Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-21
A VALUABLE ROAD
WOULD BE AN EXTENSION OF THR CLEVR-
LAND AND CANTON
Through the Adjacent Coal Fields to This City-Ihs
Wheeling and COnnellsVills Line Would
Also Be Promoted By It

A REGISTER reporter met Judge Z. d.
Cochran, yesterday, and knowing there
was some interesting reason for the re-
cent action in judgment against the
Cleveland and Wheeling Railroad Com
pany, for S45, s2S.75, asked
IF there is no objections the REGIS
TER would like to know the meaning
of the Judgment you took the other day
at Steubenville against the Cleveland
and Wheeling Railroad Company"
II do not object to saying" said the
Judge, "that the taking OF that judg-
ment is entirely consistent with my am
billion and effort of more than
twenty-three years to give to
Wheeling all the roads possible.
The Cleveland and Canton railroad does
not reach pound o. the Wheeling and
Pittsburg seam OF coal and the purpose
OF the Cleveland and Wheeling railroad
was to let the Cleveland and Canton
into that great coal field on Short Creek
and into Wheeling, and while this would
be the making of that road it would also
stimulate the building of tbs Wheeling
and Counellsvlle road. The Judgment
is first lien upon lands and work In
Belmont, Jefferson, and Harrison coun-
w which cost nearly two hundred thou
sand dollars, and the Cleveland and
Canton, at a cost of about a million dol
lars, could be extended TO connection
with the Terminal at Martins Ferry,
thus giving it o magnificent new coal field
and the shortest and best line between
Wheeling and Cleveland. If the road
ever expects to pay,it must build this
line, and my Judgment will be handled
with reference to this object, which /
believe will be reached as soon as times
improve. II you consult the railroad
columns of to-day's REGISTER, you will
find that more than half OF the earnings
of the Wheeling 81 Lake Erie Railroad
for the last year, were from the East
forty miles of it's line, and that means
because it reaches this Wheeling coal
and the Wheeling District. The W. ~
L. E. Railroad is now the second coal
road Of the State of Ohio, and for this
same reason, if correctly remember
hasty reading of the report, its annual
earnings have more than doubled since
it's extension to Wheeling and into this
coal field, and all this Notwithstanding
the depression Of thess times. What
has proven 10 be true OF
tho Wheeling & Lake Erie
will be proven Of the Cleveland & Can
ton if it extends into the same field, and
to both will be added very largely If a
lice is built to Connellsvilie. have
Fever lost sight of all these facts, and
nv whole course for more than twenty
wears has been consistent with the at
tainment OF these ends, and all can
do to promote them will be done. IL l
can live to see these results will try to
forget the hard work, and burdens and
sacrifices all these years have brought,
and the critics and carpers will he glad
they have something to be sorry for.
Had the Terminal people needed
my advice and put million and a half
In a Connellsvile line and that much
less in the Terminal they to-day would
have a property that would pay and
terminal system that would do an I'm
mensely larger business than it now
does, and they and the people Of Wheel
ing would all be better served and sat
isfied. Parties in interest with me
feel as l do in this matter and hope the
time is not far distant when another
line from Ohio, for which the way is
open, will reach Wheeling, and that
Wheeling will open her eyes and way
to Copnellsville ait till tue financial
clouds roll by"