Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-10
TIE KAILROAD WORLD.
What is Going on About West Virginia
and Ohio Corporations.

and Ohio Corporations.
Vice President Bullitt, Of the Nor
folk and Western, denies the published
rumor that the Kanawha division OF the
road is TO be put into the hands OF re-
ceiver.
The Ensign Manufacturing Company,
Of Huntington, has just shipped a large
number of cars TO Chicago for exhibit
ton at the Worlds Fair. They are
made on the most approved plans.
FL. Stout Of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie, has been appointed Super
intendent of transportation. G. A.
Seackford has been appointed Engineer
OF Maintenance Of Way, both with Office
at Toledo, o.
The belt line at Fairmont, being built
by the Baltimore and Ohio, has been
completed as far as the Beebe glass
works, and will be finished to connec-
ton with the main line in few weeks,
The road will be six miles long when
opened It's entire length.
The work of putting down the ties
and rails from Morgantown north will
begin in few days. While it is not
likely that trains will run regularly
between Morgantown and Uniontown
earlier than next fall, it is possible that
such will be done by midsummer.
President Boudrou Of the West Vir-
glnia Central, announces that the
annual meeting was held In Phlladel-
phla on March 30 and that the old
officers and directors were re-
elected. Alexander Boudou, Of 1929
North Tenth street, Philadelphia, is
President and Treasurer, and +. L.
Clark is Vlce-President and Secretary.
President ingalls,, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, has decided to divide the sys-
tenn into two general divisions, and be-
ginning April the Peninsula, Rich
mond, Washington and James River
divisions will be known as the Eastern
Division; the Huntington, Cincinnati,
Lexington and Big Sandy divisions as
the Western Division.
Capt. Ham. Rose, of the Grafton and
Parkersburg branch Of the Baltimore
and Ohio, is to be congratulated. Some
months ago he invested few hundred
dollars as a speculation in lands adjoin-
ing those of Judge Golf. 1t is now re-
ported that the South Penn Oil Com
pany, thinking it good oil territory, has
offered him the handsome sum of S4O,-
600 for his share. His friends will be
glad to hear OF his good luck.
The engineering corps which the
Chesapeake and Ohio has at work on
the proposed branch from the main line
AZ Barboursvlle, east Of Huntington,
southeast up the Guyandotte River, has
run a line as far as Guyan Falls, about
twenty miles from the starting point.
Orders have been issued for the prelim-
mary line to be continued as far as Lo-
gan Court House, in Logan county, q
distance OF about fifty miles. All this
distance the line is to follow the east
side OF the river, If possible. The grades
are all easy, and there will be no very
expensive construction.
lis stated that the Pittsburgh, Ohio
Valley and Cincinnati, which is now in
operation from Bellaire, along the Ohio
River to Powhatan, fifteen miles, will be
pushed toward Marietta, sixty miles,
with the intention OF getting the line
completed that far this season. A part
of the grading on the lower end OF the
line was done years ago, and to-day
there are large trees on the right of
way that have grown there since the
grading was done. The road is con-
trolled by the Pennsylvania and the
part that is in operation is proving very
successful, but would be enhanced in
value by the completion OF the lower
end.
The Norfolk and Western has passed
the semi.annual dividend usually de-
clared in March and passed in April.
The directors, in passing the dividend,
adopted the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, The net income for the year
ending December 81, 1892, after pro-
vid!ng for all fixed charges, shows a
surplus applicable to dividends Of
S726. 313, or, after deducting the divi-
dend Of one per cent. paid In October,
for the six months ending June 80,
1892, there remained balance Of $780,
S13; therefore, Resolved, That the usual
semi-annual dividend be not declared,
and that the net earnings, be applied
TO liouidating current obligations, in
GLIDING those incurred in the construc-
tion Of the Ohio extension, now COM
pleted.