Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-14
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EH~ CITY MPRovEMENTs.-A great deal
OF property in the way of old ume build.
0gs, is owned by the banks aud corporate
uoiies OF this city. 1t would be we'll if
tlore OF it could fall into the hands of bu.
siuess men, young men who are not i'm.
bGed with the old togy notions that things
will last their time as they stand, and that
any outlay in improvements is a useless ex.
traction from the amount of money thew
wish TO bsQuesIh to their heirs; men Ehe
realize that this is progressive age, and
that cities as we'll as individuals, must
Keep sp with the times If they do not wish
10 ce considered as having arrived at that
stsle OF perfection which only needs that
the town be fenced up to record that it is
completed, finished. Some of our builders
luto:m us that if prices of material and
labor decline to anything like f1ed stand
ard, there Is prospect that quite num-
Der OF buildings will be erected this sum-
uer. Strangers sometimes on a cursory
view of cur city, come to the conclusion
that we are so cramped up among the hills
that We have no room to spread ourselves,
that nature has barred US ss it were, by an
eternal fat from ever rivaIing some of our
sister cities in extent. We havn't COM
menced to 6ght nature yet, but We believe
that when the demand is sufficient to en-
gage the enterprise and the capital, nature
will succumb. For the present, however.
We have no occasion to speculate on the
subject All We have to do is to occupy
the space we have. We have travelled this
city some little, and we know its capacity,
sud We are satisfied that there is enough
building room in it to comfortably accom-
nodate as large again population as it
now has.
There is vas number of old tenements
that occupy great deal OF room and &C.
comuodate comparatively few people, they
are an eye sore to every stranger. Some OF
thsm are owned By people who have no
capital to improve them; others are owned
By persons who will never invest dollar
ia renovatiug them while the old fabrics
will hold together sufficiently to bring a
pal,ry rent. OUe would be surprised too
81 the number of excellent building sites
lying round uDoccupied by tenements of any
kiod, thateven ahssty half hours walk will
develop. The high prices which have pre-
vailed tor the past two or three years has
Induced many who had been holding on to
this reproductive species of property to
sell, and much of it has fallen into the
hands OF i've men who will improve it.
We want a number of good business
houses badly, and even worse than
these we want dwelling houses, moderate
sized but neat and Convenient People are
Cooking 10 cur new State, many of them
yoarg men who come to seek a field for
their enterprise and their capital, men who
Ike Wheeling for its business prospects,
It will be short sighted policy on the part
OF cur people TO neglect the opportunity to
secure the capital and the enterprise which
i5 strongly inclined TO come to US. a great
fault Of the houses in this city to coneid-
tursey, too large for one and not enough
for two, so that man has to pay large
rent for more room than he wsnts, or get
leas room than be wants ct less cost but
great Inconvenience.
We are safe in saying that the Eoudest
want CT cur city is convenient, comfortable
houses for small families; that the remedy
is in the hands of those who contemplate
building, and that it can be applied so as
to be alike beneficial and profitable to all
parties.