The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-04

connects, at Hagerstown, intimately
and directly with the whole of the
great Pennsylvania railroad system.
1t is only twenty-five miles by stage
connection, from Winchester, Va,
and there meets the Valley lines to
Stanton, and ultimately to the
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| ACCESSIBILITY.
Looking at the map of West Vir-
giIlia, one readily perceives that the
counties of Ohio, Marshal, Wetzel,
Marion, Taylor, Preston, Mineral.
Hampshire, Hardy, Grant, Pendle-
ton, Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson
seek their way to the marts of trade
by the B. d. o. railroad. But look
ing again at the map, it is perceived,
with equal readiness, that the coun-
ties of Cahcli, Putnam, Kanawha,
Fayette, Summers, Monroe and
Greenbrier, must seek their Eastward
communications by the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, which, with its
connection at Staunton with the Val
ley Road, at once opens up all the re-
sources of the b. d. o. railroad to the
traveller. The location Of Martins
burg, thus, makes it more accessible
taking everything into considera-
tion-to two-thirds of the State,
whether regarded geographically or
with regard to the population, than
any other established and developed
town. 1t may be stated, too, as fact
of some significance, that the Capital
Of Pennsylvania, (Harrisburg,) the
Capital Of Maryland, annapolis, J
the Capital at Washington are all
within a few hours reach by railroad,
and are connected, of course by tele-
graph.
Were Martinsburg the Capital of West
Virginia. it would need only the time ta
bles of railroad companies and the actu>
al experience of the people, having bust
ness with the seat of government, to
show that it was more accessible to the
greatest number, than any town Or city
in the State In connection with this
assertion, a few figures may be invoked
as witnesses. Martinsburg to Baltimore
via the B. & O. railroad, 80 miles; to
Washington, via b. & 0. and Metropolis
tan, so miles; to Baltimore, via Martins
burg and Potomac and Western Mary,
land, 1872 miles; to Harrisburg, Pa, 100
miles; to New York by any route, S
hours; to Boston, 81 hours, and so on,
connections being arranged with every
part of this Continent and Europe
TIE TOWN
Has, as before stated about 1000 inhab~
itants, and up to the period of general
depression in business, was increasing
Even financial difficulties have failed to
repress the energies of our people, and
within the past year number of new
buildings have been erected which add
ty of the place
Martinsburg is lighted with gas and
supplied with the purest water from a
limestone spring through the Holly sys-
Of nfpr
absolute protection against fire, as every
ater-plug-and they are 43 in number
has the power and capacity of an Or
binary steam fire-enginc. There are II,
churches and number of excellent
indeed, elegant-school houses, with
capacity for $500 pupils.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS.
Manifestly, nothing can be more i'm
portant, in determining the location of
State Capital than the means ID town
offers for the comfortable accommoda
ton of the Legislature, officers of State
the Courts, and the necessarily large
number of visitors who must be provid>
ed for. Martinsburg has hotels, besides
good private boarding houses. Among
them is new hotel nearly completed,
with all modern Improvements, which
has rooms for 800 guests. Another ho-
tel, lately finished, is in operation, while
still another has been remodled and
largely increased in its dimensions
Those which are older and have been
long established, have been thoroughly
refitted. 1t is not too much to say, on
this point, that no town in the State
not even excepting Wheeling-can offer
the same facilities for the comfort and
accommodation of all who may come to
it.
MANUFACTURERS.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
shops and the large Hannisville Dlstil.
lery and Mills, together with other en-
terprises just started, give the town that
benefit which comes from the expendi>
ture of large sums of money in its midst,
brought from elsewhere and injected in
to all the veins and arteries CT local
trade. To this cause alone can be at
tributed the continuation in these days