Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-06
NEARLY COMPLETED.
RAILROAD WORK BEING RUSHED ArMAR'
TINS FERRY.
A Description Of the Situation as It Exists To-Day
A Bright Outlook for Our North
ern NsghbOr.

ern NsighbOr.
The way work is being rushed on the
Martins Ferry end of the Union Bridge
and Terminal rsilrosd system is OILY
equalled by the activity prevailing on this
side Of the river. An enormous amount
of labor has been done over there, and a
very few weeks more will see the compile
ton OF what will re very large job, so
far as the limit OF the town proper is
concerned.
And it has been far from an easy job
The lower portion Of Martins Ferry, from
Hanover street south, ia noted for it's
picturesque scenery rather than its favor
able topography for rsilroad construction,
and the succession of ills and hollows
presented abundant opportunity for the
engineers to bring in all the usual accom-.
pariments of road-building, including
trestles, fills, culverts, cuts. viaducts, etc
This inside the work not only costly, but
sIog Of construction, and the fact that ii
is SO nerly done speaks volumes for the
hustIiug abilities of the contractors.
The road bed hiss been completed, from
the crossing Of Fourth ard FAyette streets
north through the entire town to the viciu'
ity of the Laughlin nail works, at the tx
IRENE north end of Olsrk's addition, dis
tauce Of about two miles. For yearly half
this distance the ties and iron is Gown,
aud az the grading force At toe north end
of this stretch Of road are about concluding
their LAHORE, the iron will soon be stretched
over the entire extent Of the road, up 10
the mills. All the masonry on the entire
line, from the Laughlin mill down 20 and
including the bridge across the river, is
done, and like the work on this side Of the
river, ia of she most III issive character. A,
the intersection of Fsyet!e a0d Fourth
streets the false work ia being erected
prepai story to getting up the long viedrc,
extending between the aoutments on either
side of the streets named, aud the iron for
the superstructure is lying on the ground,
ready 20 be hoisted into place. Two
weeks will see it up. From this point
south the tTestli1g is done and the ties
laid down, and at The crossing Ct Wash-
ngton street the iron girders are 10 placs
and the work there complete. The rail-
road crossing at that point is nearly forty
feet above The level Of the street, and
when il is remembered that hut a short
distance north a cot ia msde, and nj q still
shorter distance south tie track touches
the snrfsce OF the ground, the very uneven
nature ef tee ground will be realiz d.
Coming toward The river, ust after leay
ing the Washington street visouct, the
track takes long curve to the esst, aad
ends at the line Of Madison street 10 a
massive abutment. There another Iorg
steel viaiuct stsrie, crossing the G. x p.
railroad tracks aud running thence east
alopg Madison street TO the bank Of the
river. The false work for that portion OF
the viaduct crossing the @ & P tracks was
I completed las. week, and Sunday the
massive steel pedestals, weighing eleven
tons each, being hoisted into place, the big
girders w,rs placed IN position and the
line across the G. & p. completed. Yes
terdsy big force of men we're working al
hosting up the iron for the visduc., and
as the metal is about ell on the ground,
the work will be rushed right sloJg. This
yiaduct is supported in Osssive steel col
umns, resting On stone psdestals, aud ex-
tends right on out TO the river bank.
Ga the bank, where this viadact ends,
will be located the largest steel bent
used in the construction OF the entire
work, and from it will spring the fret
span OF the bridge proper. leading ont to
pier No >, in the river. The false work
for this first span is just about complete,
and as so0n as the viaduct from the O. x
p. crossing is completed out to the edge
of the river bcnk the first span Of the
bridge ON the OaiO side will be at once
rushed into position.
While that span is being placed in posi-
ton the fslse work for the mkt will be
under way, ard in this manner Chief
Eoeineer Brown sxpscts, If nothing IN
LOOKED for intervents, to have the work
brought cut TO the channel span by the
first of May, at the on side.
O7er on the city end Of the bridge the
ties have been placed in position, and as
the iron has been ia place through the tun.
nels for some time, it will not be lorg uu-
I'll cars can be run from ths new ard near
ly completed q o. connection, east OF
the Peninsula cemetery, right on. on to
,be bridge, bringing the nltefial for the
prosecution of the work night into the
hands of the men.
There is dawniDg realization smOng
ssgacious business men and real estate
owners, over in Martins Ferry, that the
place is or the thrtshhold Of & very prof.
porous career. The completion Of the union
bridge project makes the tow a railroad
centre for nearly all of Eastern Ohio, ,hsre
being connections up and down the river,
and into the interior By the B & o, O, l..
& W., the Wheeling and Lake Erie and The
c. & P, and the volume of business to be
transacted with this side OF the river, and
the COW nielce with which sn eastern out
let for all sorts OF traffic can bs had, makes
the location of the town great one for
general commercial purposes.
Having already population Of nesrly
or quits eight thousand, with abundance
OF room for both manufacturing and resi-
deace purposes, aud railroad facilities
much better than these v0uchssfed 20
.nost PLACES OF anything like iis siz', there
is no reason why Martins Ferry should
not make an immediate and rapid advance
in population AID wealth. Especially Is
that portion OF the toSn lying south OF
II inover street desirable, despite the
rGughuess of the surface, az it is close TO
Wheeling aud convenient TO all thu depo's
at present existing or to be hereafter e,tAb
lished % the new roads.
Let the town government take hand
by grading off the hills and filling mp the
hOllowq, sad the rest will take care OF
itself.
sroLzsNBACH's White Satin Soda Bit
cults are very fac. Try them.