The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1902-12-24

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G Editorial correspondence Parkersb
MoRGANTowS, w. ", Dec 49,
, Nature makes or unmakes cities an
YOU can't build where nature ha
wIlled against you.
The growth of Morgantown dur
t ny The past two years and particu
+ lstly during the last year has bee
phenomenal. Is the New and Great
er Morgantown builded upon a sub
stantial foundation? Is the locating
and building of great Industrial in
stitutions to continue? Is not Nor
gantown the hub around which tn
+ balance OF the state will turn ant
gaze upon as the Pittsburg; tn,
Goliah of West Virginia? Thes,
} are the questions that confront m,
as look around. Instead of finding
the dear old town of bvgone days
found city of nine thousand PEG
pie all sober all wellIdressed all bus,
and all appearantly prosperous
| The figures that l give as to popula
ton are the result of careful inquiry
and personal investigation and
feel safe iii making the prediction
that within the next two years these
| figures will be greatly enlarged
Man can do much. He can put or
the decorations, build the railroads
and blow the horn; but as l said in
the beginning, unless the Creator
marked during those seven days in
the long ago certain spots for cities
the history of the past is, they dc
not last, they do not build greater
and greater from year to year. Il
the growth OF Morgantown is sub
stantial what has been back of til
If it is to be a great city, why
There is not citizen within the
limits of Morgantown who cannot
answer all these questions ably an6
with perfect satisfaction to himsel.
but for the benefit of others thar
Morgantowners will endeavor tt
answer these questions.
TRANSPORTATION AND FUEL.
i After looking over the situation
carefully and with an unprecedented
eye. The question Transportation
is one that has been unsettled dur.
ing all the ages Great cities are
not built upon prairies and deserts
where navigable streams are not to
be found. Fuel is another of the es
sential ingredients that furnishes
the stimulant necessary for the
building of cities.
The Monongahela river from
Pittsburg, a distance of sixty miles
by nature is but canal and all that
was needed to make it navigable the
year around was system of locks
and dams which Uncle Sam has pro
vided This great waterway for the
raw and manufactured product Of
this great valley is in itself an inter
state commerce law which the ever
greedy railroads respect without the
nee essity OF the people appealing for
aid to the attorney general. Great
railroads which fight today combine
omorrow. With this natural water
way improved as it is, reasonable
freight rates from this city and sec
ton are assured fol all time to come.
Natural gas is found nearby in prac
tically inexlaustible quantities and
is piped here and sold for manufac-
turing purposes at five cents per
thousand feet.
ABOUT THE RAILROADS. 1870
Transportation first being secur-
ed, by water, what of the situation
as to the railroads. A branch of the
B. & o. the Pittsburg, Councils vile
and Fairmont division, runs from
Pittsburg to Fairmont, connects at
these points with the main lines OF
the B. d 0. The Morgantown and
Kingwood R. r. is now being con
structed from Morgantown up Deck
er's creek which will either tap the
Wabash at BeIingtop, Barbour coun-
ty. or at Parsons, Tucker county. 1t
has been said that this road has no
end, that at both ends it will be at
the mercy of Two powerful corpora
| tions, the b. a. O. atone end and The
Wabash at the other or this l will
make further mention.
COULD SUPPLY WORLDS MARKETS.
The Pittsburg coal is at its best
here, running from eight to ten feet
of clean, clear coal and the acreage is
ample to supply the markets of the
world for quarter of a century.
Deckers creek unnoticed until George
q. Sturgiss brought to the Attentio n
of capitalists its great hidden wealth;
bids fair as l see it to be continual
hive OF industry from Morgantown to
a point some four miles up that
stream. Deckers creek like the Cheat
river cuts down deep into the noun
tain and exposes the Freeport Goals
and limestone. There is no finer
quality of coking coal in existence
than the Deckers creek coal and the
limestone, found in exhaustible guam
Titles in the same hill is of the finest
quality known for the manufacture
of iron.
Here we have as abundant and as
cheap a supply Of gas as any place 10
1.-THE country, coupled with coal and
limestone. Why should this not be
an iron center? Why should this not
be great iron manufacturing center?
Pittsburg hauls her limestone from the
eastern part of this state and her iron
one from che lakes and her supply OF
coal cannot be delivered to the factory
at Pittsburg as cheaply as 1t can be
to the factory on Deckers creek. From
Decker's creek we will ship coal to
J the lakes, to the points OF the iron
ore supply Instead of bringing those
cars back empty why not load them
with iron ore? II all the products Of
iron cannot be manufactured more
cheaply on Deckers creek than at
Pittsburg why>not? Who will under.
take to say pay and give intelligent
reasons for the faith that Is In him.
INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS.
OF the industrial institutions al
ready located here will give brie.
mention. The Jones Co. has been In
successful operation for several years
employs several hundred men. The
Marilla Glass company commenced
operations October 18th OF this year
and employs about two hundred men,
their product being window glass.
The Pressed Prism Glass Co. is now
erecting plant which will give EN-.
ploymeut to over two hundred rmeD.
This Is distinctively new enterprise
10 the glass amanufacturin gbusness.
These pressed prisms which this com
pany will manufacture are used ir
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