The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-02-22

glow with joy, for you must know that our
town then swarms with men who come
down on rahs from all the many tributs.
ries Of the "Chattaror."
\ firm from fitishurc met with very
serious loss n timber during the late ilood.
they had been getting ont timber on the
head of Sandy; floating the logs down the
small streams emptying in,o The same bv
means OF dams to boom in the main
stream; the flood carried away the boom.
aud with !, about 20O0 loes, par, OF which
they may recover; hut they are scattered
from Louisa to Portsmouth
We are now much elatcd over the nro,.
pec' oi the speedy letting aud completion
OF the + l. n Big Sandy railroad, in which
your city Is As much interested IA We can
possibly he. Capt Rumer and his corns
oi engineers having completed the survey
OF lh'~ part ofihe road n far out as Olive
iiill, Ia Carter county, returned TO this
place during the Christmas HOLIDAYS. and
from that Time uulil last week he and hi,
assistants have been working very hard
making uP the estimates, proties, mare.
Nc OF the road last week they finished
them, and Capt Runer has gone to Lex.
'ng'on t" lay the same before Chief Enri.
neer hnpcr Gen. Brcchinrilge informed
our representative, NJ Williams. that the
work would be let cut m few weeks.
You have, no doubt, noticed the action
ut the he"tucky Legislature consolidating
the L ~ % with the l. 4 Il. : II II. and
the short line too, believe. The peopls
OF Fayettc, Clark, and Montgomery coun-
ties who subscribed $9OOOOO .tock, are
raising the very "old nick" ~ il suhjects
their county stock to the debts Of The otler
two roads, aud allows their stock to be
mor'gaged they have called together their
County Courts, and are striving to get the
Act repealed, thought they will not
succeed they implorcd our mountain.
delegates TO assist them, but whom last
winter we were striving to force the l.. A
/ u :. IL 'R. To- locate their bridge across the
Sandy close enough to US to keen your
city from swallowing us, bod, and brecch.
81, tLe Representatives of the above conn.
ties We're highly indignant that a liul,
hamlet at the mouth Of Big Sandy shoul1
presume to obstruct the course o: n crea,
ans-tontinenial, Oceanic route" / M
dcrstand that our Representatives nov
tell them we have no stock in the road
aud Will not do any thing 10 obsruct tL
building OF i, as we want the road
la the matter Of railroads Il mp the Big
sandy, there is now. We are informed. no
less than four Companies organized OF
/ pretend 10 be organized to bu III said roaJ
two Of (which are now in Frankfort eacb
striving FOR charter; our citizens are diyi-
ded ~ 10 the merits Of the respective com.
panics While n great many Of our sbrewJ
n's''es' men have no conf lence IN any OF
them, heIie'l ing them only the same Kind
oi spsculn i've railway organization. who
have long been the baue OF Kentuck rail-
way interests. \ bill is now before ,h,
Legislature to charter a street railway
rom the town oLAsh land 70 the Depot Of
the l. 4 y. ; railroad in Hampton CITY.
a distance of about six miles, which ina
iew years will hc a solid town all the way
revival ot religion IN the 81. T. Church
south, m thi. place is exciting great inter
"st many have joined the church aud pro.
iessci conversion, and the meeting /. sdll
soi0gon "c,onrsn
c"trrr-ucaG. Ky., Feb. 20 1873.