Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-30
STATE NEWS.
Prospects Of the Grafton and
Greenbrier Railroad.
APolitician's Fine Talk Proved Worthless
The Mouthpiece Of Monongalia
Called 0ff-Progress in
the Oil Regions.
GENERAL NEIGHBoRHOoD NEWS
SPECIAL TO the Register.

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BEVERLY, March 27.-The County Com
missioners met yesterday and unanimously
agreed to submit to the voters OF Randolph
county, the question of subscribing $50
600 to aid in constructing the Grafton and
Greenbrier railroad to this point The
company now have q large force on the
road between Grafton and Philippi. The
grading is being pushed forward rapidly,
and will be completed to the latter place
early in the summer. The order passed by
the commissioners yesterday seemed to
have the objections of some OF our citizens,
but it is difficult matter to formulate an
OF der of that kind which will meet the
approval OF everyone. There must be
some objection or there will not be life
enough in the agitation to carry it
through. The order, in substance, agrees
to turn over to the company 5000 when
the road is finished to the Barbour and
Randolph county line, and $4,000 more
when the road is
Completed TO Beverly.
AS the distance from this point to the
county line can not be over twelve miles
Randolph county will be subscribing $4,000
to the construction Of twelve miles of road
within its limits. This road, when COM
pleted, will pass through the heaviest un-
developed coal field in West Virginia, and
perhaps. in the United States, to say moth
ing of the great variety of timber, iron ore
and other minerals which are only awaiting
the advent of capitalists to develop it. The
coal fields of Randolph county are second
to none in the country. In the Roaring
creek section, twelve miles from Beverly,
aud on the line Of the G. & G. railroad there
are veins OF coal thirty and thirty-two feet
thick, not counting the slate, the
bed of the creek being a solid bed
of fine bitumInous coal and, every
hill valuable coal bank. Our people are
anxious for railroad and will 10 almost
anything to obtain one in order that the
vast mineral resource of the county may
be developed and the matter now lying dor.
mant may be brought to light.
During the last gubernatorial campaign.
Hon. Geo. q. sturgis.
the Republican candidate for Governor,
honored our town with his presence and
delivered an address to the voters. Among
other things he stated that "the Democrat
ic party was not progressive that it trailed
in the old beaten path, and did nothing to
develop the country, whereas the Repub-
lican party was the party for the
people, was progressive, had done more
in building up the country and develop
ing the resources thereof, than the Dem.
ocratic party had. How well Mr..
Sturgis' statement was verified was practi.
cally illustrated in the recent defeat Of the
question to subscribe to the capital stock
of a projected railroad through his own
(Monongaia) county, which usually gives
the Republican ticket about 800 majority.
Next May will determine which is the most
progressive in the way OF building rail-
roads and developing the country-Demo.
cratic Randolph, or Republican Monongal-
ia. We are confident that the Democrats
of Randolph county will. at the election in
May, by their votes, refute Mr. Sturgis'
assertion.