Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-04-22

interest in the construction of The Monon.
gahela and RavenswOOd railroad. The
State Of Pennsylvania has already granted
a charig for a railroad branching from
her central railroad at Latrobe 10 West.
moTeland county, and extending 10 the
Virginia line: thus, with our railroad char
Ter, giving 10 Philadelphia an opportunity
Of building railroad 10 the Ohio river, al
apolnt where the navigation will be good
nearly al all times, and alta point some one
hundred and fifty miles.below the termi-
nation Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
at The city Of Wheeling, and sixty miles
below determination ofthe Northwestern
railroad, now being constructed 10 Park
ersburg, thus giving 10 the city of Phila-
delphia an advantage over all the northern
cities in their competition for the trade
and travel from and 10 the Mississippi
valley, il she will but embrace it. And
have no doubt but that lar-seeing city will
not hesitate 10 engage heartily IN consum-
mating this great work when the attention
of her people shall be called 10 it, when
she shall be fully advised of the facilities
ofmaking this road, its terminus, the facil-
tiles of Connecting with like improvements
to be constructed in Kentucky and Ohio,
uad the country through which it will
pass. 1t, sir, is known TO be The best lands
and most furnishing part of Western Vir-
GINA along this line, passing as it were
through the very core Of Northwestern
Virginia. The length of this road in Vir-
GINA will be between one hundred and
asvenIy-fvc and two hundred miles,
The larger part Of this route has been sur
veyed and leveled, SO long as 1919 I be-
lieve, by an engineer Of the name GILMORE:
10 wit, from the Pennsylvania line 10 the
mouth Of Stone Coal creek in the county
of Lewis-a distance Of one hundred and
three miles. The fall in the river, it APP
pears by that survey (which may be found
in the report Of the Board of Public
Works Of that or the preceding or the
following year, was ascertained 10 be
two hundred and six feet-averaging two
feel per mile, and showing that in no sim
gle mile is the fall greater than three feet
and nine inches. The country between
the mouth of Stone Coal creek and the
Ohio has not been surveyed, but under
stand that there are few or no obstacles in
the way, and that at most there will not
be more than two short tunnels necessary
to be made on the whole route, and that
its whole length, as before stated, will be
along the valleys of rivers and creeks
that have fine valleys for making the road
on, at a grade less probably than the grade
of any other road in the United States,
Of the same length, constructed now or
that is now being constructed.
The convention to BIO called on the
fifteenth of June to meet at Fairmont,
I am pleased to say, is the act of our
friends in the counties on the Ohio riv-
er; and they promise to come by bat
tnlions. Shall not our people now take
lively interest in tho action of that
convcntionl and will not our neighbors
of our old mother county tMonongalia)
be on the alert and let me ask how it
will be with the enterprising people of
Faye;te county, Pa.-will they not be
here at the convention by regiments =
Let Us hear from the people Of Union
town. twill be her voice that will be
soonest heatkcned to by the city Of Phil
aeelphia. =
am, sir, now an old man, who has
been reared up in the county of Marion
who, although sixty years.old, yet
feels deep interest in he'prosperity
sof the country, and who would if he
could make his voice heard from the
Ohio river along this line to the city Of
PHILADELPHIA. MARION.