The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-10
our ~FAInnONr LETTER.
FAlRMoSr, January s.

FAIRMoNT January s.
Editors Intelligence.
The holidays arc ver and the shops
and schools have ~ro.opened, Jewellers,
groCers, &C., have Nll done we'll, aud re-
port better business prospects than for
years. Glass works would DO successful
hero, for there Is an abundance OF good
sand, coke, &c. A few yeNrsag sand
was shipped 10 tho Wheeling glass works
from here Coal Ia cheap, being delivered
at 81 per hundred bushels; wheat rates at
0OG 10 81; corn and oAtB 4jc each; buck.
wheat So 70 per hundred; eggs 25c pUr
dozen; butter zoe; beef GG to &c by the
quarter, and 81 to l24C at retail; potatoes
6Oc; poplar lumber $50 to $50 per thou.
sand; walnut $50 to S35; hay Sl2 per ton.
Four or five of our coal minel, giving EN-.
plOyment to more than 100 men, are now
running, and miners arc receiving 45c to
Boo per ton ii soft coal, OF which a good
miner can dig six tons u day. The coal Ia
loaded into honse.cars and shipped west.
We arc not aware that any coal from Fair.
mont goes farther east than Grafton. We
can send coal 10 the west, for the
B. & o. X K. Ia perfectly willing, while
the rush Of freight to the east continues
10 carry coal at low rates on the return
trip. Carrying at low rates Is better than
hauling empty CARS. hut whenever the
rush Of grain or other freight from the
west Ia about balanced by that to the
west, then up will 90 the coal rates and
our mines will be closed. We are IN.
formed that ex.sheriT PriChard has 5000.
bushels Of wheat, bought in this county,
ready for shipment, but he cannot ship
II, sinCe the decline OF the wheat market,
on account Of high freight rates. II he had
Il In Chicago or Indiana he could put II
into Baltimore i0T several cents less per
bushel than from this place.
1t is quite probable that our people will
be compelled TO pay exOlbitant rates until
there Is q competing railroad up the Mon.
ongahela Valley,or until slack.wAter opens
MP other outlets for eur trade. Marion
CoGuty was not over willing to aid in
building a railroad up the valley because
Of the lear that the competing railroads
would pool their rates and thus delraud
our people worse than before. Another
hindranCe to county aid Is the belief
among many that the d. 4 o. would short
" own the valley road and fnonopolize
the entire shipping business. II Is hoped
that our Legislature will, II possible, COM
pei the u 10. railroad TO cease It's unjust
discrimination against our coal merchants,
cattle dealers and other shipperd.
The week Of prayer was observed in the
Presbyterian aud Methodist churches.
There wHB a great deal OF drunkenness
duringth holidays aud pledgeS were at
much discount. We should be glad 10 see
a law passed prohibiting the manufacture,
importation and sale Vi spiriiuOus liquors,
except for medicinal and mechanical pnr.
poses; provided, that II would be strictly
enforced. iii should be enforced no bet
ter than our present liquor law In places,
II would be better not to paeB any such
p~rohibitofy law. Liquor has been sold in
Falfmont for months by parties without
license.
A stock company hus lately been organ.
ized aud incorporated for the purpose Of
boring for oil In this county. MesSrs.
Jones and A. Parish, Of Huntington, are
President and Secretary. The company
has leased 5000 acres Of land near Worth.
ington, and alilis mouth OF Little BiDga-
mon creek. a shalt has been sunk to the
depth Of 500 feet, where oil was
found, but not in paying quantities.
The stockholders are confident that they
will find oil III larger quantities when they
reach the third oil rock. We hope they
mai be successful, but should Il turn out
10 be a hundred barrel we'll It might not
be much Of a bonanza after all II the Stand.
ard Oil Company through their agent, Mr..
Camden, 70 to mohopOlize the oil business
10 West Virginia. We much prefer Judge
Brannon 10 Mr.. Camden for Senator.
Having known the Judge for some years
and having observed The decisions, in.
biased by patty politics, that he gave in
Republican and Democratic counties we
are more impressed with his fitness for the
position Of Senator than with that Of any
other prominent candidate.
The thermometer ran down sixteen de.
Vrees below zero during the last cold spell.
There area great many cases oil scatlet
in town and in the s%urrOundln =
Miss Carter, at HoulltoWn, has
been Obliged 10 close her school.
Mr.. FuEbee has decided not 10 contest