Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-24
STATE RAILROADS.
THE WORK OF BUILDING NEW LINES GOES
RIGHT ON,
D.spit. The Financial Representatives, Of Va
rious West Virginia Corpora
lions.

Despite the financial stringeucy' rali
road building continues in West Vir-
einia. and the indications are that before
many years that State. marvelously
rich in coal, iron and lumber, and with
hundreds of acres Of productive farm
Ing and grazing lands, will be thorough
ly grld-ironed with railroads. One OF
the latest roads projected, ana LOT
which a charter has been granted, Is
the Cheat River Railroad Company,
which proposes TO build a road from the
mouth of Cheat River, at a connection
with the Baltimore and Ohio and Penn
sylyania systems at that point, TO Row
lesburg, on the headwaters OF Cneat
river, where another connection Will De
made with the Baltimore and OHIO. IL
is also contemplated that short extern
sion beyond Rowiesburg would give IL
junction with the West Virginia Central
aud Pittburg, (Davis-Eikins road.
The incorporators include number OF
wealthy and enterprisiDg citizens OF
Pittsburg and Allegheny City, ia.
This would be very desirable
Improvement. 1t is also an
nouuced that the work Of laying the
rails on the Fairnont, Morgantown and
Pttsburg Railroad extension between
Morgantown, w. Va, and Uniontown,
Pa, is going forward rapidly and trains
are expected to be running over the
road within six weeks. This will give
the Baltimore and Ohio Road another
through line to Pittsburg via Falrmont
and MorgantoWn. Whilst this Improve
ment is being pushed, the surveys for
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston
Railroad have been completed on ooth
sides of the Monongahela river from
Brownsville, Pa, TO Lock No. 9, In
West Virginia. 1t has not as yet been
decided which side OF the river the road
will be built on, but it Is confidently
believed by those Ia position to know
that the road will soon be built to Nor
gantown. From Morgantown to FAIR
mont this road will doubtless occupy
the west bank Of the Monongahela
river. as the Baltimore and Ohio Road
has already possession Of the opposite
side. Already most OF the splendid
coal lands on the west side OF the river
have been purchased at high figures, In
expectation of the early construction OF
the Plttsburg, Virginia and Charleston
Road. baltimore sun.
The stockholders of the Cumberland
Railway Company will meet at Pied
mont August s, and organize by the
election of directors and officers. The
annual stockholders meeting OF the W..
Va. C. & p. and the Piedmont and Cum
berland railroads will be held the same
day and place, for the election OF direc-
tors, etc.
Harry Fletcher, baggage master and
extra conductor on passenger trains,
and David Bradford, conductor on local
freights, on the Monongahela River
railroad, have been dismissed. Charles
Martin, formerly agent at Castor, gets
Fletcher's place, and Michael Moran
takes Bradford's train.
There are at present five engines
loaded and sidetracked at the Chesa-
peake and Ohio shops. These engines
have Just been thoroughly overhauled
and tested. but on account OF dull
freight traffic, have been put out OF use
for awhile. Huntington Argus.
The work Of laying rails on the Fair
mont, Morgantown and Pittsburg rail-
road extension between Morgantown
and Uniontown, Pa, is going forward
RAPIDLY and trains will be running over
the road inside Of five or six weeks.
NJ. j. Caples has been appointed AS
sistant Engineer Of the Clinch Valley
and Pocahontas divisions OF the Nor
folk and Western, with headquarters at
Bluefeld, w. Va, vice A. P. Miller, re-
signed.
Indications point to an early building
of the Guyantotte Valley railroad. This
will lead to the building OF the Symmes
Creek road and to bridging the river at
this point.-Hlmtingto Commercial.
The next quarterly dividend OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie-one per cent.
will be payable August 18th.