The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-04-12

223 miles. Thus practically the
entire Western border of this State
is traversed by railway. The adj
tages of such route are indeed
patent and great. This State af-
fords the best and nearest passage
way from the sea-board to the
Great Western Lakes. The trend
of her waterways are largely to-
wards the Ohio River. Her slopes
come this way. Out of these val
leys and along these slopes already
three great trunk lines are builded
from the Eastern to the Western
borders of the State. They alltap
the Ohio River Railway. In addi-
ton thereto is the Kanawha and
Michigan Railway, that penetrates
the Southern central portion of the
State for 90 miles up the Great
Kanawha Valley, into a grand coal
region, with it's qualifications of
connections through the Ohio Cen
trail Lines. 1t is only question
of time, and short time at that,
until the X. & M. R'y will go on
to the Atlantic aboard. Elk,
Coal and Gualey rivers may oc-
casionally wash out the streets
of the Capitol City, but they abound
with immense coal deposits that
will more than rebuild the water
wasted places. It is creditably re-
ported that railway will be pro-
jected up Guyandotte river in the
near future. Already the Little
Kanawhe River valley is being in
vaded with these best of modern
developing agencies and more coal
fields of the finest quality are to be
reached in Clay, Gilmer and Cal
houn counties. The Spencer and
Ravenswood Railway opens the
way to another entrance into the
last mentioned coal and timber Geo
ton of West Virginia, and the Mill
Creek Valley Road is pointing to
tho Capitol City. Now Martinsville
will soon find outlet to the fertile
fields that lie in the Fairmont,
Grafton and Clarksburg portion of
tho State. The Southerly side of
the Great Kanawha river is too
plain way to the grand and inox-
haustable coal deposits on Coal
river and it's tributaries to remain
unoccupied and unaccustomed to
the thrilling scream of the locomo-
tive. Here is the actual and the
probable, and all on West Virginia
soil. The Ohio River Railway is
the beneficiary of all that is and
that is to be, in this utilization of
natures lavish expenditure of her
resources and opportunities. Thus
the wealth of the mountain will
find it's way to the Ohio River val
10y, and whore will you find 223
miles of any river valley that will
surpass it?
Take the terminal facilities of
this railway. Kenova the Souther-
ly terminus, at the mouth of the
Big Sandy River the junction of
the Chesapeake & Ohio and the
Norfolk and Western Railways, the
latter connecting Newport News,
destined to become one of our
heaviest ocean shipping ports and
the grain producing regions of the
West, and tho former finding in
the canyons of New River a tonnage
that taxes its capacity to handle,
and affords to the Ohio River Rail
way a quick and short transit for
passengers and freight to Cincin-
natl, the Queen City of the West.
With rivers gorged with ice in
winter and dwindling to thread
in summer, the people of the Ohio
Valley know what these railroad
advantages mean, Wheeling at
the northern terminus, the empor-
ium of this State, progressive pros
porous with railway facilities reach,
ing in all directions, is potent
factor in tho Ohio River Railways
business life.