The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-07
AIR LINE TO WHEELING
That has Business Look About 1t.
Tho Baoksrs
THE LARGEST SHIPPERS OF COKE,
Proposed Line of "a Railroad to ParAl'
lol ths D. s o., but ho Mach Shorter
to tho Coke RoEIOns-Intondod TO
DO a First Glass LIno-Au Important
Pr%oosto this Community, II Oar.
rled Out

OF the numerous projects for now
railroad lines from Wheeling to the
coke rsslols and the east, none present
more buslness,llko aspect than ono de-
Scrlbed yesterday in the Pittsburgh
Times. That paper sayH:
The Pennsylvania and the Baltimore
& Ohio railroads arc to have a atrOng
rival for the immense tonnage from the
COnnellavIllo coke region to Wheeling
and the south, in tho Wheeling Air
line, protected aud to DO built by II. @.
Frlck, chairman Of tho Carnegie Steel
Company, aud Andrew w. Mellon, A,
Il. Mellon aud r. D. Mellon, Of the
banking firm Of 4. Mellon & Sons, The
new lins will start from Youngstown,
WCstmoreland county, on tho Union
town branch Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, aud will takS course due west,
following almost entirely tho old "Bes"
lIns, surveyed by Charles LOtImer OF
Baltimore, formerly engineer OF the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The road will then 20 directly west to
West Newton and Sewickley, where tho
Youghiogheny river will DO crossed.
The limo will then run to and cross tho
MonongRhela river into Monongahela
City over n high, dOuble-deckod span
bridge, tina base Of tho rail being 40
fact from tho water Lowell. Tho bridge
will DO 1900 feet long, with channel
span Of 800 feet, and will cost $3.50, 900,
Locations for bridges had been made for
the old Bee line at Belle Vernon aud
Elizabeth, but the MonongahelR locR'
ton has been finally chosen, aud per-
mission was granted in March by the
government 10 build the atructure.
The new "Bse" line will strike south
west from Monongahela and will proba.
bly, touch Washington, Pa, although
another route. which will go fifteen
miles south Of Washington through
Amity, on tho Waynesburc & Washing.
ton railroad, may be chosen. The Bal
timors & ohio railroad is touched at
Flnleyville, and for groat part OF the
diatanco the new road practically paral.
lels 1t. Near Amily, ono Of the largest and
richest coal felda in the southwestern
part OF tho state, owned by the Nell
Ions, is tapped, aad will DO opened on
the completion OF tho road. From
Amity tho roule lies southwest, through
Dallas and Elm Grove, and along the
Wheeling creek valley to Wheeling.
Either connections will be made there
or an extension may DO built, so that
tho southern markets eau DO quickly
reached.
The Pennsylvania and tho Baltimore
& Ohio railroads have almost monop-
oily Of the great output Of the Councils
vile region, and a new line could not
possibly survive without the support OF
H. @. Erick, W. J. Rainey, the Mcclure
Coke Company and the MELONS. who
also own coke plants, The object oil the
new road is to reach Wheeling and the
southern markets in much faster time
than is now possible to DO done. The
now line will not be over eighty milos
long to Wheeling from Youngstown.
while the shortest distance 10 Wheeling
via the Pennsylvania railroad and the
Panhandle Is over twenty miles moro,
and tho connections are within PItts-
burgh, where considerable delay is I'M
ayoidahe. The same conditions exist
on the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad. and 1t
was to overcome these difficulties that
Mr.. Frick and the MELONS, the former
tue largest producer ri coke in the
region, decided to build. They have
immense coal land holdings which are
virgin and which the now road will
develop.
The estimated cost OF tho road is
$1,000, 900, and it NAV cost much more,
as the projectors intend that it shall be
flrst.class limo.