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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04

The first movable dams in America
in connection with slack water improve
ment were built on the Great Kanawha;
Nos. 4 and 5, as stated above, being COM
pleted and put in operation in 1880.
The usefulness and adaptability of NOV
able dams are thoroughly established,
and all on the river below No. 8, as
shown by the table, are to be Of this
type.
Movable dams are kept up during low
stages and down in high water. Their
advantages over the ordinary fixed dams
Tor commerce and river like the Great
Kanawha are decided, furnishing the
benefits Of the usual slack water with
out its most serious Inconvenience and
drawbacks. With fixed dams every
thing must pass through the locks.
With them navigation is entirely sus-
pended too when tho river is near or
above the top OF the lock walls. The
difference between the fixed and NOV
able dams in the scour and wash OF the
banks about tho works is also greatly in
favor OF the modern type.
With movable dams the locks are
used only when the water in the river
is so low rs to make them necessary.
At all other times the dams are down
fiat, practically on the river bottom,
out OF the way, atfording unobstructed,
open navigation. This is great nd
vantage to all classes OF commerce and
is particularly so with coal, transported
as 1t is land empty barges returned), in
fleets" Of large barges. Moro barges
can OF course be taken by n tow boat
and much better time mado in open
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cites Of the East and West,
patronage Of 10000 or $4,000
people within a very few years will be
bsioWed upon it. The new line will
pAce the springs within IA hours of
SGg York, II or II hours from Phila.
llphia, and eight and nine hours re
PEtiyely from Washington and Balti-
n1Fe and from 10 to 10 hours from Co.
l1nbrs, Cincinnati, Lexington, Louis
vile and indianapolis. Those people
Ehose prime reason for visiting this
State is health will be bound to be at
isted by its resources, and they will
ether become directly interested in Vir-
Trin property or they will so advertise
iiH to draw others into the State. This
sEhat We need in Virginia. class of
saegetic business men, and they should
otins their families, too"
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.
vi. ingalls, was asked what he thought
'ithc industrial prospects of the towns
'Sore and below the mouth of the Big
Saniy, 81 think" he replied, "that
there will be up and down the Ohio
5'er from Catlettsburg, Ky, including
Huntington and Ashland, almost one
toaiinuous manufacturing city," and
N the same connection he took occasion
loay that he was very glad to hear that
'ae Three Cs" was in a fair way to be
quickly completed, and volunteered the
is'uFance that the Chesapeake & Ohio
would extend TO the "Three Cs" every
Vest ''''
Speaking Of the policy Of the Chesa-
Pe4ke Ohio with reference to the en-
@lngement OF manufacturing through
OH' The region it traverses, Mr.. Ingalls,
a,e assurance OF vigorous co-opera-
.9a' especially by making large sub
4lphons TO industrial plants payable
Y transportation, which is the very
esI and most substantial kind of sue.
@tlo l, the infant industry" in fact, he
Manifested disposition to lead any
i-i.Iold IN the South in holding out in.
s.4'e!aehts to capital to come to the
so llrTnias, for his plan OF campaign
q make the business OF the Ghesa.
KS x Ohio Just what nature BY tho
,,I..OEments lavished upon that section
Nsas % have intended that it should
Ind " and this can only be done by the
ss Ssaaue development OF those endow-
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OF all varieties Of timber almost I'M
touched and her mines of coal ana IRON
ore only opened here and there ana
larger in area and quantity than those
OF Ohio and Pennsylvania, is certain, un-
der proper conditions, to have ah9 en-
Joy the same, or greater, degree .. 9e'
vclopment, progress and prosperlty
than either OF these great States.
While nature has done so nuGn =, LOT
the State, man has done very little Inc
original source Of wealth is the bounty,
of God in nature" With her, natural
advantages West Virginia has the basis
of much that makes State great, pow
erful and prosperous, its people eohsenI-
ed and happy' still she has ling!erea IN
the march Of progress ana w, s up
ment. We OF West Virginia, lnletssIeu
in the welfare and progress oil tlp I s.aLe 1,
should in all proper ways anu ~ III
proper means, make its attractions, nd
vantrges and resources widely Ehown;
This will bring what ismost nesaSn and
desired-more farms, more eo4l ana
iron ore mines opened, more COKE iur-
naccs, more mills, more capltai, I I!ore
towns, cities, and q population iy''. .he
millions instead OF hundreds oil Illou-
sands.
The State has no debt. Taxes are
low. The people are liberty loving . and
law abiding. For the most par me, ttiiey
live pure lives, crime is rare, ana W !n!
committed promptly punished, me
laws are fair, liberal and well adhiln nus
tered. Under them the rights ~ a. .ie
wageearners are guaranteed anu ''pl'
tai is amply protected. ,.;s. &C..
II we do our duty and make WA . use
Of the gifts nature has so boah,.saiipy
lavished upon this fair State hfPPl-
ness, prosperity and progress VIZ Nc
the reward. The present is ausP,Vt His
Everything seems to point TO su I;,.sa'
10 warrant confidence, encourage i!Vpe'
and make the future bright lO' 0ur-
selves and posterity.
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THE KANAMHE VALLEY.
A Region of Industrial Importance
and Vast Natural Wealth.
A WATERWAY WORTH MILLIONS.
It's Goals, Coke, Timber, Natural Gas
and Probable oil:-splendid, Cheap
Rail and Water Communication
With the Great Markets.
BY W. s. EDWARDS.
? RIGHT division Of West Vir-

