The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-07-15
THE SALE or LOTS
A GRAND SUCCESS.
People Have Conf
dence in Morgantown
The Total Receipts Foot up
to Over Forty Thousand
Dollars.
Lots Already Selling at Fifty
Per Cent. Profit.

pany on the Company's addition to
Morgantown, known as Beechurt and
comprising about $50 acres of land
north of, and adjoining Morgantown
on the Monongahela river, and
through which the Fairmont, Nor
gantown and Pittsburg railroad pas
ses, June 2Sth and 10Th, was a grand
success both financially and as re.
CARDS the immense crowd which at
tended the sale. Early on the first
day the steamer Elizabeth arrived
with nearly three hundred invited
guests on board, consisting of pros
pective buyers and manufacturers
looking for locations for their plants.
The party on the Elizabeth was I'M
der the management of the well
known Pittsburg real estate agents
Morris d Aisbitt. Soon afterward
the regular packet Adam Jacobs
steamed up to the wharf with large
number of people from points all
along the Monongahela Valley who
came to attend the sale. Two small
steamers also landed with private
parties. On the second day the Isaac
nj. Mason brought up a large num-
Der of excursionists, and the regular
trains on the railroad were crowded
both days with people from all along
the b. d o. r. X. So many steam
boats were never before seen at the
wharf at the same time. These PEG.
pie came from far and near; Pitts.
burg, Allegheny, Birmingham. Nc
Keesport, Larimer, Lomont, Brae-
dock, Homestead, with a sprinkling
from almost every other town in the
Monongahela valley. Connellsville,
Uniontown, Foxburg and other Penn
sylvania towns were well represen-
ted. Hundreds of citizens from
throughout the county flocked into
town on horseback, in buggies and
afoot.
They were gala days for Morgan
town, and few such days have ever
been known in the town. Rutter's
celebrated Cornet Band, of Union
town, Pa, had been secured to fur
nish music for the occasion and at 0
o'clock marched to the wharf follow
ed by hundreds of people who board
ed the Elizabeth for Beechurst, 700
yards below the wharf, and soon af-
ter the landing of the boat scores of
carriges rolled down Beeehurst Ave
nue. which was black with convey
ances of all kinds and pedestrians.
The avenue, almost dead level and
60 feet wide for nearly mile. start
ing almost in the center OF Morgan.
town and running through the pref
test part of the Company's addition
has already become a favorite drive
and the cyclists paradise. A mum
Der of elegant residences will be
built soon on this magnificent avenue
some of which have already been
contracted for. Col. w. o. Becken
baugh, the celebrated land auction
eer, of Baltimore, began to cry off the
lots at 10 O'Clock. On the first dav
81 lots and on the second day 65 lots
were sold at prices ranging from $135
to $440, and footing up grand total
OF $40, 250. 1t was a common thing
to see purchasers during the sale
sell their lots at an advance of from
$25 to 800 and one gentleman with
in an hour of buying lot refused
an advance of 5000 over the price
paid by him. All of the sales were
bona fide sales; no by bidding
or bidding in by the company. Col.
Beckenbaugh who has conducted a
large number of sales throughout
Ohio, Indiana and in the South. as
well as in West Virginia, said that
this was the largest and most sue
cessful bona fide sale that he had
made this year, and considering the
stringency in the money market he
regarded this sale as perfectly pheno-
menal. The greater number of the
sales on the second day were made
to Pennsylvania capitalists which
proved that the more the strangers
saw of Morgantown and her advan
tages the more they realized that
money invested here would Weld
bountiful harvest. Several manufac-
tuners, representing variety of in
dustries, were so favorably impress
ed with the situation and advantages
OF the town that they Immediately
entered into negotiations for the 10
eating of their plants on the free
sites offered by the Company.
But why this faith in the future
and advantages of Morgantown?
Why did these people, in the face of
an unsteady money market, make
this the greatest lot sale of the year?
Because the great Monongahela val
ley from Pittsburg to Morgantown
will become great business and
manufacturing centre; and especial
ly because Morgantown has command
OF the largest natural gas belt in
West Virginia or Pennsylvania, and
has five veins of merchantable coal
to fall back on for fuel if gas should
become exhausted. Because Morgan
town has limestone inexhaustible,
fire clay, potters' clay in large and
line deposits, silica sand, is in easy
reach of the timber supply, is great
educational centre and has refined
society, sociable people, elegant
homes, a healthful climate, the pur
est drinking water in the world, cleo
trio light, with all the conveniences
of a large city at half the cost for
living, has built more public build
ings than any other city in the state
within the last two years, her court
house being the finest in the state.
Because Morgantown is favorably
located at the head of slackwater
navigation on the Monongahela river,
an advantage that no other city in
northern West Virginia, off of the
Ohio river, possesses. Steamboats,
do not ascend the Monongahela fur
ther than Morgantown. Because the
completion of the Pittsburg, Morgan
town d Fairmont division of the
Baltimore d Ohio railroad to Union
town places Morgantown in direct
communication with Pittsburg and
within three hours ride.
With this road through, the prin-
cipal travel to and from Morgantown
east and west will be by way of the |