New-York tribune., 1900-07-15
PROSPERITY AND VICTORY.
WEST VIRGINIA SHOWING THE BENE-
FITS OF REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION.
BIG MAJORITY FOR MKINLEY AND
ROOSEVELT PREDICTED. AND THE
GROUNDS ON WHICH THE
PROPHECY IS BASED.

GROUNDS ON WHICH THE
PROPHECY IS BASED.
Cumberland Nd July a (speciaD.-The conf
dence of the Republicans Of West Virginia that they
will carry the State this fall for Mckinley and
Roosevelt is based the marvellous development
in coal and lumber made possible by the provisions
Of the Dingiey Tariff law. In all sections of the
State unprecedented activity prevails and labor is
a premium. There are constant calls for men,
which other States supplying.
The coal output for 1899 nearly 1S0000o0 tons,
an increase of 100000 tons over the preceding
year. More coal is being mined this year than
ever before, and tire total product will reach far
above the 20,0oOO0O tol mark Scores Of new mines
being opened and miles of new railroad are
being built
Apace with coal is the timber development Gov
ernor Atkinson in recent speech to the editors
of West Virginia, said: I'VE have within the
limits of the Mountain State perhaps 100000 acres
of what may be practically termed virgin forests,
which embrace all classes of hard and soft woods
No other State, in my judgment, can offer oppor-
tunities to the lumberman comparable with those
of West Virginia. Already the song of the saw
is heard in every vale that has thus far been
penetrated by railroads More railroads, more
lumber camps and more wealth for the citizens
who hold the titles of these undeveloped forests.
The activity in numbering IS probably more
marked along line of the West Virginia Central
and Pittsburg Railway and its branches. Miles
Of tramroad spread in all directions Tratnload
after trainload of lumber is rushed down to Cum
markets of the world. New-York and Pennsylvania
capital is largely responsible for this activity.
There sixty stations along the line of the West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway, and at
all nearly all there sawmilis. The ex-
tensiveness of some he told by the feat of the
Blackwater Boom and Lumber Company at Davis
W. Va. in turning 100000 feet Of finished lum-
ber in hours. This does not include box boards
and short stun from the speciality department..
SOME BIG MILLS
The Backwater company has annual ca
pacity of 30O0O0oO feet. and the Beaver Creek
Boom and Lumber Company over 200O0000 feet.
These mills have modern electric plants. and work
goes night and day There are other mills run
ming from 100000 feet down to 100000 feet to
say nothing of the myriad of portable mills with
small capacity. 1t Is conservatiVey estimated that
25o,Goooo feet of lumber are turned out annually
by the mills along the line of this railroad alone.
The tramroad operated runs into the hundreds
of miles The Condon-Lane Boom and LUMBER
Company, Horton. has over forty miles of tram
road, which to haul loss to the mill.
Much Of the spruce lumber in the United states
is in West Virginia. The interests controlling the
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, who are
completing one of the largest pulp mills in the
world at Covington. on the Greenbrier. have or
ganized the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Com
pany and are building mill Of 100000 feet daily
capacity on Leatherbark Creek. new town, to
be known as Cass will be started. This mill Will
utilize the timber not made into pulp wood The
company has some 100000 acres Of timber lands,
and has already 100000 feet OF pulp wood cut
for the mills Covington.
The pulp and paper company is erecting an i'm
new soda process mill at Luke, just opposite
Piedmont ". Va. The contract for 100000 brick
into its construction was let to Cumber-
land brick manufacturing plant few days ago 1t
Will be Of the largest pulp mills in the country
oIa nrdnes p IL iss Gained ~ viii not
pollute running water
iTANNERIEs FOLLOWING wooLMEN.
West Virginia is teeming with bark camps The
tanner has followed in the footsteps of the lum-
herman. There thousands of bark peelers at
work One OF the largest camps Is Gormania
and. operated by J. G. Hoffman & Sons. whose
large tannery made the busting town The com
IS q @ h @ f e'fH fmo Sre 20 6sh
In his great an anHlSy M to get m9sr IN fsn The @ 5
tanneres at Gormania, Bayard. Parsons and Davis .
twenty I'VE thousand cords of excellent hemock /
ol market II was valued al Al-oVo. but IL would
not have paid to haul II long distances. Now tan
opacity and new tanneries are sprngins up With
a view 70 consuming The entire bark product The T.
thousand Of acres OF timber for bark The stripped I
tree trunks are made into lumber.
Extract factories, 100, have followed in the
IN Hampshire County. The Rio Extract Company /
has completed large plant at Kirby and has con
Tcok oak and komney daPalisiS are btiHdins budinns
The afe OF Wes, Vrela ma s 6 the midst Of an
unPrSced@n,ed ACTIVITY yet the bulk OF the timber
timber yet untouched in the State at five million /
acres The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Com /
pany's holdings the GreenDrier alone aggregate /
two hundred thousand acres, the Dry Fork lumber /
interests have about 175OO acres and interests
Of Senator stephen Z. Ekins and his father-in-
law. ex-senator Henry @. Davis. total least five
hundred thousand acres OF timber ana coal They (
practically all the coal territory along line
oi the West Virginia Central. and have looked al (
most exclusively after the development of coal.
PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE.
An idea is here given of the great prosperity in |
West Virginia. with only the wood industry |
touched on, and that not fully. II would require |
columns to tell of the coal industry which In the |
last six months, has made marvellous strides 1t is
something solid that the Republicans Of West
Virginia base hopes of winning. West Virginians !
enthusiastically claim that theirs is the first |
lumber producing State.
In the resolutions adopted by the lid West Nr-
ginia District Republican Congress Convention, |
which met few days ago at Terra Alta and re-
nominated Alston Gordon Dayton, is the following |
significant paragraph: West Virginia coal is now
West Virginia oil lights the world. and West Vir-
ginia timber is in demand eveTyW here. all through
the heneficent Legislation of the Republican party
The Republicans OF West Virginia claim least /
10000 majority for Mckinley and Roosevelt and /
their State ticket. The estimated increase of /
votes in West Virginia is fraction II per
cent. and Of this amount, il is claimed about two
thirds Of Republican affiliations. More than |
thirty former Democrats delegates the /
Id West Virginia District.
BECK APPOINTED TO A NEW PLACE.