Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-15
ONLY One DECADE.
Upper Monongahela Valley
Teeming with Wealth.
Wonders Wrought In Surprisingly
short Space of Prophecy by
DIR. |. c. White Comes True Quickly.
More and more Development is to
Follow the Coming OF Railroads.

4 Ut. L. L. Nhtte comes True quickly.
More and more Development is to
Follow the Coming OF Railroads.
GREENSBORO, Aug l5.-When CO.
/ lumbus sailed westward TO India he
never dreamed of such wealth or such
an enormous commerce as that which
has found northwest passage by the
Monongahela Valley. This route was
not discovered by the bold mariners
who followed Columbus and searched
the coast for the coveted way TO the
East. 1t was found by the sturdy
pioneers Of the English colonies.
This letter is written within mile
of the home of Albert Gallatin,
scholar, statesman and soldier, one of
the early discoveries of its treasures.
| Senator Gallatin melted the founding
OF the first window glass factory west
OF the Allegheny mountains in 1897,
the head of the concern being Adolf
plus Eberhart, practical glass
blower from Holland The site of the
old factory is on the river bank at the
village of New Geneva, named after
| that famous Swiss town where the
/ watch was brought near to perfection.
OLD MEMORIES REVIVED.
The old glass factory and Mr.. Gal
latin, however, are well-nigh forgot
ten by those who now people the val
ley. The memory of Gallatin and his
| friend, Marquis de Lafayette, have
been temporarily revived by the ex-
! tensive Improvements TO the old place
which is the summer home of Mr..
Charles Il. Speer Of Pittsburg, Mrs.
Speer being direct descendant OF the
original owner. In the ordinary ten
years is long span of time for the
valley denizens. In ten years many
things happen among them and Won
drous changes occur.
Ten years ago was in this valley.
There were busy places then, near
/ Pittsburg for the greater part. Since
then new towns, new railroads, new
mines, new gas fields and new oil
pools have sprung into existence.
MARVELLOUS CHANGES.
Marvellous changes have been made
up the river and in that region 10
! which the extension Of the Fairmont,
| Morgantown & Pittsburg branch OF
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
| given an outlet TO the world.
Along the river there Is only an in
crease of activity On the line OF the
new railroad there has been a dawn
ing Of industry. Where there had
been only a desoiate area. with soil so
unproductiye that migratory crows or
| blackbirds invariably took different
route, there are now human habita-
tions, busy towns and laboring en-
| gines.
| remembers the scene when Govern
or Fleming and party of invited
guests trayersed that road in 1898
the formal opening or the line to
traffic.
RAILROADS MAGIC TOUCH.
Professor White, the geologist OF
West Virginia University, called at
tention TO stretches Of scant vegeta-
tion and other stretches clothed in
| luxuriant green as marking the alb
senee of limestone in the soil and it's
presence, respectively. Much interest
was taken in these soil indications,
for there was nothing else for the
traveller TO see. Not SO now. The
magic touch Of the railroad has made
another country of 1.-THE genii Of
the breath Of the locomotive has made
/ villages to grow where only scrub oak
| grew before.
Another region is now feeling the
similar impulse. Both the Baltimore
& Ohio and the Pennsylvania are
! building from Uniontown, through
the rich coal lands to the river. The
Pennsylvania is already grading
along the river bank by the side OF
the Sixth pool, to describe the locality
in the rivsrman's language.
COMING OF THE CARS.
There is a temporary increase in
the freight tonnage OF the packets, as
| the laborers' camps must have sup
plies. IL Is only temporary, because
when the swift locomotive shrieks be-
tween the Fayette hills the slow
steamboats, viii have fewer passengers
and no mails.
The termlni or these branches VIII
be less than five miles from this old
pottery town. Ia fact, the people
here have heard, and hope il Is true,
that spur Of the Baltimore & Ohio
will come down Georges Creek to
Geneva, bringing with 1t the blessings
Of more advanced civilization.
/ To quote an old inhabitant: They
are ripping up an old historic neigh
borhood, and while they are at it
Greensboro would like to be ripped. =
Greensboro three times narrowly es-
capped greatness as an oil town, but
has never really been famous, except
as the point where the little brown
jug" is made.
IMPROVEMENTS TAKING PLACE.
These new railroads, building be-
tween here and Unientown, are pri-