The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-03-05
THE STATE BOOM.

ct Weston.
A charter has been obtained for bank
at Ronceverte.
Berkeley and Jefferson counties Will be
great growing regions OF no distant day.
There are prospects Of the establish
ment Of water works at Point Pleasant.
New papers are to be established ct
Grafton and Elk Garden within lew
days.
It is an established fact that West vIr-
Rinia has the finest natural scenery In the
United States.
Mr.. Jsrsel Simmons is preparing to bring
cav mill to his place near Lewis sul'
phur springs soon.
There Is no country on the globe that Ia
90 well adapted to the stock industry as
West Virginia, sheep especially.
Mason City has big vein Of FIRE clay on
the land of g. Y. Roots. It Is hrst-class
as demonstrated by tests, and 1t Is about
twenty feet thick.
The two new dynRmos which were or.
dered some time since by the Huntington
Electric Light Company, have arrived,
and will be placed In circuit as soon %
possible.
A renewed effort will be made to find
oil near Fairmont, in Marion county. The
opinion is growing among prospectors
that salt also exists in that county in pay
log quantities.
Not a day passes now but what some
strangers appear upon our streets, looking
around with q view to locating in the
county. The eyes Of the people are upon
this stste-RdVenSOo0 NetDs.
It is true that West Virginia has not
railway station ct every country postotice
lin the State, bat It Ia confidently asserted
that within the next Eve years the total
railroad mileage in the State will be
almost doubled.
The character OF the New river coal, Rs
proven by analysis, Is Of the very best ma
ture, and IS o fuel and steam coal ig I'M
surpassed, as It Is, In fact, for general use
Of every description. As coking coal It
lis pre.eminent and produces the best OF
coke.
The Ere brick business will be before
long one oil the leading industries OF the
State, very valuable deposits Of fire clay
having recently been discovered IN Marion,
Harrison, Taylor, Preston and other coun.
ties, In addition to those already known
to exist.
Among the projected enterprises in
West Virginia Is o railroad sixteen miles
long from PeytonR to st. Adams, in ka.
nawha county. 1t will open up some
100000 acres OF valuable coal property,
which abounds heavily in splint, camel
and bituminous coal and timber.
The land owners and timber men on
Coal river will send to the Ohio Valley
Exposition, samples Of timber from pop
lar six feet in diameter, an ash four and
hall feet, walnut four feet, and an oak
four and half feet. The logs will be
sawed at HUNDREDS mill, at St. Adams,
and the lumber shipped to Cincinnati.
The Democrat says the signs Of the timea
indicate o very prosperous summer in
Weston. Weston has not made as much
noise about her growth and improvements
as some oil her neighbors, but nevertheless
the last ten years have made decided
change in the staid old town, and the
coming year bids fair to Guido any three
years Of the past In substantial increase OF
business.
The Charleston Star says: The adj
dresses delivered at the convention by
ex-senator Henry G. Davis, Hon. Stephen
B. Elkins and others, should be read by
every citizen OF the State, because they
are forecast Of what the State is likely
to become within the next few years.
They indicate the grand possibilities
which await US as the reward for little
exertion upon our part to bring the State
into prominence.
The Philippi Republican says: Right
here at Philippi we are abundantly
blessed with magnificent coal privileges.
There Is 6ve.ioot vein OF as good steam
coal 90 can be found in the world, and
some twenty feet under this is q six.ioot
vein oil excellent coking coal almost free
from sulphur, and not more than fifteen
feet under that another vein Of coal
shows in the bed OF the river that is ex-
cellont crate coal, but has never been
tested as to its other qualities, which is
some six or seven feet In thickness, and
still under this are other seams Of Goa,
thickness and quality unknown, and crop!
ping out in the hills near here Is the
Olarksburg coal vein.