The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-05-20

road is the great stimulus which Fair
mont will receive from Pttsburg. In
looking over the line of the Wabash
from Pittsburg to tidewater, Fair
mont will readily be seen TO be the
leading city from every commercial
standpoint. Since PittsburgherS have
learned of this. many of them have
turned their practical eye for making
money to this section; they have fol
lowed the line OF the Wabash for
seventy-eiSht miles south of Pitts
burg only to find that all the available
coal for immediate Development is
controlled by syndicates and that
Fair,nont is very progressive city.
Not lie largest city on the line Of the
Wabash between Pittsburg and Bal
timore, but Fairmont is we'll over the
mountains and on the Threshold of
the great central west by the lines
of the Wabash which SO well traverse
that section. They ind that Fairmont
is not only in the center of new and
extensively developed coal field, but
that Fairinont controls almost an mex
haustible supply of gas. That gas is
offered TO manufacturing industries at
a rate which is equivalent to coal at
less than 80 cents per ton-5 cents
per thousand cubic feet Fairmont's
business people are made up of the
most loyal class to be found anywhere;
always ready to enhance the general
business interests of the community
1t now begins to look as though
Pittsburg could produce the raw mate
:'-5tt. Bag tnot .s.:r-1o!:l LlUst s:-S:'e i
finishing the product If the freight
rates to and from Fairmont are as
good as Pittsburgh and if as a distrlbu-
ton point Fairmont is PittsburS's
equal, then the cheapest fuel in the
world irsures Fairmont to became a
great industrial center.
Fa;rmont has an abundance of ter
ritory for industries. Seven hundred
ucres owned by the Fairmont Indus
trial Company, 2 great deal of which
is accessible to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and Wabash Railroad.
The land. from its location to the city.
is a natural location for factories and
will be Invaluable to the city in the
future as a center of large industrial
activity.
A representative of large industry
whose main. Off ce is in PittsburS, look
ed over our city the other day in view
of consolidating two of their fourteen
plants and moving to cheap fuel
district. He was well pleased with our
city, and I think Fairmont will get the
plant. This gentleman called my at
tentiOn to another very important eie-
ment which enters into the growth
of an industrial town-that of labor.
He says that labor conditions in Fair
mont is the best: in the upper Monon-
gahcIa almost every American laborer
has an ambition to own his own home,
and whenever a laboring man becomes
a property owner, there is then SYM
pathetic chord between the employe
and the employer I think this is
largely due to the fact that the ma
jority Of laborerS in our section come
from the farms Mr.. w. w. Wood.
industrial agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, is good substantial
friend to the upper MOnongahela. and
has done much toward bringing our
advantages into proper consideration
by prospective moving concerns. 1t is
to be much appreciated that MI. Wood
directs the moving industries from
more expensive fuel districts and
where railroad facilities are not so
good to this region where fuel is the
cheapest to be found anywhere, and
where excellent railroad facilities are
given.
Fairmont has a great future, and
will not be hasty in selecting the class
of industries which are best adapted
to her natural inducements. The more
you read and study of the relations
between Fairnont and Pittsburg the
greater you VIII be convinced that