The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-12-12
RAILWAYS AND COAL.

RAILWAYS AND COAL.
| The reports of the railroad commission.
ers Of Massachusetts, set forth 10 a striking
manner the powerful stimulant given by
railways to the progress and prosperity Of
the people. They are said to regulate to
grea, extent tho price Of food aud fuel,
which have 50 important a bearing on the
profits of applied industry. The Mnssa.
chusetts commissioners make. accordingly,
a strong point Of the necessity for cheap
food and fuel, and the local fares between
cities and outlying towns and suburbs :
They maintain that it would not only be
a wise but paying policy forany railroad
to hold out the strongest inducements in
facilities for transporting fuel at low rates
to manufacturing companies on the liue Of
their road, booking to the future for large.
ly increased receipts from travel aud for
the carriage Of all manufactured articles Of
domestic consumption, which are suro to
spring from populcus and busy commu.
nifty.
The consumption Of coal in Massschu.
settsis put at 3, 3,OOO,O 900 tons per aunum,
and it is estimated that every town Of SO,.
900 inhabitants consumes 100000 tons
annually. Already the cost Of coal is Of.
fectiug manufactures there. Fifty years
ago, when manufactures began in New
England, the large towns Of Massachu.
setls we're on the scaboard. The report
alluded to says Worcester had but 5000
inhabitants and Springfield but 1000
Lowell aud Lawrence were not thought Of.
Then came the use of the water power
towns and The extension ofrailroads Now
coal power is found to be MS cheap as wa,
ter power aud more reliable, and there is
tendency Of business to the seaside towns
where coal is cheap Coal at the mines is
worth Sl.75 per ton. To the consumer
in Massachusetts, i. is worth IS, and this
difference Of s6 25, or on 5000, 600 tons
of SlS,75O,OO0, represents what the mid
die men and transportors get" For the
success and prosperity of manufacturers
cheaper coal is necessity in New Eng
land, and is the problem to be solved if
they would live -Bal'imore American.
The reasons above given are applicable
to and worthy Of consideration in West
Virginia. The coal fields are at our very
doors. We have command Of iron with
out limit, and should have cheap food. =
1t is the obvious interest, therefore, Of our
railway companies in West Virginia, to
foster and cultivate alliudustrial entcrpr-
ses. 50 as to.build up numerous centres Of
p9gtIalasiaa end Aasisasseslaae ssasiis laaa'
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AN ANCIENT LANDMARK GONE.
Under this caption the Charleston daily
Courier publishes the following interest
ing account of a building destroyed by the
late fire 10 that city:
"The house on the corner Of Kanawha
and Summers street, burned on Friday
morning, was one of the Oldest in Charles
ton. 1t was built by John Peter Roman
Bureau, iu 1918 Iu that year, John
Trudgeon, who recently died 10 our city
a, an advanced age, came from England;
be was descending the Ohio River with
only S. in his pocket, looking for some
place to locate. Ile met with tlr Bureau
at Gallipolis, and was employed as a carp
enter to do the inside work on this build
ing. His descendants are still here :
Olber English families followed; so that
Charleston is indebted to this old house
for many of its most worthy citizens =
This building was first used BY William
Summers and Mr.. Bureau for several
years as a store, and this store supplied
The old hunters Of our valley with powder,
lead, gun dints, coffee aud tobacco, which
we're about all they had learned to need
Afterwards the building was occupied by
the Hon. George Summers, Major And.
rev Parks, Dr.. Parker and others as q
dwelling. Within its walls had been ma
ny cheerful gathering Of the olden times
There the matchless skill Of Brayton Allen
and Isaac Noyes had drawn from their Vi
olins
Music yearniug like Godin pain"
music that gave life and time to limbs
that now orc dust.
When we travelled through the noun
taius Of Kanawha and met with old men
that had not been to Charleston for twenty
or thirty years, and undertook to I make !!
them understand where the Capitol, Public
School, Wharf, Depot aud other improve
ments were, we had to fix the geography
in their minds by the Court House, Billy
Wbi,teker's house (gone, and Bureaus
store. This building was the only land.
mark which showed the original line Of
Kapawha and Summers streets as they
were located for George Clcudcnen BY
III O-..a...s af q Ann Lri or