The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-10-18
The Weekly Register
LOCAL. MATTERs.


we had the pleasure Of meeting oul
old friendJ. I. Bowyer, Esq. "Black'
is one of the foremost lawyers of the
Putnam Bar and among her most en-.
terprising business men. He is now
the sole proprietor of the Oak Ridge
or Jerome City coal mines, and is
sinking shaft at the present time,
from which he expects in short
time TO put this superior coal in The
market. We shall have more to say
Of these mines.
We next called at the Democrat of.
fee, for the purpose of having chat
with the editor, but found it irnpossi.
BILE, for the reason that the editor was
dors d@ combat in the yard with a
number of "leads" in one hand and
Wednesdays daily Enquirer in the
other, from which he was vainly try.
ing to read the headlines over the
election returns in Ohio, to which he
occasionally added an interjection as
"IInrrah for Ohiol" "Vic:ory!" &c.
We then started to call upon the
editor Of the IrrQressible, but found
that he had express business out of
the county. We hailed him, to which
he replied, Fifteen majority for
Thompson" and FASTENED onward
We left him alone in his glory.
Capt. Miles, late of Point Pleasant,
is doing good business in the drug
line, but we learned with regret that
his daughter, Miss Katie, was suffer-
Ing from an attack of malarial fever.
At Red House we called to see the
venerable DR.. Hereford and found
him confined to his bed because of
illness. The Doctor is now one of
the oldest men in the Kanawha Val
ley, having commenced the practice
OF medicine here in the year 1897
He is the grandson of Capt. John
Hereford, one OF the pioneers of Ma.
son, and the son of DR.. Thomas P.
Hereford, of Loudon county, Va, n
distinguished physician and noted
writer upon medical subjects.
Near Raymond City we met our
old acquaintance Mr.. Po,eet, Super.
in,endent on the Ohio Central, and
he informed us that the track layers
were then friday within eleven
and one-half miles of The embryo Cap.
itol city.
Speaking of Railroads reminds us
that the G. & 0. is now doing an i'm.
mense business and is rapidly be.
cunning one Of the most important
ronds on the Continent. From an
Official Of the road we learned that
the Company now have 1,12l miles
under trackagr, as follows: from New.
port News to Richmond, rs miles;
from Richmond to Huntington, APO
miles; from Huntington to Licking
ton, KY, 140 miles; from Lexington
to Louisville, 81 miles; from Louis
vile to Memphis, Tenn, 1872 miles;
making Il total grand trunk line of
1,l2l miles. Such is one Of West
Virginia's great arteries of trade.
The grandest view, perhaps, to be
seen OH this Continent is the New
River Canon, through which the
above road passes. New River-new
because it is u novelty in nature-is
one Of the most remarkable rivers
that finds its way through mountain
passes. Rising far south in North
Carolina, it cuts it's way through
ridge after ridge and range after
range, flowing apparently against
the law of gravitation up the plane
Of the watershed until it breaks
through the Allegheny range and
then plunges through gorge after
gorge to join the Kanawha and Gau-
ley rivers in their rapid descent to
the Ohio, The traveller beholds at
every turn Of bed and bank scenes
and panoramas of study for the
'opographer, physical geographer,
engineer and poet. Who can stand
ana gaze upon these without exper-
lenclng the liveliest emotions, the
awful sublimity producing the deep
e" reverence for Nature and Natures
God? Rppr
On Friday October Goth the Col
umbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo