Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-09
BIG TOWN At
BERKELEY STATION
Live Men Head Movement OF Great
Possibilities,
YARDS AT cUMBO NEXT

Most Extensive Development Ever
Planned in Berkeley County viii
Soon Be Under Way and Berkeley
Will Some Day Rival Martinsburg-
3. g. o. Shops ind Power Company
incidentally Interested in the En-
terprise.
From The World of Thursday:
Recognizing the possibilities of the
near future, a party Of Martinsburg
gentlemen. with President F. E. Will
son, of the Peoples Trust Company.
as the active head have secured a plot
of ground at Berkeley Station, on the
east side of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, and are having laid out a
small city.
The work Of survey and plating is
in the hands of Engineer G. w Van
metre, and he has been on the work
for some time. Mr.. Van Metre has
been given a free hand in the laying
out of the new town, which will be
called Berkeley, and in a very short
time the blue prints will be complet-
ed and building sites will be for sale.
The town will be directly east of
the station, and will be plated with a
h~undred-foot avenue or boulevard
leading directly east from the station.
and the rest of the new town will be
laid with an idea of making an
attractive and conveniently arranged
city.
The renewed activity of the stone
quarries at Bessemer, now under the
operation of the Security Cement and
Lime Company, has caused an awaken
ing of the interests in that section OF
the county. The Security people are
doing a great deal OF work at the
present time and are employing all
the carpenters, masons and other me-
chanics that they can get hold of.
There is an increase in the output of
the quarries. which will continue to
grow. requiring more men and many
of these will desire to live within
easy reach. This opening up of Ber-
kelley is opportune and lots will no
doubt find a ready sale when placed
on the market, and once building Is
started there one can expect a rapid
growth.
Another thing that makes the pro-
motion of Berkeley look like a good f.
nancial move for the men who are
back of it, is the fact that the yards
which were planned for Cumbo some
years ago are about to be built. Just
a day or two ago Contractor King
went over the land owned by the COM
pany, and it is said that just as soon
as the necessary machinery, tools.
men, ETC., can be gotten on the ground
work will be commenced.
The plans to be followed in the con-
struction of the yards are those which
were set forth some time ago In The
Evening World, and will readily be re-
called.
Quite a number of men will be en-
ployed in these yards when they are
completed and Berkeley will make a
most convenient place for them to
live.
Preceding the construction Of the
yards at Cumbo, improvements Will be
made in the shops of the company in
this city. Superintendent B~rantner
will, in the course of the next thirty
days, insall several new machines.
which will afford an opportunity for a
largely increased output.
More motors will be installed and
the Martinsburg Power Company has
Just completed the erection Of a pow.
er line for their plant to the shops
and will furnish the company with
$50 horsepower and what more may
be needed. The necessary changes
for the equipment are being made at
the shops now
Power will be furnished and the
lighting at Cumbo will be furnished
direct from the plant at Dam No. 5.
IL will be taken there at the high
voltage and reduced at the power sta
tion TO be erected in the yards. The
new yards will be lighted by SIS arc
lamps.
Building at Berkeley and the al
most certain rapid growth OF the popu-
lation at the place makes another de-
mand for the installation of a trolley
system in Berkeley county. With two
rapidly growing suburbs. Blair and
Berkeley, there Is nothing which Mar
tinsburg needs more than a trolley.