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

Dy your gong.
an Outrageous Omission.
According to a canyass recently
made by the ind ustrtals department
| of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
bCompany In this state, 1t Is hign
time that ClarksbuTg should wake
mp In the matterfof max ne, iron anu
steel products and also high time
that the state should arouse itsen
10 tha fact that far greater use
should be made or its coal and coke
in manufacturing things at home az
pointed out by the Manufacturers
Record in its April 16 number.
The railroad canvass resulted N
the following Information:
"Plants for the n1anufacture q
/ iron and steel products. such 40
axles, nails. rails, piping, stoves
shoyels. boilers, CcasttnGs forging5'.
itinplate. machinery. muck bars, gas
pumps, sheet IRON steel plates, sash
weights, iron roofing, gas hrtlngs'
structural iron, iron drip pans,
mining machinery, tools and pupins
and oil well supplies, number fifteen
at Wheeling, twelve at ParkersDuIS'
three at Huntington, two at Fslr-
mont, two at Mprgantown, Two a.
SistersyiIle, one at Chares Town one
at POINT Pleasant one at weston,
one at SPENCER, one at Cameron, one
at Grafton, one at Shinnsuon, one az
Paden City. one at Wolf summit, ana
one at New Martinsvile.
IT is noticed that Clarksburg Is
not in this list. The publicat ton
does Ciarksburg reprehensiDle mus
ttce, and criminal neglect as well az
maIicious Ill will is SHOWN by the
can vassers. CIarksburg has num-
ber Of plants engaged in the manu-
r1facture of some Of the articles
enumerated and as a manufacturing
center it is at the top Of the hst.
What was the motive in this attempt
10 iniure Clarksburg. II IS certalnty
Ia matter to engage the immediate a.
tention OF the Clarks burg Board y
Trade. - -,
the Nanuf acturers' Record in its ed
5toriai comment upon the canvass
@of the total, value Of the
nYoducts of all industries IN
Wesf Virginia in 1910. amount
ing to S161 $4,000, industries
in witch iron and steel en- tet
were represented by S3S,4lI ,OUO, y
which S22 ,435 600 were the value q
the. output of iron and steel WorIAS
ana rolling mills, Sc, 732,0O0 OF gen
rral shop construction and repairs
Nv steam railroad companies, 80
900 000 If foundries and Machine
sbons and So. Is 900 of sheet IRON
tin and copper products
West Virginia ranked iouFen
among. the states OF. the-coun ~ ~
orTo inseSKe production, the state
being one of the half q dozen II s AZ
Anna1aehians region containing sew
anty-fiye per cent Of the coal SUIT
able for iron-making coke in TINS
fc3,1ntrv But not only is West VIZ
e,inia shipping much of its coke 70
other parts Of the country, but u -
also shipping much oil its coke- .LL1ahLii1S
coal to retort-oxen plants IN Iiilno1s'
Indiana and Ohio. ,..-to =,
sTt Is time for West Virginia 20
.x-r,a,,,, In. use OF its own coke in q
larger manufacture Of pig-iron an
"a derive the full benefit from tina.
industry N dfversifying its iron AM
steel products. ~
Nature for. production in manulac
turing industries. Seventy per csl.1'
or II 900 OF the $4,000 square m nj
OF its area are underla.d Win Soslt
of the finest quality and eStlLhaleu :
231. 900 600, 600 tons.
DAbove much Of that coal are
stands OF timber, some oil
n mart of the remaining haFu
Ivood reserve % the, country, cover
ing more than 100000 acres. =.
ssBesides its coal, detern!n i ~.
factor in the ultimate location OF m
,I,,sfries of many kinds, West var
e-5nia has unmeasured quantities o.
5etroIenm and natural gas for Iuei,
and its limestone and other rocNS
have already become. the naater I,
for portland cement and otner prou-
ucts. ,--a1o,,ment
# the state has really only begun
inasm1oh as attention has been 81
r ,.r.ts largely upon the raw eXpiol-
tation of its mineral and timer
Sources. That exploitation hhoSgeVeI,
has involved, too much regard IoI
immediate profit and too little ioI
the creation OF permanent industries
that win be a source Of constant
AROUND the sources Of raw ma
tar,al should rise the multitude -
diyergffiad industries OF many klnas'
md what is indicated in the Iorty-
six iron and steel working pL aI.te
srn,bodied in the Baltimore and onl0
canvass should incite' local capi ia
Ian5 investors in other parts OF -,, tle
conntTv to make the most OF IVES IVES.
y3rglnia's Industrial opportunlties'