The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-07-25

virginia great temple OF learning.
the voices and hearts of all our cit
liens viii ever exalt its fame and
glory in its constantly increasing
power and benefcence.
The progress of the age, the
steadily increasing wealth of our
people, the ease and facility with
which so many of them without
means other than the product of
their daily labor have been ena-
bled to heretofore, and continue to
erect year after year, not only COM
Portable but elegant homes within
and around Morgantown by reason
of the generous aid afforded them
by our honestly conducted and
well managed Building Associa-
lions have not only within the past
few years largely increased its pop
ulation, but promise, with its many
other enumerated and unmention-
ed advantages and opportunities
to enable it; within the decade to
come, to throw off the swaddling
clothes of large populous and
prominent town and to assume the
dignity and importance of a grow
ing city in which the hammer of
the artizan, the humming of wheels
of the mandatory and the facili-
ties for trade with all the states of
our common country and the gen.
ius and enterprise of its people will
both mark its yearly progress and
furnish steady home market for
the products of the gardener and
the farmer for miles around it. To
divest this brightpromise of ideal
ity and give it the assurance of re-
atty, we may, among so many 9TH
er advantages, which time and
space will not permit us now to
mention, refer to our great river
the Monongahela-which from
its thousand living fountains in
the crests of the Alleghenies and
its many tributaries from the hills
and valleys of West Virginia pours
its waters past our doors and upon
whose bosom magnificent steamers
daily and cheaply bear to our
wharves travellers bent ON busi-
ness and pleasure, supplies for our
merchants in our own and many
other towns, and carry TO distant
markets the surplus products of our
manufactures and farms. This
vision of the future Of our town is
already largely realized. The Mo-
nongahela is one of the prominent
tributaries of the Father of Waters
which with its great and small con.
fuents drains the largest, most fer
tile and productive valley in the
world. The extent and Importance
of these great waterways has re-
Gently and more than ever in the
past, commanded the attention and
generous legislation of congress by
which not only the shackles OF
trade are to be broken and the Mo.
nongahela to be made free from
the levies and tolls of a state cor.
poration but the ownership of its
locks and dams are to be invested
in the United States government
for the free use forever of all PEG.
pie of this great country and large
yearly and continuing appropria-
tons have been made by the Ma
tional legislature to pay for the
slackwater improvements already
erected on the river to Morgantown
and to extend them to Fairmont,
Marion county, and possibly in the
future this great highway of trade
and travel may be extended to
Clarksburg, Harrison county.
The advantages herein before
mentioned will appeal most strong
ly to men of business, the manu-
facturer, the mechanic, the capital
ist and the laborer, and especially
to our fellow citizens in this and
adjacent states who desire to re-
move here either temporarily or
permanently and give to their sons
and daughters the thorough train
ing, discipline and learning to be
had at our great University. To
those who have fought the battle
of life, acquired competency of
this worlds goons, and seek some
quiet retreat in which to spend the
evening of their days under their
own wine and fig tree" elegant
modern homes ready to occupy
can be leased or purchased at very
reasonable rates or erected to please
the taste in the shortest time and
at moderate cost. All kinds of
soft and hardwood timber fill our
forests. Light gray building stone,
beautiful and durable project from
the hill sides. Lime stone in in
quantities and most
excellent quality is found on both
fides of the river, and the Morgan
town Brick Company holds itself
at all times in readiness to meet
all demands for its brick burned
with natural gas and whether for
plain or common building pur-
poses, or beautifully moulded and
pressed for heater and more artis-
tic work, are unexcelled for hard
ness, strength, durability and
cheapness. This company is COM
posed of our best business men who
have recently purchased large
body of land near their present
brick manufacturing establish
ment on the Monongahela river
and will add to its Brick plant
large works for the manufacture of
all kinds of drain tile and piping.
Beautiful sites for homes out of
hearing of the hum and chatter of
machinery and business, where ev-
cry aesthetic taste can be gratified
in the erection of the humble, or
nate cottage, or the palatial man.
sion, can be purchased cheaply in
the town. Our town authori-
ties have completed a thorough
system of tile under drainage in
Ill our streets, and this, in connec-
lion with the surface brick drain
lge, gives reasonable assurance of
freedom from disease and security
'or the health of our people.
In our town there are three
institutions of discount
Ind deposit. The Bank of the Mo-
1ongahela Valley, the Second Ma
,ional~ Bank of Morgantown and
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