The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-11-12
DIRT TURNED
ON THE new
RAILWAY LINE
A Distinguished Party Of Now York
Capitalists and Wheeling
Citizens
attend THE CEREMONIES
Saturday at Shepherds Mills-shora
Speeches by Holmes, Doves
ner and Others.

Mills. in Marshall county, on Biz
Wheeling creek. the first work on tho
new Pittsburgh, Conaellsvillc 6 Wheel-
Ing railroad was done, In the presence
Of a distinguished company, including
many well known Wheeling citizens and
New York capitalists who are Interest,"
ed In the new road.
Arrangements for the trip to Shep-
perd's Mills were In tho hands Of Col.
Albert A. Franzheim, the right-of-way
man Of the railroad. Carriages were
the mode of conveyance, and the party
from Wheeling was made up Of tho
following: E. A. Holmes, general man.
ager and promoter Of the railroad;
Francis II. Kimball. OF New York, pres. /,
ident of the road; ]. H. Hurlburt, bank
cr and broker, Of New York, and treas
urer Of the Viola Coal Company: James
A. Wood. financial agent Of the, coal
companies: Floyd Smith. their secre-
tary; W. N. Cox and I. z. Piersol, Of
New York; Congressman Blackburn B,
Dovener, Harry W. McLure, John Bod
ley. Morris HorkheImer, John Devine,
George Wise. Hugo Loos, A. A. Franz-
helm, and several others. In tho
Moundsville party were: c. A. Weaver,
H. N. Hunter, w. ]. Burley, Mayor ].
A. Parkinson, C. V. Newman, local at
torney of the road; G. S. McEadden. 8.
c. Shaw, J. T. Gallaher, A. L. Rich
mond, representative OF Contractor Fer
guson; Joseph P. McCombs. A. G. Fab
nerstock, L. B. Purdy, commissioner
elect, and others. NSS,t;
The destination of the party was
Shepherds Mills, on Big Wheeling
creek. where the Ferguson Construc-
tion Company had everything in readi-
ness for the beginning Of the work on
their contract, which Is on three sec
tions, one toward Wheeling from shep-
perd's Mills another toward Mounds
vile, and the third toward the Penn
sylvania state line. The ceremonies
were opened by General Manager
Holmes. who spoke eloquently Of tho
possibilities of the new road. He suid
it would be pushed through to compile
tIon at the earliest time possible. Its
eastern terminus. he said, would he
Waynesburg. with an extension to be
built thence to the Monongahela FLYER.
The coal west Of the Monongahela.
along the line OF the new road, he
claimed, is within one per cent as good
coking road US that found in the Con-
nellsville coke fields east OF the river,
and will without doubt. be acceptable to
the mills of the Wheeling district Tho
nearncss of this coal to the Ohio river
at Moundsville would make re-shp-
ments by water to the southern mar
kets practicable. Mr.. Holmes tsNr
made deep impression upon his hear
ers.
Congressman Dovencr followed IN o
talk, in the course OF which he told o2
the remarkable development West vir.
glnia Is enjoying. as instanced in thl5
Pittsburgh, Connellgville G. Wheeling
road. He hoped to see coal from; this
section borne down the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi to the sulf and thence shipped
by seagoing vessels through the intor-
oceanic cana, 10 the far east.
NIessrs G. s. McFadden, OF Mounds.
Vile. and Morris HorkheimqS Of
Wheeling aIso smoke enthusiastically
Of thu nossjhiy,tIcs of the new road.
Then Gpraro, Manager Holmes swung
tho nick with hearty GOOD will. and thA
first dirt had been turned In the con-
struction NJ thc Pittsburgh, Conuelo.
willie q Wheeling railroad. He was tol-
lowed bv rour.vc,r-oId Mckinley shoo.
nord SON y, Mr., shepnera. Blaine
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