Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-11
THE SAFEGUARDS
Thrown AgOut the COunty's Proposed |
Subscription to the U. w. 81 w. Va. |
Railroad.

subscription to the L. w. d w. Va.
Railroad.
To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-I have in two previous COM
| munications called attention to the
provisions and safeguards respecting
the payment by the county of the first
two installments of it's proposed sub
scription to the Uniontown, Waynes-
burg & West Virginia railroad. These
two payments only comprise sixty per
cent of the subscription of $500, 900,
i. e. 100000 leaving forty per cent I'M
paid, or nearly one-half of the whole
subscription.
Permit a quotation from the ordi-
nance showing the care surrounding
the payment of this last installment
of forty per cent of the whole sub
scription: THE remaining two hun
bred thousand dollars of the subscrip-
ton hereby authorized shall be pay
able when the said railroad corpora
ton shall have completed standard
gauge railroad in the said counties
from the West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania State line at or near the said
south fork or branch of Big Wheeling
creek, by way of Elm Grove, to the
ing, and shall have provided for ac-
cess to station or depot in the city
of Wheeling for the transaction of it's
business in said city, either by the use
of tracks and facilities already in ex-
istence, or. by the construction of a
track or tracks of its own, or by a com
bination of existing and new con-
struction within said city, and shall
have trains running from such sta
ton or depot in the city of Wheeling
over a track or tracks constructed by
it or the use of which it acquires with
in said city, and over its own railroad
in Ohio and Marshall counties and
over a railroad in the State of Penn
sylvania connecting threrewith at the
State line at OF near the south branch
of Wheeling creek to Uniontown, in
the county of Fayette, in the State of
Pennsylvania.
1t will be seen by the most casual
reader that the railroad must be com
pleted TO this city and in operation,
clear from Uniontown, in the heart of
the coke regions of Pennsylvania. to a
depot or station in this city before the
final payment is made by the county.
The railroad must be of standard
gauge, and not only must it be COM
pleted in our own State, from the
Pennsylvania State line to Wheeling.
but the railroad must be connected
with another completed railroad line
F., in Pennsylvania clear from West Vfr-
ginia line to Uniontown This means
considerably over seventy miles of
| railroad, and over seventy miles of
completed railroad A fixed and fin
ished work. Something that cannot
fbe taken away from Wheeling or Ohio
county. It means actually running
over such railroad for the transaction
of our business before the last $780,
600 is paid on our stock.
Many comments might be made upon
the above quoted provision Of the or
| finance, pointing out it's splendid
protection to our people, but space will
| not permit The intelligent property
owner. woTkingman, business man and
manufacturer, in fact every citizen.
| must be satisfied with this care and
protection of his interests, unless he is
either in the pay of or made the tool
of monopolies desiring to perpetuate
excessive rates of freight against the
city of Wheeling in favor of her manu-
featuring and mercantile competitor.
the city of Pittsburg. CITIZEN.