The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-27
new RAILROAD.
Wheeling to be Connected With
Brownsville Pa. Shortly.
DINGTOCURRENI RUMOR
An Eastern Syndicate win Take Hold
orthe Project Agitated About Five
Years ago-Road WIN be 40 Miles
in Length and Work is to be Begin
Tho old Route Revised.

Wheeling people will be interested in
learning that the proposed railroad be-
tween Brownsville. in Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, and this city, which was
agitated to some extent a few years
ago, now promises the realization OF
the plans OF It's promoters. according to
story in yesterdays Pittsburgh Com
merclal Gazette, which says.
Engineers and surveyors will COM
plete revision Of the route on satur-
day for the purpose OF carrying out the
project of building the Brownsyille-
Wheeling railroad Announcement Of
complete arrangements for the project
are expected to come from the east next
week and be made public at once. 1t
Is practically assured that the railroad
win be built down Pigeon creek and
through MonOngahela before the snow
flies.
The project has been taken up by an
eastern syndicate which may or may
not be representing the Pennsylvania
the Baltimore & Ohio interests. Pitts
burgh and other capitalists something
over Ave years ago incorporated rail-
road company to carry out the project
under the name of the Pittsburgh,
Monongahela & Wheeling Railroad
Company. The incorporators were
Col j. NJ. Gufrey and Willis F. Mccook,
Of Pittsburgh; R. C. Broadbent, Of Phil
adelphla; General A. NJ. Dodge and
General F. W. Dacey, Of New York. 1t
is said that the eastern syndicate that
has taken up the charter and viii build
the road is composed of men largely In
terested in adjoining coal lands of
Washington county. Partial payments
have been made by representatives OF
the syndicate within the past week on
1900 acres of land along the proposed
route In addition to other property on
which options are understood to have
been closed. The altered route will
penetrate the recently laid out mining
town of Ellsworth in the Bentleyville
district. Work of grading at this point
has already begun.
The new road Will make its start near
Brownsville, Fayette county, where 1t
viii have valuable connections with
roads entering Pittsburgh. From there
the Monongahela river is to be bridged
and the road to follow Pigeon creek to
Bentleyville, and from this point 1t is
the intention to follow the other side OF
the divide to Wheeling. The proposed
route would make the distance to
Wheeling about thirty-five miles, which
is about forty miles less than the pres
ent nearest railway route.
Large tracts Of valuable coal land
have since the proposed route was first
surveyed. been quietly absorbed by the
syndicate interested In the project of
building the Brownsvllle-wheeling
road.
Since the trouble arose over the right
OF way for the extension of the Pitts
burgh, Virginia & Charleston from
Brownsville nothing further has been
done with the work. 1t is expected that
work will be resumed soon and the
route to be followed is up the west side
of the Monongnhela river to Mlllsboro,
where the road viii cross to the Fay
ette county side and run to the mouth
Of the DunlSlrk creek recrossIng to the
Washington side. Meanwhile there are
prospects that branch will be built
up Dunlap creek to West Salem to tap
the coal fields there. Options have been
taken on several properties, according
to report from Brownsville, to run
thirty days, and it is thought that they
win be accepted and the road built.