The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-04
GOING wEsT VS.. GOING TO BRAx.
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G. F. TAYLOR, Esq, editor of the
Braxton Mountaineer, made friendly
call upon us yesterday. In addition to
being editor of sprightly local paper,
Mr.. TAYLOR is one of the chief mer-
chants of the Brsxton country, and he is
now here for the purpose of buying
goods for his Fall and Winter trade.
On expressing to him the hope that he
would be successful In purchasing
goods on as favable terms, as
to both price and quality
in this city as he could in the East, he
replied that he had thoroughly invessi-
gated that subject and had satisfied him
self that this is the proper market in
which to buy. He said that. the quality
of the goods kept by Wheeling
merchants is always satisfactory
and that, as to price, our ner.
chants are quite ready to duplicate
the prices obtaining::.. in Baltimore,
"Them," says Mr.. TAYLOR, "we save a
little freight by buying in Wheeling"
Mr.. TAYLOR says the people of his
county look longingly forward for the
finishing of the railroad to Weston. 1t
is true, Weston is 40 miles from the
county seat of Brsxton, yet the comple-
tion of the road to that point will bring
the Braxtonians 20 miles nearer the
great lines of public travel.
Brsxton is a large county, containing
over halt q million acres Of land, and
it will be rich and populous one In the
not distant future. 1t has already pop
ulstion of 10000, and the people are rap.
idly swaking to spirit Of enterprise.
OF course, the reader will readily see that'
with a population and area as above
noted, there Is yet great deal OF what Is
called wild lands in the county. Much
of this land, well laying and rich In
both soil and timber, can be had at
from 81 to 81 per acre. Mr.. TAYLOR
named the case of man who came into
that county from Ohio, not long ago,
and with $1,000 purchased 500 acres OF
productive land all covered with viz
gin forest. This man has now 80 acres
cleared and under fence, and his tobacco
crop this season will return to him the
entire cost of the land and improve
ments.
Here is something for those to think of
who are talking of selling out and going
West Brsxton, and the same may be said
of many other counties OF West Virginia,
has large tracts of lands which are as ter
tile as many of the land in the West,
and even more productive for grazing,
which can be purchased for as small
price, and yet they are within days
journey of the great markets OF the sea-
board cities. When the farmer raises
crop in this State, he is sure of receiving
y fair price for it, while in many OF the
remote sections of the West, the pro.
ducts of the farm are all swallow
ed up by the freight charges before they
reach q market. Our readers have often
heard of we'll attested cases in the West
where it has, at times, become cheaper
to burn corn for fuel than coal; that ls,
the price of corn is so low and the dis
tsnce to market so great that 1t cannot
be carried to market without loss, while
coal is so costly and the distance 1t is
required to be transported so great that
it becomes cheaper to use the former than
the latter in the crate and the stove.
Added to this, the grasshopper plague,
the drougths, the tornsdoes, and the fear
full storms of winter, with which the en-
igranG to the West has TO contend, and
there is food for twice thinking before
acting by those who are partly persuaded
10 90 West. Our climate is ssluorlous-
we are subject to no great extremes OF
heat or cold, flood or drought, wind or
storm. A great abundance OF clear run.
nlng water is found everywhere, and the
air is pure and bracing.