Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-17
.THE STATES RECORD
IN RAILROAD BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF
OF 1898.
We Stand Twelfth on the List With a Total Of
Forty Milss-Gsnsral Railroad Intelligence
Of the Week.

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nellsville, Pa, south, through Union
town, Pa, and on to the upper HesI
Virginia coke fields. Since It's compile
ton TO Connellsville, the Plttsonrg and
Lake Erie road, which operates II, has
been devising means for extending the
line down to the coke works In the
lower part OF the Connellsyille field. 10
extend the line south it will be neces-
sary 10 cridge the river in two places
and then follow the bed OF Dunbar
| Creek parallel will the lines OF the
| PENNSYLVANIA and Baltimore and ONO.
The Pennsylvania occupies all the
space between the river and the hills
! for half mile below New
Haven necessitating the crossing OF the
river at two points, al Connellsvllle ana
again at Gibson. Engineers are at
work on a new route which leaves the
main line at Dickerson's run and follows
the valley up past Elm Grove and Juni-
ataville By this route the road can
reach nearly all the works in the Con-
nellsvlle field and by short branches
can reach the others. This route will
be rather expensive ffom Connellsville
to Juniataville, but the route beyond
Juniataville to Uniontown and to the
'Elnongahela coal and coke nelds Will
=. be very heavy. The survey men
| h.a..d above is being continued 10
U,niontown by second party OF engl-
neers.
Martin Lape, a director in the Dry
Fork Company, writes that most OF the
surveying has been done on the hrSt
twenty or thirty miles and through all
the more difficult passes In the noun
tains. The right Of way, so far as II was
possible TO get it by agreement, has been
purchased; condemnation suits for the
other parts of the route have been be-
gun. Grading will be commenced with
| ia few months, 1t is stated. The road
is TO be built for the purpose OF develop
| ing the timber along the route, the for
ests being in their virgin state and
showing splendid hardwoods. The route
is from Brett, w. Va, on the West Vir-
| ginia Central and Pittsburg, along Dry
Fork River, branch OF the Cheat
River. through Tucker, Randolph, Po-
cahontas and Greenbrier counties to a
point on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road. The principal stockholders at
present are Levi u. Condor, OF Balti-
more. Md; Robert Whitmer, OF Phila-
| delphia, Pa, and Mr.. Lane.
Mr.! Christian Smith, residing on
Maryland Heights, near Harper's Ferry,
is believed to be the oldest railroad en-
CINE driver in the United States. He
ran the first engine on the first railroad
constructed from Baltimore westward,
from "Plane No. 4" to Point OF Rocks,
on June l, 1886. He was the first en-
gineer to run train into Cumberland
and the first to man locomotive west
Of Cumberland. He is in his eighty
second year, and is hale, vigorous and
hearty, and possesses a youthful appear
ance. He has been solicited by Major
Pangborn, of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, to accompany the Baltimore
and Ohio exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
He proposes doing so.-ShepherdStoWn
Register.
The tracklaying was started on July
on the Gauley Branch OF the Chesa-
peake and Ohio to connect with the
Kanawha and Michigan, and will be
CON pleted on the 18th inst, the branch
being nine miles long from Gauley, w.
Va. The grading is about completed on
the Loup Creek Branch, South Side ex-
tension, from Rush Run, w. Va, and
on the Keeney's Creek Branch, six
miles from INITIALS, w. Va, and the
track will be laid within few weeks.
The Buckingham Branch in Virginia is
now twenty-one miles long, from Arvo-
MIA south to the RoSney iron mines,
twelve miles Of this track having been
laid in 1892.
For some time past 1t has been ru-
mored that Mr.. ]. 7. 0dell, the popular
general manager of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, was about TO resign that
position, owing TO differences of opinion
with Vice President King. The rumor
is revived and generally credited among
railroad men. Mr.. Odell is at Chicago
taking in the Fair, and it is said his
resignation will take effect August 1st.
Mr.. Odell is one OF the best railroad
men in America, and the Baltimore and
Ohio is said to be very 10th to lose his
services, but he insists upon going.
The record Of railroad building for
the first six months of 1898, shows a
total of SO. s miles for West Virginia, as
follows:
Beaver Creek-Along Stony river -....... is
Charleston. Clendennin and Sutton-trom
CLAW county line up Elk river......... $50. D
Ches tpeake and OhlO-On south SIDE eNten
sion along New river......... ........-.....- l.
Karawha and Michigan-From Maiden to
Gauley riVer..................' ..'''''' '.'''0S'
Track laid .s9s
This record is surpassed by only
eleven States.
A couple Of bents OF the trestle on the
O. r. r. r. at Big Run, south OF Will
Jamestown, were burned on Wednesday,
having been fred by sparks from pass
ing locomotive. The evening trains
transferred their passengers at that
point. and the damage was all repaired
by morning, so that trains could run as
usual.
Frank Ellis, fireman on engine No.
1894 on the Parkersburg Branch, was
overcome by the heat last Thursday
while going through one OF the long
tunnels on that road. The prostratlon
was,so serious as TO prevent his work
ing for several days.
A big suit has been brought in the
United States Court against the West
Virginia and Pittsburg railroad, involv'
ing 10, 600 acres of land in West Vir'
ginis. There are sixty plaintiffs in the
case.
The Norfolk and Western bridge
across the Ohio is receiving a new coal
of paint.
For Over Fifty Years.
AN OLD AND -WELL-TRIBD REMEDY
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
,,sa5 for over fiftv wears By millions OF