Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-10-13

,,nflabIc Territory, Both for
,.nufacturing sites and Homes-
,.pitaI and Enterprise VIII Pro-
,idc All Facilities for Expansion.
The intelligent and energetic move
Non. now on foot to open UP new in
..--ial and residential addition to this
immunity. north of the city, and
r5trI promises TO be a good thing for
W.saIing and its surrounding towns,
.---rgh the enterprise and activity of
.se Board of Trade, recalls some other
ami unsuccessful efforts to expand
WsesTing in years past and gone.
The gentlemen who undertook these
,.ra matters were right in their ideas
5n. we're simply in advance of their
5sy and generation.
ore OF the earliest efforts in the di
rs.rf5D OF expansion. and one that will
oven d9liy be contaminated. was that
araaesed by John Sweeney. who had an
deal addition to the city, for suburban
44Ats- III liAt cant vi
-aplines hill, where there is a wide
rzr3nse of nearly level and altogether
armng country, reached by the
c.,awelfs run road and by the old cut
7.d along the face of the hill side
rom the City hospital Mr. Sweeney
ali options on a considerable acreage
nat vicinity, and had plans for an
inc similar to that carrying passen
ger. 10 Mozart Park, but sufficient cap
l could not he interested, and the
matter was dropped. Some of these
.4,s. and possibly in a very short time,
VIII be taken up again, and eyentu-
" here will be many delightful SUI
ul ban MONIES in that quarter, aceessi-
q from the business portion of the
ty n a very few minutes. with all ne
9,sarT conveniences in the way Of
wafer. gas. electricity. telephones. etc.
ne section of country from the high
IS, point of the 'eut road" back for two
or three miles is almost an ideal one.
is elevated at least six hundred feet
above The city, and with an incline ana
. electric road out Eighteenth or
Nineteenth streets, would be within an
average of fifteen minutes of the post
flee allowing five minutes for trans
DCTiation to the foot of the incline. five
minutes to go UP and five minutes 70
de 10 the destination. Capital and an
Intelligent effort will make this tract
IN ideal residential section, and with
he growth of the city and its surround
ing c1mmunities it will supply a de
maud for homes not to be SO well met
p any other quarter.
mother and similar project, breach
q some years ago, was the laying out
of an addition on the hills north of the
IT, and surveys were made and plans
4rawn for roads which would afford
easy access to ali the high ground be-
tween Jonathans Ravine and Glenn's
un. That is also a splendid piece of
6rritory, charmingly situated, and easy
Of access. and yet far removed from the
noise and DIRT of the cry proper. An
Intelligent effort would make that quar-
tor fine suburban addition. and the
line will come when the hill tops there,
row devoted to agricultural purposes,
vii, he dotted with handsome homes,
inst as is the district out the pike,
which. few years ago, and within the
easy recollection of the comparatively
souHg. WAS sparsely populated and not
worth Per acre one-tenth of its present
a.ire And its valuation will continue
ally increase until, in time to come, it
Will ne absorbed into the city and will
be The real residential part of town.
Another promising suburban addition
10 { he city. recently laid out, and which
vii, afford homes for many, is on the
hill tops in the vicinity of Mozart Park
his locality. like the others mentioned,
is splendid one. and will eventually
mold q large population. Still another,
long since plotted, is the old Thompson
farm, east of Fulton, within seven or
eight minutes ride of the heart of the
city. and which is destined to be both
vain bic and desirable.
Glendale is another desirable locality,
bit in another county.
he bottom land north of the city. on
The line OF the Panhandle railroad
and Of the electric road now under con-
struction is the latest proposition, and
holds forth promise of good things to
come. 1t is contiguous to the city. and
Is particularly desirable for manufact-
III. LIZ purposes, along the IeVel lana,
while the hill sides afford room for
many delightful homes. The coming of
the trolly line viii, boom that section of
country. and awaken both owners and
capital 70 a realization of its advantages
and possibilities.
" will be seen. from this hasty sketch
That Wheeling is not at a loss for room
Tor expansion. There is ample residen-
.i4i territory for one hundred thousand
PEOPLE and sites for many factories.
he Island alone will easily accommo-
la" ten thousand inhabitants, the
southern end of the city is by no means
mutt up, and there is room here and
,hfre in the central portion of the city
Tor more houses. Population will come
with added industries, and work along
that line will produce results.