Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-05-04
RAILROAD RuMsLlNes.
Sparks From Flying Engines-Eehoes From
the Traek-News Along the Lines.


Thos. Page of Rivesville and w. T..
Menear, of Fairmont, have the contract for
hauling cement to Morgantown for the B.
/. & o. They have to deliver at that place a
thousand barrels or more, at IS cents per
barrel. Esch barrel of the cement weighs
about 800 pounds.
Last week Mr.. Bennett, from PennsyE
the road of the F., NJ. 4 P. Co., from near
Little Falls, Monongalia county, to Buffalo
creek in Marion county.
Messrs. Sturm 4 Co., who have the con-
tract for the stone work for three bridges,
viz: Booths creek, Cobun's creek and Deck
er's creek, have sub-let the contract for the
stone for Cobuns creek to Messrs. John
Coda, Isaac Weaver and James Dean, Of
this county.-Morgantown Post.
One hundred men are at work on the F.
NJ. & P. railroad, near Morgantown.
Parkersburg expects to get the Chicago,
Parkersburg and Norfolk railroad.
On Monday number of heavy blasts
were fired near "Ghost Hollow Mononga-
LA county. one of which was charged with
nine KEGS Of powdsf. : Stones weighing
many tons were torn asunder and thrown in
all directions. This shot tore out l60 cubic
Yards Of stone. The blasting on this sec
ton we learn will probably be finished to-
day.
Contracts for the entire line of the F., NJ.
& p, between Morgantown and Fairmont,
have been let. Mr.. p. II. Bennett, of
Greenburg Pa, on Saturday took the last
section and will begin work on Monday
next. 1t is thought that by September LIST
the entire road bed will be completed.
The W. Va. 4 Pa. railroad will 60 along
the west side of the river and not enter
Morgantown. 1t will have a station across
the river from that town. This will save
the bridging of Cheat river. The b. 4 D.
will run their line along the east side.
General Manager John Z. Wootten, of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, who is the patentee Of the Woot-
ten dirt burning locomotive, has sold his
rights in the patent for sum estimated
between S250,00O and S3e0,000. The pur-
chase was made by an association Of rail
road capitalists, who have formed COM
pany, of which Mr.. Joseph Wharton, Presi-
dent of the Wharton Switch Company, is
the leading man. The purchasers will
continue the manufacture of the locomO-
motives under the title of the Wootten
Locomotive Company. 1t is understood
that Mr.. Whootten will be represented in the
new company to the extent Of about S75, 900
in stock.
OF the 81. 900 900 of bonds issued by the
Rochester and Pittsburg railroad company,
and which are covered by the equipment
mortgage recently recorded, $l,l00,000
have been taken by the stockholders OF the
company, the balance remaining in the pos
session of the corporation. These bonds
are dated February |, 1884, bear six per
cent. interest, and will mature in 1924.
Mote than 5000, 900 of the proceeds has al
ready been invested in rolling stock.
The Railway Car Accountants Associa-
ton will meet at Richmond, Va, May 20.
A circular has been issued by Dan A.
Sweet, assistant to the General Manager OF
the Chesapeak and Ohio and Kentucky
Central Roads, that c. H. Bronson has
been appointed auditor Of revenue, vice r.
II. Fisher, resigned.
Mr.. S. X. Hooper, general passenger
agent of the Hannibal ( st. Joseph Rail
road, will resign that position May - to &C
cept the position of general passenger and
ticket agent of the Central Iowa Railroad,
with headquarters at MarShalltown, la.
The appointment will take place on that
date.
A joint circular issued by the Union Pa
cifc and Noads gives notice that Joint
through freight tariff of the latter line, No,
l69, is thus amended: Taking effect May l,
1884, Peoria rates as given in Western
Trunk Line Association tariffs will apply or
all freight, except immigrants movables,
tetween the following named points and
Council Bluffs, Omaha, and points on or
reached via the Union Pacific Railroad,
unless the Chicago rates are lower: Ster-
ling. Gait, Rock Island> Junction, Round
Grove, Morrison, Union Grove. lmmi-
grants movables in carloads or less guam
titles will take Chicago rates as named in
tie tariffs of the Western Trunk Line AS
SC SCciation.