The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-20
WHEELING
Its PrOgress--POpulati ealth--
Manufactures and Advantages.
MuEEIING- ian. goth. lS7

WHEELING, Jan. 30th, 1875.
To ID. L. Hing, Esq, President Valley
Railroad CompamJ ClecsLand, o.:
DEAR SIR In answer tO
your desire to know the present popu,
iution of " healing, its banking and man
ufacturing capital, mineral resources and
sources of substantial prosperity and
progress. | have the honor tosubmit the
following summary. Ia some cases II
may be an overestimate, but III most
cases and in the aggregate it is believed
10 be an underestimate.
could give you approXimatcs for
Wheeling alone but the territory cover
ed. to wit: Wheeling, Martins Ferry,
Bellaire, Bridgeport, Benwoed and West
Wheeling, is commercially, socially and
in business sense, substantially one
community. of which Wheeling is the
practical centre, and for your pur.
pose and prospectus, may be fairly
considered i'll the aggregate.
Yours truly,
K. IL. COCHRAN.
WHEELING. w. VA.-Situated on the
Ohio river, 81 miles below Pittsburgh, is
the admitted centre of the
great Allegheny coal basin. Two
of the workable coal seams are here
found at or above the base of the hills,
and shat, of 800 feet will pass to and
through all the other seams, geology
showing the upper and lower strata OF
bitumnous coal in this field TO be separ-
utcd not more than 1000 feet. In these
ten workable seams of coal there is an
aggregate deposit of about forty-two feet
OF workable coal.
1 About 100 feet above the bed of the
river is stratum Of building sandstone
| % feet thick; above this, near the base OF
! the hills, Is the Wheeling Is feet inch
vein of coal; above this, and furnishing
an excellent roof for the coal, Is vein o.
5S feet of limestone, II part of which l.
cement rock, and another part Is employ
ed pv our iron furnaces in smelling
Further up is another coal seam OF :.
feet, and still nearer the summit Is an
other coal seam of 3 feet.
Neither of the last two Is much useC
here. because OF the better quality anC
IneNhaustaDIe quantity OIL Tue l'eV
'HC" S'""' 49,, ..;- 3 a.;
.,a,,, Lnrsat and ,r,Ies nrtcr the mine
.nJ drow tbcnrr fo tn. mouth the lade,
cars whence they are carried OF
tra,a wsvs hv oravita1ion to tn,
mills, factories, boats &c, the laden de
srcnding car drawing up the empty Ca
bv means of a rope attached to each anI
made fast TO drum at the mouth of tn,
mine
All the rest of the seams below this ar,
practically accessible by shaftiny, inclu
limo tb,. "Massillon." or "Mahoning,
nr .Rrier Hill" or NO l. coal as know
:, Gnnloav which Is the bottom seam II
tho series
p,pr.r ALTON AND CAPITAL.
go, :. ,,o,,,,.,;., ,
W heeiihg proper HIS " PoP"'"''o'' y
2LOOo.
Wheeling and Nicihlty E"S PoPu'a
tion of $4,000.
Twelve Banks, with capital and lmbll
titles of 81, $4,000.
Manufacturing capital, Sl4 ,ooooUV.
/ The following incomplete list VIII GIVE
All iue" Vi '"' 'A'e''
NANOfN'i RES ,
10 Iron and Nail mills, . Furnaces, Il
/ Glass manufactures, Hinge factory, larg'
and numerous Foundrys, Railroad shops
/ Car factories, manufactures of steam
Engines, Machinery, Carriages, wagons
Steamboats,, BargeS, BolIerS, soap "h'
Candles, Sash, Doors &c" CABINET ware
Furniture, Cotton yarn InUtIe'' a,. " S,pa op'''