Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-21
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VanCamp, W. Va, March 81
"A. L.. Anderson of Friendly, was
in this vicinity one day last week
on business.
The farmers are busy blowing
these days.
G.. A. Watkins was a New Mar
tinsville visitor Wednesday.
F. M. Long, who has been in
the employ of the Sistersville
Boiler works for the past year, re-
signed and moved to VanCamp
Saturday.
A company with capital
stock of 100000 has been out
securing the right of way between
New Martinsville and Middle
bourne, and as soon as the right
of way is secured between these
two points men will be put to
work securing right of way from
Middleboune to Salem. We I'M
derstand that the company is
binding itself to the farmers
whose lands the road will pass
through to commence the engi-
neering and building of the road
and complete the same with due
diligence, agreeing to have the
road in operation at the earliest
date. We understand that this
company is in no way connected
with the people who proposed to
build the steam road previously
mentioned. The proposed road
If we are correctly informed by
those securing the right Of way
will be a modern electric road,
equipped not only with up-to-
date passenger cars, but will also
put into operation the best ap-
proved pattern boxes for the car
rying of freight. A road of the
kind that is proposed would be
God-send to the people living
along or near PIT. Pleasant
creek, and we trust that the far
mers owning land through which
the road will pass will not stand
in their own light and be a STUN
bling block for the promoters of
the road, as the building Of the
road would make PIT. Pleasant
equal to a rich gold field and
every farmer owning land along
it's banks would have a valuable
claim which would make them
dollars where they are not making
dimes. The loss occaslOned by
having to sacrifice a strip of land
80 feet wide will by taking ev-
erything into consideration be off
set more than a hundred fold.
Farmers generally are slow to
grasp the idea that railroad is OF
any Importance to others than the
owners and city people, not real
ling that a road through their
land or in close proximity there
to will put them in closer touch
with the outside world, somehow
or other they think (yet a mis-
taken idea) that farming will
have to cease with the advent Of
a railroad and that they will be
ruined. There are two classes Of
people as we all know, one class
the people with good foresight
and can see far into the distant
future, and the other class have
in their following the class of far
mers alluded to above, with
wonderful hindsight sufficient to
pierce the distant past back to
the beginning of time. Now, I
do not think we have any of this
latter class who claims PIT. Pleas
ant as their place of residence,
but in case there is would advise
that they hide themselves away
until the march of progress is in
our midst, which will not only be
of benefit to the present genera
ton of untold worth, but the
greatest blessing that we can be-
stow upon the future generations,
we have only to glance at other
sections bound together by steel
rails and cities. towns and vii
lagos shining out like diamonds
set firmly in this band of steel and
offering ready markets for every
thing that the farmer can produce
at good prices, consequently rail