South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-07-08
Our improvements.

MR. HARPER The establishment of the
State Asylum here is well calculated to a.
waken our people 10 increased exeriion in
the direction of improvements that build
up the fortunes and promote the progress
OF the community in which they exist. 1t
Is a we'll known fact shat successful in-
dus,rial enterprise is always the induce
ment to another. Our roads, bridges, the
concentration Of trade, enterprise, capital,
aud the prosecution of many branches of do
nestle industry and manufactures are what
we require. Bring, if possible, capitalists,
men of enterprise, and skilful, industrious
citizens among US. We need active far
mers, manufacturers, mechanics. Orchards,
vineyards, hop. yards, gardens, stock and
poultry-growing, dairies, manufactures in
leather, wood, iron, WOOL will make and
d6usc money and build up the prosperity
of the country around US To accomplish
great and desirable results combination and
unity of feeling, sentiment and action are
wanted. Uuder the liberal provisions Of
ted by organizing Stock Companies for ma
ny desirable, important aud continually
growing improvements. With only sixteen
miles Of distance to the Rail Road, with re-
markablc natural facilities OF grade, . Tram
Road could be built and stocked from here
to Green Spring Station, at cost Of Fifty
Thousand Dollars, which would pay for it.
self in five years, and make this tie head
Of trade that would soon quadruple our
population, wealth and resources Our
present condition here may well attract the
attention of men of capital and enterprise
To lay before them all the advantages of
the situation is most desirable, aud in this
connection, it is we'll to consider that every
man has not only common interest but
that each has too his share. of Influence -
Half dozen new branches of industry and
manufactures established encouraged and
promoted among us would give life AID
impulse to business and be attended by a
degree of advanced prosperity which can
scarcely be estimated. With a common
object and earnest purpose, tremendously,
theoretically let US set to work in this be-
half, and we may be sure that it will in the
eud turn out successfully. Energy, clear,
intelligent views and their forcible express
sion are the motive powers of society. They
seek aud ultimately command means Let
as hare no stan1-StW policy. We get the
Asylum, how? by energy, zeal, harmony
Of sentiment and action-if these accom-
plish for Us this great good, may we not
hazard the conjecture, that their renewal in
some other direction may accomplish yet
another, while we ever work with increas-
ing strength aud means to secure the i'm
portant ends that wisdom, public and pri-
vate interest and the laws of healthy pro.
gress may Indicate? To the re establish
ment of male and female Schools of their
former grade of excellence among US, the
expansion and development of business here,
with its attendant increase of population, is
Indispensable. 10 this view of the case, he
who can secure the scttl6mentiu our village
Of one thrifty, Industrious, respectable, en-
terprsipg family is, to that extent, n puJ.
lie Jcncfdcfor
1t is well to HiaE Of these things, but
better still, not to Minh only, but also to
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