Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-03
ALONG THE CREEK.
walf TEE BRIDGE AND TERMINAL COMPANY
ARE DOING.
Great Progress Being Made, and That Portion Of
the City is Rapidly Being franifsrnsd-
A Review Of the Work.
The contractors who have engaged to

The contractors who have engaged to
put in working order the tracks and
buildings Of the Wheeling Bridge and
Terminal Railroad Company, on the
north bank OF the creek, are hustling
things along at an extremely lively rate,
and it will not be long until 1t will be
possible to run train right down to the
north end of Market street bridge. Al:
ready the bridge across the creek and
much of the heavy trestling both east
and west Of it is ready for the
transaction of business, while from the
east line of Market street the trestling
is ready for the rails to point in the
rear of the old Warren Oil refinery, at
the intersection of Eoff and Nineteenth
streets. The trestling along the entire
distance from Market street east TO
where Nineteenth intersects the rail-
road track, is wide enough for three
tracks, and wide platform besides, and
buC ldllSs CNOsi al f'0NNf
ready TO spike down the iron. Along
the whole of the creek bank the trest-
ling will probably average thirty feet
wide by thirty-fve or forty feet high,
resting on piles driven down to the hard
red slate upon which the foundation Of
the new stone bridge will rest,
and the amount OF oak lumber
used may he well measured by the ad-
jective enormous. Few citizens who
have not gone over this ground In the
last six months can have anything like
a realizing sense of the great changes
which have been made by the Terminal
railroad people, in this section of the
city. Dwellings and industrial plants
have been swept away, streets changed,
grades altered and, best OF all, the
whole north bank Of the creek, for
many years an unsightly expanse OF
rubbish and refuse, has been completely
hidden beneath the system OF railroad
tracks and trestles and plat
forms. The greatest changes, as
a matter Of course, are being made be-
tween the east line of Market street
and the gas works. Besides the dis
mantling Of the old tack factory prop
erty and the changing and transforma-
ton OF the ground in that immediate
vicinity, at least dozen dwelling houses
have been torn down, and the whole
situation is so changed as to be scarcely
recognizable. OF course, great deal
remains to be done, and snow will fly
before the operations are anything
like completed. Much of the work
done, too, is but temporary
and this will be especially
true of the depot building TO go up.
The plan of the company contemplates
the erection of massive stone wall
along the north bank OF the creek,
similar to that already built IL front OF
the Whitaker mill, and until that much
is accomplished, the commodious, solid
and ornamental permanent depot build
ings will not be erected. The erection
OF this wall will doubtless take two
or three years, and the tenn
porary buildings will have to
serve their purpose Tor at
least that length OF time. 1t has been
predicted by many persons that no per-
manent improvement would ever be
made by the Terminal company along
the north branch Of the creek, but as
the company has always kept It's prom
ises in other regards, there seems TO be
no good reason to doubt that 1t will
perform this work in due time.