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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wealth of Western Virginia. (search)
ation, I am satisfied that we have there an inexhaustible mine of wealth. Leaving the timber out of the question, a large quantity of which is now being shipped to Europe, its mineral resources are unlimited, and are naturally located under the most favorable auspices. All that is requisite for their development is energy and enterprise. Were you to give them yor personal attention, the question would immediately present itself, why have they remained so long concealed? In Wood, Ritchie, Harrison, Taylor, Preston and other counties that might be enumerated, there are inexhaustible bodies of iron ore and coal laying almost contiguous, but for the want of the necessary means of transportation, they are comparatively useless. Iron could be manufactured as cheap, if not cheaper, in many of our western counties, than in any other section of the United States. Such, at present, is the want of facilities for bringing it into market, that it is impossible to compete with est