Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-24
QUITB \ BOOM
IN FREIGHT BUSINESS ON LOCAL LINES,
LAST WEEK
TbA OHIO River Hay4 & Great Run on Live
Stock-Other Rq is CrOwdsd-LOcal
Notes an Construction
Int; igsncs.
The beautlful hammer in which rail-

and ward and pot hands on all the
local lines agree bat more freight bus
mess was done b the roads touching
Wheeling, last wi TX. than during any
week for three yesrs past. The ndica-
tons for the present week are that
it will also pee an enormous
total of freig business. The Ohio
River road open the ball yesterday oy
bringing in 70 OF live stock. The
long trains we north over the Pan
Handle tracks, route for Jersey City.
The freight re- on the Ohio River
road will certai be broken this month
at the rate bust 8 is keeping up. All
the Z. q O. ID o. lie worked overtime
the past week in brder to get the freight
off, All week tic sepot was mass OF
boxes. machines Ind packed stuff from
1oor 10 ceiling. arhe rush this week is
expected to be even larger.
The work on tts Roaring Creek and
Charleston railrod is making good pro-
gress now. Trail are running as far
as Womelsdorf fr the connection with
the West Virgin4 Central and Pitts
burg. The roade bed is completed for
eight miles beltT Womelsdorf, and as
soon as work on y 70 trestles and bridges
now under way progresses a little FUR
Their, track laying can begin again. The
work in the wilderness is being pushed
by Lang & King, who have 200 men at
work on the trestle. Scott & Elbon are
at work on the Crotiledea trestle, which
is SO feet nigh and 35S feet long. The
Minnesota trestle will be the largest on
the road, and is 81 feet high throughout
its length, aud $50 feet long. A steel
bridge is being built at Monroe. At
Wonelsdorf three coal mines are in
operation, all having been opened since
the opening of the road to that point,
less than three months ago.
1t is expected that the Dry Fork rail-
road can be opened for traffic from Hen
bricks 10 Wharton on October l, dis
lance OF thirty-ivs miles. The grading
is completed, and the rails are down
except for FIVE miles. The road is now
operated from Hendricks, the junction
OF the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg. 10 two miles beyond Thorne
Grove. The road at present contracted
for runs from Hendricks to the contiu-
ence Of Dry Fork OF Cheat river, and
Gandys creek, distance Of thirty-two
miles, and thence it follows Gandy's
creek fifteen miles to the Allegheny d.
vide. Two large saw mills have already
been completed on the lower part of the
line, and are waiting for the completion
of the road to commence operations.
The Trowbridge Company has prepared
plans for the building of a six-mile ex-
tention from Gandy's creek to large
tract Of tim Der 1t owns.
The Baltimore and Ohio has given an
order to the EActrI>Selecto 81 Signal
80 a n ~, New YORK Cfuy,- fur
soma Of h struments for use at small
stations khe main line. These In
strum ents consist of a loud call bell to
be set ringing by the selector, and which
will continue 10 ring until the operator
answers; selector which acts when
certain combination Of dsshes is sent
over lie wire; and an "answer back, !"
which transmits a signal assuring the
calliuG Office that the call has actually
been sounded. The dispatcher's office,
nv having distinctive combination OF
dashes for each Office can thus call up
anv ono without disturbing the bells at
the other. These instruments have been
tested for several months by the Baltl-
moro ald Ohio on long circuits.
The c leveland extension of the c., L..
&, w will be completed in very few
DAVIS now. The line is over twenty-five
miles in length, and leaves the present
ROAD Of the company at Elyria, extend
inc fre m that point in nearly direct
line in to the city OF Cleveland. The
cost of the right OF way has
been very heavy item, but other
wise the extension has not been un'
usually expensive. The town of Lorain,
tho western terminus of the line, is all
read,J feeling the impetus OF the loca-
tim OF the Johnson steel works there,
and of course when the works are In
oper alton the company will have an
important increase in traffic.
Messrs E. r. Hicks and G. T. Hamil-
ton, members of the electrical engineer.
ing firm OF Hicks. Hamilton ~ Co., OF
Me- York, have been making estimates
for a freight and passenger railroad
from Lewisburg to RonCeverte, and
then. find the line practicable, and the
amount of traffic offered at present am
ple 20 make the line profitable. II that
reno,.t is based on careful investiga-
tion Is ought not to be necessary to pro-
pose slle plan now talked OF for building
the road-to have each town make g
spbscri ption equal TO half the cost OF
iniptIV IL
nicipal Investment.
The recent rains have not only ben
Gifted the Hivermen, but also the ran
readers. Two water trains on the Is. ~
O.. one hauling from Wheeling to
Washington Pa, and one from Wheel
inc to Littlaton, have been taken OIL
owing TO tina abundance Of water since
tho rains. Erom Cameron to Grafton
the situation Was growing serious in re-
gard IN the scarcity, and locomotives
had IN either Acme to Wheeling or go
on furtber 70 DUN berand for water.
Tho spit If Mills & Fairfax against
tho Norfo,k land Western Railroad
Cnmnanv for SO. 600 balance alleged 10
be dpe IN ronfAact for cutting Fiat Top
tunnel, on the West virginia IiHe' vas
begnn in tbei United States Circuit
Court at Roanoke, va last "eeA'
General Superintendent FITZGERALD
nrivate car ,,Jyinchester," arrived last
night over the Is. ~ Y. Ine Supeltu
tepdent was afcompa W oupetiu,
tendent Sbee1s, both OF whom were
here on RAILROAD business Cal
left this mornlng Tor Fi''souis'
The old vld Office in the B. 81 o.
Yards which as been standing for sew
eral wears. b. at last been torn down
The place wa quite shakey ana dan
gerous. and when the walls were being
taken awav HE floors fel in, showing
! how unsafe it Yas.
John McMe err and h. II. Jackson,
both seutlsns of the B. & 90 O., " will
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