The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . de water is one thousand and four feet. This place has sprung upwithin the last year or two, and bids fair for future importance. Arailroad from it to Uniontown, via Mount Pleasant, and thence LATROBE. 161 through Kanawha to the Big Sandy, in Virginia, where it would con-nect some other railway routes, is projected. In this age of steamand railroading, it is not improbable that this contemplated road mayultimately be undertaken. A large portion of the stock, we
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . de water is one thousand and four feet. This place has sprung upwithin the last year or two, and bids fair for future importance. Arailroad from it to Uniontown, via Mount Pleasant, and thence LATROBE. 161 through Kanawha to the Big Sandy, in Virginia, where it would con-nect some other railway routes, is projected. In this age of steamand railroading, it is not improbable that this contemplated road mayultimately be undertaken. A large portion of the stock, we under-stand, is already subscribed for. The line would cross the north-western railroad leading to Parkersburg, in some point in HarrisonCounty, and the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, lead-ing to Wheeling, at some point in the county of Taylor or Marion, inVirginia. The people of that section of Virginia, (which is exceed-ingly rich in its mineral resources,) would thus be brought withinseveral hours ride of Wheeling, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, whilethey are now comparatively shut out from each of these The great interior region of Westmoreland comprises the rich tablelands of the Alleghany—the country being sufficiently rolling toadapt it admirably for all the purposes of agriculture, including thatof sheep husbandry, which is extensively pursued in the adjoiningcounty of Washington, and others adjacent to the Monongahela, inthis State and Virginia. East of Latrobe, in the adjacent countiesof Indiana, Jefferson, Armstrong, and Clarion, is one of the finestand most extensive lumber regions in the State, to penetrate which itis sometimes proposed to extend the Blairsville branch of the railroad,at least so far as Indiana, the seat of justice of that county. A por-tion of all these counties is drained by the Clarion River, emptyinginto the Alleghany; a portion of Armstrong and Indiana by the14* V 162 LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES. Crooked Creek and its forks ; a
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