Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-07-02

/ ,;ous proposed for the ~ of Il east Of
the mouth Of Ho1ards Csssk, down thosa
| rivers TO . poinf Q littis below the talls Of
IKanavhs and make The transfer hon,
barres 10 canal bosts e thai point. The
cost of this trsnder p{11 Be the sane ~
whatever point u may take place, While
the locality win y n6Hp favorable st the
lover point 1phge - Report Of En-
rineera. Further on the n1s gsntiemsn
says: Il have ben cyn6rped, ipee sub
hitting the 6st Of the pssosding remarks,
in the opinion tha4 it ~ b bsst 10 e.
tend the canal End sIack-wstss syvtsm
propoeed for The HE go 81 the Grssnbri-
er river 70 the KAnswhs below the fslls.s
See page IL, Report Of Endneen. In The
same Rsport pess 81 General @, A. Gil
mora says: ATks laFls barges from Tie
West can very wsH break freight and
transfer Their sasFoss 5 sanai boats on
the Kanswhs rivsr below the Great tallhs
in which determination The entire bosrd
c-ncur. 1t IL IN unavoidable necessity,
- every one must know who has any
knowledgs of The country. A resolution
adopted By The board i q follow:
"Resoluel That IL the opinion OF the
board, the prsparation Of the Ksnsvha
river for navigation from the Ohio 70 the
Great Falls 81 Ksns&ea BY boats OF 200
tons is entirely practicable. "-Psge "a OF
the Report.
II is within the !st;tude y ere tce dSes'
not prevent navigation longcg th@ E.,s..
DAYS in q year; upon this point General
| yIf-:S-~l - IL ~ 81 anUsnaora man
toned, says Of the Great Kanavha river
in conjunction With the central watPr
route report: "The obstruction to II By
ice, at furthest will not average moro
than fifteen days in each year. 20 that
now, even with an unimproved Ohio, this
work would give 81 months of unobstruct-
ed communication between the East and
West, and during four and q half OF the
Eve when the Lake and Erie Canal route
il closed it would thus secure IN almost
uninterrupted communication between
the producers and consumers, give stabili-
ty to and cheaper freights and prices and
thus benefit to very great degree the
commerce Of the country both East and
West" Thus it will be seen that Deep
water has uninterrupted communication
and connection with 10000 miles OF wa
ter navigation. situated at the furthest
point eastward and oceanward attaina-
Bile BY water crafts. It ia on the line Of
great East and West Trunk Line.
THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD,
nearly one hundred miles east of its west
ern terminal point, which, upon the i'm
provement of the Great Kanawha river
(which is nearly as navigable for large boats
to Deepwater, as the Ohio river is to Hun
tington and the mouth of Kanawha) and
the attaching to itself the commercial
signifcance..which'a double trade will give
il, will command an immense amount OF
heavy tonnage and through traffic from
the West to the sea-board.
ASA COMMERCIAL POINT,
the city of Deepwater will necessarily oc-
cupy the first prominence as centre, from
its wonderful convenience and natural ad-
vantages as the point of interchange Of
foreign commodities and immense prod
ucts of the great West, manufactures Of
the East, and the great staple Of the South,
to turn million spindles. The products
of Asia and the West on their way TO the
Eastern and European markets will touch
and handle here. The immense mining
interest Just being developed in the angle
of New and Gauley rivers, by English
capitalists, and at Quinnimont and Lau-
rel, demand business center. The coun-
ties Of Nicholas, Raleigh and Fayette re-
quire mercantile centre on the line OF
the railroad and river convenient and &C
cessible to them. Deepwater is the most
favorable for all these purposes and that
point must inevitably be here.
AS A MANUFACTURING CENTRE,
Deepwater has advantages SURPRISING any
other place in the State, or in the Ohio
or Mississippi valleys. The mountains
adjoining and shadowing il are burthened
with that class of coal which requires no
coking for smelling ores, which practical
iron manufacturers have pronounced a
perfectly satisfactory and sufficient sub
stitute for charcoal. 1t is the famous
splinf coal. IT is in the immediate vicini.
ty of the Loup Creek iron ore-to which
railroad is to be constructed-which has
been found in available quantities, for all
practicable purposes, near enough to the
ores of Virginia and West Virginia 10 at
tract TO it the capital necessary TO bring
the coal and iron together at this point.
Deepwater is about the geographic centre
of the great West Virginia coal field. 1t
is not necessary To resort to trigometricsl
survey or calculation to convince any
one of the sufficiency of coal within five
miles of the great Kanawha river and the
railroad, to supply any demand that can
be made upon it, from Big Sewel mour-
tain to Paint Creek, ten miles below Deei
water, for thousand years. But the con-
venience of the Goals on every side
of Deepwater gives it great advanta-
ges, while the quality and quantity is I'M
equaled in any other part OF the field, or
the world. Professor Ansted says
"There are, think about twenty distinct
ly workable seams Of coal in the middle
Of the district, or what / regard as the
middle of the whole series of coal.bearing
beds" 1t is certainly true-an axiom,
that as nothing can equal water as a
means of transportation for raw materi-
al such as coal and iron, that the river
must be improved, the canal built and
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad supplied
with double track. In this immediate
vicinity the finest timber in virgin forests
abounds in endless variety ard quantity,
and is extremely easy Of access. Walnut,
oak, chestnut, sugar-maple, poplar, ash,
cedar, yellow pine and even the white
pine abounds in great quantities on the
two large streams which empty into the
Kanawha. one above, and the other below
Deepwater.
As A PLACE OF RESIDENCE,
nowhere is there a more picturesquely
grand. delightful, salubrious spot or more
heaIthful climate than at Deeepwater.
The mountain air is always cool and bra
cling. The pure cold water which abounds,
gushing from many springs in the level
land, is easily attainable at few feet
depth upon the slope at this beautiful
place, which, is apparently TO the eye,
entirely encircled by lofty mountains.
Ii has been laid'of with view To accom-
modating the comforts and tastes Of all
classes. The avenues and streets are wide
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