The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-08-31
h Local Company Will Begin
The Construction Of It's Lines
Here Within Three Weeks.
Heterogeneous Have
Been Perfected.
be- Estimated Cost,
One Hundred Thousand.
he Company viii Pave a Good
Portion of the City, sayingth the
People Thousands OF Dol
lars in Taxation, 1t Will
be the city's Greatest
Blessing.

The olarksburg Street Railway
,mpany, composed Of local people,
mely, S. G. Denham, v. L. High.
nd. F. B. Haymaker, M. NJ. Thomp-
n and Leonard Peck, is ready to
PiId its street railway lines in this
y. and actual work will begin on
e system within three weeks, or, In
her words Just as soon as the rails
IA other materials can be gotten
bon the ground.
The company will erect its own
bwer plant on site not yet
efnitely decided upon. Only the
ery best material will be used and
be equipments, cars and SO on will be
be most modern and best. 1t is to
a trolley system, the estimated
bst of which is 100000.
Once begun the system will be
.pidly pushed to completion. The
bad will be finished and in operation
Ing before the limitof time stipulated
the franchise granted the company
year ago last May, which provided
bat the road should be begun within
lchteen months and completed in
hree years from date Of the franchise.
The streets included in the
anchise are N. Fourth, S. Fourth,
ike and Main from end to end, and
econd street between Main and Pike,
aking route traversiDg the entire
ty.
The franchise further provides, as a
improvisation to the city, that the
bmpany shall pave not only between
be rails Of the entire system but also
inches on the outside Of either side
its tracks, making strip OF paving
least eight feet wide. This, OF
Eself, is great relief in the peoples
exation for street paving, besides a
great step toward the ultimate paw
BIZ Of the whole city. The howl went
, last week from a certain source
nat the city ought to derive some
nancial benefits, and yet what a
bagniticent sum the city will get In
bis way. A saving Of thousands OF
pillars Injuries to the city by the paw
BIZ of these wide and long strips.
THAT more could ony one desire?
To speak of the urgent needs oil a
treet railway system in Clarksburg
nd the splendid commercial aud
Their benefits to be derived therefrom
orld be to repeat what every one
nows. The benefits will be so in
hesurably immense that words fail In
proper description. In single
Sord, street railway, such as the
peal company will be, will prove the
host magnificent and greatest enter
rise ever inaugurated in this city.
Plenty Of capital has lain dormant
here for years, although the advisa
|bility of street railway here and The
assurance of its being financial sue
cess have been obvious. and it re
manned for young men, enterprising
active, Interested in the clty's welfare
hnd willing to invest their money anc
! pend their time to give Clarksburt
her greatest undertaking and bes'
convenience, an enterprise that vii
prove of greater advantage to Clarks
burg than any thing in the city's his
tory. They deserve every eulogy pos
sible to be bestowed and the Telegram
has no doubt their interest in the wei
fare of the city will be duly ap
preciated.