The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-05-24
RAILROAD POINTERS.
No Subscription Means no Rail
road will be Built.

This Is Positive and Final-~The Whole
Thing viii be abandoned If the Sub
scription is Turned Down Few
Reasons Why we Cannot Afford 10 let
this the Last Opportunity sIip-Uur
Business Salvation Depends on its
Success.
No subscription. 10 Railroad.
Help yourselves by voting for the
Railroad, and the Railroad will help
you.
$2250 per year will be all the money
you will have to raise by tax to secure
the Railroad.
You will get II miles uf railroad
certain, and see about 800, 900 expend-
ed nearly all for work and material in
Morgan district, before you are taxed
one cent.
You will have the pleasure of
taxing the new railroad about $3.50 on
each 800 Of its valuation, for all time
and SO reduce your own taxes white
you will be taxed only II cents on
each 500 of your property for not over
20 years.
The railroad will pay back in taxes
directly, and indirectly by the new
wealth it will create or bring into the
District, the full amount Of your sub
scription, before you complete your
payments. and will have made money
for you, by giving employment to
labor, creating new avenues for CAPT
tai and enterprise, increasing values
Of real estate and rents, and creating
new markets for all you have TO sell.
1t is good thing, push it along.
Morgantown has come to stand
still. Some houses are without ten
ants. Some idle men are seen on the
streets who would gladly find employ
ment. Some capital has been sent
away or invested at home at 4 per
cent In U. S.. bonds, or in county or
ders at ~ per cent or in town bonds
at Al per cent or in School district
bonds at 5 per cent; more than three
quarters of million dollars are on de-
posit in your banks, much Of it brings
to the depositors only 3 per cent, and
some nothing at ALL while the owner
is looking for profitable and safe in
yestments. Why not tax this idle
money. or induce it to invest in dis
trict bonds at per cent or in mining,
milling, manufacturing or other bnsi-
ness enterprises that will bring in
profit, and give employment to labor?
Coal and oil money has been poured
out in this county, and many have
been made rich without much effort
or management, or risk. or enterprise
on their part. Much of this money
has come to town, is in our banks or
in new houses, or in building lots, and
has helped to enhance our prosperity
and increase it. But this cannot long
continue without other sources Of in
come. Build the Decker's Creek road
and you make all of Preston county
between Cheat River and the b. & o.
Railroad tributary to Morgantown.
Its coal and timber, its cattle and
agriculture, the people and general
business will come our way, swell our
| University attendance, increase our
banking business and profits, add to
our population, and buy and sell and
trade with us.
Enoukh glass sand, fire clay, and
limestone can be mined 10 Morgan dis
trict to give employment to five thous-
and hands, furnish freight for 100 cars
day, use million capital, make the
best markets for all that our farms,
market gardens and diaries can pro-
duce.
"The Gods cannot help "a man who
neglects opportunities, says the
Chinese proverb Neglect your oppor-
tunity to get new railroad by voting
for 1t and you will regret it as long as
you live in this community.
"Self-help is the best help" Help
yourself by working for the Railroad.
To-day is better than tomorrow. y
Get the railroad now and let posterity
take care of itself.
"Wealth is not his that has it, but
his that enjoys it, The wealth in
our forests, in our coal veins, in our
sand rocks, In our limestone lodges,
and in our fire clays, is not ours unless
we develop them and use them and
the wealth now idly locked up in
them. Only railroad can do this for
us.
More than 90 years have elapsed
since the effort was first made to build
a railroad up Decker's Creek. Foreign
capital was timid, home capital in
sufficient, contractors unfortunate and
unable to carry the securities in which
they were paid till the road was COM
pleted and could prove it's earning
capacity. The efforts which a very
| few have made, the money they
have spent and the faith they have
had have all gone for naught. The
present is the last effort these men
will make. If the railroad subscrip
tion carries they have positive assur-
ance of enough foreign capital to COM
plete the road from Morgantown to
Kingwood. Without this local aid
no foreign capital can be gotten to in
vest and no one or more individuals
in this section of country can or will
undertake the work. No subscription
means no railroad. This is most pos
tive.