Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-03-23
THE Elm GROVE ROAD.
The Extension is Rapidly Being Com
pleted.
THE AIR FILLED WITH RUMORS
Concerning Alleged Plans of the B. & 0,
Company.
PLANS IN OHIO & PENNSYLVANIA

Unless there should be an unusual
amount of bad weather within the next
thirty days. and that is improbable UNI
loss all the weather we are treated TO
in that time turns out bad, the Wheel
ING and Elm Grove extension from the
Park to Elm Grove will be finished and
in readiness for the running of trains.
The road bed is about completed over
the entire line, except the fill at HuguS' ,
and that will be finished up in short
time. Cross ties and iron are on hand
i'm sufficient quantities to build the
track. and over considerable distance
the rails have been actually laid down.
Regular railroad iron IS being used,
with heavy ties, and when completed
the entire extension will be stone bal
lasted and made in all respects equal to
regular railroad, the management
only requiring a connection with the
b. &. O. at Elm Grove to permit the
running of railroad trains right up to
the Park station should it ever be de-
Sirable to do so.
At the Elm Grove terminus of the
road. a great deal of work has been
done. The line ends just beyond the
-four mill, close TO the b. Il O. track.
A frame building which was in the way
has been moved, turn-table has been
nut down, and water tank has been
ordered. and will soon be on the ground.
Bv the time the work there has been
completed, the track will probably all
be in place. in readiness to permit the
running of through trains from the
city.
Elm Grove people, or at least a good
many of them, are living in the cXpcc-
tation that the completion of this line
will do much to build up their town.
bringing a number of Wheeling people
to reside there, at least during the sum
mer months, and there has been good
deal of activity in the real estate market
out there, based upon this idea. Several
Wheeling gentlemen have invested in
vacant ground. which will be cut up in
to lots, and put upon the market as
soon as there is disposition to buy on
the part of the public. Property gener-
ally all along the line will be benefited
by the extension of the road.
Railroad Rumors Flying Around.
The air of Wheeling is pretty well
saturated with railroad rumorS. and if
even fraction of what one hears is to
be believed great things are in store
for US.
The favorite location for these rumOrs
* along the north bank of the creek,
from its mouth east to Market street,
where the intangible rumorS join in
with the more solid and substantial
plans of the Terminal Railway Com
Dauv and its sister corporation, and the
Wheeling and Eastern Improvement
Company.
The laSt-named corporations are
scarcely mentioned, of late, however,
the gosSipS being busy in the endeavor to
fathom the plans of the Il. & o. Com
panv. for to that corporation is at
tributed number of things which are
highly important, if true. Color and
apparent foundation has been lent these
reports by the fitting back and for
ward of Baltimore and Ohio officials,
who, while i'm the city, show marked
preference for the territory south of
Sixteenth street and north of the creek.
In a nutshell. the almost countless
stories told. call for the location of either
a Il. & O. freight depot or shipping
yard fronting along South street, and
extending from Main to Market streets,
with direct connection, either on the
north or south sides of the creek with
the Terminal railroad system. 1t is
claimed that railroad agents are negO-
tiating for the ground on the west side
of Main street. Just north of the b. x
O. treStle. that the same company has
its eye on the Hubbard lot, upon which
the MeSSrS. Bacr have secured an
option and to whom the city has granted
the right for switch, and that in addi-
ton. "dickering" is going on for the
property of the Miller estate, fronting
on South and Market streets, extending
from Market back TO and including the
old saw mill property. 1t IS stated that
successive offers of $1,000, $4,000 and
$50. 600 have been made for this prop
erty. without success. aud further nego-
tiationS are i'm progress.
What real foundation there is for all
this talk could not be aScertained yes
terday, as everybody was reticent. In
the event that it should prove true, the
alleged Il. IL O. improvements. together
with the Terminal Company'S depot.
will work a wonderful change ii the
portion of the city lying along the
creek.