Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-12-29
WheelinE AND RaltimoEe.

Though not over Sangutne IN our temperament
We are free to confess that sometimes when we con-
template the resources OF our city, and her future
urospects, we are almost astonished at the deYel-
opment and improvement winch lies ahead
There is now no great Improvement north Of Gin
cinnati and south of Buffalo, with which we have
not facilities for forming connections, and it will
be but few years ere we will have these connec-
tons with the Lakes, with the Ohio and PennsyI-
vania RniIroad, with the roads centeTing at Column
bus on the west, and at Cincinnati via Marietta at
the south. Then we shall have two great eastern
outlets, the one completed 10 Baltimore, and the
Others being constructed 10 Philadelphia, while it
is perfe city practicable to form connection, via
WellsVille with the Lake Shore Railroad at Bea-
yer, - which it can be brought under its charter.
Such then are the advantages which we possess
for transportation, apart from the great river high
way which connects US with the Gulf of Mexico,
Them we have at home, every facility for progress
in every department ofmechanical industry. Our
fuel is cheap and ineXhauStablei our mineral re-
sources. for furnishing manufacturing materials,
now that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has con-
nected US directly with the mountain counties Of
Virginia. are plentiful, and Of the best orter. In
addition to this there:s'no city in the Union,
favored with better back country, than Wheel
ing, and thsIe is no one resource valuable, and
at the same time more reliable to city, as,to have
trading with it, rich and extensive range of what
is p operIy called the country. Ifitbe not thought
''patronizing'' we may venture tc invite the al
tention of our citizens to this matter. as one wor-
thy Other serious attention. II is a notorious
fact That while we have with most commendable
zeal slIven, and successfully striVen for connec-
atvely inattentive to what is termed local trade,
and that regions of country almost 1t our door do
not trade with US for the sole reason thas they can
not half ther time, reach our city, on the imPer-
feet and half opened roads not far from doors.
This is matter which is seriously worthy our at
tention. All the neighboring counties Of Ohio and
Virginia, and Pennsylvania, would gladly trade
with us constantly if they could reach us with
ease and safety, and it is notorious, that in the
winter It is almost impracticable TO hold inter-
course even with many parts of them, far less, to
keep up constant and regular trade. a'.
The completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road to our city, whereby the attention Of the sur
rounding country will be attracted to our city and
the Eastern connection, seems fitting moment for
looking into this matter, and we hope that our
enteTprsing citizens will the propriety OF such
a course, and adopt the most available means for
attaining the object in view, namely the opening
up and fostering daily. constant, intimate and
valuable intercourse with all portions Of the cOun
Try.
Our city is now as prosperous we coull ex-
peet, but add this to her means and she must adj
vance still more rapidly in population. commerce.
manufactures and wealth. Real estate is rapidly
advancing in value but still selling at prices far
below those commanded under similar circumstan-
ces elsewhere, and must advance yet more. Ev
erything is looking upward, and were it not that
the public have been so LOEg expecting an Eas-
tern connection as to wear away its actual impor-
tance, we would find property commanding even
double therates now obtained for it.
Ina few weeks the actual sightof the great re-
alities of trade will be seen and felt by citi
zsns, and then property will begin to advance to-
wards its true value. In the mean time, our city
offers to capitalists more real inducements to in
vest their capital, than can well be found in any
other portion of the country.