The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-04-22
An Outrageous Omission.

An Outrageous Omission.
According to a canvass recently
made by the Industrial -departmen
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company in this state 1t is htgn
time that ClaFksbuTg Should wake
lup IN the matter of making iron ana
steel products and also high time
that the state should arouse itsei1
to the fact tnat far greater use
should be made OF its -coal and coke
In manufacturing things. at home az
Record in its April 16. number.
The railroad canvass resulted n
the following Information!
.fPlants for the manufacture OF
iron and steel products, such as
axles, nails. rails. PIPING stoves
sshoyels, boilers, castings forgings.
ttinplate, machinery, muck bars, gas
pumps, sheet iron. steel plates, sassh
weights, iron roofing, gas fittings
structural iron, iron drip pans
mining machinery. tools and tubtng
and oil well supplies, number aIteen
at wheeling, twelve at ParKeEsnufe,|
Sthree at Huntington, two at EAR
mont, two at Morgantown Two a.
Sistersyiile, one at Chares Town, one!
at Point Pleasant, one a. weston
one at Spencer, one at Cameron, one
at Grafton, one at Shinnsbon, one at
Paden City, one at WOLF summit ana
one at New AIartinsvile.
1T Is noticed that C1arksburg IS
not in this list The publication
rdoes .CIarksburg rsprehensiole MUS
tee. and criminal neglect as well as
malicious i'll will is SHOWN by Ln9
canvass ers. Clarksburg has num-
her Of plants engaged in the manu-
rrfacture of some of the articles
enumerated and as a manufacturing
center 1t is at the top OF the lst.
What was the motive in this attempt
TO injure Clarksburg. IL IS certdlll L:y
a matter to engage the 1mmealate AZ
tention of the Clarksburg board %
Trade.
the Manufacturers' Record in its ed
itorial comment upon the canvass
sfof the total value Of the
products of all industries IN
West Virginia in 1910, anao unit
ing to S16t,95O 200, INDUSTRIES
IN which iron and steel enter
were represented by $3S, Iii, 600, OF
which S22 y435 900 were the value OF
the output of iron and steel workS
and rolling mills, Sc, 732,0OO OF gen.
era1 shop construction and repairs
by steam railroad. companies,
392. 600 of foundries and mac s-lL
shops, and sS2 10 1JOOO-9OI SHSSS
tin and copper products
among, the states. of the country IN
1910 coke prod uction5 the state
5eiye,one Of the half dozen in the
Annalachian region containing sew
.anty-five. per cent of the coal suit
able for iron-making coke IN Uils
country. But not only IS west VT
ainia shipping much of its coke 70
ether narts OF the country, but il IS
also shipping mucfrof its coke-naa X lis
coal 10 fetort-oven plants in Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio. ~
ct Is time for West Virginia TO
expend the use OF it's own coke IN in z
larger manufacture OF piG-iron anu
to derive the fun beneht from tn s5s
Industry IN diversifying its iron anu
steel products. ~
nature for production in manu la
turing industries. Seventy per ce,L1'
ar i 1000 of the "a, 600 square m1IeS
'og its area are underlatd with COZ
.of fine finest quality and estimated at
% 900. 900 900 tons. j,
above much Of ehat coal are
Glands OF timber, some of ~
b part of. ther remaining .nssu
WOOD reserve of the country cover
ing more than 100000 acres. ii
sssResides its coal, determ1 INNS
factor in the ultimate location o. ~, M
.f,Tstries Of many kinds. West VIZ
einia, has ,unmeasured quantitiless SO %
I5tl and natural gas for Iu Le.S
and its limestone and other ROCKS .a7
have already become the material
Tor portland cement and other prou-
ucts. ,,,oIo,,,nent
sc the state has really. only oeeu IA
inasmuch as attention has been IN
reeted largely upon the rse@ exptol-
tation Of its mineral and timber Ilaosr,, r.
sonrces, That exploitation hoTgeTsr,
$40 Sas inv involved too much regard for
msdlate profit s and aB soo l i2destri les
that win be a source of constant
wealth. -, ma
ter,al should rise the multitude -
di1ersied industries Of IN m4 tRs f forfy
ana il1 ,s W. and steel working plants
Embodied in the Baltimore ana o J.1s'
canvass should fndfte Local cap1 10
ana investors in other parts OF 1,l tLe
country str9 to make the most Of we J.
lVsrginia's industrial opportunl e1e9'