Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-22
Railroad Notes.

| erS meet aI hIcnmOnu LO-mOTrO".
The WesU Virginia Central stock
holders meet in Philadelphia Tuesday.
A. II. Thorp has been appointed as
sistant treasurer OF the Wheeling and
Lake Erie.
The survey for the Wheeling and
Connellsville has reached point about
three miles beyond Waynesburg.
The Ensign Car Company, Of Hunt
ington, has received an order from the
Missouri Pacific for 500 cattle cars for
quick delivery.
Mr.. Alfred Walter has resigned as
General Superintendent OF the B. & o.
lines east OF the Ohio river to become
General Manager of the New York, Lake
Erie and Western Railroad.
Work on the new shops for the Nor
folk and Western, at Lambert's Point,
Va, will be commenced this week. The
intention is to have the new plant COM
pleted by June 1st, If possible. The
buildings and yard work are TO cost
about $4,000.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has
awarded a contract to Rose & Sanford,
of Baltimore, for erecting two-deck
freight pier 600 feet long at Newport
News, Pa. The same firm has also Sc
cured the contract for building the
500, 900 passenger station at the same
place.
The Ohio River Railroad Company is
pushing the work on its independent
line TO Huntington. The grading is
completed almost TO the Guyandotte
river, and the iron work for the bridge
over that stream will soon be erected.
The work done is of the most substan-
tial sort.
An arrangement has been made by
the b. Il o. to operate new short line
to be built by Messrs. Knott IL AMI, who
own ami operate ore mines and lime
stone quarries about ten miles from the
main line at ShepherdStown. MessrS.
Knott Il ALL will do the grading and the
company will lay the rails and operate
the road.
William Walmsdorf, a large timber
operator on Roaring Creek, w. Va, has
contracted with the West Virginia Cen
trail and Pittsburg to build branch
line from the mouth Of Roaring
Creek TO his timber holdings, twenty
nine miles up the valley. Mr.. Walms-
dorf will build the roadbed, bridges,
etc. and the railroad will complete the
line and operate it.
T. C. Hackett has been engaged to
make the necessary surveys for the
Hinton and New River Road, and to
prepare the data for letting the con-
tracts. He is forming his surveying
part, and will soon be ready TO begin
the work. The survey will soon be
made from Hinton along New river to
the Norfolk and Western in Mercer
county.
The report that surveys were being
made from Charleston up Elk River,
which was published last week, was in
correct so far as it connected that line
with the Chesapeake and Ohio. The
engineers making the survey are proba-
bly, working for the owners of the mines
which would be connected with Charles
ton by the new road.
President Kimtall, of the Norfolk and
Western, in an interview last week, said
his company was using all possible haste
to complete the Ohio River extension OF
the line, and that unless there was some
unexpected difficulty that part Of the
line would be finished and through
trains running in August The second
tunnel on the line has been recently
opened through, and the grading and
tracklaying is going along along as fast
as the weather and surrounding condi-
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miles Of the line yet TO be built.
The statement published in Pittsburg
that the Wheeling and Lake Erie has
made traffic arrangement with the
Pennsylvania road, is pronounced I'M
true by General Passenger Agent Hall.
He saws: There have been local ar
rangements OF the kind existing for
years, for instance at 0rryille and Bow
erSton, but no general traffic arrange
ment had been made between these
roads, nor would there be, for the w. &c
l.. E. has all to lose and nothing to make
by such a contract" He Furthermore
said by the w. & l.. Z. traffic agree
ment with the b. & o. the people Of
Steu benville will have the advantages
of competition with the Pennsylvania
lines just as Wheeling and other points
have, and that the relationship OF his
road with the h. & o. is very close, and
their interests mutual in this territory.
Hon. Henry T. Davis, president of the
West Virginia Central, had long talk
with Mayor Latrobe, Of Baltimore, a
few days ago, presumably about the
proposed foreclosure OF the Western
Maryland road by Mr.. Davis and his
associates. 1t is rumored in Baltimore
that an ordinance had been prepared to
be submitted to the Baltimore Council
Wednesday night, asserting to the sale,
and that Mayor Latrobe would sign it.
There terms of the sale were said 10 be
upon basis OF $1,000, 900, and to in
clude cash payment of $500, 900 and
the payment of the floating debt OF the
road. A prominent railroad official
said: "The Pennsylvania Road is be-
hind the West Virginia Central, and as
soon as the sale is consummated the lat
Of the Western Maryland, will be cut
oil and traffic diverted to the Pennsyl-
vania system" The Reading and Nor
folk and Western Roads also want the
Western Maryland.
The troubles between Major John K.
Railroad directors has finally got into
the courts, and last Wednesday Major
Shaw filed in the Circuit Court OF Balti-
more bill Of complaint against Henry
G.. Davis, Stephen 3. Elkins, Arthur p.