The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-11
GREAT RAILROAD ENTERPRISE.
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liaitinore-views Of Ex-senator Henry O.
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lialtlnnore-views Of Ex-senator Henry q
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BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 10.-The pro
iectors Of the Cumberland and Washing
ton railroad along the towpath OF th,
Chesapeake and Ohio canal and 0
It's adjunct in tho District Of Columbia
tho Washington and Western Marylant
road, have gone 30 far with their plan,
for construction that a preliminary sur,
yey OF the canal bank has been made
These plans also contemplate an indie.
pendent line from the banks OF the
defunct waterway in Montgomery coun.
" to Baltimore. The survey was made
by Mr.. Charles II. Latrobe, n surveyor
Of long experience, who has Just return.
ed to Baltimore from a trip on horse.
back from Cumberland down the banks
OF the canal, and thence across country
to Baltimore. t,aSJ.ar, "r lg5.l,
But THERE'S A CONDITION. ,1o. q.
The statement was given out that this
Baltimore. extension would not be built
at presentat least, II satisfactory pro rata
rates can be made between the Cumber.
land and Washington and Western
Maryland lines from Willamsport, where
the two roads will connect, to Baltimore.
Such rates, 1t was also stated, are, to say
the least, problematical ut present in view
OF the existing contract between the Bal.
timore and Ohio aud Western Maryland
companies, whereby the latter is to keep
It's hands OF the canal in consideration Of
advantageous terms given the Western
Maryland,for freight traffic from Cherry
Run, where the two roads arc to connect
70 shippensburg, Pa, where connection
is to be made between Western Mary.
land and Reading system.
PRESIDENT DAVIS AND THE LEASE.
A reporter yesterday asked President
Henry G. Davis, Of the West Virginia
Central Railway Company, at his home
in Washington, II bis company is back.
ing the Cumberland 4 Washington
road, or il it was in any way giving il its
support. Mr.. Davis evinced a re-
!uctance to be interviewed on any sub.
ject, but he answered without any hesi-
tation that his company was not backing
the new project; that it had all it could
attend to to develop the coal and lumber
fields 1t now owns. II am not directly
interested myself" he continued, ''in the
new road except as q coal shipper who
is badly in need OF an additional outlet
TO tidewater. lam in favor Of a railroad
along the towpath OF the canal because
i is progressive. I favor it on the same |
broad, general principle that l favor the |
Belt Railroad in Baltimore or any similar |
move"
Are the traffic arrangements OF your |
road with the Baltimore & Ohio satisfac. |
tory?'
Certainly they are; but the trouble is
the Baltimore & Ohio cannot handle the |
freight VIC offer it. Why, our output OF
coal last year was 100000 tons less than
that Of the past year, and it was nil be-
cause the Baltimore 4 Ohio could not
take our cars to tidewater. 1t has not
been the only road which has suffered
with too much business; all the trunk
lines have, and as the demand for coal,
ant, in fact, all products is increasing with
the growth OF the country, what will be
the consequences this year, the next, and
the next and so on? II there is not an.
other bullet from the mining region |
tell you that the coal which should come
to Baltimore will find its way up the
Cumberland valley and thence across
Pennsylvania to the seaboard. We have
been so pressed for facilities that We
have been compelled to send nearly 100,-
700 tons over the Pennsylvania line to
Philadelphia. gg=5A
"Would you give all your traffic to
This road ?" ,a.F - @
f"I would not. The B. 4 O. would,
most nrohahlv raceiva hnlfn ~.