The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-12-06
Railroad TAX.
[Danyille a. e. Reporter and Post.l

we were Obliged 10 devote our space
mainly to the discussion Of the great
issues on which the election depend.
ed, and hence We have for SOME time
been silent on the subject Of railroads.
But now we propose to enter once
more upon our former line of argu
ment; and we believe that with the
information we have been able to
gather respecting the country be-
tween this point and Hinton on the
Chesapeake and Ohio road two hun.
dred and twenty miles northwest Of
US, we can make a most favorable
showing for our project.
1t will be remembered that we sug,
| gested some time ago the building Of
a link between Walnut Cove and
Patrick Court House and pointed out
how the construction of this short
line of thirty miles would, when the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road
and the Danville and New River road
are completed, give US. an all rail
route on an airline from Wilmington
to Toledo, on Lake Erie, by way OF
Fayetteville Greepsboro, Walnut
Cove and Dan6urryin this State; Pat.
rick Court House and New River
Bridge in Virginia, and Hinton,
Charleston and Point Pleasant, W.
Va. We further showed that this
route had been freed by the opera,
tons Of Nature from the great obsta-
Giles presented by the Appalachian
mountain system to all other lines
between the Mississippi Valley and
the Atlantic, in that New River and
the Dan had already cut passage
entirely across that system. We
then went on to exhibit by carefully
compiled statistics the immense
through freighls that would of neces-
siLy pass over this line when com.
pleted in view of the proximity Of
Wilmington to the great centlcs Of
commerce in the West, and Of the
numerous and important connections
Of the road, which would cross every
other trunk line between the Atlan-
VIC seaboard and the Mississippi Val
ley and Lake Region.
While we regard the important
Western connections this line afford
to Wilmington, and the fact that So
little remains TO be done in order 10
complete it, as the prime incentives
to the speedy construction of the
short link between Walnut Cove and
Patrick Court House, care not for
getful Of the magnitude of the local
interests involved in the enterprise.
| The Cape Fear and Yalkin Valley
road might thus be made part of a
well paying trunk line. Every city
and Hamlet through which it passes
would be.beneGtcd. Every mine and
waterpower along the entire route
would be sooner or later developed.
Mountain lands and mountain
streams that arenow worthless would
become the most valuable properties
in the country. We do not hesitate
to declare that We regard the section
between here and the Ohio river as
the grandest mineral region in the
world. The following extract from
the Montgomery (Va.) Messenger in
dictates the status of that part Of the
line, and an equally good report
might be had from every other coun-
this side of Point Pleasant, so far as
material resources are concerned
The Messenger speaking Of the future
of Montgomery county, says: "The
real juncture Of the New River Rail
road with the Norfolk & Western is
at Central Depot-a spot where the
lay of the land, and other surround.
ings, constitute on unrivaled site for
u manufacturing town. Within u
radius Of ten miles exists iron ore Of
all varieties in inexhaustible album
dance. Recent and astonishing de-
velopments have been made. There
is soft coal and high per cent iron ores
all brought together here. Capital
is looking AT US with soldering
mouth, and the matter will soon be
settled in our favor. The iron age Of
Montgomery is ut hand In the
Southern section of the, county we
can show u deposit Of liagnctir Speca.
lar Iron milestin length and so thick