The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-09-06
banks at the head Of Field's creek

BANKS at the head Of Fields creek,
distance six miles. This company
owns Il, 500 acres Of land, extending
/ from the Great Kanawha to Big Coal
river Philadelphia capitalists are
operating here, and are mining and
shipping the well-known Winifrede
coal extensively East by the Chesa-
! peake & Ohio railway and West by
the Great Kanawha river.
On Cabin creek, seventeen miles
above Charleston, a railroad is being
constructed from the mouth of the
creek to the superior coal lands stu
ated eight or ten miles up this
creek. This enterprise isowned and
carried on by Baltimore and Penn.
sylvania capitalists.
On Paint creek, twenty-one miles
above Charleston, a narrow-gauge
railroad has been constructed from
the mouth of this creek to the camel
coal deposits, situated five miles up
the creek. This camel coal is how
being mined and sent to market.
Eastern capitalists aud Kanawha
parties are operating these works.
On Coal river the prospects look
favorable for starting railroad this
fall.
All Of these railroads when com.
pleted will connect with the Chesa.
peake & Ohio railway.
Other coal companies on the IA
nawha are mining and shipping coal
largely from Campbell's creek, Coal
burg, Coal Valley, Cannelton, Pea
body, Carkin, and other localities.
So much for coal, railroads and
coal companies. Let US now look at
the improvement Of the Great Ka.
nawha navigation by the United
States Government.
The appropriations thus far made
to our river BY the United States
Congress are $l,592,000. OF which
sum about s1,392,00O have been ex.
pended in constructing Lock and
Dam No. 5 at Brownstown, Lock and
Dam No. 4 at Cabin creek, Lock and
Dam No. 3 at Paint creek, above
Charleston, and Lock and Dam No
6, at Tyler Shoals, below Charleston,
With the 100000 ion hand another
lock and dam will be commenced
this fall. Whether that will be No
2, at Canuelton, or No. Z, below St.
Adams, is not yet known.
Locks and Dams 4 and 5 are com.
pleted; Lock and Dam 3 will be in a
few weeks, and Lock and Dam 6 will
| be in few months.
These locks and dams will give al
least 7 feet of water all the time.
The United States Engineers re
port that it will require 100000
additional to complete the entire
navigation works from Loup creek
TO the Ohio river, as contemplated
by the Government, there being al
together ten locks and dams.
Besides this expenditure of money
in our Valley by the General Gov
eminent, it is erecting in Charleston
a very substantial building for post
Office, United States courtroom ant
other purposes, at a cost Of $S5 900.
The building for the State Capitol
There is also looming up into u hand
some and imposing structura-readJ
for the Legislature and State officer
on the 1st Of January, 1885.
To all these evidences Of prosper
ity in our Valley, we can add thai
the Ohio Central Railroad Company
is constructing a railroad bridge oyel
the Ohio river, at Point Pleasant, a
a cost Of 81, 100000, and is construct
ing railroad from that bridge t
Charleston, distance sixty miles
This road will be completed this fal
from the Ohio river to this place
and its completion will make ;
marked change in the immediate flu
ture of our town and valley. tt
completion will put an increased &C
tiyity in the whole valley, and in
sure the early building of the Ell
River railroad-of railroad from
Charleston TO Gauley river-of a rail
road up Galley and probably W
New river also, on the opposite sid,
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail
" way.
Itiseyident that railroad "boom'
} is entering our valley, which will in
less than five years give US another
through line from the Ohio to the
Chesapeake Bay, and give US alst
roads up all the leading tributaries
Of the Great Kanawha river.
We have money to bet that there
are more real Bonrbons in proportion
to numbers, in the Republican party
Of West Virginia, than in the Dem
ocratic. Bourborism is what lost the
control of the State to the Republi
cans. They wouldn't move nor lis
ten 10 the voice of an advancing in.
telligent liberal public sentiment
and in cpitn IF tLn protoct of tho II,