Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-02
RAILROAD EXTENSION
EXCITING 4 GOOD DIAL OF ATTENTION In
CRIME COUNTY.
The Proposed Little Kanawha Valley Lins-frsvsl
on the Tsrminal-9snsrd News Of the
Lines. in This Vicinity.

county and everybody in the vicinity OF
the proposed road is we'll pleased with
the outlook. The excitement is now
caused by the proposed extension OF the
Pennsylvania line, which runs from
Pittsburg through Washington to
Waynesburg. The right of way papers
are being circulated and it is reported
are meeting with good success. The
persons who are trying to secure the
right of way, report everything clear
up to Wise postoffice in West Vir-
ginia. The road is intended to take
in the Mount Morris oil region,
from which there is pipe line to
Morgantown. This would open up this
oil field and make it more valuable
than it is at present. Work has been
begun on the road and it is reasonable
to suppose that 1t will soon be pushed
through. There are many things to
strengthen this belief. The people Of
Waynesburg and Washington want an
opening for their products from the
farm aud the oil fields. The residents
along the proposed road are anxious to
have better facilities for shipping their
products than they have at present.
They are compelled to haul them by
wagon to Waynesburg or MorgaEtown
or to the river, but probably the strong
est proof that the road will be built Is
the demand the Morgantown people
have been making for a direct line
to Pittsburg. At present they
are compelled to ship their
products and travel either by
the slow river packets, or by round
about railroad. They have been de-
handing, and justly, too, direct line
to Pittsburg, and will undoubtedly con-
tribute literally to aid any company In
building such road. 1t would open up
the markets of the coke, coal and oil re-
gions to their farmers. There are two
routes available. One is through the
Mt. Morris oil region OF Greene county
to Waynesburg, to which point the
Pennsylvania railroad has line from
Pittsburg. The other is from Fairmont
through Morgantown to Uniontown and
from here to Pittsburg. All that is
necessary to complete this road Is the
extension from Uniontown to Morgan
town, distance Of about twenty miles.
This road has been surveyed and work
has been done on it periodically.
The Little Kanawha Valley Road.
The address of Hon. V. A. Archer
before the State Editorial Association
on this projected road is attracting
general attention from the state press.
Among other things Mr.. Archer said:
ga railroad can be constructed along
the Little Kanawha Valley on practi-
cally level grade. Not tunnel would
have to be made, nor would there be q
heavy grade to overcome from this coal
region to the Ohio River. 1t would
pass through valley unsurpassed in
fertility and salubriousness OF climate,
and for productiveness in the grains,
fruits and grasses which are indigenous
to this climate. With the transpor-
tation business all ready and awaiting
this road, and the vast quantities OF
timber ready to be transported, and the
unreasonable value of this cooking coal
to a railroad, certainly we cannot be
much longer without the construction
of this much Needed line OF railroad.
ga number of gentlemen in the city
of Parkersburg and along the line of
this proposed road are actively engaged
in bringing the great latent resources
of this valley before the capitalists OF
the East. They have caused this coal
field to be examined by competent eX-
perts: it's area and extent have been
carefully computed; samples of coal
from various openings have been taken
out and cooked and analysed, and the
result has bsen that some OF the most
renowned expert chemists in this coun-
try have pronounced this coal equal in
its coking properties to the celebrated
Connellsville coal of Pennsylvania.
SIN addition to this great coal field
we have only to go beyond and
reach the vast and almost ex-
haustless timber region OF Cen
trail West Virginia. This timber as
it is now situated is practically
valueless. Even in the counties of Gil
mer and Calhoun the finest poplar lum-
Der has been selling at ten dollars per
thousand feet, while the same quality
of lumber in the city Of Petersburg
readily sells at not less than twenty-five
dollars per thousand. One dollar per
thousand, at the utmost, would be the
expense of transporting this lumber to
market. This is very fair basis upon
which to compute the values OF all ar
ticles of export from that section OF the
State. 1t will be readily seen the great
value railroad would be to this section.
The population of the counties through
which this railroad would run, could
be readily increased at least ten fold.
But the construction OF the road from
Psrkersburg up the Little Kanawha Val
lev would result in ultimately extending
the line from the great lakes to the sea-
board. Railroads are already con-
s,ructed from Lake Erie to the Ohio
river, and these companies are greatly
interested In the road up the Little
Kanawha. The road would make one
of the great through lines from the
lakes to the sea. 1t would afford the
shortest outlet from any valuable coke
field to the great cities that consume
the commodity. When we consider the
fact that no coking coal is found west
of the Ohio river, and that West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania are furnishing
the coke for this great country, one
can readily see the wealth that this
road would open to the world"
Railroad Extension.
The Huntington Herald says:
eve are reliably informed that
ts going on between