The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-03-21
Industrial Center
Is Clarksburg
So Says 4 Staff Correspondent OF
the Manufacturers Record In
nice write up.

is - ytlCv WItk0 up
Stat correspondent Albert Phents
IN writiug to bis paper, the Manufac-
tnrer's Record, from here, says.
Nowhere in the State is West Vir-
gtnia's full tideof development more
conspicuously in evidence than In the
section included within a SO mile cir
Gle drawn about Clarksburg. Had the
activity here Of the past three or four
years occurred during the period OF
feyerlsh speculation Of some twelve or
fifteen years agoa wild boom would
have been started beside which that
of most other sections would have
paled to insignihcance, for here there
are foundation as substantial as the
eternal walls on which to base not
only present, but continued develop
ment, and with less than half the
reason for a boom, spectators OF the
other days tumbled over each other to
pay extrayagant prices for corner lots,
factory sites and farming lands hard
by.
Clarksburg and Fairmont are in the
very vertex of the present rapid de-
velopment. largely, perhaps, because
of the gigantic operations Of the big
coal combine put through by Farmont
and Clarksburg operators, by which
millions of outside capital were secur-
ed for the operation OF the vast coal
mines and long lines of coke ovens
which here abound.
Clarksburg, with its scores OF new
and commodious brick buildings, gives
small hint of the long years IL remain
ed In quiescentstate, it having more
the appearance a city fresh from the
builders hands, and it is hardly less
amazing to be told that Fairmont
celebrated the completion of the b. y
o. road to that place more than tlfty
years ago. But the present era is IN
reality of brief existence. OF Clarks-
bugs 5000 people, half have moved in
during the past Two or three years.
coming from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Viz
ginia, Maryland and New York, with
quite asprinkle OF Westerners among
them, and the new brick buildings
have mainly been erected within the
past one and q half years. Building
operations are still un Ter full head
way, a notable instance being the case
of Judge Nathan Golf, who lives here,
who gets 81, 0oOa day royalties on oil,
and who is lnyesting $3.50, 900 in new
buildings here. ops.of his improve
I4ients is a magnificent hotel, on the
nuad to completion. There is already
a very creditable hotel here. which is,
however, crowded to the cot condition
-almost every night, and with the COM
.pletion of the Golf House Clarksburg
will be one Of the best hotel towns in
Sthe State.
Around Clarksbure there are oil,
coal and gas, and timber forests are
close by. On this basis a great future
as manufacturing center is consider
ed sure. There is wonderful wealth
in the hands Of the people here, and
the $4,000, COCOON deposit at the four
banks will become restless some day
and seek investment. The more so is
this bound to be true, because money
is pouring in every day in an nninter-
rupted stream. There are 800 people
in Clarksburg getting an income from
oil, and In the county the number is
5000. One manin three years has re-
ceived $4,000 in royalties. and scores
of them have up-to-date received from
$4,000 to $4,000. There are $4,000
acres in the county Of Harrison rent
ed to oil operators AT 81 an acre. and
when oil is struck they get one.eighth
of the oil as a royalty. There are 3D.
600 acres Of land in the county under
laid with the Pittsburg vein of coal,
a nine-foot vein that crops out ON the
hillsides. and the whole county is un
derlaid with the Freeport vein, some
400 feet below. Natural gas is every
where around. There are nine wells
on the townsite with a minimum pres