Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-05
GRADING IN EARNEST.
Continued from list Page

the stock; w. L. Armstrong, +. A.
Durham, F. D. Mccoy, A. 9. Jack
son, Robert Mccormick, II. w.
Mccoy, J. H. Mccoy, and several
others. The company has q con.
tract to furnish the iron mill and
glass factory at Paden City with
gas for 7 cents per thousand and
the people in private homes at the
usual price asked for gas. If the
company is as successful az it
hopes to be, gas will be piped to
this city.
Mr.. Watkins says no lots will be
sold in the new city at Paden's
Valley until in September. BY
that time the road will be running,
the building for the iron mill and
glass plant will be up and prac.
tically finished. Another factory
or two will also be well under way.
These plants alone will employ
three thousand men. When the
road is running, the mills are up
and substantially complete, then
lots will b. offered for sale and not
till then. If lots were placed on
the market now, people would hest.
tate to buy for fear the mills would
not come, so Mr.. Watkins says no
lots will be sold until the road is
running and the mills up so every
man, woman and child can see just
what is going to be done before
they buy lot. Lots will sell bet
ter under these circumstances, and
if anybody is laboring under the
impression that this company does
not know what it is doing, we de-
sire to inform them they are mis-
taken. It's no fake concern. They
are building the railroad, they have
bought the land, they have the
manufacturing plants secured and
they are going to sell lots and
make pile of money and we are
glad of it.
We want to add just a word to
the people who stand around kick
ing eternally and everlastlngly
against this road and company.
The company is building the road
as fast as men ard money can do
the work. Why then say it will
never he built? The company has
purchased and paid out over $780,
900 in cold cash for land at Paden's
Valley. Why doubt they mean
business? They are not offering
lots for sale based on promises
only, but will not sell lot until
the manufacturing plants are up.
We suggest that this is the most
honorable and fairest proposition
We ever heard of for selling lots.
If this is not all true these men are
simply fools and idiots to purchase
land at the prices they paid for it
at Paden's Valley if 1t is to be used
for any other purpose. There is no
doubt about the road, the factories
and new city at Paden's Valley, so
shut up kicking and fault finding.
Mr.. Watkins says Paden's City
will have a good deal of business to
do, but if our people will use their
usual energy we can divert most
of the trade here. He thinks our
city is so far ahead of anything in
its way in the Valley, we will get
the bulk of the trade here. He is
very pleasant gentleman to meet,
is intelligent, we'll versed in the
business, and is a solid and sub
stantial business man, representing
a great deal of wealth, and he and
his company are going to make
Sistersville a big and substantial
city. We must do our part. Join
in with his company, encourage and
aid it in every way we can, and
keep the boom going. Just now all
the men and teams who want to,
can get work here. Many carpen-
tiers, stone and brick masons, paper
hangers,-in fact almost any kind
of labor can find employment here
at excellent wages. Stop kicking,
get into the band wagon of pro-
gress, and the man who sits down
and don't take advantage of the
present boom is going to be left
and fairly swallowed up in the
march of progress. Sistersville is
to be, and will be forever hereafter
permanent city, and its size will
depend on the amount Of land
available here to build on. All we
have written i'll this articlA Is nbso
Iut"iy true. Send it to your lends
and acquaintances away from here,
get them to come here and locate,
and keep the city growing.
Political rogues detest publicity