Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-05
THE RAILROADS.
Matters of Interest Relating to Nearby
Corporations.

Mat tiers or Interest Relating 10 NohrDJ
Corporations.
Huntington people are very proud OF
the new Ohio River railroad terminal
in that city.
Work on the Terminal CompanY's ex-
tension TO Benwood will be finished as
rapidly as possible.
The Panhandle repairs at the
Eleventh street station and along the
wharf have been completed.
The Baltimore and Chic now has 400
men at work on the tunnel at Harper's
Ferry, w. Va, and as many more will
begin this week on the Virginia side OF
this improvement.
The B. & o. have signed the opera
tors new scale of wages. The scale pro-
videS that no operator is to be paid less
than $40 per month, and in some places
they are paid according to the amount
Of matter sent over the wires.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
agreed to give its conductors an In
crease of ten cents day on January l,
1893, and on December l, 1894, it will
give further increase Of five cents a
day.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has taken charge OF the entire
chain Of railroads extending through
central West Virginia, known as the
Camden system. The system comprises
nearly 300 miles OF line and will give
the B. & o. complete control OF central
West Virginia.
The Norfolk and Western officials say
that their outlay for new equipment will
foot up toward $3,OOO, 900 for current
fiscal year. and Notwithstanding this
large increase, the increase OF traffic is
still keeping ahead of their facilities.
Early in the next year they will be
obliged to provide more trains on their
lengthening lines, and they are now
considering the question OF ordering
more cars and more engines.
The grading on the new railroad from
Gauley Bridge to Twenty Mile is about
completed, as we learn. The work on
the bridges is being pushed forward,
and the track will ere long be laid to
that point. This road will be laid up
Twenty Mile to the tract Of land owned
by capitalists, on which is wonderful
supply Of the finest timber, while the
mountains are underlaid with inexhaus-
tible quantities of coal. The road will
probably not be built farther up than
this land.-NichoIaS Chronicle.
The contractors all along the line,
from Morgantown to Smithfeld, Pa,
are being urged forward as rapidly as
al nd
P. H. Bennett, who has 519 miles, from
Point Marion, Pa, south, has his con-
tract practically completed, there re-
naming only sm all amount OF ballast
ing to be done. The Lane Bros con-
tract is finished, so far as as grading is
concerned, but most most Of the bal
lasting remains to be done. The Cheat
River bridge abutments are up beyond
the reach Of any high water and the
work is being rapidly pushed. Beyond
the Cheat River, Bennett 81 Talbot
have done very little, but will prob
ably be through before the Cheat River
bridge is finished, about March Is.
The Norfolk and Western has taken
time by the forelock at Kenova, the
point where it crosses the Ohio river and
where the Huntington and Big Sandy
road joins it. Instead Of waiting for the
town to grow and necessitate the build
ing of a belt line around 1t, the company
has built the belt line already, and all
factories and shops that have been Sc
cured by the Kenova Land Co. have
been located on the belt line. This
method insures that all Industrial es-
adjustments shall have good shipping
facilities and that the Norfolk and
Western shall very largely control their
freight The company has its new un-
ion station and Office building at that
point nearly completed. The cost OF
the building is $50, 600.
The improvements which the B. &
o. has under way at Cumberland, Nd,
are beginning to assume tangible shape.
RYAN and Mcdonald, the contractors,
have excavated nearly 100000 yards OF
earth, and cut wide enough for four
tracks, and nearly a mile in length has
been opened up. The work has been un-
der way for many months, and is not
nearly completed. The yards proper,
which will be the main feature Of the
! Improvement, will include about forty
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