Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-10-20
IMMENSE DEVELOPMENT.
Southern Fayette Scene of
Startling Activity.
New Towns in Every Direction Smith
field to Number 10000 in q Short
Time-Laborers Wanted by Thous-
ands Brief Sketch of swhat Is Being
Done.

Time-LabOrers Wanted by Thous-
ands-B Brief Sketch of swhat Is Being
Done.
The following has been sent from
Smithfleld by staff correspondent of
the Pittsburg Times. 1t will be read
with interest by the people in this sec
ton who rejoice in the good fortune
that has come to the people of our
northern neighbour:
Not many years ago it was asserted
by men whose word was taken as au-
thority that Uniontown was about
the limit of the field in which mar
ketahle coke could be made at prof
it. Now Uniontown is close to the
center Of the business, and the devel-
opment in progress will tend to bring
the whole northwest portion Of Fay
cite county into the coke making re-
gion. Southwark the production Of
coke has pressed to Fairchance, some
of the biggest plants Of the region be-
ing between Fairchance and Union
town. But of late a decided activity
has broken out in the territory west
of Uniontown, and at present one OF
the most comprehensive industrial
efforts ever known in the coal regions
of the country is in progress.
NEW TOWN PLOTTED.
Near Masontown a new town has
been plotted, to be called Leckrone,
from the name of the farmer who pre-
viously owned the land, and the work
is already in such a stage of develop
ment that men are in demand beyond
the possibility of supply. Starting
here at Smithfeld, Bennett & Talbot
of GreeRsburg are at work on rail
road contract of eight miles. From
Uniontown to reach the same objec-
tive point, the Pennsylvania railroad
is pushing new branch of some Il
miles and is making all possible head
way, and the hope of both is to have
iron down soon after the opening of
the new year.
The incentive which prompts the
building of 20 miles Of new railroad Is
Une uetelUpmeuC which is preparing
at Leckrone, where the Eureka Fuel
company is starting the building of
/, 200 new coke ovens and the neces-
sary new town to accommodate the
people who will be required to operate
the works. AS beginning for the
town 100 houses have been planned,
and the road from Smithfield to the
town site is alive with teams hauling
lumber and building material to the
new works. At the railroad station
here this afternoon were about doz-
en- teams taking turns at getting on
their loads, and as one departs anoth-
er arrives. The staid old town never
saw SO much activity in its life, and
can only with difficulty comprehend
the meaning OF The new conditions.
Everybody who will work has con-
slant opportunity, and it is said there
is no hope of finding masons enough
to carry on the work of building
house and coke oven foundations as
rapidly as the contractors desire.
WHO THE INVESTORS ARE.
AS it is told in Smithfield, w. j.
Rainey is to build 100 ovens in the
new territory, the Illinois Steel COM
pany 700 and the Eureka Fuel COM
pany 1900. These are to be followed
by others and by other firms who have
smaller holdings in the country to be
opened. In all it is predicted that
not less than 1000 new ovens will
follow the construction of the two
branch railroads upon which work has
commenced AS the new community
is dozen miles from Uniontown, the
creation of new town of consider
able magnitude is certainty and
neighborhood gossip has it that from
200 to 1900 houses will be required
before the works are finished.
The Eureka Fuel company is build
ing what will be not only one of the
largest coke plants in the world, but
the plans are drawn for one of the
most perfect and modern in equip
ment. Electricity is to be the visi-
BILE power employed, steam operating
only the engines that afford the cur
rent. In the mines electricity will
haul the cars, drive the machinery
anG iuluion light. About the surface
plant electricity is to be pressed into
use wherever it can be Serviceable,
and no means nor efforts will be spar
ed to create plant that will produce
coke On the most elaborate scale, az
well as in the most economical man
ner. The Eureka works will be built
to get results, and nothing that con-
tributes to that end will be spared.
The coal in the Leckrone field is
not the coal of the Connellsville vein
but the old argument concerning the
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