Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-15
WESTON.
The New RaiIroad-The Improvements
Going on-Industritl Matters.

The New RaiIroad-The Improvements
Going on-Industrial Matters.
Special Correspondents Of ne Rsgis'sr.
WESTON, December l3.-WestOn, sit
uated at the junction OF the Buckhan-
non and BraxtOn divisions, is the county
seat of Lewis county and has popula-
ton of about $500, The States Hos
pital for the Insane is located here.
Since work on the new branches OF
the road has been going on the volume
of business here has been very mater
tally augmented Shipping facilities
are 50 much better than formerly that
IL would seem remarkable il business
were not improved.
The general offices of the road are
here and the Company is preparing TO
erect either a fine brick or stone build
ing TO DE used for depot aud Office pur-
poses, near the old wagon bridge be-
tween the extension tracks and the
river. This will be- much better than
the present arrangement. The shops
belonging % the company are here and
will soon be ready for use, as they are
almost completed now.
AuE hAsANANN wv A~ANN-
The BraXtOn division follows the West
Fork river from Weston through a set
tied portion Of Lewis county 20 the head
waters OF oil creek; thence down that
stream TO Burnsyille. Braxton county.
where il crosses Little kanawha river,
Is miles above Chenille. From Burns
willie the road follows salt Lick creek TO
the headwaterS Of GrannieS creek, thence
down that stream 20 Elk river at BraN-
ton c. H.. 4 distance Of 4iis miles. The
track is about completed TO huntsville,
a distance Of - miles. This branch
passes through 4 very fine agricultural
district. at the same time il is heavily
timbered and numerous mills are already
engaged along the route saving lumber
for shipment along the completion Of
the road.
The Pardee-Curtin Lumber Co.'S boom
aud mills are at BraXton c. II. Their
plant al this point is said TO be a splendid
one. worth 10000 This firm owns
about Isl, 900, 900 feet Of poplar stump
age, which is to be foated TO their
booms on Elk river and then sawed up
into merchandise lumber.
Burns Bros. X Hoffman, who have
been operating on Little Kanawha. will
also put up large mills on Elk river
near Braxton Court House, soon. They
control a considerable amount of valu-
able timber, but just how much Is not
now ascertained.
The Elk river valley is a remarkably
rich timber c0untry-the richest in the
State, and 10 is very doubtful II any
State i'm the Union can boast q section
producing such a variety OF timber in
such profuSiOn. \ gentleman thorough
~ converSant with the matter says
there are poplar, spruce, pine, hemlocS'
maple, linden, ash, hickory. cherry,
walnut. oak. chestnut and birch
trees, Of fine size and in comparatively
inexhauStible quantities.
WHERE THE ROAD WILL co.
One or the other Of the branches of
the road will be continued 10 Williams
river at point near the mouth of Cher
~ river in Nicholas county, where the
railroad company owns 134,S2 acres of
unbroken virgin forest land, which Is
richly underlaid with choice coal. This
tract is covered with the finest OF tim
Der 20 such an extent as TO be capable
Of yielding 5O,OOO,O 600 feet OF lumber Il
year for twenty-five years or more.
OF course the largest immediate
source of revenue tOthc road will be de-
rived from the extensive shipments Of
timber, natural or manufactured. The
road passes through more than 100
miles Of forest land. and al the crossings
of the streams. IL receives from them
aud their tributaries. an aggregate toat-
age Of over 800 miles in extent. The sub
stantial permanent income TO the road
from this source cannot we'll be over-eS-
timated.
There is room for wood pulp mills, to
use up the grades Of timber not made
into marketable lumber, also room for