The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-16
Ritllmond 0ispattl,.
MONDAY. OCTOBER 1G, 1871
RE THE CIRCULATION OF TEE DIs-
fATCH ls LAkGER THAN TuE COMBINED
CIRCULATION OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY.
OUR GREAT RAILROAD.
4 NEW YORKER TRAyELS-HE SEES HUNTING.
TON AND VARIOUS OTHER rLACES--PRos-
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TON AND VARIOUS OTHER rLACEs--PRos
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Cortcspcndtnre OF the Few York Tribune.
CoLEsMouTU, WEST VA.,t
September 10, 1871.
Huntington lies in Cabell county, Wes,
Virginia. and Is the western terminus o
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Hunt.
ineton Hgnds few miles above tho moutl
OF the Big Sandy. and It's northern limits
Join the town Of Guyandottc. and arc
bounded by the Guyandotle river, usually
called by the natives the Guyan. 1t pro
misses to grow rapidly into large and i'm
portant place, FOR il stands mt a point on
the ohio which steamboats, can always
reach, even III low water. 1t is, as ] said
the western terminus of the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, aud will thus be to thii
section what Buffalo is to the Erie and Cen.
trail roads the country back of it, both
south and southwest, is full OF very rich
deposits of coal and iron. through which
the new Lexington and Big Sandy railroad
Is to run eastward it is connected with
he enormously rich coal fields Of the great
kanaWha Valley; and the Chesapeake and
ONO company urc now arranging, so !
heard. for westward connections for their
road through Ohio.
road company, who are building here, ON
4 reservation of sixty acres, very large and
important shops. They purchased fur town
purposes 5000 ucrcs, which give about four
miles river front and two miles depth OF
level bottom land, lying, fortunately, high
enough to escape iuunGation even in the
greatest rise Of the Ohio, aUd having per-
ttct drainage not only to the Ohio, but 10 a
creek which skirts the back OF the town.
On this plateau the company haye laid out
iine, broad streets and avenues, which they
are about to pave with the coarse gravel or
shiDcie which lines the river bank and
makes an excellent road-bed, as l saw on
the other side. They have already five
miles Of streets graded, most of which o., o.,
eighty feet wide. They have gr"%f7iL iauSirn uImn
the river bank, and IzGo WeI ~ Va L"iu'ns
will he pavau with stone this fall anu they
Lnvc 4 small army Of men at work upon the
machine shops which are needed at this
end of their 400 miles of road.
Among the buildings which are now going
up is round-houSe, roomy enough to con-
tain forty locomotives; brass aud iron
foundry, with the necessary pattern shops:
4 large blacksmith and boiler shop: 4 shop
10 build passenger cars one for painting
and upholstery; Il large building Tor man
utacturiug freight cars, and one Tor repairs;
a drying mouse for lumber. &c. The car
shops are laid out to he each 800 feet long
by 90 feet span; three transfer tables,
which are more than half completed, occu-
py !55 feet by 30; and the building for the
insnuttcturc OF freight cars will hold 120
ears at one time. The lumber-yard is to
have space for 100000 feet Of lumber,
| conveniently piled and water IS to be led
from springs in the adjoining hills to large
reservoirs. There will be sidc-tracks for
| l,210 cars, and about twenty-slN miles of
iron track III the town limits, Of which SIX
| are already laid and in operation.
The work on the Company'S shops IN
Huntington has drawn thithcr large
number OF mechanics, mason*, carpenters,
brick makers. blac6smthS, as we'll ~
| teamstcts and puairymcn. Most. If not all,
| OF these caufc from The other side OF tue
ohio. The West NirHlnian is. 81 far rs
hayu been able tu sec thus far on MY l"ur.
ney-uultss he hc hlack-a cumhercr ot the
earth. lie neither tolls nor spG9, an.l il
! Any lily were arrayed a i.c l.. ii would noi
| he a very popular ;ioWer.
Fortunately tor the company and for the
future OF the town, the bills near by Yield
great abundance Of fine sandstone. Clay
for brick IS also found within the town
limits, and the bricks used in the company's
buildings, burned upon the reservation,
are of admirable hardness and color. with
so considerable population OF working
men--tncrc must be nearly Il thousand men
employed pow in different ways in the
towG-building is golng on rapidly. There
is already hotel, aud a-second and larger
one is nearly done: there are stores ol
various kinds, and there appears to be 0
busy commerce in town lots. All are SOLO
bv the company with the stipulation that
thev shall be built on within year, and
| t,,,1 b..,
houses are still too few for the population,
and If any one would put up one or two
hundred snall, neat cottages for mechanics,
it seemed to NE hc would make good
speculation.
When the western division Of tho Chesa'
pcake and uhio railroad is completed, as ii
! Will be by next year, Huntington is likely
! to become, among other Things, the great
coal dcu0. for the lower Ohio. Pittsburgh
now sends 80 900 900 bushels of coal doWl
the river. past the mouth Of tue llanaWha!
every wear but us tnis coal goes by river,
and i DELAYED tv low water in summer nnC
hv ice in winter, there has been no SteG"5
| supply for the cities and towns on the lower
| Ohio, and coal often fluctuutes enormously
| in price III Cincinnati. l should say tna'
when the railroad can bring the coai OF tnt
great kanawha Valley to Huntington, thert
10 be stored, and drawn from as wanted
this traffic will become more regular. aAC
| the sllppv should be abundant ut ALI times
| of the ycar. am amazed when see Tn,
mineral wealth Of this region that II has
| been 50 long left uudovcloped.
Back and south of Huntington, a gentle
man, an expert in coal, VINO had Just come
up from there, told me there are what be
thought inexhaustible stores OF camel anG
splint coal-the latter Of such lamlnateo
structure that it can be used without coklne
in the working of iron ore. Boyd, carter,
and Rowan counties, in Kentucky, nave
large supplies of excellent coal. Iron ore
is found on both sides of the river, ano
there are important furnaces beloW-a
Ironton, on the Ohio side, and ut Ashland,
on the other side. The Lexington and Is
SANDY railroad, which joins the Chesapeake
and Ohio ut the Biz Sandy, and is to run
loO miles TO Lexington, passet through
n region known to be rich i'll both coal
and iron deposits which have hitherto been
useless for lack OF the means OF transpoHa-
tiuu. This road, OF which General Bretk.
ridge is president, Is TO he in operation fol-
! onc-haf its distance by next July, and the
! remainder by the srrlrG OF 1919, Nhe1l
il is completed it will add immensely to the
iron aud coal wealth OF the country Dut
il will also, with the Chesapeake and ONO
road, give rev and shorter line 10 INC
Atlantic sCaboard to the people OF t9e
southwestern States, for al Lexington VI
at Paris it will connect WIN roaos u
louisville. Nashville, Memphis, DC.
The versatility Of the American pcop,c,
their readiness to turn to new scenes ol ID
| Dor, pnd the quickncss With Wh,cl! theT sec
aid seize an advantageous opening, nave
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