The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-28
WHEELING WEST VA, MONDAY MORNING JANUARY

/ by Columbus or Harper's Ferry! 4
wen graded road, the greater par
macadamized; as good coach as run
in the State running every day owe
that road. The population of Upshur
county in 1850 was 1892; that of Lewi
county, her western neigh Dor, 1899; tha
of Barbour, her eastern neighbor, S95s
Braxton, 1922; Randolph, 1890. Upshu
in the centre of a population such u.
this, without any advantage of railroad
Upshur county, poor though she MAJ
/ be- paid out of their own treasury nea1
Sl00, 600 in bounties to soldiers. Sh,
raised HOO volunteers to help put dowI
the rebellion.
Then they tell us there no lime there
! Wonderful expense in transportation o
materiali We have in Buckhannon q
court house as fine as any building In
the State; and the gentleman who
erected that building, in the presence o.
a number OF members last night, stated
/ that he burned every bushel of the lime
| for that building within three miles o.
! that town. / have what l call pretty
good house, so feet by 40, and J
burned within two and half miles o.
the town every peck OF the lime that
built my house. Nineteen buildings
have gone-np during the last summer
one of them n hotel 100 feet long and
three stories high that will accommo.
date the whole LeGislRture-and not one
bushel of lime hauled from a distance
We have lime in as great abundance
and of the same quality as in the ad.
joining counties. We are destitute OF
white lime, for which we have TO send
TO Rich Mountain, Is miles.
Then the timber: You can buy inch
boards in the county of Upshur-aS nice
lumber as plane ever passed over-for
ten dollars thousand; while 4 gentle
I man who is running steam saw mill
! on the B. & o. r. R. told me he sells the
same lumber at twenty-five dollars a
] thousand We have, within half a mile
/ OF the town, as fine rock for building
! purposes as can be found in the State
blue and yellow sandstone, that will
| split at least ten or eleven feet long
As good lay for making brick as can
be found in the State. And 1 venture
the assertion the capitol building can
be reared in Buckhannon so to 75 per
cent. lower than at any other place
! north of it. If any gentleman who
doubts this proposition, will take the
pains TO come to my room, l will fur
nish him evidence sufficient to substan-
tiateit.
do not place my argument, nor the
reasons why the capital shonld be at
Buckhannon,. on any personal or sec
tional considerations. The interest OF
this whole commonwealth demands
that this Legislature should locate this
NfNE'AA~A@ AhLS WAIlGAs anu luN IL III Lllt
center where it will develop the re-
sources OF the whole State. There is a
proposition pending that if the right be
granted, road will be commenced next
spring from Grafton to Buckhannou.
They are anxious to do it. Enterprise
is striking forth her hands anxious TO
go through the State. All they want is
for West Virginia not TO stand
in the way, but give them a helping
hand. Have no fears but you can reach
Buckhannon; and when you do, you
reach the handsomest spot you can set
your foot upon in your new State. 1t
seems as if the God of nature had set
apart that place for that particular pur-
pose. The hills are set back. There is
not a mountain within Is miles. The
site proposed to be given to the State,
for which 1 have deed in my posses
sion, is 65 feet above the river, three
fOurths ofH mile from the river, sloping
off in every direction; and then there is
territory enough to build a city three
times as large as any city in the United
States. And when you place the capi-
tai there and improve the town you
make millionaires Of no rebels. Thank
God, that soil Is in the hands of loyal
men, and her citizens determined at the
commencement of the war il should re-
main therei and treason never goes
scot free in the county of Upshur. l
don't meah by that any reflection on
any of my neighbors, because where a
man is loyal with bad surroundings,
he is entitled to credit for it. Ihope the
House will give my somewhat des 1lto-
ry remarks what weight they are enti-
tied to and no more. I think if you do,
you will come to the conclusion the
capital ought to be settled this winter,
and ought TO be located at Buckhan-
non, the centre of the State.
Mr.. Cracraft-Mr. Chairman: When
I announced the name of Charleston,
did not have with me the deeds for
the land referred to in my remarks. !
now have them here, but will not call
on the Clerk to read them unless the
House desires it.
Mr.. Gotf said it was near the dinner
hour; and, on his motion, the Commit
tee rose, reported progress, and obtain
ed leave 10 sit again at ? O'Clock, p. NJ,
TO which hour the House adjourned.