The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-02-18
THE W. Z C. RAILROAD.
Some Fresh Information about tho
Work Of tho Engineering Corps.
ROUTE THEY have MAPPED OUT.
Tho Present so-cnllcd Preliminary
Survey being oTaGo with Caro- which
Seems to Indicate TINT the Project.
ors Mean Observation-Disclosures us tho
Right Line.

AS stated in the ISrELLlaEScrR yes.
tcrday, tho surveying corps OF tho
Wheeling & Connellsville Railroad
Company reached Waynosburg, Pa, on
Tuesday. In a letter to this paper IN.
nouncing this fact prominent citizen
OF that town adds the following inform.
alton and suggestions;
Tho survey is being made with tho
very greatest care. Tho lay OF the land
is being noted, and buildings that stand
MS far rs 800 feet from thelino arc noted
OH tho maps.
They ere ssed tho dividing ridge from
Wheeling creek on 10 the valley in this
state at Ackley's, at n point almost
where Ohio and Marshall counties, W.
Va, and Washington and Greene coun.
tics, Pa, corner, thence onto the
south branch OF Ten Mile creek, pass
ing through Harvey's, Hagersville,
Hinton and down tho beautiful and
rich valley to this place. The limo sur
veyod by the South Penn Company
about eight years ago Is being quito aC-
curately followed by the corps. 1t is
our understanding that the Wheeling
& Connellsville has in its possession
the South Penn prohles, for which they
PAD quite handsome sum. Then an
other survey was MADE ABOUT Two years
ago ny some fittsDurgli capitalists who
own vast pody oil coking coal land be-
tWeon thls place ana UniontoWn.
ms object was to place this new coke
heid IN the markets OF the west by
building road IRON Unlontown via
this place to your city. They also fol-
lowed tho survey OF tho South Penn,
but the pittsburgh capitalists have
united with the Wheeling & Connells-
vile enterprise, and that give addi-
tionai strength ana assurances. The
engineers Will prosecute their work on
10 uMontoWn. we are informed much
care VIII be bestowed on the approaches
on both sides oil tho Monongahela river,
%here the limo crosses: The line touches
the fayette county side at the mouth OF
Beaver river.
The limo as surveyed through this
counto is most desirable, indeed. 1t
threads our county from west to east, a
distance OF fully thi rty.seven miles. 1t
is likely nota tunnclwill be encountered
IN al that distance: The grade is easy,
ana tho bridging OF streams will DO very
light, Tho line threads rich, densely
populated and beautiful country in this
and tayette counties. In the event the
road is built, and We all hope it will be,
1t will draw passenger and freight
traffic from either side for distance OF
from twenty to thirty miles that is not
feeding, any other road and would
naturally fall to the Wheeling 4 Con-
nellsyille road. This trade, which ma
tural!y belongs to Wheeling, goes to
Pittsburgh.
The building OF tho road over this
route is OF incalculable value to your
city; Your business men can thereby
hold the trade from your city to Uniou-
town. We here, who realize the great
benefits our county is to derive from
this road, feel that your interests and
ours are mutual. and wo should pull
together for the Wayncsburg route. To
build the road on tho North Ten Mile
route, north OF us, or the Dunkard
route, south OF us, would not add q
dollar in point OF patronage TO your
city. Either route would parallel tho
Baltimore d Ohio, and you have your
share OF the trade from these sections.
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