NV RIGHT division Of West Vir-
~ ginia divides it into three great
4 \ watersheds; the easternslopes
draining toward the Atlantic; the north
iern slopes draining into the N1ononga-
hela and upper Ohio, and the southern
slopes draining into the Great Ka-
nawha rivers. The greatest river OF the
State is the Great Kanawha, and with
her afluent waters she occupies fully
the southern half ofthe commonwealth,
excepting the waters OF the Mud and
the Guyan rivers, that creep into
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the Ohio below. The Great Kanawba
River properly rises in the lofty noun
tains Of western North Carolina, where
is is known as the New River, courses
northward many miles in that State,
crosses the entire State of Virginia,
breaks through the Alleghanies and
Cumberland ranges by great canyon,
and, Joined by the Gauley river at Ka-
nawha Falls, flows northwestward an
other hundred miles to the Ohio.
A GREAT HIGHWAY.
The valley OF this river was the early
thoroughfarc Of travel for the first set
Element of the West from all Virginia
and the Carolinas. It is now the pas
sage way OF tho. eastern end OF the
Southern Pacific railroad system, the
Chesapeake & Ohio railway. The Ka-
nawha & Michigan railway also enters
it from the north. The upper portion
Of the river cuts through all the iron
and manganiferous and lead and zinc
and copper ore-bearing rocks and lime
stones OF the Silurian formations in
North Carolina and Virginia; it then
traverses the limestone belt OF the sub
carboniferous strata which form the
rocks Of the counties of Mercer, Sum
uiers, Monroe, Greenbrier, Pocahontas,
stretching northeastward along the
slopes Of tho Alleghanies, even to Penn
sSlfania, a fat and productive blue
grass grazing region. Thence the river
cuts through the coking coal measures
oflthe conglomerate series, along New
River in Raleigh and Fayette counties,
then through the middle coal measures
Of the upper Kanawha, and at last
through theupper, or pittsburgh" coal
measures of lower Kanawha and Put
nam counties. 1t crosses, also, the not
able natural gas and oil belt of the CON
tinent in the neighborhood OF Charles
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49,, - no,... ship. ship. ro,o,
AeSF .. ,, "a Hi""'"S mentS Dyments by bushels
es river railroad.
ruE coAL TuAT WENT 10 MARKET.

The comparatively slight falling off in
the river shipments between 1889 and
1890 was mainly, if not altogether, due
to difference in the market at Cincin-
natl, Louisville, ETC., in the two years.
The shipment by river for the last six
months indicates that the output for
the twelve months ending June, 1891,
will be likely to exceed any previous
The following table giving the prin-
cipal tonnage of the great kanawha
river for the year ending June 80, 1880,
is from the same report:
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1t appears from the table that five of
the locks and dams are finished and that
two more Nos. Z and 81 are now under
construction. The money now appro-
priated is nearly. if not quite, sufficient
TO complete Nos. Z and s, and it is eX-
pected that both Of these works will be
put in operation next year. This will
carry the improvement over ffty-four
miles of river, or from within thirty
five and three-quarter miles OF the
mouth of the river up to within five
miles of Kanawha Falls.
The works are planned to make an
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KANAwnA,s ArrlrEyrs.


