Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-12-16


Nature makes or unmakes cities and
YOU can't build where nature has
wllled against you
The growth of Morgantown dur
ing the past two years and partieu-
larly during the last year has been
phenomenal Is the New and Great
er Morgantown builded upon sub
stantial foundation? Is the locating
and building of great industrial in
situations to continue? Is not Nor
gantown the hub around which the
balance of the state will turn and
gaze upon as the Pittsburg; the
Goliah of West Virginia. These
are the questions that confront me
as | look around. Instead of finding
the dear old town of bvgone days
| found city of nine thousand peo
pie all sober all we'll dressed all busy
and all appearantly prosperous.
The figures that / give as to popula-
ton are the result of careful inquiry
and personal investigation and l
feel safe in making the prediction
that within the next two years these
figures will be greatly enlarged.
Man can do much. He can put on
the decorations, build the railroads
aud blow the horn; but as | 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 do
not last, they do not build greater
and greater from year to year. If
the growth OF Morgantown is sub
stantial what has been back of it?
If it is to be great city, why?
There is not citizen within the
limits of Morgantown who cannot
answer all these questions ably and
with perfect satisfaction to himself
but for the benefit OF others than
Morgantowners will endeavor to
answer these questions.
TRANSPORTATION AND FUEL.
After looking over the situation
carefully and with an unprejudiced
eye. The question of 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
necessity of the people appealing for
aid to the attorney general. Great
railroads which fight today combine
= tomorrow. With this natural water
wav improved as it is, reasonable
freight rates from this city and sec
ton are assured foi all time to come.
Natural gas is found nearby in prac
tically inexhaustible quantities and
is piped here and sold for manufac-
turing purposes at five cents per
thousand feet.
ABOUT THE RAILROADS.
Transportation first being secur-
ed, by water, what of the situation
as to the railroads A branch of the
B. & o. the Pittsburg, Connellsville
and Fairmont division, runs from
Pittsburg to Fairmont, connects at
these points with the main ines OF
the B. Il o. The Morgantnwn and
Kingwood r, R. is now being con
structed from Morgantown up Deck
er's creek which will either tap the
Wabash at Belington, Barbour coun-
tv or at Parsons, Tucker county. 1t
has been said that this road has nc
end. that at both ends it will be at
the mercy of two powerful corpora
tions. the B. Il O. at one end and the
Wabash at the other. iOf this | 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 century.
Deckers creek unnoticed until George
Q. Sturgiss brought to the attention
of capitalists its great hidden wealth;
bids fair as see it to be continual
hive OF industry from Morgantown to
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.