The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-03-01
CoIoneIC.N. Lamison.

we publish TINS week quite q
lengthy interview with the above
person as detailed by the GallipoliS
journal. We pulish this lengthy ar.
ticle because in the first part of it,
there is some information that might
be useful, and in the last part of it,
there is a good deal of SANDER that
might be damaging.
After being pleased to say that the
Ohio side will be built up with a
solid town from the bridge to the
present limits of Gallipolis, but that
Point Pleasant will shortly have no
more inhabitants than it had in
1774 at the Indian battle, Mr.. Lam.
ison says our citizens ask as much
for "bog wallow as they ask fora lot
on Pearl street, Cincinnati" We de-
sire now to record few facts, for the
benefit Of the public. Not one dollar
Of this Railroad Company or Bridge
Company's money has ever been ex-
pended in Mason county, save as it
was expended voluntarily by them.
Not one acre or foot of land in this
county has ever been condemned OF
sought to be condemned. The McCul.
loch land was bought by the Compa.
ny, because they needed it, and it is
considered today by all who know it.
to have been a necessary and desira.
BILE purchase. For this purchase
they paid fifty dollars less per acre
than q Company Of private individ.
uals paid for one hundred acres on
the other end Of this town, and we
may here add, fifty dollars per acre
less than is asked for the bottom land
across the Ohio, which Mr.. Lam.
ison proposes to build a town upon
This much as to price, now then q
few words as to the indeccncy and
dlrtiness of Mr.. Lamison's language
All last summer, this same Lamison
was persistent in representing to us
that unless Point Pleasant did some.
thing in the way of a bonus, that
the Bridge would go elsewhere, but il
we would do something in that way,
then the Railroad Bridge and great
prosperity would come. A meeting
was held, it was the sense of this
meeting that the town ought to prof.
fer to pay $500 and guarantee the
Company the right of way through
the town. The Town Council after.
wards agreed to carry this PROPOSE.
ton out so far as they had the power
to do so. They have granted the
right of way, but can only make this
subscription by submitting it to q
vote of the people. Last week this
same Lamison was here wanting the
aforesaid $4,000 to pay, he said, for
right of way. The next day he
crosses the river and talks of this
town as a hog wallow, to contain d
population of barbarian times. 1t
will not be a very agreeable transac.
ton to pay few thousand dollars for
the privilege of being called a hog
wailow, and having our population
decimated. If Mr.. Lamison repre.
sents anybody, or anything, he
does it in very unbusiness like and
very dirty way. We willnow leave
MIR. LamiSon in the hog wallow which
he has made for himself. We wan,
to say to the Railroad Company and
Bridge Company and all their EN-.
ployes, that this town halls with a
great deal of satisfaction the i'm,
provements which they are about to
make, nor do we think that any dis.
position has ever been manifested
cave one that was calculated to in
vito and induce these improvements.
Point Pleasant is just like all other
small towns, not able to help herself
very much, nor others either; neither
is she able to control, or price the
property of citizens. Because of the
on'of any one or two individuals
the whole town should not be SLAM
dered and black-guarded'
Judge ConkIing.
The President has nominated Ex