Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-28
DEVELOPMENT.
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which had heretofore found profitable
operation In numbering, furniture max
Ing aud kindred interests throughout
Wisconsin, Michigan and adjoining
States, will now find its chief field OF
operation in the South. West Virginia
alone, as an example, out Of total OF
10, COO, OOOO acres ia its entire area has
over 100000 acres covered with vir-
gin forests. This timber includes al
most every variety Of hard wood, from
the inexpensive TO the most
valuable and also a large amount
of pine. Ii will furnish raw mater
ial for inuumerable furniture fac
tories, agricultural implements, wood
working and for general manufacturing
enterprises Of wide diversity into which
timber enters. The development OF the
numbering and woodworking interests OF
the State. which is now underway, and
which will keep pace with the growth
OF the coal and iron development, will
add millions OF dollars annually 10 the
wealth OF West Virginia and furnish
employment for many thousands OF
hands.
Taking these three items Of coal,
iron and timber alone, there is basis
of latent wealth i'm the country drained
bv the Chesapeake and Ohio and its
branches that will furnish solid fOun-
dation for large number OF big cities,
as well as for great many prosperous
industrial towns with populations OF
from 5000 % $4,000 and 10000 each.
When 90 these advantages We add the
great agricultural resources Of the two
States. the petroleum, natural gas, the
fire clayS and all the other wealth cre-
ating resources, 10 can be readily seen
that there is practically no limit to the
healthy advancement Of the entire coun-
try from Newport News TO Cincinnati.
In answer % query concerning the
coal traffic OF the Chesapeake and Ohio,
Mr.. ingalls, stated that during the last
fiscal year it amounted TO l,466,OOO
tons. "Our coal traffic said he. lis
increasing wonderfully. The demand
FOR New River coal and coke can hardly
be said % be growing; il is simply
rushing. We cannot keep up with the
demand. We could double the tonnage
OF coal needed FOR shipment from New
mort News, while the new furnaces
along the line in Virginia will consume
many thousand tons annually" Did
YOU ever notice our coal piers at New
mort NewS?" he here inquired. "A
car is run by its own gravity from the
wards on the pier. uulOaded into bins,
switched 90 another track, and then by
its own gravity, is carried 10 another
ward. where trains are made up TO be
returned 20 the coal district. The ar
rangement is labor Saying, economical
and time-saying. Almost double the
amount OF coal can be loaded on ship At
Newport News as at any other pier on
| the Atlantic. The future greatness OF
/ Newport News is assured. There is
nothing speculative in the calculation
that within the next ten years IL will
rank I'm population with Norfolk. The
new cities Of Virginia will furnish the
material and the Chesapeake and Ohio
I will handle il 10 Newport News IN Suih-
cient quantity TO keep steamships sail
ing 10 all parts of the world.
1T would be interesting to know
something about the physical condition
OF the road, and what is required To
handle its traffic
0You have touched upon theme SO
Allied with intricacieS,' said Mr. ingalls,
laughingly, that IL would require a
whole edition OF your paper TO recount
il. IL involves tracks, cars, pay-rolIS
and brains. Very few roads in this
country can boast OF track equal TO
that of the Chesapeake and Ohio. At
the time OF it's reorganization, it was
like a child weakened by disease. IL
needed nursing and nutriment we
gave il both, you can see for yourself
that to-day il is flesh with the bloom OF
health. We first laid rs miles Of 10
pound steel rails on the mountains, then
we laid another rs miles OF 75-pound
steel rails along New River. Sixty miles
moro is now being delivered, and with
i'm the next ninety days we will have the
main line between Huntington and
Charlottesville laid with 75-pound steel.
owe have recently pure haSedanother
mammoth engine 70 haul our fast pas
seuger trains over the mountains. Inc
engine aud tender weigh about 100000
mounds, and can handle train OF ten
or twelve ears 40 an even speed, up and
down grade, as easily as an ordinary en-
zinc can handle train OF six or seven
cars ON level track. Fifteen new freight
e,rires will soon be delivered TO us;
t60O freight cars were added TO our
continent last year, besides 500 new
eoa' cars. equipped with air brakes and
Jannev buffers. We will add consider
ably IN this during the year 1891.
.sI-pon the opening of our OHIO River
lima between Cincinnati and Hunting
Tor. So he went ON TO say, eve determined
IN comp the most elegant and complete
rossenger trains that could be built.
Tbar we have succeeded We are satisfied
IN leave 10 the public, whose apprecia-
lion of our r. +. v train, running be-
tween Cincinnati via Washington, with
through ears. is amply atteSted by their
increased patronage.
Our present equipment consists OF 200
engines. zoo passenger cars, and l1'OOO
freigbt cars. We maintain shops both
for construction sud repairs at Coving-
ION XIV. Huntington, W. Va, clifton
Force. Va. and Richmond, Va. The
sbons M Clifton Forge. as you are aware,
are new. and will be in partial operation
Wnnnf fnN uEEA GA 4h1f $3.50
e,r,plated. there will not be superior
plant Of this kind in America. 1t will
represent value Of half million dol
lars. or about the value OF the hunting
ION and Richmond shops combined.
Our shop pay rolls will distribute
-. 900, O0O
I next asked Mr.. ingalls, what he
,l,.,,,,,bt ~ the industrial prospects OF
tbe towns above and below the mouth OF
- Rio sandy. Il think, he replied,
That there will be up aud down the
Ohio river from CatlettSburg, KY, in
clndipc Huntington and Ashland, al
most one continuous manufacturing
ri,v e and i'm the same connection he
took occasion TO say that he was very
glad 70 hear that the Three CS was IN
! fair way to be quickly completed, and
,., IT, the assurance that the
Chesapeake 4 Ohio would extend to the