Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-25

expenses. the estimates being based
on the pulling capacity Of the present
freight locomotives, which are by no
means up to date or in first class con-
dition. With new power, which will
'be purchased, the saving will be very
much greater.
The present double track north of
Newark is to be extended two miles,
making 1t four miles in length, and it
is the aim of the management to 1c-
duce the nOrth-bound grades from a
maximum of AZ feet to 35 feet per
mile At Utica the hill is to be cut
down nine feet, mile of sidings lid
and new station erected.
A cut mile long is to be made at
hunts Hill and the grade reduced from
AZ feet to 20 feet. North of Mt. YER
non cut will be made to reduce a 2S-
loot short pull to % feet. The heaviest
work on the division is at Frederick
town; cut two and a quarter miles
IN length is to be made and the align
ment will be slightly changed to permit
the use OF the present track while the
new one is being constructed. The
present grade is AZ feet to the mile
and the new line will be but % feet to
the mile, change that will make a
great difference in handling trains, both
IN cost and speed
The Midland division from Columbus
to Midland City, will be greatly i'm
proved by the projected work at Nor
CANS trestle, which is nearly a mile
long. Portions will be filled and the
balance replaced by a steel viaduct.
On the Chicago division, an already
low grade road, not much can be done
outside of increasing the capacity of
the sidingS and extending double
tracks.
There is to be an eight-mile stretch
of double track built from Chicago
junction to Attica and two miles from
Chicago Junction to New Haven. At
Garrett there will be a double track
for several miles east and west of the
station, and the double track out of
South Chicago will be extended five
miles. All of these Improvements will
tend to greatly facilitate the handling
OF trains and very materially increase
the capacity Of the road.
Many of these Improvements are
very necessary on account of the in
crease in the B. e O.'s lake business,
through the port of Sandusky There
has been a marvellous growth of ton
mage at this point since the receivers
began nursing the traffic, and encour-
aging shippers to patronize the B. & o.
because of new equipment and improv-
ed service.
Last year the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad handled 43.8SS cars at San
dusky as against 27,S24 in 1897. The
iron ore weighed 161, 1868 tons, an in
crease of 104.127 tons over 1897, and
there were $4,000 tons of coal' loaded
in vessels by the new and improved
dumping machines installed last spring
Then, too, there was quite a grain bus
mess, the elevator handling two and
a half million bushels. Package freight,
in bound, amounted to 5,911,052 pounds
and outbound it came to 11,5S0,754
pounds.
From present indications the traffic
for 1899 will greatly exceed that of
former years, it being estimated that
nearly 100000 tons of iron ore and a
million tons of coal will be handled
To expedite this enormous traffic, the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad is build
ing large storage yard near Sandusky,
has erected new ore unloaders and eX-
poets to build another coal loader. hav-
ing purchased the dock property some
time ago.
There is a bit of history connected
with that portion of the Lake Erie di-
vision between Monroeville and San
dusky. 1t was the second railroad
built in the State of Ohio and is a
tangent Is miles long. The motive
power, originally, was horses
When all of these improvements are
completed, and it will take a year or
a year and a half to do it, there will be
no railroad with better facilities for
doing business, and the new policy of
fostering local industries will undoubt-
eddy work to the financial advantage
of every town and city on the line from
Philadelphia to Chicago, and st. Louis