The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-20
A Big Development Scheme.

A Big Development Scheme.
Pittsburgh American Manufacturer, Oct. 3'st.
The rate at which the State of West
Virginia is being developed on all lines,
and particularly in the direction of her
coal and iron resources, is simply amaz-
ing. All through the State the same ac-
tivity is noticeable. For a time it was
confined chiefly to the southeastern part,
and the counties of Mercer, Mcdowell
and Pocahontas got the major portion OF
the new work. Recently, however, the
direction sof the improvements have
changed, and although those counties
are still getting their share of the boom,
the eastern panhandle and the counties
OF Marion and Monongalia are coming
to the front. In the panhandle the iron
deposits are the chief attraction, while
coal is drawing the money of the out
Siders to the two counties named above.
Within the past few weeks those who
have been watching the columns of the
Manufacturer have seen the chronicles
of big coal land sale along the upper
Monongahela and Cheat rivers. This
work is well under way, and will be bear
ing fruit in few months more.
Over in the eastern panhandle the
work has been slower. The country was
old in the matter of civilization, but not
in the matter of development, and it
took longer to get the farmers to dispose
OF their property. From time to time,
however, the representatives of syndi-
cate OF New Workers purchased loose
tracts of wild land in Pocahontas, Pen
dleton, Randolph, Grant, Mineral, Green
brier and Tucker counties. These pur-
chases in the aggregate amount to an
enormous amount, and are as a rule To-
Gated well. For the most part they con
tain both iron and coal, and are covered
with timber, which will in almost every
case pay for the original price of the
land and the work of getting it out. OF
course the land is of no value as it now
stands, and q railroad to carry the pro-
ducts to market is necessity.
A railroad to touch all these places was
chartered last week with a capital of
~, 0OO, 900 paid up. The company is com
posed entirely of New York capitalists.
and the road is called the Potomac,
Blackwater and Greenbrier railroad. 1t
proposes to build line from Romney,
Hampshire county; along the south
branch OF the Potomac river to Peters
burg, Grant county a line from Cum
berland, along Patterson's creek, thro,
Mineral and Grant counties, to Peters
burg; line from Petersburg, along the
north branch of the South Fork river,
to point where the counties of Poca-
hontas, Pendleton and Randolph meet
in corner, and from there three branch
es-one along the Dry Fork of Cheat
river to Bretzin, on Big Blackwater riv-
er, in Tucker county; another to the
headwaters Of Greenhrier river, in Poca.
hontas county, and from there along
Greenbrier river to White Sulphur
Springs, and the third to the Virginia
state line. where it is to connect with
another railroad enterprise that is now
forming in that State. Other branches
are contemplated, but the surveys have
not been made. This entire system can
be built for small sum Of money aam-
paratiYelY, as all the material can be had
on the ground except the rails Labor is
cheap in that section, and the surveys
carry the road through valleys all the
way that will require but little grading.
The mountains along the lines are all
well stocked with the minerals that will
give the road paying private freights at
the start. There are several railroad
sehemea an foot in the State, but none
Of them touch this one in point of mag
nitude, as the people who will build it
are now the owners of the land through
which it will pass, and have the capital
to get out the wealth in the land at once.
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A very striking and artistic advertising
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