The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25

Never has the State been SO PROSPEROUS
Every man who wants to work can get
employment and at good wages. 1t is
true that foreign labor has to be imported
because not enough domestic labor is
at hand 70 do the work mapped out. West
Virginia is a State of small farms and the
farmer is prosperous, for he finds den and
right at home for his products at good
prices.
Just now number Of new towns are build
ing. One Is CASA way nanei for the
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee
Eight hundred acres Of land have been pur-
chased on the Elk River The improve
ment company is an adjunct of the coal
and coke railway which Mr.. Davis il now
building
Follansbee is another new town in West
Virginia. Nearly one hundred houses are
under construction for tin mill workmen.
West Virginia is fast lccoming tin manu-
featuring State. The tin plant Of Follansbee
Bros. was started in full this week,
employing 900 men There are six tin
mills and two sheet mills.
A new town to be known as Mcmillan
is now being built on the West Virginia
Central Railway between Wilson and
Company, a Pittsburg corporation, is
pushing the project The property consists
of 200 acres OF timber and 1893 acres Of
coal
While there may have been some de-
preston in the coal industry elsewhere
there has been none in West Virginia
shipment of 700 cars a day by the Fair
mont Coal Company is common. The pay
rolls have amounted to as much as $3.50 900
cash this season, and all the towns in the
region are most prosperous as a result of
the big wage distributions.
There was more coal mined in the New
River field during August than in any
previous month In its history. The ship
ments for August amounted to $4,000 tons
OF coal and about I40 900 tons OF coke 1t
required over 1900 cars to transport this
immense tonnage
The development of coal all over the
State has not stopped in the least. A big
new plant about to he opened is that of the
Morgart Coal and Coke Company, near
Belington. The Blackstone Consolidated
Coal Company has just purchased the
Blackstone and Clotus collieries and will
start operations with 100000 capital.
Scarcely day passes without seeing a
new company formed.
Railroad building goes on apace. Next
to the Wabash connecting link, building
from Cumberland TO Cherry Run, passing
through sections OF West Virginia, the most
important railroad enterprise ia the Coal
and Coke, which Mr.. Davis himself Ia build
ing with his own means.
This line will bring Charleston, the capital
Ill IL.
more and Washington. When the line lie
completed It will be one of the greatest
mineral. timber and agricultural developing
roads In the State.
Senator Elkins il about to extend the
Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad from
Rowlesburg to Masontown. The residents
OF Preston county are to take 500. 900 of
the bonds issued to build the line. while
Senator Elkins will himself subscribe to
100000 worth. This road will develop the
rich Cheat River country.
Logan county il booming az the result
of the completion OF the Guyandotte Valley
branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio, which
will be the means Of the development Of
the rich ores under the surface. Chap
Evansville, a new town, is growing fast
Belington Ia to have the plant Of the
Bromall Iron and Steel Company, recently
organized by Pittsburg capitalists. All
the money has been subscribed and the con-
tracts for the building of the plant entered
into. 1t will employ 500 men. The town
Ia overruu with strangers on business bent.
All the iron mills in the State are active.
In every avenue OF industry there is con-
slant motion, The Eureka Pipe Line Com
pany is stringing thirty -one miles of e-inch
pipe from Braden Station to Elm Run.
The Mountain State Gas Company has 100
men at work building new pipe line
from Elm Run TO Yellow Creek. The enter
prise will cost 5000
Recently gas well was struck on Turkey
Creek, in Putnam county, which is flowing
over 1900, 900 feet a day. Before it was
got under control the roar Of the gas was
heard Ave miles. The West Virginia Central
Gas COMPANY lie piping gas from the wes-