The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-08
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A large meeting of the most intiuen-
tial citizens of Kanawha county was
held on the 22d ultimo at Charleston,
at which Colonel B. II. Smith presided,
and John w. Sentz acted as Secretary.
Able addresses We're delivered by
Judge James 81. Brown, James NJ.
Laidley, and Colonel John s. Cunning
ham. one of the commissioners for West
Virginia on the subject OF the improve
ment. Thirty-siS delegates were ap-
pointed TO tho White Sulphur COnven-
lion of the 10th instant. Among the
names are General l.. Rutfuer, L II.
Moore, John ID. Lewis, jacob Goshorn,
w. A. Quarter. James ii. Rogers, L. Ii.
Swami, n. Fitzhugh, Judge Brown, DR..
A. S. Patrick, c. w. Smith, George
Jeffries, John Slack, Jr., DIR. j. p. Hale,
DR.. A. +. Summers, and Colonel b. IL.
Smith.
The meeting also passed strong reso-
lutions in favor of the work, and re-
commend county subscription of
$500, 900 to the stock of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Company. A committee of
Messrs. James Nj. Laidley, John S.
CunninghHm, and General Lewis Ruiz
ner was appointed to canvass the
county and enlist the citizens i'll the en-
terprise. EE.
kanawha. the most prosperous and
public. spirited county in West Virgin
ia, Is iuliy aroused upon the subject of
| the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and
will perform her tull share of work
upon it. We have had several letters
OF late on the subject, showing in
strong terms the interest felt in the en-
terprise all along the kanawha river,
and especially one from our friend Mr..
| Thomas Mathews, oil Lewisburg, who
made the journey from his town 10
! lFUt- L.. IL L. -. . 1,
most devoted and efficient friends OF
the great work, and reports the feeling
l.throughout his entire Journey most en-
couraging. We have not had room Tor
these glowing accounts, which we are
sure are fully sustained by the actual
state of feeling among the people OF
the KRnawha Valley. Long, long have
they waited and hoped, and hoped and
waited, only for disappointment. Once
more their hope is nroused-not, we
trust to be again disappointed-and
that hope appears to be as fresh and
strong as if it never had been tTitled
with and never knew the crushing eff
feet of the Illustration of confident ex-
pectations.
Mason county is as earnest and ac-
live as knnHwha in her support of the
improvement. One of the termini of
the road will be at Point Pleasant,
which lies on the Ohio, at the mouth OF
the Kanawha river, in the centre of the
Ohio boundary OF the county. Mason,
and the counties of Gallia and Meigs,
in Ohio, Immediately opposite, are pos
sessed of great wealth, and are rapidly
growing and thriving. We are indebt-
ed to General John McCausland for
an interesting letter to the senior editor
OF this paper, published in the Mason
county JouE nal, which we have been
unable TO publish in full. This letter
gives from the most reliable authorities
the wealth and resources of these three
counties right at the western end of the
chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. We
will briefly present the facts communi-
Gated by the Generals letter.
Mason county, with "A population of
is, 900, has 324, 600 acres of land assessed
at s., 500, ,000-an average, at ii moderate
estimate of value on the commissioners
books, of more than ten dollars per acre
for the whole county. There are eight
Touring mills which can turn out four
hundred barrels of flour per day, TWEEN
ty-Hve steam saw mills with n capacity
OF four thousand feet of lumber per day
to each mill, or three millions per
month, which goes to Cincinnati
chiefly, but u part of it TO New York,
Boston, and Cleveland. There are five
salt furnaces making six thousand
bushels per day, and there are three i'll
progress of construction. There are II
rolling mill and nail factory soon TO be
in operation, and several foundries,
planning mills, stave machines, &c. The
amount of merchandise bought annual
ly by the merchants of the county is
Si97, 500. The sales OF cattle annually
from the county amount TO $4,000. The
Mason county lands were located by
Washington, and some of them are still
held by his heirs.
GuLtia county, in Ohio, has 400 square
miles of territory. Gallipnlis, the coun-
ty town, opposite Point Pleasant, has a
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population of 10000. 1t is one of the
best farming counties in southern Ohio,
and produced last year zoe, 200 bushels
of wheat and 10, 600 pounds ofwool-23
bushels of wheat and pounds of wool
to each inhabitant. The county con-
tains 256, 900 acres of land, assessed at
s., ,S29, ,269-an average of more than $40
per acre. 81, -
Afei0s county, Ohio, has a population
of $1,000, 1900 OF which resides in
towns, 10000 of them in the thrifty
town OF Pomeroy. The number Of
s., ,244, ,996, or about Sl2 per acre; while
the real property in towns is valued at
SSI4,6 ,626. Meigs county has eight steam
Touring mills, three of which last year,
when the wheat WAS purchased
mostly out of the county, manufac-
tured l23, 800 barrels of flour! There
are, besides, twenty-five wHter-pOWer
mills manufacturing flour, one rolling
mill working $1,000 tons of iron per
annum, and one nail mill capable OF
making 200 kegs ef nails per week!
There are, besides, foundries, machine
shops, wooden mill, saw and planning
mills, &c, and dock for repairing
steamboats,. DC. Many hands are em-
ployed in bodybuilding, which is be-
lug carried on extensively in the coun-
ty. There are eight salt furnaces in
MeIgs, which were operated only ten
months last year, and together with
the five in Mason, delivered 10 the Ohio
River Salt Company l,S2Q,0O0 bushels
salt. There were mined in Meigs last
year 6,554,759 bushels coal, (On both
sides the Ohio just there some 10000, 900
bushels are mined each year. The
coal belt which crosses the Ohio here is
twelve or fourteen miles wide. Besides
this eXhibil of manufacturing and
mining the agriculture of Meigs is most
creditable: 81. .su r.l7
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These counties are all small and the
lands valued at low prices. Onsthe
best authority in Meigs, il is affirmed
that the lands there are worth twice the
amount at which they were assigned.
General McCRusland in summing up
says The three counties are connected
at present by daily boats, and the entire