Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-03-22
POS VICE EktSlttNl'
JOHN DAVIS, Of MASSACHUSETTS,.

A FIRST RATE PROJGCT.-we understand
that project = uEHor considerable among some
of the caPi nsls q" oar CRY, 10 engage in Tie con-
s;ruciiIn ola VI lam ,zsd roa from Union town,
Fayste county. u must al once strike every man
Who il in The ie1s, degree acquuiu'ed wi'a tho io-
saliry md husitrcSs faculties Of Pushurgh. that
such a road must he OF inc,iculahle advantage Ia
city, and We SINCERELY hope tha' ,ae e"isrrs
sing and able amGug our citizens will enter INTO the
p'ujoc with spirit aud ACTIVITY " hch shall insure
ITS perfect success.
UnionruNn j. situated un he National Road, sew.
sniy miles distart from Wheeling. Now a runi a.
the kind above mentioned can I've made from here
10 UuOniown, which AZ most shall not he more than
forty miles IN length, aud thus thirty miles OF
land carriage, the great route between The Easi
ern and Western CIiies. a SAVING which u by 40
means Of small Importance when We como To con
sder that the wagon carriage ui merchandise Tor
that distance would cost much as steamboat
ifeiyh from Pittsburgh 10 Cincinnati does aiCerlatn
seasons Of the year. The advantage 9" western
merchants Is obvious. They vii! save ihe cost OF
wagon freight for thirty miles THIS ~ bring all
the uerchanlize gsiug west through our own CITY.
and our merchants, hOlelkCepers, and all viii reap
the advantage.
Nor will thr advantage h. less 10 the shipper aud
the passenger for a. the Port OF PIisburgh he Will
always be 10 find boats ready TO take himself
md merchant isr tewu tie GIver at fair prices and
without delay while Wheeling b.dh hunseli md
goods ru.t be de aimed uni ont Cd anc 10
dpvvr, and then perhaps he Is h Ig'd vn yTia
prt for freight rs the boat may not wish 10 delay
on her passage FrcIghr from Pvsbargh 10 any
port below can frequently be engagea OF lees
prIre here than from Wheeling, and for any guam
Iny Of merchandise II Is never a higher aud The
same Is true OF passage. This an account oil the
scomre { en- betweeuIhe gToaiuumber OIL Eodis VII ca
are always lying at our wharf. We hope our Gu
z1ns " n cou, Ider well OF This project and wake up
their shirt Of enterprise, u completed, road oi
this kind n al be of the uiglOs advantage.
We copy the above from the Pittsburgh Chroni-
Gle TO show our readers, and western men, that
Pittsburgh papersand capitalists have lost all oou-
hd,nce in the Pennsylyan Cana, and that they
find the goods and Trade seeking the "Grea' Cen
raI Route" to such extent that tap II hey must,
or lose the trade for which all their energies have
heretofore been put forth. That there may be.
and is n strong desire in Pittsburgh TO connect with
the Rail road, We I'VE doubii but shat the Penn
sylvanians have The aud the public spirit to
do il we do not believe; and the result will prove
that oar opinion is mol erroneous The next hing
10, what viii lhay gain by The opsraIioni The DIS
lance is not Us slated by The ChroHcls, forty miles
1t is that in direct line, and no road can be made
from Pittsburgh To Unionlown, not 10 exceed 1--we
degrees in a less diIance Than 81 miles While It
10 but G. from Wheeling to Brownsville over the
national road, who're tolls are wanted for SIX
per cent dividend; hut merely keep The road in
repair The emenr is f.lse, too about the price
orfreighi during the present year. Pittsburgh boaIs
lay here "a hoIrs waug frr their turn g. get
freight and ore glad 10 gel IL, some carrying heavy
goods as low As cts per hundred TO Cincinnati.
IT mes aren't now as they used to was"