The chief infowing streams OF New
River and Kanawha in this State arc
the East river on the southern border
in Mercer county; the Blue Stone river
in Mercer, both from the west; the
Greenbrier, trayersing Monroe, Green,
briet- and Pocahontas counties and
catching its first waters from the clouds
Of Cheat mountain; then the Gauley,
its largest tributary, flowing through
the counties OF Fayette, Nicholas,
Greenbrier aud Webster and portion
Of Randolph, and locked entirely in by
vast uncut forest growth, pine and hard
wood. Then the Elk and Pocatalico
rivers entering at Charleston and Ray.
mond and draining the counties OF
Kanawha, Clay, Braxton, Roane,
Webster and Randolph and even
Jackson and Gilmer-these streams,
too, flowing through wide reaches
Of primeval forest as well as ex-
tensive meadows and uplands OF blue
grass and tillage. These from the east:
On the west, again, Paint creek and Coal
river open out distances of timber and
grazing and farming lands still chiefly
clothed in the virgin forest. In brief,
the Great Kanawha river gathers to it
self the waters of seven attiuent rivers
and one great creek, besides minor
streams, and drains some seventeen or
eighteen large counties in West Virginia,
as well as draining largelywostern North
Carolina and southwestern Virginia,
finally entering the Ohio at Point Pleas
ant. The extensive section OF West Vir-
cinia drained by the Great Kanawha
and its affiuents il the portion OF the
state mildest in climate, for it is the
southern, half, and it is richest in n0tu-
raj wealth.
FARMING, GRAZING AND TIMBER LANDS.
On the east the counties of Mercer,
Summers, Monroe, Greenbrier and Po-
cahontas lie upon the limestone outcrop
of the sub.carboniierous rocks and yes
pertine and umbral shales. These coun:
ties are upland. Lying at nm altitude OF
1900 to $500 feet above sea level they,
generally, occupy series OF greater and
lesser valleys bounded by high noun.
tain chains, trending northeastward and
southwest. Originally covered with
great forests they are now about one
6alf cleared in their limestone valleys,
and yearly raise and fatten increasing
herds and fiocks of short-horn cattle,
horses, mules and sheep, Wherever
the sunlight gains among the trees the
bluegrass springs up spontaneously,
and the fertile soil bears n high average
OF wheat, Of oats, OF rye, OF corn. The
higher portions OF these counties are
still covered with virgin forest OF black
spruce on the highes; mountain slopes
Of Cheat and Black Mountains, OF white
oak, hickory, ash, cherry, birch, white
and black walnut, poplar tulip, lynn,
maple, (sugar) and beech, and OF chest
nut on the poorer ridges The climate
Of these counties is mild, the air hcalth-
full and waters cool and pure.
West of these counties extends the
great timber belt OF the State, billy re-
zion broken by the valleys OF streams
whose general flow is 10 the northwest,
along which water courses are level bot.
tom lands of rich soil, and on whose hill
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-04
A Great Future,


