The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-01-22
Gte9Btatpn 1emurrat
MONDAY. JANUARY a.
THE RAILROAD.

day. Our people, seeing the advan.
,ugcs enjoyed BY other sections posses
ring railroad facilities. now appreciate
the necessity for such q work in this
section. Oar State, to be prosperous
and seIf-sustainiug. must have Interior
development. Having a vast area Of
fertile lands, Astounding in timber Of
uncqualed value, coal, iron and salt,
vast and inexhaustable, now dormant
Tor want Of development, We eau read.
lily see the great results Of q Railroad
connecting the southern and northern
portions OF the State. A Railroad now
proposed with company just organ
lied from the Pennsylvania line to the
Kentucky line, ria Morsanrown, Fair
mont, Clarksburg, Weston and
Charleston, to connect with the South
Western Pennsylvania, interesting
the Central Pennsylvania Railroad at
Grccnsburg, will cross the Baltimore
y Ohio Railroad at Fairmont, and its
main branch at Clarksburg. The dc.
yelopment Of our State needs a rival
% tho Baltimore & Ohio Road-that
road has monopoly Of the business Of
iour.ffths Of the State, and its charges
check and restrain our much needed
development. Tho inquiry here pre-.
scnts itself, how is this to be accom-
plishCdI Relative distance AMI grades
to tho controlling marts, must be
looked to, for the solution of this ques-
ton between the Baltimore & Ohio
Road, and the proposed Northern &
Southern West Virginia Road, With its
connection with the Central Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. We have taken the
trouble to investigate this subject,
The distance from Fairmont, ca the
Baltimore & 0hia Road, 10 New York
tia Baltimore, is as follows:
Fairmont to baltimore, 800 miles.
Boltimorc to New York, lSS miles.
Total, 400 miles
Fairmonl to New York, ria Central
Pennsylvania;
Fairmont to GrCensburg, SC miles
GrcCnsburg to New York, 299 miles.
Total, ASS miles,
Again, to Philadelphia, we fnd as
follows From PairmoRt to Phila.
lelphia, ria Baltimore:
Fairmout TO Baltimore, 800 miles.
Baltimore to Philadelphia 9S miles
Total, 400 miles
From Fuirmont 10 Philadelphia. ria
Central Pennsylvania
Fairmont to GrOensburg Sc miles,
GrOcu1burg to Philadelphia 1913 miles,
Total 400 miles.
These facts, considered with the
great advantages of grades over the
Baltimore & Ohio Road, leaves no
question Of the success of its rival
whom these connections are made.
The road from Pairmont to Charleston
passing through the richest yalliCs Of
the State, through continuous coal
seams, to tho iron and salt Of the
Kanawha Valley, cannot but inpart to
the Northern and Southern West Vir.
GINA Road an Importance that will not
be overlooked. It's believed by those
who have given this subjec! attention,
that no projected Railroad line presents
so rich field for local development,
and with this accomplished, the COM
mOrcial and manufacturing points to
be reached will participate largely in
its fruits. The connection Of this road
in tho great non-cOkCiur splint coal
veins Of the Kanawha Valley, used in
the smelling Of iron in close proximity
present field and an outlet for wealth
unsurpassed on the coRtinent-the uses
of iron havO been so greatly increased,
that at this day cheap iron is tue great
desidcrotum. Here is the field pre-
scented by this road in connection with
the Chesapeake & Ohio, unCqualcd in
the world. We invite the people Of
Pittsburg. the greatest iron city, to an
investigation Of this enterprise. The
occasion will no longer exist, with this
road, to draw the crude ores from the
iron mou ntain Of Missouri, and from
Lake Superior to Pittsburg, and there,
after being smclted with the expensive
process OF first cokcing the coal, to
produce iron at cost Of fifty to sixty
dollars per ton-it is believed it can
DO furnished at half this cost. Pitts
burg may have occasion to look out for
cheap iron, or loose its chief reliance
for It's continuous thrift and wealth.
We invite its euterprising citizens and
its great iron chiefs, to careful in
vestigntio1 Of this look out for them.
II they have not seen yet the results to
be brought about by bringing together
the iron aud coal through this road
and its connections they may realize
it when their interests, may have been
Frustrated.
1t is not only to the great local de.
velopmCnt to be effected and brought
about by this road, Of these things es.
ssntial to he utilized for the public in
tcrcst, that we call tho attention Of the
people outside Of this State, to; but
we invite the attention Of the whole
country TO tho map. View the great
Railroad lines north, south and south.
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