Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-15
THE WORLD OF LABOR.
West Virginia News.


The current issue Of the Manufac-
turers' Record contains a valuable ar
ticle upon West Virginia, by DR.. Chas.
w. Dabney, president of the University
of Tennessee. in the course of which
he says:
For manufacturing and commerce
the location OF this State is unsurpass-
ed in the world. Harper's Ferry is
only e~ighty-one miles from tidewater
at Baltimore; the eastern State line is
only 300 miles by rail from Newport
News, the terminal of the Chesapeake
& Ohio system, and the southwestern
corner is only $40 miles by the Nor
folk & Western railroad from Norfolk,
Va. The State is bounded by the Ohio
river on the northwest, which. with
many railroads, give its products ac-
cess to all parts of the Mississippi val
ley, the great west and southwest. The
varied and almost incalculable re-
sources, which we shall now attempt
briefly to enumerate, lie thus fost con-
veniently for both the interior or con-
tinental and the exterior and greater
worlds trade"
The Elkins Milling Company is to
build a 60-barrel flour mill.
The Mountain State Electrical Com
pany has obtained a light franchise at
New Martinsville.
The Watson House, at Charles Town,
is to be enlarged.
The new Jail and sheriff's Office at
Fayetteville will cost $4,000.
1t is reported that an electric road
is to be constructed from Morgantown
to the Cheat river.
Clarksburg and all of Harrison
county, with its cheap natural gas, ap-
pears to be the Mecca of many pros
peetive manufactures and new men
with money to expend in establishing
new industries. Since the Clarksburg
district moved forward the town has
captured many industries. Some are
yet on paper. but quite a number have
progressed to more tangible forms.
Following the organization of the
Jackson Iron & Tin Plate Company by
West Virginia and Columbus capital
lists, comes the announcement that a
Pittsburg syndicate represented by l..
V. Walsh, of Pittsburg, and w. l..
Walker, of Leechburg, Pa, desires to
build a big sheet mill there. The gen.
tlemen named have been at Clarksburg
for several days comforting with Sec
rotary Bowen, of the Board of Trade,
relative to locations and gas privileges.
They inspected the Atkinson farm east
of C~larksburg, and will likely make ar
rangements for it's purchase in a
couple of weeks-American Manufac-
turer.
At Salem, in the Clarksburg district,
a lamp chimney factory is assured.
The citizens of that town have raised
S13,0 900 of a bonus of SIS 900 T. P.
Clark, of Pittsburg, asked on behalf of
a Pittsburg syndicate. The company
has accepted the amount raised, ex-
pressing it's willingness to wait for the
balance. Three acres of ground were
donated and work on the new factory
is to begin as saan as material can be
had. The new concern will employ
about 100 men.
The Peasants County Brick & Tile
Company has begun work on a new
plant at st. Marys. The company ex-
poets to install q plant completely
equipped with the latest machinery. 1t
will be the biggest brick plant in the
Ohio valley.
The Fairmont e Clarksturg Trolley
Company has bought $25 900 worth of
machinery for the installation Of a big
power plant at Adsmston.
The Flat Top Land Association has
extended to October LIST the option to
sell it's 232,4S3 acres of Po2chontas
field land. Charles NJ. Schwrb is said
to be the principal purchaser.