=" AZ oo9',' sasa'tcsan Of IL. Dparnn. Of Ast.
4. \, great future is before West Virginia
n ~ 'aeutiliEation OF iron ores, Goals, and
S - sources OF wealth comparatively
y '-'-e'ess now, but receiving an incrc.
AN i'IS' Of value ten fold, even n hundred
B,i'l'iII rom the touch OF intelligent labor,
,E, ,',as stone OF superior quality, is
nm r',sSl'i | have in the stone trim.
c. 'ss q my residence here n sample OF
d l ! q, nyer stone that is unsurpassed in
nv! Tor color and durability.
ts ~ towns and cities which are
S,ts s; !, W up in various parts Of the
4, ~ y. WI beGrcatly increased in mum.
Ui,s -| population, stimulating agri.
li,SS y, WIN an abundant demand Tor
d., pi ices Tor all products OF the farm,
l,s ,,,i'ly dairy products, fruits and
k,i,r,,'es. The State is capable OF sus-
oIly 4 sparse population in
4,o.',uFe exclusively, but with a
b FIent Of Al. resources and utiliza-
tsl ~, w labor capabilities, in doors
is,i51. l9r men and women, and even
.,,afsn, Il dense population may be
h! ''Sa IN comfort and even luxury,
hi sHguiuI homesteads will dot the
b. Ky and school houses and saw.
esb n, SiNs VIII abound and culture and
WI Characterize the people.
\, y VIRGINIA viii belr o,y ro;lro,a
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slopes and in whose deep dales and hob
lows grows the chief hard wood forest,
as vet uncut, distof the Mississippi oroi
the Eastern States. Horo are the coun-
ties Of Randolph, Webster, parts Q! 70
hontas, Nicholas, parts Of Greenbrier,
Of Braxton, Clay, parts oil Fayette, OF
Raleigh, .ot Booze, and west OF these, on
Guyan waters, Wyoming, Mellow
all and Logan, Lincoln and Wayne:
These counties are allunderlaidwith the
lower measure and middle measure
Goals. The land, the most Of it. when
cleared, springs up in blue grass OF spon-
taneous growth, and cultivated, yields,
the best wrapper tobacco in market, all
the cereals, apples, pears, small! fruits
and grapes. The forests where thinned
become velYetedwith blue grass and al
ford fine cattle ranges and beneath the
soil lies abundant coal for the domestic
use of the farmer and OF value some day
for expectation. These Goals are high
in carbon,G0 per cent. low in ash, 4 and
5 per cent. almost without sulphur, as
47-1OOO to 3l-lOO per cent, and where
coked along New river zelda coke more
excellent than Conceivable, and which
fetches Is to 2Oscents per ton higher
price in the open Chicago market.
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While the lumber products, general
merchandise, produce, etc., carried on
the river are very considerable as
shown, and are increasing rapidly each
year in amount and value, coal will no
doubt continue to be the most import
ant item Of the Great Kanawha COM
merce. The rapid development Of the
coal business since 1881, is shown above
The shipment by river in 1875, wasl hut
little over four million bushels; in
1875 it was 1921, 1855, and in 1877, 5,lSS,
$50 bushels. No record was kept OF the
shipment between 1877 and 1881.
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steamboat Going Through Lock No. Q.

available depth of 81 feet, or full ship
ping water for coal at all seasons. The
locks below Charleston are $40 feet be-
tween quoins and So feet wide (those
above Charleston are 800 feet by 50l,
sufficient to admit four large.sized coal
barges.
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THE BARGE SERVICE.

The manner pursued in shipping coal
on the Great Kanawha and Ohio rivers
is generally understood and need notbe
particularly described. 1t makes re-
markably cheap transportation, cheaper
it is thought, than any class of freight is
carried elsewhere in the world.
The coal barges themselves, consider
ing their capacity and service, are cheap
carriers; they cost from $500 to 81, 200
and last about ten years. The barges
are generally 100 feet long, %. feet wide
and a deep. A barge carries from
10000 TO 1900 bushels, or from 400 to
500 tons; $50 tons, or 10000 bushels per
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Der enough to pay for it, may be bought
ut from 81 TO So per acre. OF the vast
region outlying from the Great Ka
nawha valley, both cast and west Of IL
the greater part is still Wild land, await.
ing the farmer and husbandman. and
may be bought at these low prices and
usually on easy time.
TIE COMING MARKET GARDEN.
For the great valley itself, with its
stretches of wide and fertile bottoms
winding southwark from the Ohio, be.
tween continually rising hills and
mountains, ON whose rich deep soil corn
has grown for hundred successive
years in scarcely diminished luxuriance
and fruitfulness-these fertile lands
though cultivated ever since Young
George Washington first sur
yeyed and patented them to set.
Element in 1851, are still to be bought NJ
fair prices considering What they may
return to proper care,
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TINE COMING MARKET GARDEN.
R1oHEsr IN TnE Union.

All the Possibilities of Great state-Ex-
ccptionul sItuaiOn-EyerythIns to Create
wealth,
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foiteFs clay. ''''' NV '' ""u
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THE SOUTHERN MINING COUNTIES.

Next west of these counties lie the
present great mining counties OF Fay
cite, west Kanawha and Putnam,
where these lower and middle and up.
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u IL = ~, VIRGINIA win help any railroad
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Towork that has been under
IN taken in West Virginia has
Il i done more for the development
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-05
compHNY's COUNSEL.

