The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-31
.MAY BIZ CONSUMNAIID.
The Two State Line Railroads
Will Consolidate Soon
UNDER A NEW MANAGEMENT,
The Pittsburgh, Canonsburg q State
Line and the Wheeling, Wells
burg 8 State Line Companies
to Join Forces-Details.

In compliance with the laws OF this
State a copy Of the articles OF association
and OF the charter OF the Pittsburgh,
Cauonsburg & State Line Railroad Com
pany, of Pennsylvania, have been filed
in the Office Of the Secretary Of State at
Charleston. Negotiations are pending
and are reported on good authority to
have been substantially agreed upon for
the consolidation OF this Pennsylvania
corporation with the Wheeling, Wells
burg & State Line road, and the forming
of one company, According to the
Commercial Castle, Of Pittsburgh, a
meeting OF the directors of the two COM
panies will be held some time in the near
future, at which time the consolidation
Of the two companies Is to be formally
effected aud a new set OF officers elected.
The proposed route Of the new line Is
not yet definitely settled upon, although
a right OF way 100 feet in width, has, IT
Is understood, been secured from this
city to the MorganZa reform farm III
Washington county. Surveys have been
made, and q line established seven miles
west OF Canonsburg, From the latter
point there are two or three routes pro-
posed by which to reach the Ohio river
at this point. The route westward will
depend largely upon the interest mani
tested in the road by residents alongt the
proposed lines.
The road has been in contemplation
for over three years, but many legal OBJ
staCles were found to the obtRinment Of
a charter for the entire line. 1t was
found that a charter granted in West
Virginia was not sufficient to warrant
the construction OF the road through
Pennsylvania by filing a copy Of the
charter. A charter was then obtained in
Pennsylvania and filed in this State
where the laws are moro liberal. This
having been done, the two companies
will be consolidated into one, as was
originally intended,
The Commercial Gazette, speaking o.
the enterprise, says:
"The proposed line will be from sixty
five to seventy.iye miles in length, and
will tap the richest portions OF South
western Pennsylvania and Northern
West Virginia, Coal, gas and oil is
found along tho entire length Of the
route, and It is expected that q large
business will be developed within O
very few years. The country possesses
many advantages for the creation oil
manufactures, and no little Importance
is attached to this fact by the projectors
OF the road.
When once work has been begun II
will be pushed forward with all possible
expedition, The projectors claim that
they will be able to make arrangements
with other companies as soon as tht
road is completed that will insure
steady INCOME from tho first day that .
train can be run over the rails. 1t wal
in probing on this point that the Com
meroial Gazette reporter uncovered the
scheme which is to afford an inlet to
Pittsburgh for the Cannon Bali
Mount Vernon, CoshoCton & Wheel
ing), the Ohio River, the Lake
Shore, tho TusCarorGs, and the nrnposed
extension Of the Cleveland, Canton 4
Southern, the Valley railroad aud tht
Wheeling 4 Lake Erie railroads nj n
which roadO do nov or viii ss,nortly eros
the big new. Unl.cin railroad bridge a
Whe"!!.Ilg from the Ohio side. Thesl
various roads tap various freight pro
duciug districts Of Ohio which comes tC
Pittsburgh aud which, under existing
circumstances, they are Obliged 10 turn
over to other lines. BY coming direct
to Pittsburgh, which they can do by
paying track tolls over the Pittsburgh,
Cannonsburg & State Line, they expect
to surmount the obstacles which it is
claimed have been strewn in their path
by the Pennsylvania Company"