The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-12-03
BY OFFICIAL FROM THE UNITED
STATES TREASURY DEPART
MENT AT WASHINGTON.
MAJOR HAvERST1CK WILL RECON-
MEND SEVERAL IMPROVEMENTS
FOR THE cLARKSBURG
BUILDING.
Representative of the Treasury is Just
Completing His Annual Tour Of the
United States. Talks Interest
ingly on the Trip He
Has Made.

Maj. w. Hayerstick, general Inspector
Of supplies Of the United States treas.
luy department, who is in charge Of the
supplying Of furniture, light, water, etc,
for the $50 federal buildings Of the conn.
try, is in tle city making his annual in.
spection of the Clarksburg government
building. When seen, he said that he
would recommend many improvements
for the oarksburg building. Additional
furniture and supplies for the pogtofIice
and government offices here will also be
recommended in his report to the treas
ury department. He anticipates no trou.
BILE in getting all The necessary modern
supplies for the building and assured
those in the building that he would give
his personal attention 10 acquisitions for
all the things NE viii recommend
Major HaversSick Is a Wisconsin man
md great admirer Of Senator spooner
Of that state, as well as of Governor
Ilafollette, whose brother, by the way,
was auditor of West Virginia during the
Atkinson administration. During the
Spanish.Amcrican war Major Hayerstick
was paymastcr in the army, and was sta
toned at Camp Meade, n. y, and other
points. Among ether troops he paid off
West Virginia soldiers.
Major Haverstipk's territory is the
whole United States, and he finds IL al
most physical impossibility to visit al
If the 800 public buildings once year.
rhe most out-of4the.way building, he
says, is the one at Brownsville. Texas,
It The mouth of the Rio Grandc, and
'amous in history as the point from
which General Zachary Taylor invaded
Mexico at the outbreak of the Mexican
var To reach Brownsville he had to
% in a stage coach no less than 26O miles
rom Alice, Texas, on the railroad.
Speaking of this experience, Major Hay-
.rstick said:
",I'hat is the country of big farms. The
inst ranch we crossed from Alice was
he famols King tract Of 100000 acres;
.he next the Dalzell ranch of 100000
tGes which is considered rsltller.a small
arm. We were an entire day crossing
he Dalzell ranch. The trip consumed
,elrly three days, and we changed horses
twelve times and drivers four times
Eighty five miles Of the trip is through
desert, where not q spring Of yegeta
ION grows" R
In tllis state there are only five gov
rnment buildings, those at Wheeling,
parkersburg, clarksbnrg, Charleston and
Martinsb,rg.
Major Hayerstck came here from
Wheeling, arriving Wednesday night, and
le goes from this city to Washington,
tfter an absence on the road since April.
y, during which lie inspected over 100.
buildings, extending from ocean TO ocean.
lie will arrive in Washington Friday.
Jver fifty additional government build
;ngs are now under construction, includ-
ng two in West Virginia, those at Hunt
ington and Bluefeld, with one at Fair.
mont in prospect.
There is a decided Improvement in the
ondition OF the public buildings, says
Major Haserstick, and he complimented
Postmaster Denham, who Is the eusto-
han of the Clarksburg building, for the
xcellent condition in which he found it.