The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-29

THE wEST VIRGINIA BOON.
Lewis county haI llV schools in Oss-
sion.
Fayetteville ID to have a new Court
House aud hotel.
The electric light was turned on In GFAt'
ton Monday night.
The Ohio River Railroad extension ID
doing good bunineOS.
An Episcopal church 10 being built at
Leroy, Jackson county.
TIE PfeabytsFlans At MoFRantOWn are
going TO build q 5000 parBonage.
FL: Flssher will build new toWboAt
at Petersburg for the King Bros.
FGystte county tobacco 10 in great rs'
quest for wrSppers for fine cigArB.
The Bsnwood nail works shipped q
large lot Of nails by the Andes yesterday.
Tho MsthodIAt Pro!es.anls are complOt'
Ing q new church at FAtryisW, jackson
county.
The Wheeling gArbGSs CremAtory was
tho drsl furnace Of tie kind ever put In
operation.
The Jewish citizens Of Huntington are
GcoumulGting funds WhetOW!th to build q
gynSgoSue.
A now school houSs rs by So feet two
stories high will be built at Beverly In the
near future.
Over $4,000 has been subscribed In
money toward the new N. E. Seminary NJ
Buckhannon.
The business on the Ohio River Rail-
road at sistOTSvill0 station WAs 81 wv more
In 1887 than In 1885.
II Ia said tho entire surface Of Raleigh
County Ii undeIlnid with coal from Iour
to twelve lest thick.
The strike at Winfield has been de-
ciArSd OF, and tho minsTs have gone to
work at tho old price.
Hon. J. D. Crockett, oisummers county,
| ls said to have cleared S2O,OOO on iron orc
transactions last ye&E.
ia right and proper spirit Is shown
now our population and wealth will be
doubled In tue next ton yeRrs.-POedhoNId'
Timei,
The St. Lawrence saw mill near Ronce.
yerte has capacity o! 10000 ieet OF
boards per day. 1t is the largest saw mill
in the State.
The large saVmill Of Burns Bros. q
II hoffman. c. BurnBvillg, which had been
i loaded on boEtB for some time, wan
shlpped to Elizabeth. Witt County, lRsI
sunday.-BrdEtOn DmOtrdI.
In West Virginia We have limestone
coal, iron ore, natural gaS, timber Eaii'
] roads, telegFlphg, summer Tesorte, the
: beat water In tho world and health. Fret
~ good plAcs TO live slsOr all, thank you.
wv Va, Farmer.
During the year 1857, S2r3ll tons OF piG
Iron was made by West Virginia furnaces.
OF this amount, 1855 remained unsoId ~
the end OF the year. The production oil
} Bsssemer pig in the State during the year
was 7307O tons.
West Virginia is a State with great poe,
abilities in industrial development, bat Il
Left TO itself 10 has been Too much the
case heretofore, this generation oil 6usl'
i meas men will pass away in truitieef
i struggle for prosperity and leave the dor
mani advantages and benefits for wiser
and more ssEacious suCceSSors.-Adrt'n''
burg Herald,
, 10 the pas. few yoara the attention oil
the country has been called TO this state,
and the building Of railroads and other
Improvements has already resulted in the
. setting In Of good tide OF immigration
Tho rapid advancement Of tho manuiAc'
turing In West Virginia, and the mining
: interests that are 30 lAIRs and rich, are
important factors.
II we had doomed West Virgin Ia more
We would have had more enterprise and
! thrift even Rmcng our native population.
They weald have had greater confidence
In lie resources and opportunities. And
II the zane GneIgy and enterprise were
expended by tho population Of this State
40 il 10 done upon come Western StateE
We would have had greater results than
they.-M0rgGRtOtr NeiU Dominion.
1t is no. generally known that Shop
herdstoTn, Ia this State, once stood rea!-
onabia chance OF being the national capt.
i; tai. Iu 1890, inst after the act passed
Congress Authorizing tho location OF ten
miles square for the seat oil government at
some plRca between the mouth OF the
EGstern branch and CoDnogocheague," q
Newspaper printed the following Item Of
Ineys: "shepberdstoWn on the Potomac,
November 10, l700-Vsry liberal subscHp'
ttions have, within Jew days paSeed, been
obtained In this town and vicinity TO DO
appropriated towards erecting the Federal
building, providing the seSt OF government
be located 90 "a To include ShepherdstoWn
within tho district"
Tho following, clipped from the Preston
county Journal, 10 the experiences OF
wool grower Of that county: s"1n NO
vombsr, 1886, bought % head Of sheep
al coat Of 3i9 s.. The following May !
had increase Of IL lAmbe. May "a l sold
l25 poundO OF wool at 20 cents per pound
amounting TO $50 SO. In July dressed
and sold to the butcher Is mead. which
brought me- Si5 10. In October l sold Z
lambs Tor $24 ~; in November / sold my
pe!ls Tor 81 90. l have on hand y owes Of
The old atoCk worth $40, and . lambs worth
Sl2 so In calculating the whole matter l
find thai hRvs,l4 head worth now So co.
that | have sold OF the product Of these
sheep 500 60; totG! income $l55 10, tom
which deduct the AtBt cost, SO IS, and
have Sll2 % 90 balance on the Invest
ment Ia one year"