The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-28
ruE WEST vIReINIA BOOM.

THE WEST VIRGINIA BOOM
The big tannery at Davis now employs
1875 men.
The Salem wooden mill is enlRrsinS lis
capacity.
Grafton will probably erect water works
q! a cost Of $4,000.
Rsvenawood isbulldIng s.handsomoneW
public school house.
Kearneysville, Berkeley county, Is 70
havc large creamery.
MoYgantown people are working hard
in the direction Of town hall.
The third Parkenburg Electric Light
Company will soon have its plant In ope-
ration. :,
There are walnut trees in Wyoming and
Mcdowell counties worth from 5000 TO
81 900 each.
The Clsrksburg NtwS will soon issue an
industrial edition. Lett his KIND OF
boom keep going.
There 10 move to erect telephone
line between Grafton and Philippe BEL
iugton and BuCkhannon.
A Pennsylvania mill man wants TO
come 10 Jackeon county. He will want
200 cords Of stave bolts this year and
$500 cords next year.
A fair association has been organized IN
Welzsl county. They will locate the
grounds at New MRrtinayille, and give the
Arst exhibition next TALL.
A large cav mill is 10 be put in active
operation by the Potomac Lumber Com
psny, near the mouth Of AbrahAms
creek, on the line Of the West Virginia
Central.
A coal and manufacturing company has
recently been organized in Boone county;
A purchase Of 5000 acres OF camel coal
Hands has been contaminated and opera
tions will begin coon.
The largest cash purchase Of real estate
that has Been made in Writ county for
some time was made lew days ago py
George II. Tsxtor, Of Baltimore, who pur.
chased l,453 ceres OF land In Clay district
from Fleming Bros.; consideration S4V''
900.
1 MIA. ]. Festher,sot Valley District,
hag an excellent fish pond nearly complet-
ed, He expects to place Carp in the
nond in a few weeks. Hundreds Of the
iarmers in thiscounty could supply them.
selves with FISH in this way, If they would
utilize the facilities they posseEs.-hIng'
IVOOd Journal.
Clarksburg ga horse market Ia getting
a national reputation, and the number
shipped from there annually would make
even come oil her own citizens open Their
ewes, Lsst week the trade was unusually
brisk for this time Of the year, and 1t ia
estimated that about ST., 600 worth were
cent 10 Eastern markets.
We believe the right Of way has beon
gecured, from most landhotders, for the
West Virginia Central Railroad along its
lime in this country. Mr.. Davis is also
taking ateps to secure ground for a depot
at Huttonsyllle. The indications are fs.
yorable for the early extension OF the road
up the valley.-RGndOiph Enterprtse.
| Some Of the enterprising citizens Of
Morgan's Glade, Preston county, are agi.
tsting the project Of building tram road
to largo lime Btono bed on the headwa-
ters OF Muddy Greek, to enable them 70
get lime for isrtiiizing. This 10 q good
move and would be profitable invest
ment for the farmers OF that community.
There are 10000 acreG ofland on the Big
Coal river and its tributaries offered Tor
sale at So per acre. There is big talk OF
building railroad along the south side oil
tho Kanawha, PAGING through Point
Pleapant and connecting with the iron
region of the South. 1t would develop
the most wealthy portion OF the Slate and
BIO a paying Investment to railroad men.
Still another evidence that the railroad
will be built through Tylor county thtS
summer ia the fact that 8 party OF Ohio
River engineers were at sistersyllle, last
week looking for suitable location Tor q
coal lipple at the junction OF the two
roads, and also examining the ground Tor
lswitches, side.trRGks, DC. The road vii!
be built this summer, or all indications
are at isulk-Tyler County Star.
At Hsrpor's Ferry real estate is looking
up, and active. There ought to be one
hundred more houses built st once. A
planning mill and lumber yard will coon be
established. The old town is waking up
from her long sleep, ard few more live
men will soon be there to drive ahead the
enterprises now under Why. Several hun
dred acres Of fruit tress will be set this
year, and Caunery follow ss soon as the
amount OF fruit will warrant it.
The building Of the railroad, in the very
early future, is now, beyond all doubt, an
assured fact, and it Ia going to boom Ber'
kelley Springs and Morgan county as they
wer6 never doomed before. Already the
demand for houses in town far exceeds
the supply, and the newcomers must ma.
turally look to the country around the
town Tor sites upon which 10 build. The
prices at which lRuds>ars held near town
are such as to put within the means otany
man the purchase Of pleasant home.
Our country friends will find this season
good market for all the poultry and pro-
duCe they can raise.-Morgdn Mercury