The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-09
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FOR STATE DEVELOPMENT,
A Visit of Capitalists to the Up
pcr MOnOngalela Coal Field,
FairmOut to CIarkSburg!Thirty
MlIesOr Fuel, Gas, Steam
md COking Coal.
A NINE FOOT COAL VEIN
Above Water Level, Easily Mined
and Near the Great Markets.
A Trip Oy,rthCL LIne Of The New AOnOn'
gahcla River IIOad-WOrkS Already
In Operation at FaIrmOnt-A
New u. s 0. POllcy-SOme
Interesting Facts About
a RIcll Region.

AtSH ANbVM
Southwestern Pennsylvania fits into
West Virginia as though the boundary
line had been run around carpenters
square. II you seek the angle Of this
square on Il map Of the United States
on which geoIogist has left his mark,
you will find wide black blotch from
Pittsburgh well into West Virginia,
This means coal. About q third Of the
distance from the boundry lone to Pitts.
burgh Is Connellsyille, famed for the ex.
Cellence Of its coke. II crow were to
tly from Connellsyllle to Clarksburg, in
West Virginia, he would pass over about
eighty miles Of llno coal deposits, and II
he were knowing anil appreciatlve
bird the flight from Fairmont to Clarks-
burg would open his eyes, In the Con-
nellsyille region five railroads carry
the product to market, With the
exception OF the output Of the
CASTOR mines, mile and half
above Fairmont, not u pound OF coal or
coke has ever been shipped from the re-
markabls coal territory which lies along
the 80 miles OF The West Fork from Fair
mont to Clarksburg. This Is the more
surprising because the quantity and
quality OF this coal have long been fam
ilar to the people OF the locality, and
because the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
runs on two sides Of the triangle OF
which the river forms the irregular
hypotheneuse. II the stream had been
navigable, coke ovens would have
blazed aud coal mine mouths would
have gaped big and black all along the
30 miles. Today undersized Italians
and stalwatt country lads are making
ready the way to navigate the region
over q railroad. The country lads will
do well to hoe their row with the runts
from sunny Italy, who have wonder
iul knaCk for this sort OF work aud for
saving ninety.nine cents out Of every
good American dollar.
THE NEW ROAD AND THE COAL.
When ex-senator Camden said he
would build a railroad from Fairmont 10
Clarksburg, that meant that the road
waste be built. Mr.. Camden knew why
he wanted TO get in there with a rail-
road, because he knew what was there
10 bring out. He was aware that the
known area OF high grade Coking coal
is not increasing, while the market for
coke grows with the growth OF the coun.
try. The geologists had traced the Con-
nellsville vein southwesterly into this
region, and II there had been no such
science as geology the picks Of the plain
country people along the river had told
tho story and chemists had confirmed
1t. Mr.. Camden Is business man
enOughto know that tho Connellsyille
vein, from eight to nine feet thick, we'll
above water level, easily draining itself,
is good thing TO get at before anybody
else lays hold Of 1t with facilities 10 get
II to the markets. Mr.. Camden, the
Watsons and Judge Fleming, with other
friends, took hold In earnest. They
gathered in the land, but not quite all Of
tho 10000 acres OF this splendid body OF
coal, They organized the Monongahela
River Railroad Company, and then they
were ready to talk to the Baltimore h
Ohio Railroad Company.
ANEW BALTIMORE Aono POLICY.
They could get an outlet by building
to Mr.. Camlen's Ohio River Road. The
Baltimore 4 Ohio had seen Messrs.
Davis and Elkins Gnd an outlet for
their West Virginia Central by building
from Piedmont to Cumberland and let
ting the Pennsylvania into some Of their
good thing, There was a practical dem.
onstration oil the error OF the elder Gar.
rett, that whatsoever things OF good
money value were In northern or middle
West Virginia must needs 90 10 market
over the Baltimore 4 Ohio when their
time came TO 20, and that 80 long as the
coal was in tho ground or the trees were
on the stump they were practically assets
ot his railroad company. Time and
pushing men have dispelled this
Authorization. Other eye.openets, the
Interstate commerce law and new
blood have contributed 10 a change Of
policy tho part oithe Baltimore 4 Ohio
Company which every West virginian
must regard with the liyeliest s6tiSiac.
ton. Arrangements with this company
permit the Monongahela River Railroad
Company TO promise 10 Wheeling, what
she had never had, coke at tho same
price that Pittsburgh pays for Il deliv.
cred. Il Wheeling doesn't want II the
West will take II, and the Upper Mon.
ongahela coke will 20 West on the same
terms as tho ConnOllsville product. The
shippers will not be confined 10 their
coke, for experience teaches that this
6igydn coal Is aiayorite for fuel, gas and
steam purposes, No coal In the country
Oears shipment better or lB OF more
signify appearance. When Ia the 10.
mote future this big vein shall have been
worked out, q good 0.ioot vein Of fuel
coal, he SeWiCkley coal Of Pennsylya.
MIA, will DO waiting al from 80 10 iO0 feel
above and NJ $50 feet below still
another.
DlSriSOusnEb VISITORS.
II was to SEQ this coal country that 4
party Of gentlemen, invited BY MI
Camden, mot at Falmont Tuesday
morning, The private cars Marylanj
and West Virginia brought from thC
east President Charles II. Mayer, yict
PRESIDENT Thomas N, King aud DlteCtoEI
Wm, i, FriCk aud James Sloan, ol lhl
baltimore. 4 Ohio, u. w, Clark, o
Philadelphia, a banker Of large wealtl
anu high fepute, largely interested Il
SGal and Iron properties Chatles "
harkheas, a young millionaire Of Cleve
Iahd j., Il, Dana, the active man Of on
o. the largest coal operations In III
kkAnawha Valley, State Senator "Bob
uatr, who knows q good deal about COZ
and bolligsiJ. D. Weeks, Of The AMtr
can Aanydciurer, q coal and coke expefl
O,J, Ryan and ], d, Mcdonald, contra
tors who arc building thirteen miles
the M9nongahelA River Road and %
y, r. Legge, Of The baltimore q Obi