The Wheeling Daily Register

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON CO., PENNSYLVANIA.

The Proposed Narrow Gauge Railroad.

Dussvorp, March 2

Editors of the Register:

Allow me through your widely circulated paper to give you some news from this locality. The railroad question is at fever heat at this time. It has been the desire for a long time to have a road from some point on the Ohio river, up Buffalo creek to Washington, Pa., and lately the people have been aroused to a realization of the same. Meetings have been held, both in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, to take into consideration the building of the proposed road, and I can assure you the right spirit prevails. The design in the first place was this, to build a railroad from the mouth of Short creek, opposite Portland and Warrenton, on the Ohio river, up said creek to Wolf's run, thence up the same and cross over on the Buffalo Creek to Bethany, thence by way of Brush Run to Washington Pennsylvania. These meetings have attracted the attention of New York engineers, who are now engaged in hunting up the best and lowest grades for a great through line from New York to Chicago and St. Louis, called the Peoples freight line—they are attracted to this route on account of it being on a direct line of their proposed road. Your correspondent had an interview with one of their engineers a few days ago, and he informed me that New York was bound to build this road in order to compete with other cities; that the cutting through of the Hoosac Tunnel had given New England and Boston an advantage over them in through freight; other cities had advantages over them, and they were now compelled to do something. The route is now surveyed as far as Berlin in the Allegheny Mountains, and their design is to strike Somerset, Uniontown, Brownsville—thence up the beautiful valley of Ten Mile Creek until it strikes the dividing ridge between the Ten Mile and Buffalo Creek, and cut through the same, striking Buffalo Creek on the farm of Thos. Auld, thence down Buffalo Creek to Taylerstown and Bethany, thence to the mouth of Short Creek as before stated. It will be seen by those familiar with this road that it is unsurpassed both for low grade and other respects, not having a single tunnel on the route. We need not call your attention to the richness of Buffalo Creek valley, to the coal it is underlaid with, as you undoubtedly know. The Ten Mile valley too is the finest section of Washington county. It is the same valley that the Baltimore and Ohio Company intended to strike when they were legislated out of Pennsylvania years ago. I will write again.

BUFFALO.