Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-12-26
OUR RAILROAD WORK
Attracting n Great DesI of Attention 4
New York Oity,

The New York World, in column srti-
Gle, introduced by a reference to "the ever
lasting Croton aqueduct wrargle," takes
occasion to compliment the honest work Of
Messrs. Paige, Carey & Co. on that big
contract, in which there was so much job
berry and rascility by other contractors.
The paper says:
paige, Carey & Co, for instance, have
contracts for sections and 8, and their
work is in every respect first-clsss. Section
Z is now finished and has been virtually
accepted by the engineer in charge, who
considers it thorough specimen OF honest
work This judgment maintains the un-
blemished reputation the firm has always
enjoyed. Any great work intrusted to
them has invariably been constructed with
good materials and in the most substantial
fashion"
The article thus continues:
''They undertake enormous contracts.
At present they are working on Sodom
dams Nos. l and at Brewsters, N. Y,
with a tunnel about 1,600 feet long All
who have visited these dams are satisfied
that 10 COnemaugh flood will ever be
caused by a defect in one Of them. They
could not be more solidly built. Another
contract of theirs, which they have COM
pleted to general satisfaction, is the new
race track at Guttenburg. 1t cost $780,
600, and is considered by competent
Judges, horsemen and others, to be one Of
the best tracks in the country.
Besides these contracts in the neighbOr-
hood of New York, where they make their
headquarters, Paige, Carey & Co., have
been engaged during the year on a
number of others further afield.
They have built and completed the
Coshocton Railroad in Southern Ohio,
together with bunch thirty-hve
miles long, including ,50O-fOOt tunnel.
Perhaps their greatest work in 1889 has
been the building for a syndicate Of East
ern capitalists, consisting of New York,
Hartford and Boston bankers and business
men, of double track union railroad
bridge over the Ohio river at Wheeling, with
approaches. The latter included six miles
of construction in Ohio and three tunnels
in Wheeling. The amount Of this contract
was in the neighbOrhood of a million dol
lnrs. The syndicate visited this work
about a month ago and there were grand
times in the good city Of Wheeling for two
days 1t was a stimulating event, no doubt,
and one long to be remembered. AT any
rate this was the view taken OF the visit by
Wheeling papers, each Of which devoted
five or six columns daily to chronicling the
doings OF the visitors. There was recep-
tion committee of leading citizens, a pub
lie reception wRs given. also banquet,
and the members of the syndicate were
driven TO every point of interest about the
town. Nevertheless, they did not neglect
the main object OF their visit, and spent
whole afternoon in minute examination
of the bridge and its approaches.
Oopious extracts are made from the
REGISTER and other Wheeling papers
complimentary TO the firm, end also show
ing the great improvements being made
here, and fOlloEing the REGISTERS
extracts, the writer says: Since that
was written many of those who formed
the inspecting party have proved the sim
cerity Of their admiration by writing to
Messrs. Paige, Carey & 90. letters warmly
approving the work. Among these are
letters from the Bank of New York, the
National Hide and Lsather Bank Of Bos-
ton; the Treasurer of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the President of the
Railroad National Bank Of Lowell, Mass,
and Uther pIUmiuent capitalists connected
with the syndicate. All speak in the
highest terms of the conscientious and
skilful manner in which the contract was
carried ont"
"Mr. Paige has always had
great faith in Wheeling, and was one Of
the principal promoters of the Union
Bridge, which his firm built. Paige,
Carey & Co. are at this time engaged in
building a railroad from Wheeling to Bow
erstown. They built hundred miles of
Senator Camden's railroad in West Vir-
ginia, from Parkersburg TO Wheeling, a
part Of Senator Davis road up near Pied
mont, in West Virginia, and also the Des
Mones Water Works. From this it will
be seen what wide range their contracts
take la fact, they are always ready 10
tender on large public works Of any kind.
They have just taken a contract for an
other tunnel at Wheeling, which will be p
400 feet long and will cost $3.50, 600. This
contract was given them entirely because
of the good impression they made by the
rapidity and thOrOughness with which they
carried out their big bridge and tunnel
contract at Wheeling"
All this shows that Wheeling is forcing
the recognition Of the outside world, and
the attention we are attracting cannot but
result in great benefit to the city and her
people.