Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-03
ORB Rl7ES ADVANCED
AT A MEETING HELD IN PITTSBURG SAT-
URDAY.
The B. & 0. Getting its Worlds FAR Exhibit
Rsady-EnginesriHg and Construction Work
in ". Va.-Gensral Railroad News

A meeting OF railroad men interested in
the ore earring trade was held at Pitts
burg Saturday, the roads represented
being as follows: Lake Erie, General
Freight Agent Frank Dean; B. & o.
First Vice President Orland smith, Cen
eral Traffic Manager Frank Harriott
and General Freight Agent c. 5
Wright; Cleveland, Loraln and Wheel
ing, ]. T. Townsend; Wheeling and
Lake Erie, A. G. Blair; Erie System
General Freight Agent sam 7. Shane
and the Pennsylvania Company. II was
decided 10 advance the rates about 10
per cent, if all the lines handling ore In
the Mahoning and Shenango valleys
the Pittsburg district and tributary ter
ritorv would agree 70 the proposition
AS some OF the Eastern roads were not
represented, no conclusion was reached
hint I'm the next two weeks all the roads
interested will be consulted. The lndl-
cations are that an advance will be
agreeable To an, and the new rates VIII
90 into effect toward the latter part OF
the month.
The reasons given by the railroad
people for the advance la iron ore rates
are not so much because the pig iron
business is good and the companies
should have their share OF the increase
an price. but because the cost OF main
tanning railways aud the general ex-
penses are Increasing annually. With
the growth OF towns aud cities, termin-
ais must be extended and improved,
property has greatly increased In value
and rights OF way are more costly. Inc
result is that the interest account Is
swelled. and the roads are compelled TO
push ND their rates 70 meet the addl-
tional expenses piled upon them.
The r. e. o. has re-emplOyed some oil
the men recently discharged, and put
them at work 20 FIX up three locOmo-
tives which have long been out or ser
vice. and which will be sent 20 the
Worlds Fair as specimens OF some or
the best engines of their type and day,
but which have given place 20 those OF
the present time, when almost every
consideration has 20 be given to the
ouesttop OF speed. The largest OF these
engines is a powerful camel, built by
Ross Winans nearly fifty years ago;
second is a Perkins ten-wheeler, built
nv Thatcher Perkins, who was master
OF machinery OF the b. & o. away back
in the early flties, and the third IS an
old Mason engine, built nearly Gorty
years AGO at Taunton, Mass. The COM
many will also reconstruct for the
Fair one of the famous "crab,
or "grasShopper, engines, now some
times used for switching purposes az
Mount Clare The cylinders, which
are now upright will be placed In hor-
fzontsl position, In accordance with the
ideas of the late Ross Winans, and
which were carried out by him In build
ing the "MazepDa, which was destroy
ed by fire many years since.
The Pt. Pleasant, Buchanan 81
Tygart's Valley Company, has a corps
OF engineers in the field under James
Mullins, chief engineer, making pre-
Uminary survey for a route between
Buckbqrnon and the West Virginia
Central and PittSburg road. The en-
gineers ran a line from Buckhannon 10
the mouth OF the Laurel river 10 Bar
hour county, distance of about
miles. last week. This route has grades
Of 100 feet 10 the mile. Two other routes
between the same points are 90 be sur
veyed, one OF which is thought will
prove more advantageous. As has been
stated, the line is 20 be q connecting
link between the West Virginia 81 Pitts
burgh and West Virginia Central and
Pittsburgh railroads, but is being built
by local capital.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has engi-
neers surveying for a branch line up
GuyandOtte river. The line upon which
they are at work leaves the main line at
Barboursville, aud follows the east side
OF the river for some miles. Several
surveys over practically the same route
have been made ia the past, but CHS is
the FIRST one that has been made by the
railroad. The territory through which
the line passes is fine and at present
undeveloped coal and timber country.
The Wayne NclCS says: at is ru-
mored that the kenovO-Bluefeld branch
OF the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
known as the Ohio Extension, will soon
co into the hands OF a receiver. The
line cost the company S3O,OOO per mile
and 10 has not realized sufficiently on
the outlay TO be relieved Of the inan-
cial embarrassment" How can one
part Of a railroad 20 into the hands of
receiver and not the other?
Railroad men state that they never
knew a time in the history Of the bust
ness when so much iron Of all kinds was
being used. The demand for pig iron
IS excellent and they are puzzled 20
know what is done with so much Of it.
1t is strange also that with the aoOd de-
mand and the low supply the price does
not advance more rapidly.
RAILROAD NOTES.
The Ohio River Railroad station az
Central City has been completed.
The Cleveland, LOrain and Wheeling
has recently placed an order with the
Brooks Locomotive Works for eight
freight locomotives.
The work on the union depot az Ken