Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-08
WHEELING BAKERY BREAD
WHEELING BAKERY BREAD
WHEELING BAKERY BREAD
WHEELING BAKERY BREAD
AT YOUR GROCER S.
u. w. & w. VA. RAILROAD.
"Tax Payer Opposed "A Subscription
to stock, But Favors Subscription
to Bonds.

10 BOnUS.
WHEELING, w. Va, July Z, 1900.
To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-The voters and taxpayers of
Ohio county see and hear great deal
about interviews, testimonials, ETC.,
that are now being published in the
daily papers concerning the new rail-
road that certain parties propose to
construct from Uniontown to Wheeling,
by way of Waynesburg, thereby giving
the manufacturing concerns and the
merchants in this district many addi-
tional advantages and privileges in the
way of shipments and new outlets for
trade.
These interested parties propose now
that the county should appropriate five
hundred thousand dollars $500 ,000) to-
wards fostering and placing their en-
terprise upon its feet by securing this
amount of the stock Of the new road
and the voters and taxpayers are asked
to pass their opinion on the question
of appropriating five hundred thousand
dollars $500 ,0O0) of their money for
this purpose on July 18th next.
Now, as an interested party, / feel
justified in advancing a few opinions
Ou Ills QutSIlOA IOI SSuctdl
and ask if such an enterprise that
opens such a rich country has such
substantial backing and such bright
prospects should not be able to stand
upon its own feet without asking the
county to subscribe such a large sum
OF money in order to help 1t along.
Then again, while everyone admits
that new road, constructed properly,
and in such way that it can reach all
industries, is a good thing for the COM
munity, how do the taxpayers known
that the new road, as projected. will
reach the various mills and industries
that it proposes TO assist, so that they
can compete with the Pittsburg mills?
The map on file in the county clerk
office does not show that the road has
any connections whatever with any of
these industries, and it is hard to fig
ure out on that map how it proposes
to reach them with its tracks.
/ would also like to ask what benefit
the community will derive if the new
road has its terminals in Bellaire,
Ohio? 1t shows none in Benwood or
Wheeling.
Then again, is stock subscription
good and safe thing for Ohio county
to invest in?
The interests OF the county cannot
be properly protected by a subscrip-
ton to the stock of this proposed
Uniontown, Waynesburg & West vIr-
ginia Railroad Company. Under the
law, the subscription might have been
made to the first mortgage bonds of
the company, and then whatever hap
pened the county would be as well pro-
tected as anyone else.
| know it has been stated that there
is to be no mortgage on the road. but
what guarantee against that is given7
There is at the present time no such
thing as a railroad without a mort
gage. and it is doubtful whether par
ties who cannot build a railroad with
out county aid can get along without
m0rtgaging their road. When hard
times come and the road gets into debr.
the debts must be paid at the expense
of the stock, whether there is any
mortgage or not
It is not too late to get a subscrip-
ton on proper basis. Let the tag
payers and voters vote down the pro-
posed subscription, and let the Board
OF Commissioners take a vote on 4
subscription to the bonds of a coke ana
coal road that has a line into Wheel
ing, and can and viii reach the differ
ent mills In this district. Then only
VIII the community derive the bene-
flts that the projectors Of the new en-
ferpv'se raairn. TAXPAYER.