The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-20
County subscription.
Editors Of the Register:

Editors OF the Register:
Never in the annals OF Ohio county,
has graver and more important matter
been presented for the ratification Of the
voters OF this county, than the vote to
be taken to-day, on the proposition to
aid in the construction Of the Pittsburgh
Wheeling d Kentucky rail road.
So far as the present effort is con-
cerned, it comprehends a line only
twenty-one miles long, from Wheeling to
it's intersection with the Pittsburgh Gin
cinnati & St. Louis rail road. Never
has so great and valuable an improve
ment been within the grasp of Ohio
county, at such trifling cost. 1T is OF
vastly more importance to the city OF
Wheeling, and Ohio county than to the
county of Brooke.
1t makes the present terminus of the
road in the city of Wheeling, and is of in
calculable benefit to the manufacturer.
the merchant, and also to the con-
sumer, giving in fact the only rival line
which can exist to the 10000 people OF
Ohio county.
The iron manufacturer, merchant,
trader and dealer Of every description,
will have a competing line Of travel and
transportation which cannot and will
not be furnished by any other means.
Ii affords another line of reaching
the East, and an uninterrupted rail
road communication with the West and
Northwest. 1t will be the means Of
taking the most valuable coal to the
doors Of your furnaces, your manuTac-
turtles, your iron mills. Every other ad-
dtional connection is illusory, far in the
distance, and delusive The sum to be
raised is tritling in amount, the rate
upon the assessed value of the property
hardly reaching one per cent, while the
amount voted by Brooke exceeds three
per cent. Every property holder is in
terested in voting for the subscription,
for the reason that it will increase the
value of real estate one hundred times
more than the amount of the tax he
will be required to pay. Every laborer is
interested in voting for the subscription
for the reason that it will increase the
demand for labor.
Every iron manufacturer is interested
in voting for the subscription for the
reason that will it increase his facilities
for shipping his manufactures, and bring
him in direct contact with new custom
ers, and open new fields for the pro-
ducts of his mills. Every merchant
and grocer, wholesale, or retail is inter
ested in voting for the subscription for
the reason that it will give him new
customers at home and cheaper freights.
Every land holder is interestedin voting
for the subscription for the reason that
it will largely enhance the value OF his
lands. Every keeper of a public house
is interested in voting for the subscrip-
ton for the reason that every additional
line of travel, increases the number of
passengers, who now travel almost ex-
clusively on rail roads.
Every interest which lives by buying
and selling is interested in voting for
tho subscription. Every person who is
engaged as producer is interested In
the subscription, for the reason that it
will increase the number Of consumers.
All are interested in voting for the
subscription; except those interested in
rival lines Of travel and transportation.
CIvIs.