The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-19
IE DAILY TELEGRAN.
Friday. oetober 10, BOG.
OLE sTATHs WEALTH.

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Trade said:
West Virginia is unique in the
unparalleled location which she en-
Joys Midway between the activi-
ties of the Atlantic seaboard and the
center of the worlds iron and steel
industry around Pittsburg and the
lakes. She has on the one side the
whole Atlantic seaboard at her com
mand, and, on the other hand, not
only the almost linitless demand of
the great steel and iron and lake
regions, even into Canada, but also
the open waterway to New Orleans,
the West Indies, South America and
Panama.
Even now her steel barges are
being built. which. when loaded with
West Virginia coal. will not break
cargo until they discharge at
Havana and other West Indian
sorts. The old wooden barge is
doomed. With steel barges built to
stand an ocean voyage the coal
trade of the West Indies and Mexico
is2aTready practically in your grasp
James j. Hill. president of the
Great Northern railroad, is quoted
as having explained the southwark
trend of foreign commerce by say
ing: Kick barrel of -four over
at Minneapolis and it viii roll to
New Orleans. OF West Virginia
It might he said. start ton Of coal
and it will roll or float downhill
either to the Atlantic on the one
side o. the Mississippi and tie Gulf
on the other.
esSurrounded by the most stu
pendous activities of the industrial
world. here is a storehc;se OF limit
less wealth. Great Britains finan-
cial and commercial power. her
dominance on every sea and in near
Nv every land. are largely based- upon
coal. 1t is coal that gives strength |
10 her iron and steel and cotton. to
her ships Of war as we'll as these OF
peace. Without coal Greats Britain
could not for the last century have
existed as the leader of the world
Against Great Britain's 5000 H
SQUARE miles. much of it in thin
seams and of vast depth, much of 1t
alrendN worked out. stands West
Virginia with her virgin field OF 1
over 10000 square miles of coal
piled UP in her vast mountains. easy
of access. mined at an amazingly Il
low cost. in quality the highest. IN
quantity almost limitle~s.
at may be safel.. criruIatrd that
If Nest Virginin,s coal could be
centralized at 10 cents a ton YOU
would have weitth enough fc buy
Dearlv all the railroads Of Anrrica.
or nearly enough TO pay the nrtion-
81 debts of the United States. Great
Britain and France comhined-
EtThe average coal land of West
Virginia will carry 5000 to 10000
TONS an acre. Putting it at
minimum of 5000 tons. and remem-
herring that agricultural lands fur
nishes on Fhc average less than one
equal to TINT of an acre OF ayr
cultural land for 10000 wears IN
this striking fact, in connection
with the vast number OF acres 81
coal Land, 0f which YOU boast, Is
found the reason for the tltantIc
Il ru@oIe of tn" giant railroad pow
orz If America to hold strategic
I'M this mountain State.
ON this is, seen the reason why
no Pennsvlvania, the Baltimore q
1hio- the Goulds, the Vanderbilts'
he Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk
! western and others are struggling :
Ike GREAT armies in battle to gain
fLe str6nghods of the State Here
Il more freight ready for the min
mo and loading than 100000, 900
hushci wheat crop would furnish III
Z 600 yclrs. The total coal prodnc-
lion If Great Britain Is nearly 27o'-
600 600 tons year. West Virgin
ia could duplicate that quantity Tor
chad Won no coal nor iron nor
agricultural advantages, your TIM
her alone would be enough to en-
Ticb state: all combined are
enough to enrich an empire.
-Growing even more rapidly
than the coal and iron industry is
Tho manufacture of cement This
young giant Of the industrial world
has come at propiti"us time to
supplement. not 10 $upPlant, iron
and lumber.
t.'Throuslout oArth's remotest
hounds There is probably NJ other
State which has within its limits
vastcr potentialitics for wealth than
lie buried beneath the soil Of West
Virginia Fortunate, indeed, are