The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-15

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itants, among whom also may be reck-
oned the physicians, but they are few,
probably the number of them in pro-
portion to the population of the place Is
less than any other town in the United
States. 49, = = $3.50 =. =
There are other towns on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad that might
claim to be almost as conveniently stu
ated as Clarksburg, but then they want
other advantages possessed by Clarks-
burg. No other place that occupies any
thing like o central position has the
amount of building material within its
reach, as has Clarksburg. There are,
very near the latter place, the finest
quarries of building stone in the world,
and then there is greater abundance
of coal in the immediate vicinity OF
Clarksburg than any other point on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Another advantage which Clarksburg
possesses, is its rich surroundings. 1t is
situated in one of the most fertile re-
gions in the State. All kinds of pro-
visions are produced in great abnnd-
ance, and living will always be as cheap
in Clarksburg as any place in West VIZ
ginia.
Clarksburg possesses another advan-
tage, over either Weston or Buckhan-
non, which it will be well to consider.
All kinds of building material can be
procured cheaper, by at least forty per
cent, than Mt either of the former
places. A price of fifty cents per hun
dred pounds is now being paid for
transporting slate from Clarksburg to
Weston to be used in covering the
buildings of the Lunatic Asylum. The
same price is also paid for conveying
irons used in the building. Were the
Seat of Government located at that
point it would require much heavy ma
terial, such as iron, slate, glass, &c, to
be used in constructing the public
buildings, and the overland freight from
Clarksburg to Weston would amount
to large sum. 1t is said upon the
best authority that the cost of convey
ing some of the heavy material used in
the Asylum buildings from C!arksburg
to Weston wants but fraction OF
amounting to as much as it does to
transport it from Baltimore to Clarks-
burg. Buckhannon ia further from the
railroad, by several miles, than Weston,
and make that place the Seat of Gov
eminent, and the expense of erecting
public buildings will be much greater
because the roads are much worse.
Buckhannon is almost destitute OF any
building material whatever. There is
not even lime nearer than twenty-five
miles. If there are any building stone
at any convenient distance, it has never
been discovered. E
1t has been contended that if Buck
harmon were made the Seat of Govern
ment, it would be the cause of building
two great lines of railroad, and thus
opening and developing an undeveloped
portion of the State.
There have been chartered by the
West Virginia Legislature two Railroad
companies, the West Virginia Central
Railway Company, and the Mononga-
hela and Lewisburg Railroad Company.
The former is authorized to construct a
railway from the Pennsylvania line
near Joseph Carols in Preston County,
by the way of Brandonyille, the mouth
of Muddy Creek and near Kingweed, in
the aforesaid County, the junction OF
Three Fork and Raccoon Creek in the
County of Tay.Or Buckhannon, in the
County of Upsher, Charleston i'll the
County of Kanawha, and thence to-
the mouth of the Big Sandy River in
the County of Wayne. But if after
the organization of the Company it
shall be ascertained by surveys or 9th
erwise that the purposes OF the Compa-
nv can be better attained by change
Of route, the Company are authorized
TO change the location of said road, so
as to commence any where i'll the cOun-
ty of Preston or Monongalia, and extend
he same up the streams of the MonOn-
yabcla river or elsewhere, to the waters
IF Elk river; thence by way of Charles
ton to the Kentucky line. This pro-
vision of the charter ensures Its loca-
ion by the way of Clarksburs, when it
shall be constructed, because the eX-
pense Of constructing q railway by the
way of Buckhannon would amount tol
millions of dollars more than by the
way Of Clarksburg. /
The charter of the Monongahela and
railroad company author
yes the said company to construct
road from some point on the Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia State line, in
the county of Monongalia, to be desig-
mated by said company, by the way OF
in the aforesaid county,
Fairmont or Palatine, in the county OF
Marion, Clarksburg in the county of
Buckhannon i'll the county OF
Upshur to the Covington and Ohio rail
road near Lewisburg in the county OF
But it has been ascertained
that this route is impracticable, and
that the only practicable route for said
road will be by tho way Of Grafton,
and thence mp the Tygart's Valley river.
The following from COMMUNICATION
which recently appeared in the West
Virginia Journal, fully corroborates
what is stated above:
ave cannot think of locating the Cap
ital of our new and prosperous State in
the mountains. where we will have
neither water nor railroad transporta-
ton. If we were to huild the Capital
at Buckhannon, that would not induce
company to erect a railroad. Since
the Legislature of Virginia has charter
ed railroad up the great Valley of the
Shenandoah, and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad company contemplate
building n road on that line, there no
longer remains inducement enough on
the proposed Buckhannon route for ally
company to incur the expense of con-
structing the road. Besides, there are
two rival routes; one up the Tygart's
Valley river from Grafton to the White
Sulphur Springs on the Covington and
Ohio railroad; and the other from
Clarksburg up the West Fork river,
and down Elk to Charleston on the
Kanawha. Either of these last named
routes is far preferable and more eligi-
BILE than the BucEhannon route.
These two routes would leave Buck
hannon between. So it will be seen
that Buckhannon has not one chance in
five to secure the location Of any rail
road which may be ever located through
the interior of our State. 1t would cost
millions more of money to construct a
railroad ria Buckhannon than either up
tho Ty1,rt,s Vollay nr the West Fork