Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-05
A CONSENT ORDER
By Which The Differences Between
the Short Line Railroad, and the
Bridge Co., at Clarksburg, Are Set
tied.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Clarksburg, w. Va, December A.
The greatest legal battle in West Vir-
ginia was settled this evening by
consent order in the case of the West
Virginia Short Line Railroad Company
against the Clarksburg Bridge Com
pany and others. The order was
signed by the railroad and bridge COM
panies, the town Of Clarksburg, Mayor
Owens, Recorder Thompson and Coun-
cilmen Drudy, Riley, Ernest, Wilson
and Duncan.
The principal points in the decree
are:
F'irst-The railroad may occupy and
appropriate the whole or so much of
Bluff street as necessary between the
extension Of Third street and a point
on Bluff street one hundred feet west
of the western line OF Third street, as
well as the space embraced by the in
tersection of Bluff and Third streets,
and the portion of Bluff street includ-
ing such intersection shall be vacated
and discontinued by the city OF
Clarksburg as public street, as to
the portion thereof covered by the last
part of Bluff street shall be discon-
tinued until the cross street is opened
from Newes street to Bluff street, as
provided below.
Second-The railroad company may
construct it's road along Bluff street
from said point one hundred feet from
the west side of Third street, extend
ing to and across Fourth street, but the
railroad shall be so constructed as to
leave a clear roadway of not less than
nine feet on the south side OF Bluff
street.
Third-The railroad shall cross
Fourth street under the bridge OF the
Clarksburg Bridge Company, in such
a manner as to not interfere. The
bridge shall be placed at such eleva-
ton and in such manner as to allow a
clear space of at least seventeen feet
above the top Of the track OF the rail-
road for the passing of cars and en-
gines on said track and under said
bridge.
The order then provides, to the end
that the works and structures of the
respective parties may keep clear of in
reference of each other, the southern
rail of the railroad shall not be laid on
Fourth street. under said bridge, at the
eastern pedestal of said bridge, nearer
than eighty-four and a half feet
from the iron spike in what is known
as the bench oak on Fourth street, nor
nearer than lightweight and one-half
feet from said spike at the western
pedestal of said bridge, and the top of
the track of the railroad shall not be
of higher grade or level under said
bridge than nineteen feet below the lev
ell of said spike on said oak tree. The
bridge company shall make no obstruc-
ton whatever over said tracks within
seventeen from the top of the rail
thereof.
The order then provides for street.
twenty-five feet wide. to be opened
from Bluff street to Nerves street. 1t
also requires the railroad company
within ten days from its date to re-
move its track and roads as now laid
on Fourth street and also from Bluff
street for distance of eighty feet east
from Fourth street in order to afford
facilities for the bridge company for
the construction of its bridge. No COM
pensation or damages was allowed
either party.
The order then provided that the rail-
rOaG company may condemn or pur-
chase certain real estate of the w. p
Golf heirs.
Also lots were located and described for
the location of the depot of the road at
the intersection of Bluff and Third streets.
and it was agreed that the cost of the
proceedings be paid by the railroad and
bridge companies.
Hence the railroad will at once be built
and materials are on the ground for the
building of the bridge.
It is now understood that the round
house and machine shops at Grafton will
be removed to Clarksburg, and in less
than five years Greater Clarksburg, under
her new charter, will have a population
of twenty thousand.