Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-06
WHERE A BOON Is BOOMING.
Two Contiguous Virginia Counties Are I'm
proving Zach shining Hour.

Two Contiguous Virginia Counties Are lm-
proving Zach shining Hour.
To ne Eif0r OF ns Register
SlR:-It seems from the columns OF
your enterprising paper that the boom
fever has made some impression upon
the staid and conservative old city oi
Wheeling. 10 may therefore not Doe un-
interesting TO some of your readers to
hear something of the new enterprises
i'm this section. This county Is rather
too cautious for booming, though We
have several schemes for the building OF
towns and starting manufacturing ANA
mining industries m old Greeubrier at
this place and at Ronceverte Tut
the fever has not yet struck MS here as
10 has our near neighbOrS. the counties
of Allegheny and Craig, in Virginia.
In the way of towns and improvement
eompanies these counties are Ia q most
aourishing and hopeful condition. Cow
iugton is improving rapidly ana mas mas
successful Improvement company Niii-
ton Forge. with her half dozen improve
ment and development com anie>' is at
tracing much capital and many people
New Castle. the county seat OF Craig
eounty. is ON "a veriJable boom and
Is showing great enterprise
and much prosperity. There are
MANY other enterprises loo these ana al
Joining counties OF great promise ana
decided merit Among these is the
POTTS Creek Valley Mining and Manu-
facturiug Company. This, being an
iron companv and the owner ot a
large territory Of the finest ore lands IN
rhr whole Appalachian chain, has par
ticular interest for the people of Wheel
ing and Pittsburg. It's property con
sists of about sixty thousand acres oi
land. situate in the Potts Creek NalleY'
b.tween Potts and Peters mountains
Inn Allegheny and Craig counties, ABOUT
ten miles south of the line OF
the Chesapeake and ONO ra.l-
way. This magnificent domain
is owned principally by citizens OF West
Virginia. among them the McSsrS. Ihay-
er of Charleston. and Judge Holt ana
Can't Mathews. of LewiSburg. The ore
an mis- property is practically meNhauSt-
ihie the veins being from ten to hlty
foot in thickness. There is, in the
opinion of competent judges, more than
enourb ore here tO run one hundred iur-
naces for hundred years. The quality
is the same as that now So successfully
used for making high grade of mil'
IRON I'm the ueighboring furnaces
an Low Moor and Longdale. IL is
unite probable that ia very brief time
Tho pittsburgh X West Virginia rail
road the Camden System-will DE
made to reach this ore and thus bring 10
within direct and easy access for the
furnaces and mills of Wheeling and
pittsburgh. And by the C.. * o. rail-
road il is only short distance from the
magnificent coking coal of the Ne"
river. Ii is also less than IS miles from
the celebrated Flat Top coal heldS ON
Inc Norfolk and Western railroad.
Taking into consideration the quantity
and quality OF the ore on this property
and its proximity TO the best coking
GOALS OF the world, 10 may Boz well CON
sidered to be-. as it soon will be in lact
the "centre Of gravity for the manu-
facture of iron" at the lowest cost
GREENBRlEE
Whifc sulphur Springs. OciohcrJ