Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-23

Events OF Interest Concerning Corpora,
lions In This Viclnitv.

| agement IS contemplating running late
trains on Sunday evenings during the
| simmer.
The Wheeling and Connellsvlle en-
gineers are hard at work getting the
data accumulated during the late survey
into shape.
Locomotive engineers on the Clinch
Valley and Pocahontas Division of the
Norfolk and Western raj -oad are max
ing from $3.50 to $3.50 a N Jnth.
| A corps of engineers of the West Vir-
ginia Central Railroad are surveying a
new line-the river route-for that
Company's proposed line to tide-water.
A new storage battery is being en-
ployed on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad for use in connection with cleo
trio lighting OF its cars. Twenty-four
bells are placed under each car, and
they supply eight 16-candle power lamps
on the round trip from Cincinnati TO
Washington.
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the c., i. g. w. was held last
week. The old directors were elected
as follows: e. L. Thomas and A. S.
German, of New York, and John Newell,
c. L. Cutter, Oscar Townsend. w. S.
Streator and E. r. Perkins, of Cleve-
land. The directors reelected the off,
GERS of last year.
The actual work of construction on
the Fairmont, Morgantown and Pitts
burg was begun last week, six and a
half miles from Morgantown, on p. H.
Benefits contract, which extends from
that point to Point Marion, Pa. Other
contractors along the line are getting
their tools on the ground and every
thing indicates that the road will be
completed by October, the time stipu-.
lated in the in the contracts.
The English railroad experts who
have made detailed examination OF the
Baltimore and Ohio system in the inter-
est of foreign holders are enthusiastic
over the condition and prospects of the
property. Their report will be highly
gratifying to the present management
Mr.. George Crouch, who accompanied
the party, says: sin comparison with
some other trunk lines, which have been
worked for all they are worth and wat
cred for great deal more, the Balti
more and Ohio is fallow field"
Arrangements have been made for
the construction Of line for the Chesa-
peake and Ohio up Gauley River to the
mouth OF Twenty Mile Creek, q dis
lance of 7.3 miles. The contract for
grading has been awarded to Rhinehart,
Carpenter 81 Co., the work to be COM
pleted by Nov. /. This branch leaves
the main line at point about one mile
east of Gauley Station, in Fayette
county, w. Va. There will be short
cantilever bridge over New River, with
viaduct approaches on either side, the
whole structure being about 600 feet
long. The grades are light and the
curvature easy.
The project has been started to give
Cleveland new railroad outlet to the
seaboard by way of West Virginia and
Virginia, with the Atlantic terminus
either at Yorktown or Hampton Roads,
Va. The line will traverse the coal and
iron districts of three States, and will,
If built, divert a great export trade now
going via New York. Charters have
been secured for the proposed route and
the work of organization is now pro-
ceeding from the headquarters at
Washington. The enterprise is being
developed by Cleveland and Washington
capitalists. who hope to get large per-
centage of the trade that now goes to
Buffalo and New York. A survey OF
the route is to be made in the near fu-
ture.
The engineers who are making the
- I'm nd
have reached point near Hancock on
the Cumberland river, about half way
to Hagerstown. A survey was made last
fall between Cumberland and Hagers-
town, and the company has now two par
ties of engineers in the field making ad-
ditional surveys from Cumberland,
east. These parties are in charge OF Mr..
James Parsons, who has been for sever
al years the resident engineer OF the
West Virginia Central & Pittsburgh
road The survey now being made fol-
lows the river more closely than the
previous line, as it is thought that
more advantageous route can thus be
found. The route will be decided after
the surveys are completed, but nothing
definite has been done as to the con-
struction of the road.
Captain ]. L. Williams, chief en-
gIueer of the extension of the Kanawha
e. Michigan, is authority for the state
ment that the contract for building the
road from Maiden, Kanawha county,
w. Va, to the Gauley river, was let OF
last Saturday to ]. S. Easement, Of
gainesville, o. Under the contract the
road is to be completed by November l,
at which time the Chesapeake & Ohio
proposes to have a bridge built across
the Gauley river to connect with
branch OF the Chesapeake & Ohio,
which has been surveyed up that stream.
The Chesapeake & Ohio will also bridge
New river, thus giving the Kanawha 81
Michiran q direct cnnnectiOn with the