Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-10
RAILROAD MATTERS.
rHB PRESENT ASPECT OF UNION BRIDGE"
WORK.
A Temporary Bridge 10 Be Erected Across the Crssk
The Council Railroad Committee
10 Nss Tonight

The Union bridge people have just fairly
settled themselves in their new ofices, on
the third foar of the Rogers block, on
Main street, and have fitted up their quar-
tsrs in fine style. The offices are by far the
most handsome in the city, and as the bridge
folks have Q two yeAs' lease, they tslt like
making, and have made, arrangements
which have . decidedly permanent lock.
The draughtsmen Of the company are
located on the Main street front, where
they have two coy rooms admirably fitted
up. In the rear, on the south side, are
two rooms for the accommodation Of the
surveying corps, and for stortge purposes,
and next in order comes the office Of Mr..
Carey of the contracting 6cm, and next to
il the general ofic3 Of the firm. Still far
Their west is the private cfice of Dir. Coch-
ran, and fronting on the Water street side
of the building are two other offices for the
use of high officials OF the company.
All the offices have been fitted up with
the best of furniture, in antique oaE, and
a tour of the apartments is quit9 a luxury.
The contractors expect to have the abut-
ment on the face Of the hill, east of the
Ton Mill ofice, completed in a few days,
and will next turn attention, In the ma
sonry line; 10 the erection Of stone supports
for the heavy ircn coiumUs which will be
the next western support for the roadway
of the bridge after 1t leaves the hillside
sbutment. These supports will be Just at
the eastern edge Of the mill building, and
on the western edge of the same baildiugs
will be additional supports CT the same
character. Further west, near the edga OF
the bank, will be located the first pier, rIs-
ing about forty feet above the level Of the
"Pewiky" track, and here, in all proba-
biIity, will be located the iron etairwsy
giving pedestrians access to the toot-walk
on the bridge.
Surveying for the 1,O25 foot switch of
the "Pewiky," at the bridge site, author.
lied at the LAST meeting of Council, was in
pIogress Yesterday, and work upon it will
be pushed with the utmost activity. AZ
soon as the switch is practicable, the open
ing for the west portal of the western, or
shorter tunnel, running through the nose
of the hill to Jonathsn's ~ravine, will be
commenced. This tunnel will be 900 feet
long, and will have q down grade toward
the southeast.
Around on the Peninsula side, work is
progressing actively. Timber for a tenn.
porsry bridge across the creek, from the
east portal Of the long, or l, 100-foot tuu-
mel through the hill under the pike, are
beipg hauled out, and the work of putting
up the structure will soon be commenced.
GA this temporary bridge and out on to
the Peninsula a temporary track will be
laid, and cars placed thereon to haul the
earth and rock excavated from the tunnel
cut of the way. This stuff will be used
for filing in various localities.
The contractors are moving along with
all the rspidity possible, but it takes q
good deal of time to get an enterprise Of
the magnitude Of this railroad work fairlV
under way, especially with the SOFT CT
weather we have been treated to this fall.
The Council Committee on Railroads
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