Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-12
BRAxroN COUNTY.
The Wonderful Strides That Section
of tho state is Ms4ins-The Future

The Wonderful Strides That sec''oH
of the state is Ma4<ing-The Future
Bright.
Spscial Correspondence of the Register.
Sutton, W. Va, September 9.-brax-
ton county is no longer "a oacH"oou ?
county. With the railroad, telegraph
and telephone lines we are easiiy ~
reach of the seaport cities. Inc peopie
all over the country are encouraged anu
the next five years will witness greater
progress AID larger developments than
has occurred in any ten years past.
Even now one Is struck with wonder at
the immense business done IN the
county, especially at Sutton, the county
seat of Braxton county. There is no
day Of the week but you see a dozen or
more four, six and eight-horse teams
heavily laden with goods of every des-
cription, taken from the depot mere 10
the interior.
Your correspondent is Informed that
the business done at the depot here,
which is the present terminus OF the
West Virginia and Pittsburg railroad,
exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars
monthly. To carry away from here the
emmense amount of grain, feed and
other things used by the contractors on
the extension southwark, requires
whole army of men, horses and wagons.
The business men of the county are
reaping rich harvest from the large
business done.
Sutton, a municipality Of no mean
proportions, is putting on metropolitan
airs, now that she can claim kinship
with Weston, Clarksburg and other
towns to the north.
Braxton county according to the CEN
sus Of 1890, has population exceeding
$4,000, an increase of about 20 per
cent. She has an area Of over 600
square miles, and possesses inexhausti-
BILE timber, some coal. large quantities
of iron ore, clay, etc. Her people are
intelligent, hospitable and sociable, and
have wonderful supply OF nerve, as is
evidenced by her growth in material de-
velopment in the last ten years. What
must she be in the next few years to
outstrip her wonderful strides in the
past few years? With an area larger
than any county to the north with the
railroad coming from the capital city up
Elk river, with the indomitable energy,
pluck and perseverance Of her people,
witk her large lumber mills, her mex
haustible timber regions, Braxton must
be in the next five years on an equal
footing with any other county in the
State; nay, more, she must be the lead
ing central business point OF the State.
The Pordee & Curtin Lumber Co.,
whose mills are located here, are ship
ping about fifty thousand feet Of dry
lumber daily. The proprietors are put
ting in new machinery, which will
double the capacity Of their mill, which
is already some forty thousand feet
daily. The large lumber mills in pro-
cess Of erection to the southeast OF
here, at the mouth of Williams river,
is larger one than the one here.
They expect to have capacity of more
than hundred thousand feet daily.
With these great mills in the county,
how long. think you, will it take to use
up all the lumber we have in the county?
Before answering, think Of the thous-
ands Of acres Of timber land toward the
head of Elk river, in Webster county.
Why, with dozen such mills, large as
they are, there would be timber enough
to last for the next twenty years.
Your readers may want to know some
thing about politics as 1t is here. Well
will wait until another time to refer to
this subject We would like to have
better mail facilities. 1t takes an aver
age OF IUuI uWyS W scu VssO'rO' 's1sIss 49, q |
mail here, which ought and could be
brought here by the trains in four hours
under the present schedule.
J. B. T.