The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-08-19
One Million and Half Dollars Worth
of Building Improvements are in
Progress andin Contemplation for
the Immediate Future.
Circular Issued by Prominent Real Estate Firm.
Setting Forth the Splendid Industrial and
Commercial Conditions Prevalent in the Fuel
City of the Fuel State.

That very interprisng real estate firm,
Willison & Dennison, has issued and seat
out the following facts Nboift Clarks-
burg, which will correct false impress
Sors, which illve been made about this
city, and which give an idea of the in
dustrial and commercial activity of the
city.
.sduCM hats been said about the growth
Of CIarksburg within the past three
years and many have been predicting
THAT values 1nve reached the top. There
are in every community, knockers OF
calamity llowlers and real conditions are
direct contradictions OF their statements.
We predict the purchase of real estate
in or about Clarbsburg at present values
will prove very pofitable within the nest
few months.
Not four years since the only manu-
were Lowndes' Woolen Mills and Hart
Bros Machine Works, and their com
bined payroll showed less than so eln-
ployees.
eve admit that the Short Line R, r,
oil excitement, sale OF coal lands, coal
operations, and money paid out for oil,
gas and coal lenses were the direct
caIlses of ClarlSsburgs sadden prosperity
This excitement is practically over
Many new and varied enterprises have
been brought here through the the efforts
of our cnterprising citizens, such as the
gentlemen of the West Fork Oil g
Natural Gas Co., who deserve the most
credit for furnishing 1T their own ex-
pense free sites for manufactures. in id
dition to the lowest rates for natural
gas for fuel in the world.
esThe building up of several manu-
featuring interests, employing 1900 TO
500 men. has had its effect in plncing
Clarksburg on a solid basis. Today val
mes are safe, even had we nothing in adj
dition to look forward to. But we have.
The smelling plant at Steelton, backed
by millions Is one of tic largest tif not
the Iargest) and most important in
dustries iii the state, and win when COM
pleted. employ 1000 u 1900 people.
s.Other new manufactories are the Inc
dustrial Window Glass Co., which will
start September 10 with - to 100 esaefS
ployees; the chafr factory, which Hgill
employ $50 to 200 men, and the sash,
door and blind factory, These, with the
stone lnalsons and every day laborers
necessary to construct the large number
of buildings and improvements mot
prospective, but actually being built and
to be built this fall and winter. -giaran-
tee a large influx of people of all classes,
and we wish TO assure you by the SUBJ
Joined table that Clarksburg offers more
inducemnts today than at any time in
her history to the investor in real estate.
..,rhe following table is a partial list
of the improvements now going on, con-
tracted for aud to bcbuilt at once:
The Waldo tGoF) Hotel $s000O0O0
Nav Jai1 .SlOOOOoOO
Peoples Bank Building. .S500O0.OO
Farmers Bank Building .$lOO0OO.0O
Empire Bank Building $l500OO-OO
industrial Company's Bridge $40 10000
Industrial co.'s Glass Factory $30,000.O0
Industrial co.'s Chair Factory $G0.000-O0
steelton plant 5000. 10000
n,yoII;nos ....... sI5OOOO.O0
sl,5ooOOO.OO
Messrs willison & Dcnnison represent
the Union Land Company. the ClarlSs-
burg Industrial Company and have prep
city on their book in all parts md on
nil sides Of Clarksburg. They invite the
public when in the city TO make their
headquarters at their office ut 4ol
Fourth street