The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-04-20
JACOB
THRIFT'S
EXPERIENCE.

4 HANcAAH7N
development in the next five years.
have dwelt on what il was the past five
and what it is as present. The advance
has been so remarkably and astonish-
ingly great that 1t is scarcely 10 be be-
lieved, and, yet there is every assurance
that 1t has merely begun and that the
commerce and industry OF Clarksburg
are merely in their infancy. Maturity
viii come within the next five years.
There will be body, muscles and
strength, iguratively speaking.
take the liberal policy of the clarks-
burg Industrial Company for instance.
The fact is already widely known that
that company has set apart large
acreage for free sites. The require
ments are really trivial and yet very
important. 1t is sought to have small
but substantial factories locate in that
addition of the city, factories that will
give constant employment at good wages.
Concerns of this sort can not locate at
that point unless they build brick,
stone or steel buildingg. subject to the
inspection and approval of the company
that gives the sites. Resulting from
that policy the several factories that
have come are industries which have
already added materially TO commerce
and industry here, am told and have
no reason 10 believe otherwise, since it
Is true every where that the small fac
tories are the bone and sinew of indus
trial and commercial aetiyiiy-those
which have pay rolls the year around
] understand in addition to this that
every effort is put forth BY the company
to get factories that win give employ
ment to from so to 100 men, and such
industries mean much larger number
in population. and accordingly big
'naux-of people.
Il got on the inside a day or so ago
talking to Baltimore 6 Ohio official
from headquarters at Baltimore. He
semi-oliicially stated that that railroad
the company had started up Elk creek
is to be pushed TO Belington in the near
future. connecting there with the West
Virginia Central and practically making
another trunk line through this section.
1t is only thirty miles, but though short
Il opens mp new possibilities for Clarks.
burg and especially that development
known as Industrial. In view Of this
fact as well as the prospect for great
industrial progress, every one will do
web to avail himself OF the advantages
to be acquired in purchasing lots in that
prospective second 'Clarksburg by TAX
| ing time by the forclock. and building
cottages there. There is bound TO be
great transformation at that point.
Why. il would not surprise me, IL there
are four or five thousand people resid-
ing at Industrial and Grasselli before
the snow falls. In five years there viii
be larger population there than clarks-
hlrg now has. just think Of III
Would il not be fortune TO the man
who buys building lots there nows'
At this point Jake became so impress.
ed in contemplating the future great
ness Of clarSsburg, that he buttonholed
',is companion, and after whispering TO
him that he and Susie had fixed the day
for the wedding and that he had con
clude 10 finish his letter TO his vest
ern friends by single line telling them
he woald not return to them but east
his lot, where there Is fortune in
store for any young man. who uses hi
brain and money, he gave voice 60 the
inspiration that had seized him as fol-
lows;
Summing up the situation after hav-
ing been thoroughly familiar with II in
every respect Jake expressed himself
with great force and voiced sentiments
and truths so impressive that they
must carry weight with the people Of
the county and there viii doubtless i,e
aroused by his suggestions an insP5ass.
/, tion. activity and confidence that viii
lresult in great achievement. Hear what
he says:
/ I'll Is my belief that clarksbIrg j.
about TO enter into a period OF renewed
activity. the immensity Of which can
only be measured by its opportunities
and resources. These resources are
comprised Of the greatest coal field in
the world. the greatest known gas belt