The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-23


West Virginia, tho DEVELOPMENT of tho
State md tin onnort,ritioo for nroG,
,iIs',, ~ W orpo' ''i"''o ". 'o' p,on''
"olo i"''ro"u oulluins IN inc northern
section,
what is being done in the way OF
opening up and developing your State?"
our state IL making rapid strides in
all lines OF development in every Sec
ton, and our industries are paying and
prospecting, farming being tho least
profitable; our people are in good con.
ditlon financially, there having been no
failures OF any consequence in the past
'" .inI ~ .,'Ga't..s. ;,
road buildnS wy wy - t"'''
There is now building new east
and west line through the State, the
:, a..' Mestelit ha'lroh9, dlavihg
its cas'ein 'er.ll'hWs ~ Norioik, va:
p l'h;nh .nrouSn mesI Virginia. ana
Wh.ch 9 connects win lines west, opening
up " s'Ic p's tei ~ u'lm western mafhet
n tiaI ce,tp ,I Ii'e 1 noP una olher coal
nuI y ~ VIZ ,o'".e, Inns - great ROAD
. .ho 10 op1ntiIs up wohuet,oi countrv'
. uIi'ip n' vi lne ioau mas Geeh
IetnlueI ny ING sNcaVatihS OF long
tuniiIi, ous WIZ pe completed III lew
T",,.Ia., , Ntat IN importance Is inc
o".Gom % stc'i Mnicii nus Us h9rtliern
~. ~, n Mus "t inii i'oh'' Nv inc heau Oh
Wy -ton n,i river, anu IS norm
CIV sou.In I?nu pHss'hS through inc
Sat I eoiiieGIi1ts VIM nii nc chesapeake
anu Hi'lc tatlro''u. me oa'is system Is
tliot't ~ important ll'G Oh roaG oul!d!he
iiot.s .cuiilQit '.iiouS'i !ne state 10
soi..eei'o.' VIII NY y baltimore '' anu ONO
. to"u Nv uia LII, ~.
.,.t It on Tly VI '''c io''us coming 10 li'ts-
ou'H"
WANT A ROAD TO PITTSBURGH.
ultimately, we hone: but our people
oro CROWN, som.ybo, ;,,,o.;ont Lo
,'p"',e-'
causc fa'lfoao communication between
Fairmont and Pittsburgh has not long
since been consumated; indeed. the
industrial progress, which is visibly
changing many parts OF West Virginia
from a wilderness into hive OF busy,
busting activity has scarcely made,
think, that impression upon Pittsburgh
people that its Importance demands;
certainly no community should be
more interested than Pittsburgh in the
development OF such large area OF
contiguous territory, which should be
naturally tributary i'll q business and
commercial sense to this city. It's
somewhat singular that greater effort
80 i.oS Deeii i.'"ue vi 'lic P"tt VI us,
relations with the section in IIeI''i :
meanthcnorthcrn and interior counties
OF West Virginia. Nlostof their trade and
products nave driited 10 Eastern cities
Iiucn larther away, pecauGe OF lack OF
allect transportation laciii1 n 70 ana
from lhclr hatufal lnarket at ill1spufSh.
for years inc people OF mat section
t1oh nave hopeu lor time Wheh proht-
ape business felatlons should De estab-
llsleu WIN tnls CITY. but ior some rea-
son capital has ned aloot from invest
meht IN railroad up the Monongahcla
river 10 that point IN west Virginia,
which would open up, to Pittsburgh
large part OF tlie otateS resources The
people OF tne upper MohonEanela Val,
ley real'zc the value OF such line, and
nave given support 10 every proposition
looking 10 It's pulldln% AS an instance,
several years ago the counties oil Marion
ana Harrison voted large county sub
scriptions to AID IN such enterprise, sur.
Eeyeu lo0te "lo'ls ,He west DanN OF
me river 10 the state Inc, secured the
r'sat OF way, etc.' DuI thclr efforts were
ulla'alilhs.
DON'T UNDERSTAND TIE VALUE.
"Thc apnoront indifference On +ho
49,, - D;..,ru..hau a..
p'''' " ''o'' ~ seeAihs th's
new ilclo lor their enterprise and new
avenues for enlarged trade by the build
ing OF o railroad in that direction, may
proceed from lack OF appreciation OF
the magnitude OF the resources. Ger
tainlv it would seem that every con-
sdcration of business sagacity would
dictate the establishment OF these rela-
lions WIN scctlon only hundred
ronl;sa MY NY sn t Ioa' W '1oe 70
section" 1870 y '''''
''To what point would 4 road have to
be constructed to secure these advan.
tages?"
''To Fairmout, on the B. & O., which
is the present northern terminus also of
the Camden system, and towards which
town tho Davis system OF roads is now
heading"
''How much road would have to be
built, or what extensions made, to give
Pittsburgh such railroad connection 2"
"Wcll, a branch OF the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad now runs to Moreantown,
which is only % miles from its line ut
Fairmont, and the construction OF n
rooI COVERING this ran would r;vn pi+tc.