Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-04
WHITE SULPHUR.
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, October o.
On the afternoon Of the 26th mat. WI
boarded the good steamer Andes for voy
age down the beautiful Ohio, having 9
smooth sea to our first stopping place
RsysnsWoOd, jackson county. We found
this place with more Of the usual thrift
snd enterprise than the sversge country
village. onlyresdng there one day We left
at II q. m. for that sleepy old town Point
Pleasant, and not finding there the legal
lights whom we sought, we pushed on to
Gallopolis. The next morning We boarded
the General Pike" route to Huntington,
remaining there some three days. Thu
city is on quite boom in business way,
many new buildings and prospective en-
terprises looking up in the near tuture.
The chief subject discussed was the
Huntington Building i Manufacturing
Company, with 8 capital stock of $4,000
divided into shares Of ten dollars each
the amount raised to be expended in the
erection of rail mill within the corporate
limits of the city. Upon the completion Of
the mill it is to be rented to ]. B. Hast.
ings and his associates, all practical nail
and iron workers, who are to furnish
$50 900.
These gentlemen are to rent the mill for
q period of not less than ten years, upon
condition that they pay annually six per
cent on the cost of the plant, keep the mill
in order and insured, pay the taxes and
buy and pay for the mill and machinery
within ten years By paying the original
cost price and interest. Hastings and his
company, operatives, agreeing to pay into
the hands of trustee twenty per cent OF
their gross earnings and wages until the
capital stock with interest has been paid,
then the plant is TO be conveyed to Hast
ings and his associates, the stock surren-
dered to them and the plant corporation
dissolved.
This, you see, is,purely cooperative, and
by this means they hope to avoid the mis-
cradle strikes which have been 60 detri-
mental to the commercial interests of the
Nail City.
Success to Huntington and her venture.
We left Huntington by the Z. x o. at
8 g. NJ, passing through the great coke
and coal regions of New River aud arrived
at the White Sulphur at $50 p. m. We
were met with q royal welcome from that
prince of good fellows and hotel men,
Major B. F. Cable, General Manager and
Superintendent of fhe Grand Old White,
who has made this famous resort doubly
famous by his splendid management and
excellent cuisine. Entering the carriage
which had been provided for US we were
driven to the Grand Hotel where q suite OF
rooms had been reserved for US. From our
window we look out on the beautiful lawn
and the rugged old Gresnbrier mountains
Nothing, Wa assure you, could be more
peaceful yet grand than this view. We
hear that Senator Kenpa and Congress
man Snyder, with some eight or ten friends
are on big deer hunt some twenty miles
away. We have not heard what success
they are having.
Last night Congressman Phil Snyder ar
rived here from the hunting camp. Philip
is more or less uneasy in regard to his fu
ture Congressional honors. and as there
are three Richmonds in the field against
him, Harris, French and Johnson, this ri.
umvirate is likely to make it very hot for
Sir Philip.