The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-14

eoEporation.i FsalI1flcuEgilss LIZ
Iaont Coal Comp hichs IS 81 c g
s5izsds at 900, 900 and hi a dali ca
5acf III 81 8 ii tons and is nj Ws II O.
Ssducing 10000 1. tons dali g his 20 r1i-@
sspsny AS oneNof the greatest coal pro
81 & sd,icing companies in the nited States.
owns CISCO acres of the highest
srades coal land in Marion and Harrl-
son counties, Viva, and has a MONTH:
ny payroll of approximately Sl50,oeo,
4 ana Civ s employment to more than
SO 900 men The Farmont Coal Com
Ssfo,anyss a consolidation Of about 30
T Droperties, which was perfected in
The year 1901. Its management Is IN
Il 4 "a hands of the Watsons, who were
the first people to operate coal mines
sSin the Fairmont district. The Fair
4 mont Board of Trade, which is com
posed Of the business men of Fair
mont, is offering very favorable m
JUDGEMENTS to manufacturers to locate
there In addition to the fine shipping
4 facilities the Board OF Trade oifeFs
free manufacturing sites, long fuel gas
con tracts five cents a. thousand feet
( and coal al 81 90 per ton.
he x onderful attractions OF Fair
$srIIf,n s are mot confined to business IA
cilities alone On the contrary, as
residence place Fairmont is not sur
passed by any town in West Virginia.
is educational facilities are the best
has broad streets and many square
5syn lies of very level land suitable Tor
Sresi dcnce districts. Located in Fair
Z mont is a State Normal School, two
PRIV ate schools, a preparatory school
for girls, a high school and six gram
mar Sc ools. The water supply,
Z which is drawn from the Tygart's Val
ley river, is rated as of the very best
qualify. Probably no city with the'
population of Fairmont has as many
sSchurches These include two Cathollc
B churc hes, two colored churches, i've
Methodist, two Baptist, one Episcopal,
: one Christian and one Lutheran. One
i amusement feature of the city is the
ss:theater which will seat 400 people
and which was built at a cost of S4l,-
900. In the vicinity of Fairmont are
numerous mining towns which con-
tain an aggregate population OF about
zs27,oOOs people. all Of which are tribu-
,sstary5 IN "a business way to Falrmont
Adjacent to the CITY, too, are many
high grade grazing, trucking and dairy
z farms The city has nine miles OF
brick paved streets, and the average
quality fsresidences is very high.
Among the industries of Fairmont
are two glass works, large glass pack
ling factory, three machine shops, and
"a candy factory. The city has eight
good. hotels, a splendid sewerage sys-
II tenn and a garbage crematory plant
This latter feature is, OF course, very
conducive to the high sanitary condl-
tons which prevail.
- Very important in the development
s of 4 airmont has been the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, which owns within the
4 city limits between % and "a miles
.S$of track. Here, too, are the b. o.
shops which give employment to a
large number of men.
Some idea of the Importance Fair
mont is to- Pittsburg can be gained
s from the knowledge of the fact that
over as per cent. of the business of
sFairmont5 is done through Pitts5urg.
Fairmont has seven solid banking
institutions, namely, the First Nation
al Bank, Bank of Farm ont, Peoples
SAVINGS balih- l. Ill iiiSi' =
Trust Company, Home Savings Bank
n and Monong ahela Bank OF Fairmont-
z Foremost IN the work OF attracting
capital to F'airmont, materially aiding
in the development of the city, are
Nuzum and Levi B. Harr. Mr.
s 5Nuzurn for many years had monop-
4 oily of the real estate business of the
city and is counted among the wealth
Il lest citizens of Fairmont- In addition
Eto his very extensive real estate in
terests, he is chairman of the Board
of Trade and president of the Home
Savings Bank.
Three years ago Levi 3. Harr, then
student in the West Virginia Uni
sversity, entered the real estate bust
ness in Fairmont. Mr.. Earr was at
Gacted by the great possibilities for
& development to be found in Fairmont
and since his advent he has had much
81 to do with the city's great develop
ment. Mr.. Harris most recent trans
action was the organization of the
Fairmont Industrial Company, which
has purchased between 700 and 500
acres of the most valuable unoccu-