Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-13
FAIRMONT.
A Busy Mining Town and It's
People.
The State Normal School, and the
Great Coal Mines Of Ma
TiOR County.
One of Tho Places WGiGh Thrive
While others Stand Still.
ALandsCaps Of Rars Beauty and q
Cultured Commuai'y.
Tales In and Out of SChOVl---prOm'
inent People --Garious Men
tiOnings - Business
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S,..i,l C,rrssp0s,lsnes Of he Sunday Register.
F,IsNoxT, June THE venerable men
who in 1918, or Whereabouts took It into
their heads 10 build q town on these banks
ofthe Monongahela, must have delighted
in hill climbing; CT else they we're natives
Of shsggy mountains snd rugged inctuss,
ard detestsd valleys and meadows, as be-
ING the seats Of Incidence and homes OF
ease. Instead of selecting level or gent
IL slipping bench, whereon to build their
CITY, they chose high hill, whose sides
dipped down 10 the waters in an unoroEen
pitch; and on the top thereof they laid the
foundations Of the future mining town, and
10 they selected the very spot they should
have selected, inasmueh as no more accss'
sible point, for the esntering OF rail and
county roads can be found in all Marion
county. The river breaks into the noun
tsius in one direction, and affords Gu out
let 10 the Golden West in another, while
the natural slope Of the land is toward,
and in the direction Of the hill, Vhereon
Fsirmont stands. and wherein its miners
toiI. About this mount nature hath dis
played q landscape OF exceeding beauty
and charming variety. AT ones feet winds
the river-beyond il spring up green hills,
with broken and interrupted surface lines
and rare curves and swel's. In the other
direction the lard spreads out in pleasing
fluctuations of gentle character and regu-
lar order. The scene Is altogether lovely,
as in tact, are all mountain views in the
Eirpinias, new aud ole.
Fairmont is decidedly prosperous, and it
does one good to spend Day OF q week
among liz cheerful and cOntented people
Not a man complains Of hard times;' not
an idlsr is seen. Who in excuse for his
wasting Of The Gay and hour, ut
tiers that pallistiDg word. strike
Perhaps By the time this article is published
that assertion giil not be exactly true. "a
there were lately heard rumors and talk OF
trouble between the miners aud mine osn-
ers and preparations for - shut down we're
seen; but when sour correspondent VAS a.
FairmOnt everything vEs moving a. usual
The labor troubles else~here up to the
time Of writing, have greatly benefited
Fairmout. as in this way the coal mined
here found a ready market awsiting it. and
the demand outrsu the supply. With the
settlement of troubles elsewhere, however,
came rumors OF the inability Of the home
mines 10 compete With other operators, and
the story is that the price of mining has
been or will be cut down from 40c per ton
to 25c What the result will be- we do not
know, out certain It IS that the past soring
has been an unusually satisfactory one 10
Fsirmont, aud peace and plenty have held
sway.
The daily output Of the mines in and
about Fsirmcnt Is some 800 tons Four
hundred miners are employed and it has
been calculated that their yearly wages
amount to $2l20OO-that is reckoning OF
40 cents per ton This vast volume of
money, circulating in o community Of say
1000 souls, has OF course relieved them OF
the pinch and distress felt elsewhere; and
hence they wear more cheerful DIR and
utter less complaints than those of other
and less favored towns The Fairmout
mines are the New England, CASTOR, Jack.
COD, O'Donnell, West Fairmont, and the
new mine opened up BY the Nswburg Co.
Who that visits FairmOnt can fail to notice
the moral, quiet, and scholarly tone of the
place, aud the intelligent disposition Of its
people il is marked characteristic
The men and women you meet seem
to be 3 little better dressed, more
suave and sfsble, than in some other
towns Perhaps the air they breathe, the
water they drink, and the wines they use,
are purer, clearer, more choice, than in
the average place. Perhaps yeR perhaps
no. Be the cause what it is, The fact ex.
lists. II may be as safely aseri5ed to the
moral Influence and polishing effect of the