The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1867-09-26

We may suppose thst it will convey TO
Coyinglon an amount Of freight 10 coal
that what is now called the Central rail-
road will find il difficult to take away
But here the James River canal comes
to its relief. and can easily transport
everything that the Central road canno!
or prefers not to remove. This coal
must come 10 Richmond, aud here will
DO established vast coal depot, whose
annual receipt will soon reach million
Of tons. The camel coal has been sell.
ing 10 New York atS9o to S95 per ton.
1t can bs delivered here al 81 TO 80. A
steam vessel may carry its fuel at sea
10 camel coal for twice the distance that
ii can in any other.
With such an amount Of fuel, and
with the immense supply Of iron ore
that will be afforded by The mines along
the canal and road from the Lsnawha
to this city. we can see that with the aid
Of ordinary enterprise Richmond must
become one Of the largest iron manu-
featuring towns in the United States.
Immediately below the coal measures
lies the salt, and biologists say under
salt is the petroleum. OF the laSI.na-
med the extent is not known. The pc
lroleum operations 10 many parts Of
northern West Virginia and Penusy.
vsnia have come to an end with sad los
sss; but in Kanawhs lhero are other in
terests so much superior 10 it that no
gres. consideration has been given to
II.
OF the soil of this wonderful valley
the statistics Of the Censns Bureau fur
uish the poores, idea. The want Of a
market has greatly restrained the opera.
tons Of farming, and enterprise has been
chiefly directed to SOlt and coal. The
fores. still covers a great bulk Of the
land. Even 10 the most billy and bro
ken part. the moment the forest is NOV.
ed the blue grass appears. and discloses
the finest grazing lands. The crops
produced in some fields would astonish
our people. A friend Of ours has this
year beheId the crop Of corn in field
from which Charles LewiS's meD pluck
ed roasting ears on their way to the bat
tie with the Indians at Point Pleasant
in l774-ninsty one years ago-and
although, iroH reliable tradition, ii has
been in corn ere-y year since then, it will
now average from sir!y 10 seven'y bush
els per acre. and it is not good year in
that localilyl There was other fields in
the same region that had been culhVa-
ted in corn for sixty and seventy years
suc,essively. and in some of them 100
bushels 10 the acre is not On uncommon
yield.
This is the picture Of the lower Ka
bawha. Higher up-Fsyetlo county,
for instance. which is called poor-lhere
are fields of tobacco the present year
lba, can be surpassed by none in East
ern Virginia, and the corn crops, wheth
er in valley OF on bill, are worthy Of the
richest lands in old Virginia. Grass
grows everywhere, furnishing excellent
grazing. One of the most obsergantI
men we know says that this poor coun-
ty Of the Kanawha valley is better than
three out offour Of Eastern Virginir for
all the purposes Of production of the
necessaries Of life.
The development Of such country.
mus, create an immense amount of
wealth; and in establishing line of
improvement connecting this city with
it, if we get nothing beyond it, there is
enough in this great valley to reward US
a thousand times. and to build up here
a city Of immense masnitude.