The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-29
SOME OF ARCHY CAMPBELLS
FIGURES.
He Furnishes Some Interesting STA
tisifcs as 10 Ine amount of Money
Appropriated by Virginia 10 the
STATE for Roads, DC.

Statt IOE hodor, We
Judge FERGUSON recently made a
speech at Weston upon the Capital ques-
ton, to which HENRY BRANNoN replied
The reply of Mr.. BRANNoN has recently
been printed in the Mt<iiigencer, and we
here append Judge FERGUsoN's response
to it. Judge +. takes the report of the
West Virginia Debt Commissioners,
Messrs. A. W. CAMPBELL, j. NJ. BEN
NETT and JOHN j. JACKSON, as his au-
thority for the figures he uses. Judge
FERGUSON writes:
"My speech was replied to by Henry
Brsnnon, Esq, of Weston, and while he
admitted the truth of all my statements
in regard to the appropriations made by
West Virginia, he undertook to onset
them by charging To the account OF ine
Third Congressional District 81 ,5OO,O 100
appropriated BY the State OF Virginia
To the Gown gton and Ohio Railroad,
and his reply has since been published
with a great flourish, by the papers Trend
ly TO Clarksburg If this statement were
true, it would be a very poor apology Tor
the conduct complained Of on the part OF
West Virginia. But It is not true. SIncA
that discussion l have been furnished oy
Hon. John +. kenns, with copy oil the
official report or Gen. John j. jackson,
Jonathan NJ. Bennett, and A. W. Camp
hell the debt commissioners. appointed
nv the Governor of this State 10 sscer.
tain the portion OF the debt of Virginia
properlv chargeable 10 this State. No
one will insinuste that these COM
siosers were not fully competent Tor the
work assigned them. and they we're all
,esidents Of the First Congressional Dis
tric,. And after an Investigation OF the
subject they report that tne
amount expended By the State
of Virgins upon this rosd within
the territory now comprising the
State of West Virginia was s5Oo,ooo.
Bu. work on this road was stopped oy
Virginia long before the war, and before
and during the war the embellishments
were, 10 a great extent, washed away, the
m.sonry was torn down sud the stone
carried of, and when the time came 70
use what had been done in the building
of the Chesapeake and Ohis railroad. II
was found to be OF but little value. The
State of West Virgins hrst gave ihls
YORK To the West Virginia Contra! rail-
wsy, q company Incorporated Tor the Pur-
pose of building 3 railroad from the fenn-
sylysnis line by way OF Elk river and
charleston TO the kentucky line, but
th., company failing 10 comply with
the terms upon which it was gwen, II
v,s withdraw and at the request o'
the State of Virgins, given TO .he
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Com
n.ny. And when that company came
70 locate its rosd, il found 1t cheaper
in several places aud for long distances
70 throw away what hsd been done by
the Gown s,on and Ohio Railroad Com
many and make sn entire new location.
So tha, in point of fsct the amount
..ved 70 the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad Company BY this work dld
NOT. probably, amount 70 more than soo,-
OOO: il indeed, it amounted 10 that much
Hvsn the road bed had never been PAID
for. and the Chesapeake and Ohio Kali
! road Company hsd TO condemn and pay
tor the road bed over the whole route o!
their road, except the few instances
where the right Of way vas given them.
But If We are 10 90 behind the creation
of ,he STATE Of West Virginia, and charge