The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-08-22
WEST VIRGINIA.

Those who seem to have folded
their arms and are now waiting for
something to turn up should ponder
over the following from the Ohio
Valley Manufacturer and then
waste no time to renew individual
activity and enjoy with those who
are forging to the front the great
benefits being derived from the
greatness of the states progress:
EsWest Virginia's reward is gen
erously prognosticated in the trade
press and by other agencies that have
hitherto been busy exploiting the
advantages of regions more remot.
and dwelling upon the probabilities
and the possibilities of the reHll'
ephemral things of life. For two
decades this sovereign state has been
progressing slowly but surely along
the pathway of development; until
now full knowledge of its immediate
future seems to have burst upon the
world at large as the dazzling rays
of the sun fill the dome of morning
after the gloom of night. The en-
inence of West Virginia's position
as an individual commonwealth
seems suddenly to have revealed it
self to our neighbors at one magni-
ficent sweep upwards to the curtains
that divide the present from the
time that is to be. How this golden
vision is effecting those without the
borders of the state we may easily
infer from the streams of yellow
gold that are pouring over our bord.
ers to seek investment in coal and
oil. timber and railroads, and fac
tories and bansk The world has
been content to regard our patri-
mony of natural resources rs an in
stitution to be taken as matter Of
course, but now, how changer the
times, how different the motives inn
polling this newborn respect for the
Little Mountain State. coal-bottom-
ed, timber-canopied, and fabricated
with over 15,OOO,OOO gallons of mer-
charitable oil annually. We find
great railroad systems sparring with
one another for the privilege of
building new lines, and laying to
our hearthstones the strcaks of steel
indispensable in the distribution of
our products. California may yet
unfold to the world new deposits Of
gold, yet she cannot give to poster
ity the means of earning for so many
people returns nearly so valuable n
West Virginia has it within her
power to bestow upon her children
The treasures of the Rockies have
been but Scratched but the Rookie,
cannot house millions, feed count
less furnace fires, and sustain those
arts that will bring to West Virgin
ians livelihood and competence
With coal sufficient to supply thu
world for some thousands Of years
and with other, until now barely de
fined, natural riches. the state MAY
well regard itself as the future work
shop of the. world. Shipping facili.
ties are increasing: we have the fuc'
hand can withhold the mills
and the factories, fed upon the
cheapest ELIXIR of life known to the
of manufacture? None
progress i'll the past twenty years,
it is nothing compared to that proms
ised in the immediate two decades
at hand. BY that time export coal
will have ramified to all parts of the |
world, while diversity of arts ,as
as bewildering, as those
hat have made Pittsburg what it is
,oday, will reign supreme in every
look of the state. eNw corpora
ions are being formed here at the
ate of scores weekly, and the