The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-11-12
2, 600 MEN NEEDED.
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MINES ARE ALL IN OPERATION
AND MoREsLAeoR is NEED
ED-sIc FACTORIES RE-
suMlNG RusIN Ess

1 SSTnltNAS Aa0SlN6SS
Huge Wave Of Prosperity, Following
the election, Begins to Sweep Over
Our Little Mountain State and a
Wondereus. change Has Already
Taken Place.
WHEELING, Nov. 12.-West virgtn-
ia has hung up the sign. our Busy
Day" A few days have wrought a
wonderous change in the Industrial
conditions 81 thu State. Many Of thu
mills and factories have already re
sumed operations and scores are pre-.
pairing for resumption, while the air
is filled with rumors OF new indus
tries and engagements OF old ones
Prosperity has arrived In the little
Mountain State. Men who have been
out of employment for year are at
work. Money is seeking investment
everywhere and conditions are rapid.
" assuming the normal.
There are now no idle coal mines
in the State and Labor Commissioner
Isaac V. Barton is authority for the
statement that over 1000 coal miners
Could find employment in the State
to-day. At his office in this city he is
busy with his correspondence. which
has become extremely heavy since
November, 4 in receiving requests
from the mining regions and from
manufactures in various parts OF the
State for workmen.
Here in this city many Of the mills
and factories are making Preparations
to resume operations, which have
ben idle in some instances for a
year. The big Riverside tube mill of
the United States Steel Company. en-
ploying over 5000 man, 1t Is reported.
will resume operations in. short
time. This mill has not turned a
wheel for a year, and 1t is the largest
hill IN the State. The Wheeling Pot
teries Company. the largest in the
State, which has been IN financial
starts for more than year, is pre-.
pairing to recrganize on more ex.
tended scale and 10 r'sumc operations
with an increased output in a short
time.
The local manager of the La Belle
Iron works, one of the l1rgest indie.
pendent mills in the country, opera
ting big plants here and at Stsuben-
! willie, Ohio, has received orders to
clear large piece of gr.und for
tack factory. The company has been
manufacturing tacks on small scale.
but now intends building large fac.
tory and going into the manufacture
of this product on a more ext-nded
scale. The glass factories are put
ting on more men and the Industrial
situation has not presented so r,seate
a hue in is months.
To Seek New Industries.
! Reports of the same character come
I from the other cities of the State
Charleston, Parkersburg, Huntington,
RlueAeit, Morgantown, Farmont and
! CI2rksburg,
The State board Of trade, which
met at Carksburg on November 10
and Il. found conditions much
roster than it had anticipated and
will begin a vigorous campaign for
bringing many new industries into the
State during the next year a plan
that it would have been difficult 70
carry out had conditions continued as
they were before election, but which
now will be successful beyond ques-
| ton.
RaliTad and trolley activities are
also becoming more pronounced
throughout the State. Lines project,
Ell two years ago, which were drop.
ped when the financial panic came on
are now to be taken up and carried
TO complexion. The realization Of a
gigantic project fosteret for years b.
capitalists of the Eastern CITIES Is
now to take definite form, and it /?
a matter OF only a short time until
there will be n trunk electric railway
line between Pfttsburg, Wheeling and
down the Ohio Valley to Parkersburg
with ultimately farther extensions t
Huntington and possibly Cincinnati!
Representatives OF The contracting
firm Of Wheeling & Co, of New York
which mas the contract for the new
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