The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-12-04


State and that Patrick Henry made hi
maiden speech there-and, by the way, VI
are told the old frame Court House il
which he made it is still standing and o
other eminent lawyers who had taker
their start there-yet somehowthe Wetze
and Tyler county ideas were dominant
until he reality buried them beyond the
possibility OF n resurrection. Here was
people, judgingfrom appearances, the peer
OF any IN the country. and ayalley, orrathel
succession OF valleys averaging or
miles wide, equal to any OF the noted Blue
Grass section OF Kentucky andso eminent
" fitted by climate aud pasturage for dairy
farms that in the near future the: fattening
OF stock must give place to butter and
cheese. In the evening We walked to
Ronceverte. This town is an outgrowth
OF the Railroad and the lumber establish
ments OF the St.LawrenCe Boom and Lum-
Der Company and is rapidly rivalinG
Lewisburg in population and trade. So
formidable has this rivalry in trade
become to the Lswisburgers that they
are talking OF building a switch to the
Chesapeake and Ohio as q possible means
OF intercepting the trade. which now
passes their door. The yearly output Of
the mills OF the lumber company is about
100000 OF feet, mostly Of white pine
part OF which Is remanufactured on the
spot into flooring siding, &C., but much
the larger portion is shipped in the rough
to Washington and Baltimore. The most
Of the logs for the mill are driven down
the Greenbier, though a small portion is
rated. Tho mills were idle at
the time we were here, owing
to portion OF the spring drive not reach
ing the booms, some 1000 900 feet OF the
drive being chung up" within twenty
miles OF the mills. The whole OF the
drive, which exceeded Is, 900, 900 feet, could
readily been driven to tho booms at the
time, but fear OF the booms TO Withstand
the pressure OF such quantity, induced
the owners to suspend the drive and rely
on subsequent rise in the river TO finish
it. Unfortunately for the owners the rise
had not come up to the time. As We had
little business to transact here We were
detained until after themorning train, and
as We had come up the valley in the night
We determined to lay over until the next
We had but small pay in the frat sixty or
seventy-fve miles after we left Homework,
for the towering hills on either side i'm
pinged 80 closely on the railroad that
sight seeing from the cars amount
ed to nothing; but here We come
to the commencement OF the Colleries.
The mines were out Of sight high up in
the hills, and watching the return cars as
they assembled the long inclines down
which the coal was being lowered, fairly
tired our eyes before they vanished from
sight on the heights above. We were
sorry after seeing New river that we had
not struck it at flood tide. The rush and
roar Of its waters at ouch times, rs 1t |
dashes against the large rocks which
everywhere fill it's bed, must be tremen-
douS. The Hawks Nest and Falls OF the
Kanawha were disappointments. l have
read glowing descriptions Of both, but |
have seen Niagara and beetling cliffs,
which in comparison with the Hawks /
Nest would be but finger stone.
At Roncerverte We took our tickets for :
Charleston as We wished to return to
Columbus by the way OF Point Pleasant
and the Hooking Valley. AT the time we
we're under the impression We would have
scoupleo ihours in which to do Charleston,
but on our arrival there We found it would
b9 close work TO make connection. We
were sorry for this, as we would like to
have had chance to spy out the fatness
OF the land and to form some opinion OF
the Capital OF the State. However, we
got glance at the Capitol building,
and must say it Is much more
imposing structure than the one which is
now our city building" We also noticed
a large number Of new store houses aud
dwellings newly completed or in course OF
erection, indicating quite boom in the
building line to which the locating Of the
Capital, the development Of the coal inter.
ests, and the Hiding Of the dams have all
In regard to these last we
heard in the cars theory preached,
which, il it works well in practice, will
make the coal operators on the Mononga- |
hela scratch their heads until the
"Davis dams" line the Ohio from
Pittsburgh to the Great Kauawha.
The theory is this, that after the dams
are completed all that will be necessary
After the coal Is locked through to the
Ohio, TO get the coal to Cincinnati, will be
to let down all the dams simultaneously.
The gentleman who was talking the matter
up, said in two instances the letting down
OF single dam had enabled tows to get
through which had grounded for the want
Of water. The valley Of the Kanawha
from Chsrlestoa to Point Pleasant is too
well known to admit Of description, and
as the remainder Of the trip was mostly
made after night fall and without incident,
We will close heightened journey here.
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