The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-09-07

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Following are the main points
of Mr.. Barrett's address on West
Virginia
He began by stating that he
was sorry that the gentleman
who was expected to speak for
his State was not present, but
that he had been requested by
members of the West Virginia
delegation to not allow the State
to be passed without some re.
marks upon its great mineral,
agricultural and lumber re.
sources. He said
1.-The members of the West
Virginia delegation, in fact our
whole State, heartily applaud
the expressions we have listened
to from the different Southern
States. West Virginia, although
the newest State of the South,
was not by any means a laggard
in the procession of material de-
velopment. Her vast forests of
poplar, pine, and hard wood had
made her one of the lumber pro.
ducing centers of the United
States. Since the development
OF her lumber interests have be-
gun, her reputation as a great
producerin that line had already
become known to the world, for
from her forests of black wanut
and poplar many of the finest
specimens of timber are being
shipped to transatlantic ports:
Around my native city of
Parkersburg, on the Ohio river,
is one Of the most productive
natural gas and oil fields in the
United States. Great oil rein.
cries are located here in which
a large amount of the refined
oils made by the Standard Oil
Company is produced. At this
time capitalists from various
parts of the country are leasing
lands and sinking wells in the
further development of that
enormous field. Here is to be
found natural gas in sufficient
quantity for the purpose of ex-
tensive manufacturing.
/ 1noNs SJAl1 AN NIJhEIs
In various parts of the State
the iron industry is a leading one.
Not many years ago it was said
| that three-fourths of the cut
nails manufactured in the United
States were made at Wheeling
and Benwood; but in the line OF
mineral development it is in the
production of coal in which West
Virginia takes the leading part.
Our State is almost solid coal
bed. and within her limits are
some of the finest quality of COX.
ing coal to be found in the United
States.
The Flat Top coke region, the
coal from which it is now fully
considered makes a better coke
than that which comes from the
Connellsville bed in Pennsylva.
MIA, while its area is many times
greater than the Pennsylvania
fields. The Pocahontas coal is
now recognized as the best steam
coal in the world.
At Newport News and Norfolk,
the respective terminals OF the
Chesapeake & Ohio and the Nor.
folk & Western railroads, nearly
eight million tons of this coal
are annually delivered at tide.
water, over two-thirds of which
goes to the coastwise trade; but
it is not alone over these rail.
roads that West Virginia is pour.
ing out her great supply of fine
steam coal ond coke for consump.
ton in all parts of the country.
Since the completion of the Nor.
folk & Western lines into Ohio
we are shipping enormous guam
titles of coke and coal on this
line to the northwest. This is
also true of the Chesapeake s.
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