The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-10
PUTTING THIS AND THAT TOGETHER.

great Baltimore & Ohio.
PUTTING THIS AND THAT ToaETHEE.
II you run your eye over the map Of
West Virginia you will SEQ that the Bslti.
more & Ohio cuta PreHton county just
about in bali. KingTood, besides being
the county seat, 10 very nearly In the gso-
graph;csl center OF Preston county. Now
run your eye along the face Of LSurel hill
from TuDnelton to KiDgwood, and you
will perceive that tho s.eel probe has
finally bsen driven into the very heat ol
county whose developed wealth will 60
beyond the most sanguina expectations.
Il does not seem at at probable thai this
road iS TO begin and end a. Tunnelton and
KingFood. 1t is bu. thirLy-tour
miles ircm KlBSwood to FaiTchRnce
in Fayelte county, Pa. 0yoy compare.
lively easy route and through region
already well populated and rich in timber
and mineral, from the punuei.on
terminus 20 connection with the Grafton
& Greenbisr ia twenty-five mileH BY q
route said to offer fever end less serioua
difficulties than were encountered bs-
twesn King 6ood and Tunuelton. The
value Of this possible connection Is that
after all the Grafton & Greepbrier may be
held ss an independent read. This Henry
G. Davis would like, for ne is moving in
that direction, aud between him and
Camden Lheso is likely to be q line from
Cumberland to the Ohio river.
LARGE OAKS PROM LITTLE AcoRNs.
lido not overlook the fact that IS yet
the Kingwood road is small affair and
narrow gauge, but it is within the range
of possibility to combine comparatively
small inteIests into forces OF great import.
ance. The cost OF reHhipment between
standard gauge and narrow gauge roads 10
TO be tsken Into account, but tho Cost is
materially lessened where standard gauge
freight cars ore uaed, being transferred
from tho trucks Of ono system TO thoge Of
the other. ThiG plan 10 pursued on the
lGraEton & GreenbTier, and in no other
way could the present business Of that
lrosd be accommodated. The long
delayed Black Bottle, starting from Nor.
Rantown, piercing another part Of
Preston county for mineral and timber
land probably coming out on the main
lime Of the Baltimore & Ohio at Hard
lman's switch, q little east Of Grafton, may
YET hEBulu6 ID kuo IallLua9 AVNOAVpn4SE SEs W
this region an importance as yet little
thought OF. dwell somewhat on the out
line Of some Probabilities because | am
writing Of region Of great possibilities, in
which l expect to zee wonderS wrought
within the next five years, unless the
American Congress decides that 1t is bet
ter for this country to buy all its raw ma.
terials in foreign countries. That would
knock West Virginia insensible, and We
should then do we'll 10 trade the State of
for a jackkniie and 90 elsewhere to carve
out future.
WEALTH OF MINERAL AND TIMBER.
An eotimase, bRsed on minute detsilt
gathered from all sources, places st s,OOC
tons a year the amount Of freight moved
into and out Of the region tributary to thit
road. How much this may be increased
; by the coming railroad, would be hard tc
predict. The rsilrosd people expect gres'
things, but from what can hear and have
-sen even they may prepare to be pless
snsly disappointed. On the way, ovel
from TuuPqlton we pssaad through i'm
: mense deposits OF brown hematite iror
ore, highly commended by practical men
the Austen vein OF coking coal, which
ranks high In the market and Ia thought
10 be in no way inferior 10 the famed
product OF the Connellsville region; gal
and fuel coal; limestorei great beds o
fire clay from which large shipments have
been made by wagon to the Baltimore 4
Ohio, thence to Baltimore; white oak
poplar, chestnut, hickory, ash and otheI
woods, The coal veins vary from four Il
fourteen feet. Ihsve not seen more beau
tiiul coal than is hauled through thu
streeta Of RingRood for domestic pur
, poses. Tho road runs through cut II
4 which appears the upper portion OF dc
post Of IRE clay said TO be twenty-five
feet thick and capable Of producing thu
best Rrsde Of anything that Is made Of tirt
clay. A great deal Of money is going Z
be made by somebody outoi all this stored
wealth, and hope that WOat VirginianI
!. may get some OF It. The harvest is NOR
: likely to be reApsd by enterprising Penn
sylyanians, who have q nose Tor such RooC
= things. am glad, however, to know tha
? in the early spring the Arss coke plant Il
! to be erected on the line by the men in
, teresGed in the road. They will put ~
about thirty.fYe oYens to begin with.
Captain WhitescarYer, who Is the Rctivt
+, manREer Of the road, tells me that rsteI
! will be given to induce development. Thl
e more liberal policy Of the Baltimore
Ohio in these days oaeTu new encourage
. ment to the territory tributary to its line
= Land along tho rosd and In the vicinity /
a still very cheap, but It will not long re
main so. One Of these days these peopl
will take hold themselves aud, havinl
found ont what they have, will not b
q willing to let It 60 as now for sonG
: : There is no trouble about titles in the oil
3 and steady-going county Of Preston.