The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-25


possessed the power of the city and the
county before and they possess it now.
They set the smallest value in the world
on the election themselves, as did the
Union people, as any one can easily
perceive by looking over the meagre-
ness of the vote polled by both sides.
We are abuudantly content, however,
that the Register shall solace itself to It's
I'LL over the result. Il is one of the
few very diminutiye crumbs of com
fort that Democratic paper can gather
to makea meal on these days. When
the returns from Welzel come in let
them be added to the list as showing the
tremendousness OF the revolution.
\ Virginia and West Virginia Rail-.
road ho1te--The Baltimore ana
Ohio Road.
We mentioned yesterday that Messrs.
Ramsdell and Carrington, Commits
sloners on The part OF West Virginia,
were in Richmond to attend the meet
Ing of stockholders representing the
Central Railroad Of Virginia, and the
Covington and Ohio Road, two roads
In name but one in fact. The meeting
is considered one of great Importance
to the interests of the city of Rich
mond, the State of Virginia, and like
wise to the interests of the Kanawha
Valley in our own State. In substance.
the object is to ascertain whether u
continuous line Of railroad can be com
pleted from Norfolk to Cincinnati and
the great West, as wehave on former
occasion more fully explained and
elaborated. Among the proceedings of
the meeting we notice the reading of a
etter from the President of the Cinefn-
natl and IndiannpolisRailroad inwhi
he advocates the project under contem-
plation, and says that affording n
cheaper outlet for the products OF the
West, 10 the seaboard, its advantagest to
that section can hardly be estimated.
The Richmond Dispatch takes the
ground thRtthat city can never become
a large one until the Coyington Il Ohio
is finished to the head OF navigation on
the Kanawha, and says that Richmond
could we'll afford to guarantee the in.
terest on SO, GOO, 900 in order to complete
It. Alluding to the present unfinished
condition Of the road, 1t says: fIE
When the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road had reached Cumberland, one
hundred and seventy-eight miles from
Baltimore, and that place had been It's
western terminus for years, the COM
pany was US poor rs the Central Rail-
road Company Is to-day. When, by
extraordinary efforts, building few
miles at u lime, the road reached 1.-The
Ohio river at Wheeling, the value OF the
stock had run down almost to zero.
But once there, the road built up the
company, which was soon able to con.
stTuct another road one hundfed and
four miles long, from Grafton to Park.
eFsburg.alT The compRny'B credit grew
better daily, II began to double Its
track, to increase its running
stock, to extand It's influence in
every direction; and to-day its
stock Is above par, 1T runs a line OF
steamers to Europe, it controls the Ma
Tietta railroad and other railroads in
/ Ohio, mud its revenue Is i've Zines us
great as the revenue of the State OF
Virginia. baltimore would have been
justified, as the results prove, in paving
the hole cost Of the road out of her
owntreasury, aud giving tito the COM
pany. Without tit that city was power.
less. With III she fTninediste ely became
no contsmptibIe rival OF New York or
adelphiR..r And SO prosperoustare
this company's affairs, and such Is Its
credit, that IL 1t desired TO do so, It
could, at It's own proper cost, construct
a railroad from Norfolk to the Ohio
river without calling FOR any, State,
municipal, or Individual aid, IT. is d
power in the land: Fourteen years ago.
we repeat, It's stock was mol worth FORTY
cents In the dollar, ga a. 81 7-igtiAsis@.
The6ountry through which the road
passes has derived as much proportion
ate advantage from it as has Baltimore.
Coal iStranspoEted three hundred miles
upon 1t. Coal lands have qnadrupled
in value The Baltimore Gas Company
columbus O'Donnell) bought land in
Marion county, three hundred miles
from Baltimore, for which, they paid
Sl25 per acre, and mined ont of il the
coal which they used in misunderstanding
gas tor Baltimore city. This was an
Unusually high price Tor land. but not
too high for such land; for a vein Of coal
Mt least fifteen feet thick Law inst. be-
meath the surface. There are such Ia nEs
on the line OF the Coyington and Ohio
Railroad, which ara not now worth in
the market ten dollars per acre, ss,it
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