The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-09

tlnued, warming up wherever we es-
tabllsh a trade, we keep II, because OF
the superiority of our product. we nave
got the best COking coal, the best CRATE
coal, the best steam-makins coal You
can't name a bituminous coal that we
haven't got. You don not know, per-
haps, that we have eighty-nine feet or
coal measures here. The veins are from
twenty-slx inches to thirteen feet In
thickness. Those thiokest veins have
some slate, but we have veins SIX
eight and even eleven feet that are pure
coal. Still lower than these measures
which have included In the eighty-nine
feet we have seml-anthracite, but we
have never found real anthracite"
Can you see the evidences OF better
times In West Virglnia?" Governor At
liinson was asked
PLENTY Of them" he replied breezily.
~ have recently travelled over the state
and know that conditions are improving
everywhere. Our merchants are all do
ing well. They are unanimous In telling
me that business is getting better The
farmers are as happy as June bugs. You
never saw people more jubllant than
the farmers OF West Virginia are, they
have good crops and now the demand
IL good and the prices are good. one
man In Hancock county has a crop OF
[, 900 barrels of apples. Wool has gone
up TO 22c. That means great deal to
us, for, l believe, we have the best sheep
state In the union. You know that the
higher up in the hills the mutton is
raised the better II is, A West Virginia
sheep man, Cornelius II. Bell, took the
premium at the Paris exposition for the
finest wool. | have information that
there Is about to be great revival In
the lumber Industry. And right in that
connection want 10 say the new tarin
helps us amazingly. The prosecuting
attorney of Mcdowell county told me
the other day that new lumber com'
pany had Just come In there from out
side OF the state and had put up posts
ers calling for 500 men. The Panther
company, OF that county, which sus4
| pended some time ago. has resumed and
| will put about 400 men to work at once.
These are the reports that are coming
to me daily. You know, probably, that
West Virglnln has millions OF acres OF
the finest kind of timber land into which
an AK has never been struck. The rea-
son Is that much OF the state Is still far
off the railroads"
rs there prospect of railroad build
ing, governor"
"Yes, know Of several roads that are
to be extended into the interior of the
state by routes that will open up large
timber and coal tracts"
about your Oils 1t holding out?"
Talking Of OIL" replied the COVER
nor, we're in the eternal center OF 1t,
We don't know how large the field Is,
| and will not for some time to come, but
the Indications are that the oil underlles
a large portion OF the state. There Is no
question about the field holding out.
The limit on production Is not the PEE
sent extent OF the field. The Standard
company doesn't allow more than Is
needed to be produced. 1t has n way OF
holding down productions. You under
stand how that Is. West Virginia would
turn out great deal more oil than she
Is doing IL the demand justified. AS
soon as the wells In one place begin TO
show signs Of exhaustion the Standard
company moves along a little further
into the state. puts down new wells and
maintains the production. There is no
trouble In finding good oil land as fast
as wanted"
1t is an interesting fact that the pro-
duction Of oil in West Virginia, even
at present low prices, has reached about
slO,0OOOOO year.