Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-31

The Important News Regarding Local AM
West virginia Companies.

TIE RAILROAD WORLD.
The Important News Regarding Local and
west Virginia Companies.
The local freight traffic at the Pan
Handle depot is increasing so fast that
an addition to the force has been found
necessary.
Ii is now estimated that the Wheeling
& Lake Erie improvements in this vicin-
ity will cost $3.50, 900, and will yield
net revenue Of 100000 per annum.
This will DO pretty nearly good invest
ment.
President ingalls, has ordered the eS-
adjustment OF lunch counters at i'm
portant stations and functions on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, beca use
many persons cannot pay 6ining-car
rates for meals.
To accommodate the increased freight
triilie on the w. Va. c. & p, the com
pany has placed another train on the
road between Elklns and Thomas The
first extra went out yesterday morning
loaded with live stock consigned to
Eastern markets.
The line OF the West Virginia and
PittSburg road has been completed from
Clarksburg, w. Va, to Conference.-The
Gauley in Webster county, this State,
and has been turned over to the man
agement of the road by the contractors.
Camden-on-the-Gsuley will be the
terminus for the present. Two daily
trains have been put on.
The local passenger business is going
to be uDrivaled, next Tuesday. 1t is
estimated five thousand people will
come from various Pennsylvania cities
and towns, four thousand from Ohio,
and four thousand from West Virginia,
making about $4,000 people for the rail-
roads to haul. All the local roads will
be jammed up with passengers.
At the annual meeting of the Pied
mont and Cumberland Railroad Com
Dauy, held in Baltimore, the
following directors were elected:
Henry G.. Davis, Steven i. FL
kins, 3. d. Barclay, Geo. c. Wilkins,
Arthur 2. German, William II. German
and William j. Read. Henry 6. Davis
was reelected President. and K. w. S.
Moore Secretary. The meeting was
held at this time on account of change
in the end of the fiscal year. The West
Virginia Central Railway Company, in
Maryland, also held a stockholders
meeting and reelected all the old direc-
tors, with William II. German, Presi-
dent, and E. w. S. Moore Secretary.
The work Of grading for the new
yards and changing the tracks OF the
b. & o. Company at South Cumberland,
Md, is progressing rapidly under the
contract with Ryan & Mcdonald. The
work has been held back somewhat on
account OF the heavy traffic, making 1T
impossible to abandon one OF the tracks,
but it is the intention to make room for
tie continuance OF the improvement at
one. Ryan 81 Mcdonald have two
steam shOVels at work and are pre-
pairing to increase the facilities for
completing the work. The work thus
far had been done with a view Of re-
moving the low place in the tracks by
making a fill of about ten feet for a
distance OF about three miles. Here
tOfore there was an up and down grade
in that distance. The road will be
about level when the fill is completed.
The West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg is making improvements at several
points along the line. At Elkins new
paint shop 44x1OO feet is being erected.
At Thomas a new round house is being
put up and grading for second track
from Fairfax to Thomas is nearly COM
pleted. New track scales are being
put in at several points, entertainments
are being strengthened, cuts cleaned
out and the road generally overhanled.
Messrs. f. A. Parsons, A. M. Bradley
and Ed. Baker, who have been con-
nected with the engineering corps which
is surveying for the extension OF the
line from Mingo to the head Of Glover
creek in Pocahontas county, returned
10 Beverly last week. They report that
it will be necessary to build four tun-
nels with total length Of 1000 feet,
the longest being 1,40O feet, between
the head OF the Tygarts Valley river
and the head of Clover creek, a distance
OF two miles. The entire line of this
proposed extension is through very
heavy mountainous country, and the
line will be very expensive to build.
Every effort is now being made to fin
ish all the grading on the Fairmont,
Morgantown and Pittsburg, between
Morgantown, West Virginia, and Smith
field. Pa, before cold weather sets In,
so that the tracklaying may be con-
Quoted uninterruptedly during the win
ter. Bennett & Talbot, who have the
contract from the north side OF Cheat
river to Smithfield have their work al
most completed excepting tunnel
5000 II. long near Morris Cross Road.
This is we'll under way, and IL can be
put through probably by the middle OF
Novemb Der. Lane Bros, who have the
contract for ca miles OF the heaviest
work, have increased their force
by the addition Of 200 hands,
and hope TO have the work completed
shortly after November l. Stone bal
last is being broken all along the line,
and it is probable that tracklaying will
commence from the Morgantown end in
about ten days. Work on Cheat river
bridge is going ahead rapidly, the piers
being above water. 1t is estimated that
the briuge can be finished in three
months, and that very shortly after
that time the completed line from Nor
gantown to Uuiontown, Pa, will be
opened,