Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-10
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HUNTINGTON.

cyimination A County Capital
! Contest The Successful Man
stay Law Wanted Embry0
Judges aud Thin Hopes.
| special Correspondence ai Ihr Register,
.. lirSuSGruS, December d.
This city il one oi tho great cxpecta'
tons oi Yves, Virginia, When tho
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad enterprise
took shape some wight years agn, AN en-
tcrprisc that was d,atiuud Ia absorb
| thirty az forty millions at dollars, aud
/ ihon collapse into u most disastrous
wreck ils projectors conceived tho idea
| nl realizing immensely from land spccu.
latinns along Us limo and at It's western
terminus. They joined corporation
/ known rs the Cuulral Land Company,
aud through II acquired three ar inur
thousand oi the Rucst acres In Cabcii
county. licru they mapped outs mag
niticrnt city, THOR lots wcp wonder.
| fully advertised, Rni u large Influx
| III
lowed Hut the owners oycr.rcachcd
! themselves, Thrir prices were 'r'gh''ui
as they still ARE. Investors were scarri
away, Instead oi u city oi forty or ATTY
III -usaud people, population ut about
| twenty five hundred settled here, aud
",n lI 80 '" ,h.y c,'nLJ m.
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! Ir,nrht L,r, with uruprr encourage.
| mont nrr the theme 81 many Ilsap.
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! thv Ialod glory al Huntington.
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an encouragement tn Investment, or ~
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mrndrrs ur not familiar Tho original
,>ru,rirru would not. without special
lru,.hrun have pn,scd tu the success.
airs of tho old ,urpumllOu And ~ al
n,t MA. nus,ud IA relation a. sales ri the
urnu.rty uf rnrpn,atiuns under DEGREES
| nl court hy which il was pru,i that
ih, uurrha.rrs nt purh property should
hc entitled % thu same rxempin On.
| loved hN the original Corporations The
hll was luhhIrd through lay railroad
agents, nud supported ly railroad mcm
hers \ hill Of this sort always olAitor-
nics party linrs The railroad rcrrscn.
mtlyrs. without party distinction, voted
iur the bill Snmc III them will not 20
/ Ia Wheeling this winter.
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IN another '"ll' "h""' Mh''h ',"S",'
many grievances lhn rh'lr"Hd,
Tor example VIII Ha'hrF up
II ear l"hd 81 'f'l.h' III
some Western oiiy, hhul u over ah"ihor
Nay hundreds at miles 4" CINCINNATI
have Sl"Hmh"a' thor" t" convey u I"
Huntington, transport u over III own
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ter u theme" !" Mhrr mes a"u Nrl
down In ihrrtiy nl Philadelphia 'ni less
~ I,h,ll cnnniy sto,k ar Grain ar INN
her H. the SANE city. Nv this means
large amounts ni freight arr diverted
| lrnn this section a. the Batimnr aud
/ ohio Gram lum Mason county, West
/ Virginia. OF I,allA county. ohio, IN con
L.mlh on tie lockout inr cheap Trans
unrtutton, aud strange ~ II may seem,
/ hnds Il. ~ agalnsl the Chesapeake aud
/ ONO. hv going IT, lark trshurg aud tax
,ug the baltimore road
! Tho les, the distance this toad carries
freight. the yrcatrr lurcr Il charges
! Tho lariti uu car had nj cattle, from
! Huntington. ~ seventy five dollars. \
car load al cattle from Grcrnhrier OF
! Mnnrn,,. shipped at Albany, ono hun.
| drad and ninety tive miles nearer the
market, IL charged nineiy.hvc dollars
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