Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-12
A NEW ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Between This City and Moundsgills
Has Been Proposed.
PTTTSBURG CAPITAL SAID TO BE
BACK OF THE UNDERTAKING.
HEADWATERS OF CALDWELLS
RUN SUGGESTED AS THE TER
MINUS OF THE LINE HERE.
HILLTOP RESIDENCES A PART
OF THE SCHEME.


Fer some weeks past couple Of
strangers have been seen securing the
hills and valleys between the headwa-
tiers of CaldWell's run and Moundsville,
and much speculation has been INDUCED
in as to what was in the wind. One
theory was that they were interested
in the coal lands which have been OPP
toned in that locality, while others
set them down as oil scouts, and still
others contended that they were seek
ing route for the Connellsville road
to enter Wheeling from Moundsville.
This last theory was given color by the
fact that one of the men was undoubt-
edly a civil engineer.
1t is now known that all these theo-
ries were wrong, for it has leaked out
that a scheme is on foot to connect
Moundsville and Wheeling by another
electric railway, and that the myster-
ious scouts were working in that be-
half While matters have been kept
strictly secret UP to this time, the fur
Their prosecution of the scheme must
necessarily be more or less public, and
one of the gentlemen at the head the
enterprise talked freely to the Register
last night
Among other things he said it is a
notorious fact that withs all her fine
hills and hilltop territory not single
section of that class of property that
can be reached by modern means of
travel has been opened up for residence
purposes. Along the proposed line are
hundreds CT acres of such territory,
high above the fogs and mists of the
malarial river swamps. The new line
will open UP this territory and render
it the most desirable locality for sub
urban residences within reach of
Wheeling and the neighboring manu-
featuring towns. 1t will be possible to
reach 1t from any part of Wheeling for
a five cent fare when the new road Is
built and lots will be sold at prices
and on terms so extremely favorable
that it will be possible for the workers
in Wheeling's busy industries to secure
their own homes amid pleasant, health
full surroundings.
The new road will be a great conven-
fence to people who desire to travel be-
tween the two terminal points-Wheeling
and Moundsyille. The road will be splen-
didly equipped in the latest and best man
ner and first-class in every detail. Large,
comfortable cars, similar to those in use
on the Elm Grove line, will be used ard
the power will be capable of driving them
at locomotive speed if desired. 1t is con-
fidently believed that by this new line the
time now required to make the trip by
electric cars from Wheeling to Mounds
vile can be cut In two. which will be a
great saving of time to busy people. There
will be no dangerous grade crossings, and
the new line will thus possess the eminent
advantages of comfort, speed and safety.
It is now believed that the move lately
made to get a right of way for a railroad
up Boggs run has some connection with
this enterprise, and that the new line may
go down that way and enter Wheeling at
Forty eighth street, and in fact, a num-
Der of moves made lately that could not
be very well understood by the public are
now made plain.
Pittshurg capital in ample quantities is
said to be behind this undertaking and the
promoters are said to be men who not only
thoroughly understand the electric railway