LANDS FACTORIES, &cThe Company
the choicest lands for Building Sites Factories &c On this
the famous Faulkner Iron Ore Beds with the richest the
Cumberland Valley.
the attention from all the world but time has there
been such rush for her advantages and her wealth she
almost undertake. State with the finest known the
of this well the finest timber and they this State
take advantage and the benefits Of Natures lavish hand Manu
railroad facilities ship out the goods and still be at
the timber, We feel Virginia
Inducements OF UU people,
the county seat of Berkeley of West Vna richest garden
employing many hands most whom skilled wokmen with pay
roll of from $4,000 60O00 connecting with the
cities and railroads of the United States.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad Harrisburg, through
Matinsbug and with the Pennsy vania system
The Maryland Railroad already survey
eight miles from this and doubtless Will
complete to Martnsbu1g.
Virginia Railroad the greatest coal railroad
the world
will Aainsburg will
be that Matnsbug be the business the great
The City Martinsburg State wide
agnnt
houses and residence The city supplied with by Holly
which from and never failing SPRING sufficient supply 10000
people
The and houses lighted by electricity.
MINERAL AND TBERn addition to the 1000 for factories
and timber lands The Company will pleasure showing beautiful
visitors The climate of Martnsbu unsurpassed for heathfu
FACTORIES Company
and Manufactures of all kinds special
Virginia. and do all induce artisans all kinds tolocate
climate
each-par value $500 full paid and asesable
Ten must paid subscription and month
thereafter deemed expeet by the Board
as they shall elect until paid in full
Subscribers stock will paid full
either declared dividends purchase lots oneat
is if they hold shares fully the
right to double the amount il the payment Of lot
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-10-05

Especial 20 The WORLD.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, October o.
Lucy Mcclure, aged twenty-fdqr. known
as one Of the most persistent and dar-
ing Of West virginia's moonshiners,
has at last been captured aftor a tire
some and dangerous chase by United
States officers, and is now in jail at
I Charleston. Lucy was captured in the
interior Of Lincoln county early Thurs
day morning at point far remote from
any railroad, and has a long list Of in
fractions Of the law charged mp against
her. She has been Of late months con
Quoting an extensive illicit business
along the line Of the extension Of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad, and a.
thougha numbered attempts were made
TO capture her, they failed Al inaddi-
tion III being young athletic woman
of great nerve and presence of mind,
she wis fine rifle and revolver shot,
and rode beautiful sprrel horse, which
has niany time saved her. Hearing
that the marshals were after her, Mon
day, she fled to the interior, bnt was at
last overhauled. and will now get her
deserts.
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INFAMOUS TRAFFIC.
Young Girls Deluded Away From Their
Homes for immoral Purposes.
Especial to THE WoRLp.l

Homes for immoral Purposes.
Especial to THE WoaLp.l
PARIS, Oct. ga matter has been
brought to light by the Paris police,
which is of interest not only in this
city, but America as well. Seventeen
people have been arrested for being
connected with an association which
has branches all over France, Belgium,
England and the United States, and
the object of which is to delude young
girls with promise of getting them
situations as servants, and then send
ing them far away for purposes which
may be understood. The association
is managed by women, and is said to
have deluded more than two hundred
young girls within three months. The
commission obtained by this associa-
lion of wretches amounts to very
large sum each year. The French
police has put itself in communication
with that Of various American cities in
order to discover and check this infa-
NOUS traffic.
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REronrEn Zoo KILLEp.
News 81 an Indian Outbreak and Attack
Upon coIonists In Mexico.

Especial To TfrE WoHLDl
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, October 5.-John
Fl. Parton, an American, who for the
past two years has been engaged in the
mining business near MetztiIlan, sit
nated in the State of Hidalgo, Mexico,
arrived here today. He brings infor-
nation Of serious Indian outbreak,
which has for some time been in prog
ress in the district Of Tnlamengo, in
that State.
The trouble is an outgrowth Of dis
pute between several colonies of Span
iards and Germansand the Indians, the
new settlers attempting to settle on the
lands Of the natives. The Indians re-
sisted their attempts TO evict them, and
much bloodshed has resulted. Mr.. Par
ton states that just few days before
his departure, settlement of whites
was attacked by the Indians and near
" 200 people massacred, including men
woman, and children
The colonists have appealed to the
Government for protection, and several
battalions Of troops are on their way to
the scene Of the trouble from Pachuca.
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Big Circus Companies In three Rings
Great Olympia Hippodrome Races,
2 Menageries of Wild and Trained Beasts,
Mammoth Museum, teeming with wonders,
Grand Horse Fair, with 400 premium horses,
2 Elevated Stages for original Olympian sports,
Immense Worlds Fair Of modern maryels,
Extensive Aviary, Aquarium, Illusions, &c,
Huge Stage, $50 feet long.
for spectacular displays,