Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-06
WHY WE ARE HAPPY.
WHEBLING'S BOON STILL INCREASING IN
INTENSITY.
Mills. Factories and Workshops Running Full
Time and Business Brightsning-What
"COld Short" Says

| trouble to interview q number OF mer-
chants as to the state of business and the
prospects for the future. Although this
is period when merchants are not usually
busy on account of the fact that 1t Is Just
about midway between two seasons, yet
all of them say that there is very per
ceptible Frightening in trade, and that the
prospects for the approaching fall have not
been so auspicous for many years past, and
all look for an exceedingly brisk trade and
are making preparations for it. The nail
factories are all running in full, the plan
ing mills are doing good bust
ness, the foundries are all jog
ging along at a lively pace, and
in fact every trade and industry in the city
is bustling along in really refreshing way.
We may well feel assured that never
again will Wheeling experience any check
| to the boom which she is now experiencing,
and that it will go right along steadily in
creasing until all the old dizziness is swept
out of sight and forever sunk into OBJ
! liviOn.
Not only is this feeling experienced in
the city, but the farmers in the surround
ing country for miles, have also reaped a
rich harvest, the crops being larger than
for many seasons.
Gold Short. Mr.. Philip Henry Moore,
in his last letter to the Age Of Steel very
truly remarks:
Wheeling now assumes position
alongside of her mighty sister, Pittsburg
and she will never give her friends cause
to regret that she has been so splendidly
exalted. Wheeling will throw of all the
antiquated influences which have hereto
fore restrained her, and show that this
great opportunity has not been unworthlly
bestowed. In some very important partlc-
ulars Wheeling occupies an exceptionally
advantageous position. She is the central
point of the great limestone belt,
which is, beyond question, the
richest and most productive region
in America. This sounds like n very
large-sized statement, but statistics prove
its truth. This belt covers an area of p
500 square miles, extending laterally TWEEN
ty-five miles in an air line, north, south,
east and west from Wheeling as the CEN
trail point, and it reaches into Ohio, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia. The corn
crop in this territory is certain; it aver
ages sixty-five bushels to the acre, and
this has been produced from the same
ground for twenty consecutive years with
out the aid of fertilizers. The wheat crop
is almost certain, it averages twenty-elSht
and One-half bushels to the acre of the
very best quality, and 10 adventurous ele-
mcntS are required TO produce this result.
The potato crop is sure, and it cannot be
excelled in either quality or yield. The
same can be said of oats, timothy and
fruit. This land has been worked for 20
odd years, and it possesses, unimpaired,
all the elements it had. and when broken
responds as vigorously and willingly rs
when first titled 1t raises the best mutton
and grows the finest and highest-priced
wool OH this continent. These are not in
ducements which have special weights to
attract the attention of the manufacturer
and the capitalist, but they are grand sup
Elementary features of excellence,
which complete the list of Wheel
ing's advantages. | am not IN
enthusiast or convert when claim that
this is the most favored region on the foot
stool. Wheeing's natural advantages
have long been so familiar to her people
that they have well nigh forgotten them,
and rarely discuss them. They are but
family known outside of her immediate
business territory. This must change
The addition of this new fuel to her fIcii-
ties will be published throughout the
world, and capital and enterprise will seri-
ously investigate the opportunities and in
ducements presented by Wheeling and her
neghborhood for investment and location,
and she is preparing to ventilate them"