Arizona republican., 1902-04-09
ELKINs OF WEST VIRGINIA.
How He Went East From New Mexico
 and Did Things.

The case Of Senator EIkins is in Bentons statue pointed him to New Mexico. saying, "There is the east. There is Europei" He returned to West Virginia as his father came from old Virginia, and has just sold out his rail- road, it is believed for some ST COG. GOO.
 Old Elkins of about fredericksburg Va, moved on to the Kanawha and up the Hooking and settled in Perry county. Ohio, where Phil Sheridan was bred Knowing more about the con- stitution than John Marshall, less about the law of gravity than a proph- et old Elkins went on to Missouri and his son got an education there and set | tied On the border. where his friends were the Younger boys. who finally graduated at the Minnesota penitentf- ary. They believed in force, Eikins in friendship. Just as he sells his rail- road for S11,000000 they are applying for civil rights. so as to be welded.
 | The war on the border drove Elkins afar to New Mexico, where he studied Spanish during the civil war and en- tered the legislature and was public attorney till he came to congress a del dDD1OdCneu him with courtesy and became his | friend. Elkins married for second l wife the daughter of Henry Davis. sen ator from West Virginia, who has been everything on railroad. and was q cousin of Senator German. Davis was working upon lumber boom or tor rent navigation on the upper Potomac. Whats this?" said Elkins. Lets see l h. f
 the surface; coal and iron below They abandoned the boom and began to 1 build a railroad across the high divide from the Potomac to the Mononga-
 hela. It was and is a terrible grade sometimes 1900 feet above the Black
 water. The little railroad taxed the small resources of the twain E,ikins began to sell mines and Mexican grants. Thus they played the west into
 the east, till finally they had a railroad
 over hundred miles long, which hooked on at the west with other little
 railroads to the Ohio and stopped eas.
 of Cumberland Md Now and then
 met an obligation.
 They founded the town of Elkins
 Richard Kerens of Missouri helned ! them out and all three built mansions
 in that pleasing wild beneath the effigy cf Rich mountain, where Mcclellan made fame. When the big railroads
 began to buy the little ones a year O.
 two ago they left the Vest Virginia
 Central cut. So it stood ready fo,
 other promoters to take it in.
 \ little more than sixty years of age ! E!lins is senator from Wess Virginia
 fer the second time. has been secretary
 or war and is probably worth some
 millions of dollars. He sold much Cot
 orado land for notes to promote West
 Virginia. He is chairman of the inter-
 state commerce committee. The .afl-
 road he sold out, or merged, has just
 cfterei over $S090,GCO cash for the west.
 ern Maryland railroad as an easter:
 octlet. Thus Elkins's father-1a-Iaw Davis. once Q Conductor Cn the BaIti. , mere and Ohio railroad, has become tn, para-clef Of that railroad and il is be icved that the Goulds and NVabasI system arc behind the purchase
 ; It is to be remembered that Robar Hayne and John C. Calhoun of cid sen ators, tried sixty years ago to carr! i railroads through the Alleghenies t, the Ohio, but their politics was at tn | expense of their physics. They bot failed. The work Washington failed fc to connect the Potomac with the Kan awha i1 1875 the son of another ma: ! from Fredericksburg has achieved ; Elkins' railroad passed in sight Of tn Fairfax stone planted by WasiIingto,