million OF
&oiiars hesides vill b paid out iSr !. ,soo .os.
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