. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. s, and while Dothing was done to start anewthe mining of the coal, the members of the companywere casting about and maturing plans to construct arailroad from their coal-fields to the Ohio Richardson, the company^s efficient agent, carried out his employerssuggest ions bycreating a publicsentiment in favorof the road. Heoften rode up anddown the proposedline, talking withfarmers on theroute, telling themof the importance- of a more speedyand certain transitto the outlayingGEO
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. s, and while Dothing was done to start anewthe mining of the coal, the members of the companywere casting about and maturing plans to construct arailroad from their coal-fields to the Ohio Richardson, the company^s efficient agent, carried out his employerssuggest ions bycreating a publicsentiment in favorof the road. Heoften rode up anddown the proposedline, talking withfarmers on theroute, telling themof the importance- of a more speedyand certain transitto the outlayingGEO. s. RICHARDSON. couutry for them- selves and for the products of their farms. AtCatlettsburg some opposition was manifested againstthe right of way through the town. This arosefrom the fact that several old citizens of the placehad, about 1850, subscribed liberally to the build-ing of the E. L. and B. S. Road, on conditionthat the road should be built through the place,and had been compelled by the decisions ofthe courts to pay their subscriptions, although theroad under the old company was never COAL INDUSTRIES. 315 These subscriptions fell heavily on several partiesof the Gate City, especially on the widow and heirsof John Culver, whose donation to the defunctcompany was about ten thousand dollars. But ona vote of the people, by a large majority, the rightof way was granted the road to pass over thestreets and alleys of the town. Ashland, wishing to have the road come withinher borders, reached out her hand with great liber-ality, giving the right of way, Mr. David , a large real estate owner giving free pas-sage over his land. The wealthy capitalists of thecity took stock in the road, and as the water in theOhio River at Ashland is always of sufficient depthto afford a good pool for barges, Ashland becamethe Ohio terminus of the road. From Catlettsburgto Louisa there was but little opposition among thecitizens against the road going over their farms. Louisa
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