Year: 1865

becoming developed, and we may hope that


eventually Cumberland may be brought to be


a city of considerable business Importance. -


The great difficulty has always been that mon .


eyed men in our community have hcsitatod to


invest their funds in any of the various en- =


terpriscs which presented themselves, and
which promised to return Il fair profit, bat
preferred to get small, certain per cent


On the other hand men who were anxious to


take the risk incumbent upon experimental
enterprises were unal1tsto do so for lack OF


means. To "a great extent the generation just
! coming into the area of active business life


have partaken of the same ideas that their
fathers aud grandfathcrs held years ago and
they follow in the same well beaten paths.
caring only to do az their predecessors have
done-ilve an easy, quiet life, and after hay


ing run their race. be laid away beside those


who have gone before them. There is in our
midst, however, class of young men, who
are imbucd with a spirit o: go-ahead-ative-
''N''' "HN "Ho VIII duuulleSs make tnelr lllUu-
cnce felt in all the circles of business life. 1t


is left to them to inaugurate new era in the


history of our county's prosperity, and they


have large and varied field in which to ope-
rate. We want almost everything here, and


whatever is produced will be in demand, and
the cheaper the article is furnished the greater
Will be the demand. No other place in the
country offers better facilities for manufacture
ing than this. We have here good, healthy
climate, water in the greatest abundance, and
coal, and iron at our very doors. Labor is
as cheap, if not cheaper, than in most other
places, and we have communication with the
West by one Of the best and most substantial
Railroads in the world, and with the East
both by Rail and Water. Our Canal, con-
meeting with tide water, at Washington offers
cheap easy and safe mode of transfcrr' ng
our products to Il good market. Heretofore
this thoroughfarc has been used exclusively
in the coal trade, and its business has steadily
increased and will doubtless continue to do so
Yet its capacity is equal to ten times the
amount of work it now does. We bavc, be-
sides, the prospect of the early completion of
the Pittsburg and Connelsville Railroad
which will bring us within few hours of the
Ohio River, and in close communication with
the great West. Cumberland will then be
the central point on the shortest railroad route
between Washington City and the roads lead
ing through the West and South West and
the trade flowing through, back, and forth
will he immense. We soon anticipate, also,
the construction of another railroad to the
East, and the imperative necessity of the cx-
tension of the Western Maryland Road to
this city has been so clearly demonstrated
that we doubt not active measures will soon
be taken to accomplish that object.


Undoubtedly vast amount of money will
be invested in the development of TIE rich
products of our county by shrcwd business
men from abroad. They see the advantages
to be gained here aud they will make use of
them. A great many thousands of acres of
coal and iron deposits lie in heir dark quiet
beds awaiting the energy of man. to bring
them into sight and asc, and if those who
live in their immediate vicinity are Indifferent
to the wealth which thus awaits them, we
hope that otl crs who are seachinr
for such chances may come and reap rich
harvest.


Since the abclishmcnt of slavery it is not
reasonable to suppose that we will occupy the
same stand-stll position which has heretofore
characterized not only us, as a community.
'ut the State at large. Emigration will com
nence Thousands of those who have been
moDgst us in the service of our country will
eturn to make their homes here, and they
will bring others with them. knowledge
gili spread more rapidly; business men will
nrsue more liberal policy-a policy which
'ill eventually net them double the profits
hey have heretofore made. They will ad-
ertisc abroad what they have for sale-con
'''Nio "iii fNuu VIII HiihC use OF the
nowledgc thus obtained to procure the best
uality of goods at the lowest prices. Every
rmer, every mechanic, every business man
l the country will read his home-paper and
: careful to obtain every item of knowledge
lat can be in any possible way be made use
: Every one will be on the qui rice. There
i'll be no hanging back from new enterprises
lat present themselves but every body will be
ady and anxious to invest. The old foov
story of the county will be numbered
nongst the things that were. Great ad-
nces are already being made in the coal
lids, and several of the companies are :
splaying vast amount of energy in their h
erations. We confidently look for a steady u
crease of this business and hail the GOOD a
dications with much pleasure. Energy and !
terprise must meet with their reward. and =
ose who develop these qualities to the high n
extent will be most successful.





Es- Mrs. Windsor. at Randolph, Wis. mt u
SEM, in her husbands pie, last week, be- y
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