The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-09-12
llR. PARKER
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me value OF the output Of the mines
ana oiiaEriesis OF a pefhanent char
The second distraction IS that the
prodtets OF the son are perennial,
ore rrofgtlf ana harvest + succeeded
Nv another, and as long as We have.
q z 5tash. the nIfrates and the phos-
pilates to renew the plant foods (and
4yhen .tlie mines give out we VIII md
other ways OF prod1Eint them) the
i,soii VIII continue to give forth ttS In
crease. The contents OF the mines,
however. are not repIenishabIe. Once
lextracted they aresgone forever. Some
or the. mineral products may be con-
sfdered HmItIess. The supplies OF ma
terials used for structural purposes.
stone, clay, cement materials, etc.,
are inexhaustIble and these. as you
all know, are rapidly replacing lum-
ser in the construction OF buildings.
ilstit our mineral fuels. coal, petroIe-
luu. ana natural gas. are like the
products of the farm, Consumed in
being applied to the use Of man. but but
mike the products OF the farm thSg
are not Reproduced, nor are the sup
plies by any means inexhaustIble- We
/ are not IBLEluS any AAAAAAAsSN1s--N
/ OF the failure OF our coal supplies,
but we are drawing upon them at an
! enormous and constantly increasing
rate, and while many generations WI
come and go before Dug store houses
OF coal are exhausted, It Is not going
to be many decades before the higher
grades, the ones upon which the heav-
| lest drafts are being made, will be
] al nj
! Maryland is approaching exhaustion
and some OF you here present may
see the time when Connellsville coal
and coke Will be a part Of history.
| west Virginia IS q mining state.
and the chief products are mineral
fuels. In 1903 the total value of the
mineral products OF this state was
ss9.177. 459, of which nearly $4,000
600 { to be exact $7e!S42,5s4) was
from coal, natural gas and petroleum
CCoaI $44,661.716, gas $17.S3s'56S' Pc
troleum 81, 642. 2s3.) Can any mem
Der of the board of trade state no"
much Of this was used within the
state for the, support Of manufactur-
| ing industries and the building up of
permanent and desirable commun-
| Ittes? The United states owes It's
position as THE leading lnnannfaetll lls
ing country of the worIdEto its wealth
| of coal and TO the very Important tact
that more than 90 per cent of its out
put is consumed in this country.
Manufactures build us permanent and
prosperous towns and provide con-
summing markets for oefef products,
particularly those Of the farm a nd
thus give added prosperity to tho
rural population: Ands wShat is true
of the country as whole Is true OF
the states. Consider HE manufac-
turing states of Pennsylvania. of
Ohio, Illinois. Alabama, and I ask
you gentlemen OF the Board of Trade
of West Virginia to compare condi-
tons in those states with those OF
your own. West Virginia in 1903 bee
came the second coal producing state.
displacing Illinois in point of tonnage.
In 1910. owing to the strike in the
Illinois fields, West Virginia's coal
product exceeded that of her former
rival by over 100000 tons. or about
30 IL per cent. Moreover. some OF
the coal produced in West Virginia Is
Of the highest grade to be found In
this country outside OF the anthracite
fields of Pennsylvania and for GER
tain purposes West Virginia coal Is
superior to anthracite. All OF 1t is
superior to Illinois coal: Yet hi
nois is one OF the leading states in
manufactures and West Virginia is
| twenty-ninth. The total value of the
manufactures of Illinois in 1903 was
81 ,91S.OOO 900. West Virginia's was
S1G1 $50. 900. The value of the manu-
rnctured products of Illinois where
the coal is consumed principally with
| in the state (nnd Illinois, by the way
also uses large quantities Of West
Virginia coal and coke). was SO times
the value of the coal produced in the
states. The value OF the manufac-
tured products of West Virginia was
not quite double the value Of the coal
produced in that state. Alabama s
production of coal in 1909 was less
than one-thfrd OF that of West Vlr-
GINA, but her manufactured products
were within 10 per cent of West Vir-
ginia. Twenty per cent of the total
value of the mineral products of West
virginia is in the production Of petro-
leum, and the output amounts to
about 10, 900, 900 barrels year. am
creditabIy informed that most of this
is piped out of the state for REIN
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