Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-22
THE STATE LINE ROAD.
An Appeal to Real Estate Owners to
Come Forward.

An Appeal to Real Estate Owners to
Come Forward.
President Samuel George, and Treasurer
D. Brown, of the Wheeling and State Line
railroad, which is projected through Buf-
falO and Cross Creek valleys, in Brooke
county, from Wellsbnrg into PennsYl-
vania, have issued an address to the people
OF the section of the country proposed 10
be traversed, in which they say this may
be, and in all human probability will be,
the last chance the landowners living in
the vicinity will have TO secure to them
selves railroad that will carry themselves
and the products of their farms east or
west at all seasons of the year, and have
the same advantage as other landowners in
other parts Of the same county traversed by
railroads. Proceeding the address says:
Property owners and ell shippers with
in five miles Of the line are especially in
terested in having this road built and
ought to contribute from three to five dol
lars per acre. Lands adjacent to and with
in one mile of the line will readily sell for
from five 10 ten dollars per acre more than
now. Land from two and one-half to
three miles distant will be worth three aud
four dollars per acre more, and lands from
three TO five miles distant will sell from
two to three dollars an acre more, while
coal lands will bring from fifty to one hun
dred dollars per acre more, favorably stu
aied.
- Landowners and all other taxpayers
should bear in mind that railroads pay
more money into the county treasury, In
proportion TO their worth, than any tax
payers in the county. Each township
traversed by road receives its proportion.
Railroads are taxed by the mile, and are
valued on East and West roads from
$15, 900 TO $50, 900 per mile, while North
and South roads are valued, from s., 0O0.to
$40, 600, according to their net earnings.
at is hoped that the effort &c build this
line of road through the best coal fields and
agricultural districta in the State will be
successful, and to enable us to do so in n
reasonable time, each land owner and
other parties interested. will see the Deces-
sity OF subscribing all the local aid they
can and not wait TO ses if their neighboTs
will do it all or conclude il will be built
without them, and leave us in the same
situation ss former efforts have leit those
who attempted it.
Books of the company are now open for
subscriptions. Give us $1,000 per mile
and free right Of way, and we feel conf
dent that we can secure you frst-class
road that will COS. at least $50, 900 per
mile to build"
The managers of the railway project
have, with the consent and advice Of the
directors OF the Pennsylvania end Of the
line, given the committees at Bethany
aud Cross Creek, including Lazearville, to
the State Line, as we'll as West Middle
town, Atchison, Duusfort, Independence,
Buckeye School House, Lawton's, Wood
row, McCarrolls, McConnell's Mills,
Houstouville, Fort Donaldson and the VI
cinity of Buffalo Village, thirty days in
which to raise the amount of money 10
their respective localities and to satisfy
the people making the subscriptions that
the route securing the permanent location
of the line by resolution Of directors,
shall be the line, and all subscribers on
the line or at points that do not secure
the road shall have the privilege OF de-
stroying or cancelling their subscriptions
at their option.