Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-30
THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Notes of What is Going on In West vi
ginla.

Notes of What is Going on In West vlr'
ginls.
The officials of the West Virginia
Central railroad report that the traffic,
freight and passenger, between Beverly
and Elkins, far exceeds what they sup
posed it would be.
The Norfolk & Western has paid some
enormous damages for right Of way in
Logan county. They will soon get even
with these fellows though II they can
get at them with few freight bills
Wdyne NeloS.
The auditors of the different Ohio
counties through which the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad passes
met at Canton, and appraised the line
at $500 per mile. This is the highest
appraisement we have seen.
The Beaver Creek Lumber Company
is reported to be prepared TO build
twenty miles of railroad for numbering
and public uses in Tucker county. w.
M. Weller, of Cumberland, Md, will
have charge Of the engineering depart
ment.
The Ensign Company, Of Huntington,
have Just received an order from the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company for
! five hundred box and fat cars. They
are TO be delivered during the months
OF August, September and October. In
this connection let us state that the
Ensign Car and Car Wheel Company is
the largest manufacturing concern In
the State of West Virginia, having a
capacity Of turning out twenty COM
pleted cars day.
The grading has been commenced on
the Beaver Creek road near Davis, but
only small force is employed, and the
work is being done directly by the COM
pany, no contracts having been let. II
is proposed to build line from Davis,
north to the mouth of the Stoney river,
a distance of about twenty-five miles,
connecting at the northern terminus
with the West Virginia and Plttsburg,
near German, w. Va.
John H. Ridenour, the we'll known
engineer of the third division of the B.
| 81 O., died at his home In the east end
Of Grafton, Friday morning, after a
long and weary siege of suffering and
affection, in the 4sth year Of his age.
Deceased was born in Meigs county,
Ohio, Sept. IS, 1874, and coming 10
Grafton was married to Miss Cath
arlne Wolf, July 81, 1864. For quar-
ter OF century he rairoaded on the
several divisions of the 3. & o. r. R.,
and was known from one end OF the
line to the other as careful and safe
engineer.
The second track Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio between Anderson and Low
ell, w. Va. nine and one-half miles,
which was put under track last Decem'
Der, is now in operation. The eight
and one-half miles OF second track be-
tween Low Moor and Covington, Va,
which was begun at the same time, has
not vet been completed. Fourteen
miles additional Of second track Is now
under contract as follows: From Cald'
we'll, w. Va, to Rockland, nine miles,
and from Rush Run TO Butchers
Branch, eleven miles. About TWEEN.
ty.four miles OF extensions q c
now being built en- various division.
These are: Rush Run TO Butoner'
Branch, eleven miles; from Nuttall. ".
Va, to Withrow's Mills, five mile ;
from Gauley to Twenty-Five Creel ,
eight miles. The contractors are: G..
d. Langhorne, Eggleston 81 Deonis,
Montague Sc Tyler, OF Richmond, Va;
J. C. Carpenter, Clifton Forge, Va.
w. A. Rinehart, Coyington, Va, and
G. G.. Gooch, Stsunton, Va.