The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1876-02-28
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EtthI advantage 10 NeNoh anu 10
Lewis county which will iuurs upon
the construction Of a Railroad to this
place. |, is self.evident and axiomltip
that the building Of such = road will
grei'ly benefit every IA2u. woman and
child 10 che community; bus as the Di
rPc'orS Of the Weston and West Fork
RnilrOal Company have called upou
the iowa Of Weston for a subscription
Of Six Thousand Dollars 10 its capital
stock, il ID but fair that some explana-
ton Of the necessity Of this subscription
should be mada. The Directors Of the
Company have been much hampered
ever since its organization for want Of
available funds.
The County Court, in its order submit
Vag TO q vote Of the people ,he..ques,isu
Of subscribing ffty thousand dollars to
the capital stock Of the Company, were
SO careful 10 guard The rights Of the
people. that they placed upon The use
Of the county bonds such restrictions as
to render the subscription practically
useless 10 the Company in the ini,ia.
tory steps Of their enterprise. Their
action 10 ills respeo. was praise. wor-
thy. They wisely determined that the
bonds Of the county should be used
only for the actual construction Of the
road. and should be issued only as the
work actually progressed. OF this &C.
ton the company, not being controlled
by spectators. but by genll,meu hay.
ing the interest Of both the Company
and the county seriously at heart, made
no eomplaint. 1t left them, however,
with only small private subscription
with which 10 organize tie company,
do the necessary surveying and procure
the right Of way. No, discouraged.
however. a: this. the Directors went
actively 10 work. They rode over the
principal portion Of 10th the proposed
routes. soliciting from the land holders
the right of way through their lands
In obtaining hi, they wcr0 reasonably
successful. Many Of tho land. hol iers.
with a broad aud liberal spiri, Of gen.
, crosby that did them great credit,
signed RICH, Of way contract permit,
ting tho company to locate IT'S road
throug h their lands wherever i. chose d
to do SO. Others, differently situated.
ITO, uursasouabIy refused to grant to
the company an upliuited right Of way
through their lands They manifested
great interes. in the road. aud expressed
themselves Ms being perfectly willing 10
grant 10 the company the desired righ,
II way. provided i. did no, greatly aud
materially dam,ge them They wanted
to know where tho liue would 60
They wanted to wee tho road actually
aud permanently located before con.
tracing with the company.
It WI. though. necessary BY the Di.
rceios Of the Rad anl by its friend!
in Harrison county, 30 run experimental
line. over the tH, pr jec;ed routes. in
or,'er TO enubls them tn form an opin.
ion as TO the cost Of its construction aud
ii" relative cheapntss ofthe two routes
This was accordingly done. and with
great advantage to the Company II
suabl its directors to negntiltn un.
derstand'nsly with contributors. and TO
ascertain tina. instead Of baving to pay.
as was FIRST proposed BY some u the
contractors. $500 per mile for the
construction ot The r0ld bid. that they
could get it done at about s. 600 per
mile. ludeed. the Company had .
proposition stonl one contractor to con.
s,tIct tho road bed TO Clarksburg,
ready for the superstruc'ure. for
5000 Now as this proposition was
no. based upon the actual permanen,
location. i. will readily be seen that
the contractor must have added to what
he conceived to be fair price for the
construction Of the road upon favorable
grtuud, something for the risk be as.
sIued Of having the road located upon
ground uufarorable to him. In the
light Of these bids and facts, is it un.
reasonable, then. to presume that the
Company, By an actual location Of the
road, made by skilled and compel tent
surveyor, upon favorable ground. will
be enabled to contract for til. construc.
ton of its road bed at figures greatly
below their present lowest bid The
Directors OF the Company do not think
this to DO az unreasonable presumption;
aud 10 order to facilitate them in pro.
curing the right of way over the entire
route. aud in order to enable them to
asc rtain the loves, possible figure for
which the construction Of tho road bed
can be contracted, they deem it of the
highest importance TINT the road should
be promptly, permanently aud actually
located TO enable them 10 do this.
they must have money. The Directors
have liberully spent both time aud
money in the promotion Of this enter
prise. withOu, reward or hope of re-
ward. The private stockholders have
freely borne oil the expense that has