Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-03

IAN Industrial Center-Its Rail-
roads and Business Enterprises.
some of the Firms Which Have
Rrought About the Change in the
community.
er,7al to the Register.
harrisburg W. Va, April 2.-It used
, ho said Of Clarksburg that it was
-. slOwest town in the State. Now it
hid of Clarksburg that it is the
,,osr progressive town in the State.
certainly it is growing more rapidly,
.o,eideriug that it has never enjoyed
an artificial boom, than any other
,evn in West Virginia. This is claim
"A with just pride, by the progressive
citizens of Clarksburg and Harrison
s-1ntv. Although other towns have
b,flr I'D rapidly and passed Clarks-
b.rg in point of population; their
mushroom growth is more speculative
and not upon real worth, as is the case
with Clarksburg. Herein lies the
5iffrence between Clarksburg and
a,her interior cities. Ours is a sub
.sntial. steady growth, brought by
tbe natural advantages of situation,
and Gods gifts.
Ciarksburg will be growing when
o.ber cities and towns have reached a
climax and are on a standstill or de-
dining. not alone in population, but
in wealth, because there are few other
localities that have the original
wealth to go on, and a large and rich
territory to draw from. Clarksburg is
the natural city for the capital of the
State. Some day, not in the very far
distant future, it may in reality be the
e4pital Of the Mountain State, if the
pccple of Kanawha do not mend their
Ways
F0r an interior town, Clarksburg is
cutie railroad centre. At least
twenty passenger trains go and come
day and has four railroads running
through its territory, one about to be
built. and another which has a fran
chise for an eastern and northern
outlet, with Clarksburg as its ter
minus.
Within the past four or five years
the county seat of Harrison county has
improved more than during the ten
years previous. This is owing to the
introduction of new blood, but more
particularly to the fact of the natural
resources of the county and town.
This little city has four banks, all do
ing a healthy, prosperous business,
three of which are in new and COM
modious buildings, and the Merchants
National and R. T. Loundes & Co.'S
buildings are probably among the
handSomest of their kind in the State.
Probably more lumber is sawed and
gotten out through Clarksburg than
any other two towns of twice the
population in the State. While the
lumber is not secured Immediately
within the bounds of Harrison county,
still Clarksburg is the point of dis
tribution for all the country south
and east, and this means quite scope
Of territory, when you consider Clarks-
burgs railroad facilities for reaching
the interior of Lewis, Braxton, Web
ster. Upshur, Gilmer and even Nicho-
as counties.
Harrison county always has been
and probably always will be the rich
asst county in the State, because OF her
line agricultural and live stock inter-
asts. Harrison county probably has
dow hi, he
boundaries than any other two large
counties in the State. The blue grass
lesi0n is as rich and the vast coal
and other minerals within easy reach
under tle soil, are much richer than
that CT any other county in the State.
In fact, Clarksburg and Harrison
county offers every advantage to the
beginner in lifes battles, and to those
Tho are looking for profitable and
r&Ie investments, whether in real es-
tate, lands or mines, larger returns
taan any Of the more pretentious COM
munities.
Surrounding us on every side we
have prosperous and enterprising
towns, and those nearest us we may
say the most of. because their growth,
IKE ours, has been slow and steady.
we are within less than a days travel
70 Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Wheeling,
Washington and Baltimore.
harrisburg offers excellent advant-
ases in the way of churches, school
buildings, private schools, seminaries
gnu colleges. The town has illuminat-
WS and natural gas, as well as electric
N}. IL has the finest opera house in
me Slate, a new court house costing
$>7O00, United States custom house
costing 100000, a fine hotel and opera
H"Ase costing the neat sum of Sl50,000.
t1ese are all new and commodius
buildings. and speak well of the char