The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-08
THE NEW COKE ROUTE.
Points In Favor OF tho Northerly
Route Talked OF.
THE wheeling 4 CONNELLSYILLE.
What an Important Project 1t Is for
wheeling for Various Rcasons...Thc
Rich Territory IL Would Mako Trib.
utury TO this Clty...What Wheeling
Ought TO lie.

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Mr.. Ernest +. Acheson, editor OF tho
Washington Daily Observer, was in the
city yesterday. To all ISrELLIGEScEls
reporter, Mr.. Acheson said: "Tho pco.
pic oil Washington county, particularly
Of tho southern part Of it, are much in.
tercsted in the building OF the proposed
Wheeling and Conncllsvillc railroad. Ii
It is constructed they believe that its
route should DO through our county, up
Wheeling and down Ton. Milo creeks.
This route, Lindlcy's Mills and Ten
Mile village, is the shortest between
Wheeling and the M~onongahcla river,
is the easiest TO build and would be the
best for Wheeling. as it would bring
trade TO this city which it would never
otherwise get. AS | understand the OBJ.
icct OF its projectors this pad is not
only TO secure to Wheeling a direct
route TO the coke regions, but it is de-
signed also to Increase tho territory tri.
butary 10 your city and SO benefit your
commercial rs we'll rs manufacturing
interests. 1t should be the aim, there
.ole, VI Us management 10 auoPt INC
miosL nofti'clIy "Hu'.itole route, us INC
Iu'tIGt " Hocs IN 'itNt u''eGt'Vh 'ne
'loIc ~ euts ny ilo tr"ue WHICH HOW
s'; ..Tt ~ LittspIFGn.
~ ~ t"aioIl"' Io"u, W. orlstnaiiy
Itoicescu VSsWeEn the MohohGa!ela
!EeI "iu MnSeLng, passed sS zen miles
EOu.i ~, n"~snsis.on. IL ucviAlloh
Hu'! ',l'si us LuturI! course, was mace
Iossipao ny ny Poii'Icai uhhuehce oil
HVl''icH'c'i ics'uiiis ~ Washington.
THE PROPER ROUTE.
"That old route, proposed in 1S0S, is
s~rbs.ontiollv tba ono uow ono, - ,ho
w1",:N" ~" oPo" Inc
""eei''is "'u ooi'e''s'ii'e roau. Inc
W0ynesburS people are endcavoring to
swing the route twelve miles south OF 4
direct line, making it much longer and
more expensive. To build on that route
would be to abandon entirely TO Pitts.
burgh the trade OF southern Washing
ton county for Wheeling merchants and
TO gain only the trade OF central and
northern Greene county, which would
he Wheeling's anyway were the north
crn route adopted. In othc: words, the
trade TO the south OF whatever route be
adopted Is surely Whcelins's, and the
trade likewise OF Il moderate sized strip
OF territory on the north OF it. Ii the
route be shifted south it is. q virtual
abandonment OF SO much territory to
Pittsburgh, which could then be
reached easier than Wheeling by the
In"'t,Gts 'ai.I!, t'ic na!tiiloteE ohio'
pcnnsrIvar;6 in nrorat;or - T ,Mo
vile, ten miles below the mouth OF Ten
Mile creek, and the packet line on tho
MonoTganeia. :,
"heeilhS wholesale Srocers now sell
ni"ily soous AZ Hoilatsvi!ie ana 10 mer-
cn;hts OF otler points on TINS route,
"iInpueil IL Is more convenient Tor most
ol tl'eIi 10 receive tnelr c~onsleninents
nom L!t.spursh. i! tlcy mad direct
Cohigc'loIt VIII necllhG your city
would uhq1uDlealy mohopol,zc Their
CUSTOM. NIeelihe mercahtiic anu
business Interests slouiu OBVIOUSLY,
therGiore' iavor me northern route: a
INC puiit OH IL "onidofa" TO wheeling
thc 'fMao OF a tlcn ana pophlous sec.
1ioh. Inc Six soulherh townships OF
Washington county, through which 1t
Wo daS pass nave Z population OF about
!o'uVo, ana inc assessed valuation OF
rfoPcfty therG!n IS ~sI,!00V,UOC.
IhaI INC ihllapilants arc thriity and
aLielu III inc Worl9 Is SHOWN Dy the tact
.iiat !hcy return Utmost si,uoo'uVO III IN
lefesl.
SHORTEST TO THE COKE FIELDS.
ali it is coal and coke that ;s moro
,r.;o,,,uIv u.,,tal a.
pa" ""n.''' '.'o 4tot 'i'eiL QUO
VIII reach inc pltumlnous teld many
miles nearer than the other. The Pitts
burgh coal vein crops out OH Lower Ten
Mile and could be opened there to the
ues' auVaat'aScp a!'it mines. Inns IS
r T,U ,1 i"r !, .n n,o IJT"iy, mitn u
TIM: is uneycelleI and, ACCORDING to Tho
report of the state g~cologist, should
make an excellent quality oil coke. At
len Nile village, ten miles above the
moulin OF len MIG creek, this coal Is
ohly l49 lcet below the surface accord
ing 10 me report Just quoted. This Is
not 100 deep 70 DC shai'cdior probably.
~ INC great iidGeway. coal works on
MiIIcrs run, III Washington county,
owned py,a syndicate OF Philadelphia
capitalists, they have shaitcd $50 feet
ior the littsbur@h coal. This is one OF
inc most extensive ana deliberately
EQUIPPED plants recently put into oper-
anon IN tlls region, with steel tipple
ana electric mlnlns..mac!hnes. Colonel
liehds new WORKS III tho same town
snip iavc 4 shatt limos as deep. In
other places large tracts of llnl urn No.