Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-11-05
-IocI-soD County Coal and IRON


Our neighbor of the Circleville Her
aid and Union has been on a bit OF a
rampage among the coal and iron
mines, and mountains of jackson CO., |
and favors his readers, in his last is
sue, with an interesting account of his
excursion and observations, from
which we make the following extracts
''Our business being at Wellston.
we reached the station about noon on
Saturday, and was struck with surprise
at the number of the buildings, (at
Milton and Wellston, and the mag
nitude of the enterprises in vogue
there. Within the last twelve months
some 1900 acres of pasture lands, dis
posed within a charming valley, have
been converted into a young city
Three immense blast furnace stacks,
several coal shafts and derricks, and
scores of good brick and frame houses
are arrayed along streets and avenues
which as yet are only shown by we'll
worn roads. A capacious hotel is
about opening, under the conduct of
young American" named Elliott,
who had first indicated his capacity for
keeping the establishment, by secur
ing lovely wife. The proprietors Of
the city have just presented a bonus
of SI700 to some lucky printers, who
send out their first hebdomadal, de-
picting the salient characteristics of
WellstOn, about these days. The COM
pany is shipping coal to Cincinnati
and elsewhere, as rapidly as they can
. ''get the cars" and selling the black
diamonds at a handsome advance
above Pittsburg coal prices. The dis
: trict was humming with industry-au
occasioned by the ''shaft coar' which
about four feet in thickness, underlies
the city and immediate neighborhood.
We are indebted to the energetic
young proprietor of ellston-thC
Hon. Harvey Wells-for half day,
: drive among the ores, Goals, cutcrops
= strikes, derricks and furnaces. Thi;
gentleman is native of the Raccoon
: Valley, and has risen TO distinction IL
l." the neighborhood of his birth place
J. Some think, nk,erroneously, however, ,tha
o his principle coup was the bold pur
chase of MI. Bundy's 1000 acre farm
10 at 100000; and selling the property
hlLuIA 0lA A4OuGuSI W GuS NSIJ pdI GlS'
'e to whom Mr.. B. had offered it at $50,
l. 600, for the handsome advance O
o. $150,000. After the purchase, and be
fore sale, he mapped out the city. be
u gan his coal shaft and projected tn
>. twin furnaces. Our discriminatin
neighbors, the leading men of Wash
p ington, Fayette county, were the luck
purchasers. But we insist that M
Wells courtship and marriage of MI
? Bundy's accomplished and amiabl
is daughter, was Harvey Wells coup
e, main. A Frenchman would call
coup de grace, at all events
We have been a student of the min
n erals of Southern Ohio these twent
- years and more; and do positi vel
know that the jackson non sulphur
- Gus coaP' is the best iron smelling COS
n of the West-second only in heatiE
power to anthracite, and superior t
that i'll its freeness from sulphur. w
e are quite as certain that railroa
8 from Circleyille to the Marietta road
in the direction of Wellston-whic
r might be completed in less than fort
l. miles, as the crow fies-would pu
# this eligible center of agriculture
at wealth into advantageous connectio
with the mineral region of who's
transcendent wealth causual VisitC
a can hardly conceive. And this is til
w "knob" of our story. Those who hav
NJ the advancement of our city IN keel
, ing should realize that. with towns
e. as with individuals,
er There is tide, which, taken at the flood,
, Leads on to fortune.