Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-23
NORFOLK & WESTERN
THR IRON HORSE FLOWING THROUGH
SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.
The Extension Of The N. & ". 10 the Ohio and The
Magnificent Country Ii Opens Up-Rapid
Development Of Logan, Lincoln
and Wayne Counties.
Special Correspondence Of the Register.

Special Correspondence Of the Register.
Elk HORN, W. Va, November a.
The RReIsTER's readers may not be aware
of the great and rapid changes that are
transpiriug in this section of the common
wealth since the advance of the iron horse.
There is q veritable boom in this section,
as compared with the conditions Of year
or two ago. 1t will not be long before the
N. & w. will be completed to the Ohio
river. The fact is that the charter for the
Ohio River extension WAS taken out some
time ago with the expectation Of building
It from the funds received from European
capitalists upon the mortgage of the new
road, as fast AS the road was built. Bat
that plan fell through, and since then the
present scheme, as sodillned below, is being
rapidly carried out.
There has just been completed and is
recorded in the several counties along the
line OF the road first mortgage of $45,-
OOO, 900 on the entire Norfolk and Western
system, including sll their terminal facili-
ties, their shops and all their rolling stock
ia a word, everything belonging to the sys-
tenn. About $50, 600, 900 of it will 90 to-
ward taking mp the old bonded indebted
ness Of the N & W., leaving about $l5,-
900, 900 to build extensions.
Their Ohio river extension from E'k-
horn Valley runs through Mcdowell, Lo
gan and Wayne counties, crossing the river
between Ceredo and the mouth OF Big
Sandy, making IrontOn, Ohio, the termi-
nus, where trsflic arrangements have been
made with the roads runniDg into Cincln-
natl and Chicago.
There will not be more than six or seven
millions TO make the proposed change; the
remainder will be used to extend the line
to the western part Of North Carolina In
order to connect with the Piedmont and
Richmond terminal systems.
The Clinch Valley extension is almost
completed to Big Stone Gap in Scott coun-
ty, Va, where It connects with the Louis
Vile and Nashville system and the Charles
ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad,
which was recently purchased by O. Z.
Huntinton and HIS associates. This latter
road has $50 miles OF road completed from
Charleston, S @ and $50 miles more under
contract. At Big Stone Gap, the center OF
the Cumberland Mountain Coal and Iron
District q syndicate of Northern and
Euglish capitalists have laid out large
town. Already some 200 houses are under
contract.
The rapid development Of the southern
portion Of our own State and southwestern
part of Virginia, together with eastern
Kentucky and Tennesste, is simply won
derful. Recent expert surveyors Of this
territory have proved its great richness
in mineral, coal and timber, hence the
concentration of capital, and subsequent
rapid development. The future that Is
before II is great beyond conception. Be-
tween Roanoke City and Big S.oae Gap
there are already four blasting furnaces in
operation producing 100 tons daily, and
ak others under contract.
A syndicate connected with the N. Il w.
have purchased all the land lying between
Ceredo and the mouth of the Big Sandy,
with frontage of about two miles upon
the Ohio River and the same on the Big
Sandy. They nov nave two engineer corof
locating the bridge across the Oaio X vel
and laying out lots for their new town. An
entire page could be told of the big i'm
provements in this section, bat more about
them anon.