The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-19
WEST VIRGINIA ESrsRpRrsEs,
The Great Lumber Iudustry Cheap Coal
Railroad Connections.
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VA, December 1.-THE Baltimore dealers
and manufacturers interested In the luu,.
ber trado will readily recognize this point
rs one Of the centres OF the great lumber
business which has been developed In
West Virginia along the line OF the Chesa.
peake & Ohio Railway in the last few years.
Anderson is another point, Hinton another,
and Fort Spring, Barksdalis, Charleston
and other well known places. There are
several buyers out here now, representing
Baltimore furniture manufacturers, laying
in large supplies Of black walnut, which is
OF the finest quality and liz quantities
hardly equaled anywhere else on the con.
tinent, and 10 accessible 10 manufacturing
centres. Another buyer Is here for the
Now York trade, and still four others from
Liverpool, buying and shipping daily large
quantities Of white ouk and poplar, Us well
us lumber for car building III England. An
English gentleman In the business tells
me that each Of these British agents aver
age ten carloads weekly, shipped to Liver.
poo! firms. This lumber Is loaded aboard
the ships at Richmond, the larger vessels
taking on At that port as much as the
draught Of their vessels will allow in the
james, and then dropping down to New.
port News in deep wafer, complete their
cargoes there, whence it is shipped to
Liverpool, and thence sent 10 different
points in the Queens dominions.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
The lumbemen from the old country
where the article has become scarce and
dear, have learned to place value upon
it which they, say our people, in the midst
Of their abundance, cannot appreciate, and
they are forcibly impressed with the waste.
fuiness everywhere shown in cutting and
saving here. The straight, heavy, tough
white oak pieces, not equalled in the
world. are beautiful to their eyes, and they
regard the ruthless cutting and slashing
amongst it in very much the same light
that fashionable tailor would the waste.
full cutting Of fine doeskin by country
jockey.
These wide-awake lumbcrmen are eager.
ly watching now the process Of the new
East River Railroad, which strikes into
the heart OF another rich, lumber region,
which will open Up valuable fields for their
enterprise, and when completed there will
be n rush for the scene OF operations SINH.
lar TO that made by gold hunters to a
"rich find" in "new diggings."
The completion OF the New River Rail.
road, branch Of the Norfolk 4 Western.
to the great Flat Top Mountain coal field,
in West Virginia, is expected about the
first Of the coming year. The line will be
about sepenty-iive miles long, 10 Pocahon-
tas, the terminus, Glenlyn, at the mouth OF
East river, being about halfway.
SOUTH WEST VIRGINIA IMPROVEMENT.
The Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company are pushing forward with vigor
their preparations for coal mining and
coke making, and the Norfolk 4 Western
Railroad Company, it is understood, will
commence the movement of coal, il
nothing unforeseen interferes, duting the
coming week, the work Of laying the track
being prosecuted at the rate ofabout mile
day. This enterprise Oh the part Of the
Norfolk x Western will be m event in
their operations, rs the cost OF coal at the
beds-you may say at their own doors
will be about ninety.five cents per ton,
while they haye been paying about 50 20
per ton for the coal used on the virginia
4 Tennessee Division OF their line,
There Seems to be an increasing proba.
bility OF the conclusion Of arrangements
looking to the filling OF the gap between
the present terminus OF The Richmond L
Allegheny Railroad at Clifton Forge, Va,
and Charleston, W. Va, the now terminal
point Of the Ohio Central. Reference was
nude TO this proposed consolidation in this
correspondence several weeks ago, in
letter 10 The Sun from Charleston, and tic
tour Of inspection since made over the
whole line OF the Richmond & Allechaay
by President French and other officials Of
that Ioad, accompanied by Representatives
Of the Ohio Central, and the interest shown
and satisfaction expressed by the Toledo
officials with the prospects and manage.
ment Of the Richmond & Alleehany gives
IN additional coloring OF probability to the
contamination OF the scheme. There are
those protesting to be well posted who con.
slider the consolidation at an early day
fixed fact, and the completion Of great
through h line from Toledo to Richmond an
event in the near future.
THE EcIlEsApEAEEA OHIO.
The Chesapeake & Ohio, which in this
air line would have a formidable rival, is
now doing great deal Of this Western
business as well us an extensive one with
the North, East and South. The other
day, in walking among the hundreds Of
freight cars and many long trains standing
and shifting on the sixteen trucks OF The
yard ut Clifton FORGE, the writer counted