Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-13
A NEW RAILROAD
POINTING THIS WAY FROM NORTHEASTERN
OHIO.
ns Cleveland, Canton and Southern Has Engineers
na Line From BowerstOn to Portland.
Paige Carey & Co. Said to
Have the Contract

The REGISTER ran across another
snroad project yesterday, which will
AVE a good deal Of interest for Wheel
NJ business men and manufacturers.
II conSummated, il will mean another
md competing line between this city
and northern, eastern and central Ohio
pornts, as well as to the Lake cities
generally.
The Company which Is said to be
heading this way is the Cleveland, Can
,,7 and Southern, which now has its
connections at Sherrodsville, seven
miles west Of Bowerstown, and about
for.y-seven miles from this city. The
,srle line crosses the c., L. & W. at
Jusyus. Starke county, the Panhandle
a. COShOCtOn, and runs on to GAINESVILLE,
thls latter extension having been built
BIZ Paige, Carey & Co., not long ago.
Ills now asserted that the Company
proposes TO run line from Conversion
ess, 20 the river, paralleling the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie for Z good portion of
the way, and that engineers were put
on the line day before yesterday. A
gentleman said yesteadaY:-
'I saw Engineer Butcher, who is in
the employ Of Paige, Carey & Co., last
Friday. He told ne that he had orders
% get 70 work on the following Monday
and run the lines toward Wheeling.
lie also quoted President Blood, OF the
Company, IS saying that the financial
arrangements had all been completed,
and that the line was 70 be built. He
srs1 stated that almost 8 mile OF line,
cas-. from Bowerston, graded by some
former Company, was to be utilized, and
that the rights OF way had been pretty
much all secured over good part OF
tie way
A gentleman closely connected with
the frm Of Paige, Carey & Co., was
spoken 20 about the matter yesterday,
act be partly confirmed the rumOr, say
INK: Whenever the line is built,
Paige, Carey & Co. will build il; that's
certain
The objects OF the Company in getting
20 the river are said 70 be 70 get larger
share OF the Eastern Ohio coal business,
as well as 20 get q chance at the trade
OF Wheeling. AT Portland their line
would connect with the c. & p, and
would be but six or seven miles from
the upper end Of the Terminal system,
8, the Laughlin mill.
General superintendent J. w. Ward
well, OF the Cleveland and Canton, Is
s.s0 said 90 be interested, in connection
with some of the coal operators owning
mines In the MaSSillOn section of the
T.scarawas Valley, in a project TO
build line from JuStuS, the junction
o., the Cleveland and Canton and the
Cleveland. Loraiu and Wheeling roads,
ID the Pigeon Run Valley over the
original but abandoned survey of the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, passing
through East Greenville, and terml-
hating 40 Dalton on the Wheeling
and Lake Erie. The action is
rendered necessary in order that an
AVAILABLE outlet may be secured for the
Goa fields being developed in that terri
tory. The new line will prove a valu-
al.o feeder for all Of the three roads
mentioned ABOVE, but it IS likely that
tla Cleveland and Canton will be the
Ca.ef beneficiary. This road whose
large increase in earnings last year was
largely due TO the vast amount Of coal
hauled, will be made still more profitable
b. its increased facilities. The distance
90 De traversed by the new piece Of road
about eleven miles, and 10 is estimated
that it will cost $500, 900 TO build. The
right OF way is now being secured.