Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-06-05
Pomeroy ANA lIs Environs.

sS P0meroy ana AUS EnHArons'
Al friend in private business letter, asks
e+What Is .he population Of Pomeroy? and
what its business prospects, For the
information Of our friend and all others
who desire to know, we propose to answer
/, the question publicly, through the columns
Of the Telegraph u
"A facetious writer inltbe Knickerbocker'
Magazine describes Pomeroy ases'a city
seven miles long, and as far back as the eye
. can, reach, There is more truth in the sa7
airethan strangers may at first imagine On
-the,0 ,0hiolside.of the river the narrow strip
/ of bottom land is pretty well built over for
eight Or nine miles. and might easily be
mistaken for one very long town, and as the
:blaffsapphoach the river very closely, the
eye cannot reach'far back .TheaSeror' in
the description, consists in tbis:instead Of
one,toYn, there are six or seven, VIZ; SbefI
field. Middleport,, ,Coalport PoMERors Mi
nersyills. and Syracuse. Then. on the
Virginia side. III sthe same range, there
are three towns, viz: Hartford, Mason, and
West Columbia. The population Of the
I six tomnsson the Ohio side isaprobably
NEAR lsstsas h0asatd- that Of the three
towns on the Virginia side about iarss Aoa.
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Pomeroy, proper, oratle corporation OF
Pomeroy, is between one and two miles in
length, and contains. as near as We can
Judge from $500, toa 5000 4inhabitants.
tThcre are, within the corporation fifteen or
twenty stores, a large steam Touring mill,
II steam saw mill, two extensive Salt man
ufactories, an extensive, Rolling Mill, two
IFoundries and Machine shops, DC, &c. 1t
is near the centre Of the range Of towns
spoken of is much more compactly built
than the others, and is the CountyTseat oi
MeigsnC County. agglg g1f f,saa @Nea
q Itis impossible, however, to convey cor
rect idea Of any one Of the towns in the
coal region, apart from all the rest. united
asthey areby similarity of'interest.nWitl'
the above explanation, therefore, we wish
the following remarks to be understood as
applying to the towns Of Pomeroy, Miners
vile, Coalport. Middleport, and Sheffield
(which. ], for aconyenince, we shall designate
as this point. H'.gs@aM g4 Isa 8
Oua REsouRcEs. AT no point on the
,Ohioriyeris COAL more abundant, or more
easily accessible. Z We learn from reliable
sources, that the amount mined at this poin
for the year ending last August did not fal
much short of eight; millions Of bushels
worth probably near half a mlliono Of dol
aarss0tB Between FIVE and six million bushel:
were Shipped to points below-the remain
der was used here for manufacturing ane
other, purposes, A few years ago, the dis
.eoyaryswas made that saltwater in abun
DANCE could be obtained, at the depth1b
'f66b Eetr fom the surface at this point
Wstswsegpe bored and furnaces erected, anc
sneEiweo have, on the Ohio, side FIVE fur
naeesi manufacturing, inlall,vabouta ha!
million bushels Of SALT per annum, wortl
about slS5, 600 Our Rolling Mil is lon'
.oftheiargestlin the Wesbland the aprepii
.eiorSafeg constantly increasing uits opera
'sjoHsa. ItBpsiHess probably amounts :
ab0Ss $3.50 ,o60 per snnpms TIE amour
expended for material brought from .olblei
-ppintafshbuld be,deducted, in estimatinl
seaf RESOURCES. sThen9We have three larg
.Flosfihg liills making, ia tbe saggreg$t
about 50OVpbbIs ot Fl9pr per anpplnVlH, nun, fr0p
Mbsatsppplied chiefly bymtht farperslie q
sMeigk County .aaad worth at psesentpicea
near haif Ssmaliohnof dollars. Here, tRen
-wehsse, inp these four ii articles, consideta6l
over one l.iilon of dollars per annum, 70
thea pfOaucts.of Ills point alone.d At Al
events, We think one million dollars 4 mod
crate estimate NJ the amount received f.
,ppduGts shipped from this point Then, q
fiIs 0tkeradde ofstte river, heayFishipment
Ofg09ana SAY tafe being made, thea asFald
Sfkbiebl We AVE v means Of ascertalninee
lhAI ilis.npt likely theywill amount toonf
half q muelsasthose on this side spfoba
lblgGhSfe thaii one third. ssa eN g22' .sn
NJ Aniii6n ~ VI .fiaN as4 gus Aassi; G
OuR ''RaosREcrs.-1INVe think, ,iabeyon
question, this points dest ned to becom
sshe heAsiest notwithstanding point betMee
\ PitssbYl ssAt @i1einsat NE can \ 50
SiothingIinsfhs hsmurld toprevent It, and ev
allsatlfrg ib iat6fsdeIi an opinion Goa
tbe BASIS u manufactures, is here IN q
exhaustible quantities. and easily accessible
a can be mined within a hundred yards I
lr piapuiaet etVEifs, ard delivered bE il
minegs themselves attbe mouths ofrthefal
ihacssgwith little trouble. and withcutchapt
ine c6Ps THIS coal, iOf manulactuflhS,
E0ASiassts4 a Hiahya spTstsrabllIal Il AS ,bei
Youghiogheny. Situated aswesare imms