Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-08
THE RAILROADS.
CONSTRUCTION YBwS ABOUT WHIST VIRGINIA
LINES,
With Personal Msniion and Local Notes
Of Business ia and Abou,
This City.


TO the new lodge, Wheeling %, A. O. L.
w.
The Il. Sc o. freight house is 10 be
lighted by electricity. At present gas
| is used.
Panhandle Conductor w. A. Rect
anus is sick. George Murray has
charge OF his train.
Car Inspector J. NJ. Bailey, OF the
| Ohio River, is visiting in Parkersburg
| at his parents home.
w. l.. Prince, a Pan Handle platform
| CLERK, is home from a hunt to Dinsmore.
/ Pa. He got little game.
Last Saturday part OF the Familiar
die freight platform force was laid of
! temporarily. Il sack trade caused this.
The directors OF the Cheat River rail-
road met at Pittsburg last week. II
this road Is built il will iltersect the w.
Va. {. ~ l.. railroad at Parsons.
The Baltimore and OHIO shops at
Martinsburg, which have been closed
FOR several months, have resumed in
fun. They are working upon new work
and repairs
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad is
expected 10 Oe in the market within
the next month as large buyer Of cat
tie, refrigerator and grain cars.
The Baltimore and Ohio relief depart
ment Is To be extended over the lines OF
the PittsDurg and Western, which is
controlled by the Baltimore and Ohio.
The West Virginia Central and Pitts
| burg railway, keeping pace with the
times, has reduced the price OF clerical
| tickets from cents a mile TO - cents
| a mile.
| The local freight agents of this city
aud vicinity met last Saturday at the
! w. B. ~ i. offices, in their regular
meeting. There was good attendance
and considerable routine business was
| transacted.
The amount OF new road built in the
/ United states IN 1893 was 2,5s5 miles, as
! against 1000 miles in 1892, 4.OiO miles
In 1891, $3.50 miles in 1890, $500 miles
in 1889, 5000 miles III 1855, aud -, 900
miles in 1857.
At four o'clock, Yesterday morning,
the W. ~ l.. Erie's private car Law
renee" containing several officials OF
the road, arrived ia the city. The Of
| hcials are on a general inspection tour
and Will leave the city at 9:45 o'clock
this morning.
The Norfolk and Western is handling
immense quantities Of freight. The
present engine capacity is inadequate
FOR the business. The sidings at many
| OF the stations on the Pocahontas di-
vision are filled with cars loaded with
coal and lum Der wayne NeiCS.
A correspondent OF the Tygarts VdIlcy
NclCS, writing from Hullngs, Tucker
county, states that three hundred men
are employed grading the Dry Fork
railroad, and in three or four weeks
sixteen miles Will be ready for track
laying. This is the road that seems to
be heading for Caldwell, down the
Greenhrler river.
The following appointments have
been made on the Wheeling and Lake
Erie, taking effect from January l: l..
WlldesOn, roadmaster OF Western d.
vision with headquarters at Newark.
O., vice ID. NcEntafrer, resigned; G.. l..
White, roadmaste OF Eastern division,
with headquarters at Massiiion, o., vice
L. WIldeson, transferred.
-Four H. * o. men on the freight
platform were laid off last Saturday.
owing to dull trade. Two clerks were
taken from the office aud given posi-
tons on the platform. The men are to |
be taken back as soon as times get bet
ter. IL. +. Boord and i. Clark, assist |
ant yardma>ters at the 3 * .. wards, |
have also been laid Oft FOR the present !
.. ~ II.
division OF the Il. IL o. has been pick |
ing up considerably OF ate. but il = not |
up TO the standard Of last winter. The |
business, were 10 not for the depression |
OF the times should De much heavier |
than IL Is now as the mines above here |
have capacity ten times the present
output and are capable OF enlargement !
almost without limit.-FhittpDi Rcpttb- |
iicQu.
The Ensign Manufacturing Company.
OF Huntington, expects 10 resume near
ly In full force before February aud
Will have large portion OF the plant at
work by January 18th. The company
finds that the demand for new cars is
confined almost exclusively TO special
kinds. TIE Ensign works depend al
most entirely Low upon the Canada
patent cattle and refrigerator cars for
its trade.
The work Of construction on the Dry
Fork line is being pushed. and the grad
ing force is kept AZ WORK continuously
through the cold weather, In the hope
that the line may be ready FOR operation
In the spring. The grading is already
completed 90 Red Creek, within FIVE
miles Of Harmon. and the tracklaylnR
viii begin as soon a. the RrydinC is com
pleted 20 the junction point, so that the
rails aid ties will be delivered by rail
The celebrated case Of the West Viz
ginia Contra. W. Alex. Shaw for libel
will come up at the January term OF the
Mineral county Circuit Court IL will
prove one OF interest iuasmuch as
intellectual and technical tits may be
expected between Messrs. Price and
FIOuruoy, OF Charleston, and w. Irvine