Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-29
MORGANTOwN.
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Incorporated as the Borough OF
Morgantown." Situated away from
any leading thoroughfare of trade
or travel, the growth of Morgan
town for many years was slow; but
with the completion of the B. d 0.
railroad began the dawn Of brighter
days And to-day no other city
i'm West Virginia of it's size pre-
SCENTS so many manufacturing in
dustries, and is so thoroughly met
ropolitan as Morgantown.
RAILROADS AND STEAMBOATS,.
The railroad facilities of Nor
gantown have added inestimably
to her commercial and industrial
success. Nothing III the last half
century has created so marvellous
"a change, as the great revolution
IN the science of railroad transpor-
tation. Beneath it the features of
old christendom have been chang
ed, and it's wealth and physical
grandeur augmented. Other revo-
buttons have scattered luminous
influence over the world, but it
remained for the new generation
of railways to bring about one of
the mightiest, moral and social
revolutions that ever hallowed the
annals of any age. Omnipresence
is one of the principles of progress.
Content with no limits, they have
thrown a girdle round the world
itself. Far-off India woos them
over its waters; China listens to
the voice of the charmer the ru-
ined temples and broken alters of
Greece re-echo the whistle of the
locomotive, and are converted to
shrines of open commerce by the
powers of those magnificent agen-
cies by which rivers are spanned,
territories traversed, commerce en-
franchised, confederacies CONSOLE
dated--by which the adamantine
is made malleable, and man as
$sumes a lordship over time and
space. The facilities offered by
Morgantown are the legitimate
outcome of necessity, and they are
none too great to meet the de-
mands upon them. The F., M. q
p. division Of the B. q O. railroad
affords good facilities for ship
ment and travel to and from all
points reached by their lines. But
the rapid development of Morgan
town, as an industrial and COM
mercial center demands better rail
way conveniences. Beyond the
peradventure of adoubt, the Penn
sylvania Company will construct
a branch road from the terminus
of the Pittsburg, Virginia q Char
lesion at Brownsville, up the Mo-
nongahela Valley on the west side
of the river, through West Nor
gantown, thence on south. This
proposed railroad when completed
will tap one of the best coal veins
in the Pittsburg district. There
are bright prospects for a railroad
between Point Marion and Rowles-
burg, where it will connect with
the main line Of the B. & O. This
road will open up a vast area of
timber land, also immense and al
most unbroken coal fields. These
lines of railway, when completed,
will make Morgantown very de-
-sirable shipping point.
The Pittsburg, Brownsville, &C.
neva and Morgantown Packet Co
have line Of frst-class and ele-
gantly equipped steamboats, that
arrive and depart daily, afford
ing good passenger and freight
transportation.
TIMBER AND MINERAL WEALTH.
No city in this part of West
Virginia offers a more prolific
theme for favorable comment than
Morgantown. It's fine location,
and the great natural resources of
the surrounding country, have been
the most potent factors in her
growth and development. Within
a few miles Of the city, in the
Decker's creek valley, there are
large forests ef white oak, chest
nut, walnut, cherry, red oak, hem
lock and other hard woods stand
ing in the primeyal forest. Tan
neries of large CAPACITY could be