Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-03-08
West Virgin. Letter.

oOONE.AL AiAhNS Ni0tC-
you last the long looked and earnest
ly hoped for event has come to pass.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is
now in operation with trains running
through from Richmond to the Ohio
river. The opening of this road has
given Us an eastern outlet for such
produce as the country affords, and
shippers are at once taking advantage
of it Considerable quantities of coal
are being shipped eastward and the
prospect is very fattering for an in
crease in this particular branch Of
business. New mines are being open
ed and foreign capitalists are invest
ing heavily in the coal andi lands
with, in available distance of the rail
road In connection with the railroad
three steamboats, are running between
Cincinnati and Huntington; freight is
checked through from Cincinnati to
the east ma this road,
The different cities and towns, ly-
ing between Huntington and Cipcin-
natl, on the Ohio side Of the river,
have voted, by an average vote Of five
to one, to furnish money to build a
railroad between those two places as
q continuation of the Chesapeake and
Ohio road, thus giving through rail
connection East and West for all par
ties shipping or travelling over this
route.
Mr.. MORGAN, President of the
Northern ard Southern railroad
Charleston and Pittsburg, via Elk
aud Monongahela rivers informed me
to-day that work would be commence
ed on this end of that route to-mor-
row, and that the whole route would
be put under contract in the near fu-
ture. The building of this road Will
give US the advantage of an opening
by short route with the north east,
besides opening up extensive helds
of coal, iron and timber lands, which
are conceded to be very valuable. but
at present are lying useless Tor want
of means of transportation.
Our city is full of life now and has
been during the winter The Legs
lature has been in session since No
vember with prospect Of continuing
so for several weeks yet, The hotel
registers show very fine lists O! travel
ers, among whom is very decided
sprinkling of business men looking at
ter openings for new business, (new to
this country,) and also tourists exam
ming the scenery Of the New and
Kanawha rivers, which is pronounced
by many who claim to know to be but
little inferior to the scenery of the
famed Western valleys.
The epizootic, also, visited us du-
ring the winter and business suffered
decidedly on account of it; not only
business had to suffer but its stay m de
matters unhealthy generally, financial
" speaking Coal took sudden leap
from ten dollars to eighteen and TWEEN
ty dollars per one hundred bushels and
difficult to get even at those figures
Every thing else, that had to depend
on horse flesh for transportation as
sumed like high figures, Since the
abatement of the disease prices have
descended to the old figures again.
The capital removal question pass
ed the Lower House of Representa-
tives and was sent to the Senate, where
it was referred to committee, and
where it is now taking a Rip Van
Wrinkle sleep. What the final dispo-
sition of the bill will be seventy New
England witches could not positively
tell, put the friends of it still hope that
it will prevail So mote it be:
That unnecessarily provoking pest,
yclept the "ground-hog," is mixing up
the weather here in manner that
makes persons nerves culver to con-
template; in fact ne keeps it as I'm.
settled as ths Indians on a govern
ment reservation. The propriety of
having ground hog day set back in
the earlier part of January by an act
Of our Legislature is suggested, in Or
der that his six week" may have ex-
pired before the first of March has ar
rived.
kilograms and other souces Of in
formation show Pittsburg to have
made her usual large shipments Of
coal to Cincinnati and the Mississippi
river cities during the recent rises in
tne on'o. W. L. D.