The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-05-20
GEO. ". TIPPETT
EDITOR AED PROPRIETOR.
POINT PLEASANT, w. VA.
THURSDAY, NAY 90, 1909.
TnE PACIFIC RAILRoAp.

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TIE PACIFIC RAILROAD.
The great work of the age, The Pacific
R'ilroad. is completed. The last spike
dove was made Of Californis gold, and
the hammer that drove il, of Nevada
Silver The event has been celebrated
by imposing ceremonies all over the
country, and especially in the Vest
New York and San Francisco, are now
bound together by m iron band TIM
spans the continent. Months Of travel
between those cities, attended with great
exposure aud toll, IS now reduced 10 o
few days, TO DO enjoycd, rather than
endured, in luxuriOusDy fitted cars, fur
nished with bed and board Of sumpti
Gus character. The vast mineral reg
ions on either side of the Rocky noun
tuius are DOW laid open to the world and
made Of easy access, Territories vast,
fertile and rich in all the natural elC :
mauis for States IS prosperous as any,
or oil the middle States of the Union,
can now be reached BY few hours
travel, aud with little exposure aud no
toll. This great work insuguraIed du>
ring the war, even when the Govern
ment seem'd in the greatest peril, is we
believe, to provide the way fotllc sOlu-
tion Of the most difficult problem. the
war has ontOi!ed-th tho payment of the
vast debt. the salvation oil free govern
ment required. Adj to the Union a
dozen, or half dozen such States, as
Ohio, Indiana. Missouri. Illinois, with
the depths of gold and the mines of siI,
yer, like uuto those already discovered
IN California aud Nevsdu, and the re-
sources for the payment Of the public
debt will be no longer question Of
anxious Inquiry, With the blessings of
peace and lrusolity, in few years, On
indebtedness that now is felt as burden
some, will seem as light, and insignif-
cant, 10 proportion 10 the population and
resources Of the country as was the rev.
oluiiOnary debt. thirty years after it was
contracted.
The completion Of the Pacific Rail-
road is au event of especial interest TO
West Virginia, and PARTICULARLY to this
portion, lying in the Kanawha Valley,
We are now in line Of the great thor
oughfarO around tho woyld, As soon
as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
shall have been completed. (aud that ii
will be ot an early day there is no doubt)
nearly all the travel between the Atlaotic
fesboard and Asia and all the oriental
countries will pass our very Doors
Point Pleasant will become great
commercial and manufacturing city,
The numerous railroads that ore now
projecting 10 this State, will center here
and form their connections with the
South and West. Then the surround
ing country will be better cultivated
The immense tracts Of land that are
now uncutivaled, will be cut up into
small forms. The farmers will be made
richer and more prosperous. They will
become producers instead Of consumers.
We of Point Pleasant may confidently
hope in lev years 10 ace Eastern aud
Western bound trains gliding into aud
through our town laden with the luxu-
ries of the Indies. aud the riches Of the
Eldorado Of the West, and calling for
and demanding every product our soil
is capable Of producing, or the mechou.
col genus OF our people may invent.
The public debt has been decreased