Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-07-05

privilege being first obtained from your
Legislature, our road may then be exten
ded to the Kentucky line, there to me t
road leading thence by connections to
Lexington. AT Lexington, six reads ter
inmate, which concentrate their produce
from parts of Kentucky and the neigh
boring States. The Monongahela and
Ravenswood road and its connections, he
ventured to say, would be the pest pos
Sible route from the South west to the
East, and must command the trade of
Western Virginia, Kentucky, tennessee,
West Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas.
and the southern part Of Missouri. Look
at the map In vain would you search
for a route which could compete with it.
And you may live to see the day when
every bale of cotton and every hogshead
of sugar that shall leave the Southwest
for an eastern market will pass through
your town. (Fairmont.)
But leave out of view the Kentucky
connection. The NJ. & R. road will
strike the Ohio river, by extending it a
short distance below its proposed terml-
rus, at point where steamboat naviga'
ton is good nearly the year round. The
you are in communication with Cincinna-
ii. When you get to Cincinnati, you
may 90 any where you pleasc-every-
where. Railroads. centre there which
run north, west, east and south.
The Mo ongahela and Ravenswood is
the only road which can be made by
which the West and Southwest may
reach the eastern cities in the shortest
possible time. II VII afford them ~
choice of markets. When they reach
this point if they want to go to Balti-
more, here they are upon the BIItimore
road. If they wish to go to Philadelphia,
they will go on to the Central road. Or
if to New York. they will then be able
to do sos A company has been chartered
which is already prepared to construct
road from New York city through East
ern Pennsylvania, across the PennSylva'
MIA road, and so on by the best route to
this point. This company has already
constructed a road from New York to
Easton. They are able and desirOus to
form a complete line across Pennsylva-
MIA and Virginia to the Ohio liver. You
know that our Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, at it's last session, authorized the sale
of our public works-our improvements
owned by the State. The law autnori-
ling the sale grants full! power to the
company or Companies purchasing to con
struct roads anywhere in Line State. So.
that, so far as Pennsylvania is concerned.
you see that there can be no difficulty
about the right of way. The Central
road company have had the propricty OF
purchasing the pubic works unler en-
sideration. They appointed committee
to report the value OF these works. The
committe reported that seven millions OF
d"llars was as much as the company
could afford to pay for them, thOu5h that
sum is not as much by several millions ot
dollars. as the State asks tor them; but
the company may nevertheless purchase
them at higher price than the commit
tee named. Dom this statement, you
will see that there are two opportunities
Of forming connections in PennsylVanlh.
Two lines are anxious to join with this
Monongahela road. 1t was SO determln
ed, by one Of them at least two years
ago.
This road must pay han lsome profit,
If the Baltimore and OHIO ro td. built as
it is across the country. across the noun
tains, through the hills, is worth keep
ing up-if that road even pays expense,
this one would prove profitable IN
veStment. This would pay ten per cent
dividend where that pays one per cent
The profits of this would certainly be five
times as much as those of that road
Compare the routes, and think Of the diff
ference in the cost reconstruction. After
the making of that road, who would
think any road that might be proposed
| Ii Hint
State-ovvr such mountains as were never
before scaled spans yawning ravInes-
penctrales the towering hills On this
route, on the contrary, there is no o5Sta'
Gle 1t would follow the streams and taE
the Ohio with scarcely a tunnel.
The route from Uniontown 70 the Cen
tral railroad (which would be part o'
this( has been surveyed, and the cOmPa
nv are satisfied that the way business
alone, supposing that the road should SO
no further, would pay six per cent. up
on the cost of the construction OF roa"
even for that short distance. Extend Il
hither, and your itch hills would pouI
down such an abundance of their no"
hidden treasures and of their tecmIng
products as would of itself require Sc
cond track to be added.
The Doctor made few other remarks
which were chiefly in regard 10 the vas
difference between the price al property
in Fairmont how, and the price it bor'
when he was here some years ago. ant
resumed his seat. He was warmly aP
pIauded. :.
Here arose some question as to taking
a recess. After they had been disposed
of,
Mr.. KINCHELOE, of Harrison coun
ty Va, took the stand and made shor
: speech. which he seemed to have commit
ted to memory. We did not take note
) oft, and therefore, can give our readers