The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-05


Athens, Ohio, Saturday Evening,
March 2, IS72-wheeling and Tus.
CARAVANS Valley Railroad via New
Athens and Brushy Fork OF Sill
water-COlIege Chapel DenseIy
Crowded-Interesti Addresses by
Col. Beach. Engineer Lake shore
Railroad. Prof. Ross and Others
Over 600 In Attendance.
The meeting Was organized by calling
Rev. r. Armstrong to the chair and
appointing Homer Day Secretary. Prof.
A. F. Ross arose to state the object OF
the meeting. He said he was glad to
see this evening such an interest mani
tested, and thought "R;p Van Wrinkle"
had taken his sleep in this nelghbor-
hood, and the people were aroused to a
sense Of their duty. Prof. Ross con,
tinued bv saying that a railroad was in
dispensably necessary, and lir ever We
wished 10 develop q manufacturing
interest in our mid-t and supply the
wants of the world with our beds Of
iron, coal and limestone, we must have
railroad. He urged our citizens to
bring forth every available means !;
push this work forward with a might,
and closed by assuring the citizens that
it they did this euccess would be ours,
ard ere long we would hear the whistle
of the iron horse.
Colonel Beach was next introduced
to the meeting, amid great applause
The Colonel said he was pleased to see
such a gooiy number present. Iappear
before you, not as an orator, but as a
pain. practical, business man. / come
to talk to you as neghbors-not TO beg
| am here to-nig ht 10 see whether you
will put your money with ours and
build railroad to the northwest; you
have no time to lose. | am here to
know whether you will raise the
requisite amount to extend this road
and connect it with ours. You must
endorse it by your subscri ption to the
road. This | consider as the most i'm
portant meeting ever held in New
Athens. The Colonel urged our citizens
not to let the golden moments pass, but
to take these fncts home with them. |
repeat it, consider this meeting OF
peculiar interest to you. Subscribe
stock, and that literally, and thereby
open a thoroughfare to the northwest
OF untold value to you. look upon
this proposed route as one of the finest
prospects, lacking in nothing.
The Colonel stated he had talked
railroad in this country about sixteen
years ago; in those days railroads looked
blue. Why? First, the country had not
developed. Second, did not know or
realize the benfits derived from a rail.
road. But during the above period Cot
sixteen years a great change bad
taken place in the history Of railroads
Then railroad stock was bought and
sold for six and seven cents on the dol
lar; now the same stock is worth $l.20
and LAO. What was the cause of this ?
Districts containing inexaustible beds
Of ore, coal and limestone have been
penetrated and thereby enriched. the
whole country from which thew have
been taken and nightly increased the
earnings OF the railroads by transport
ing it
Will you exert yourselves and build
this road and thereby connect your
selves with the outer world, and by so
doing, find market for your extensive
beds of minerals 1t cannot help but
be a paying road; its future is a GER
tainty. Colonel Beach occupied over
one hour in laying before the meeting
the facts connected with the construc-
ton OF this road and the great necessity
of coming forward with rousng sub
scrlption to the capital stock. Space
will not permit US to add anything fur
Their. He stated in plain terms the
great benefits of railroad, and hoped
this community would be up and doing
The following resolutions were unsn.
imously adopted by a rising vote:
Resolved, as the sense of this meeting,
That inasmuch as the people OF this
county have in their possession a terri,
tory unsurpassed in agricultural and
mineral resources, their highest material
interests demand that their resources
should be developed and our asricul-
tural and mineral products be brought
on equal terms into the general msr-
kets Of the country.
RESOLVED, That this can only be done
by the construction OF a railroad TO in.
tersect the para'elogram of country
lying between the Pittsburgh, Cincin-
matt and st. Louis railroad on the north
and the Central Ohio on the south,
Tins making our unriyalIed deposils oil