Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-07
FUTURE WORLD CENTER
0 [! INDUSTRIAL N | HUSTLE
Territory Adjacent to Chesapeake
Bay and Rivers Implying Therein
49, Has Great Destiny Ahead.
MILLIONS OF MONEY INVESTED


3 :':sss Has Great Destiny Ahead.
: MILLIONS OF MONEY INVESTED
3 Some Of the Things That Come to
y Vision OF Far-Sceing Mon Realized.
~ Industries That Follow Army and
= Navy Activities.
q . In the opinion OF the manufacturers
SRecord, the Chesapeake Bay territory
= ais stinea ss;tosabe one OF the worlds
greatest centers 81 Industrial rush and
e army and navy activities. More than
. quarter of century ago says the
& Record. far-seeing steel men made a
!. move which at that time was regarded
:. as The most advanced stop in the steel
= development OF America. in locating
= Baltimore. great plant. with view
q to having foreign ores and West Vir-
Z. ginia coke meet at the furnace.
q Long prior to that date the United
?. States government, through various
!. administrations-Repu and Demo-
q cratic alike-had settled on Hampton
e Roads as the most strategic naval base
. in the United states, and later on
= Coils r. Huntington, one of the
Z. greatest railroad 'geniuscs which this
country ever produced, saw that on
- Hampton Roads there was, In his
~rSSopinicn, the best site in the United
- States for the creation OF an Atlantic
- terminus OF n transcontinental railroad
- System, and for building a shipyard
- which he designed TO be the largest
..rfn the United States. That shipyard
has fulfilled his expectations
=. now has about 100000 of work
under contract.
ssoTfER WISE MEN WHO
?. SAW THROUGH BIG GLASSES
s-rS Still later, Henry II. Rogers. one of
c.sthe creative spirits of the Standard
sxOil Company, after an investigation
-~of tho investment opportunities of
-shmerica. decided that to build n rail-
.Sroad from Hampton Roads TO the coal
- fields of West Virginia. with the inten-
--Sstion ultimately Of carrying it to the
--s-akes. was n project of commanding
and SO he built Il railroad
still hauls moro freight per train
~ than any other railroad in the United
carrying the Goals of West Vir-
.s~ginia to its great terminals at Norfolk.
So Long prior to these events other
= railroads had been built from the West
.sand South to Norfolk. or to the Hamp-
s-ton Roads section.
q a year. or so ago Charles NJ. Schwab.
@sperhars the greatest Individual genius
s.s-n America in steel-makinE. after q
a. carefui study of the resources of every
a.. part of this country for the enlarge
ss.ssment OF his great Bethlehem interests.
~ turned his attention to the plant near
fillmore, which had been in operation
sssfor more than n quarter Of century,
..~and, after acquiring it. began its en-
- larBSm nj at an outlay of over $780,
900, ooo
Other vast Industrial operations. rep
resanting many millions of investment,
have followed Schwab's lend. and other
- ffnanciers and manufacturers have Sc
!. lected sites for their enterprises in the
neighborhood OF Baltimore
BOTH ENDS OF CHESAPEAKE
- nay AND ON IT'S RIVERS
- Thus with Baltimore at one end of
the Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk and
Newport News at the other, with
mighty operation. by the national
government. representing in tho Nor
sfolk district probably $4,000. 900 or more
to be expended. with the fulfllment of
the dreams OF Rogers and Huntington
there is found at the north and at the
south of Chesapeake Bay some of the
sgrcatest movements in 1.-The Industrial
sand naval histsrs..o OF the world now
under way. M g
sDut bctwccnrthese two extremes
there is u vast area bordering on the
L.
utarE to 1t which furnish thousands
of miles of inland waterfront, probab:
~ unmatched. all things considered
= In the world. In this region Of eX-
ceptionally fine climatic advantages.
winter and summer alike. the very gar
den spot OF America for the uroduc.
tion of foodstufts, having an oyster
center of unsurpassed richness. with
. stransportation facilities which make
possible the concentration here of vast
stores OF raw materials for every line
or manufacture that can be brought
from all foreign countries to meet
other resources produced in ;his cour-
: try there Ia an amazing situation in
dfcating that the Chesapeake Ray is
: so become one OF the worlds great
est industrial and shipping cente,s.
THE NECESSARY coal.
Is NEAR At HAND
West Virginia, Virginia and Ken
, lucky coal fields tributary to the Chcs-
apeake Bay are far larger in area
. than the entire coal area OF all OF
|. Europe. excluding Russia. and ere
:. equal In extent TO all of Eurone. in
: Guiding Russia. The almost boundless
. wealth OF coal in the V:rginias and
Kentucky, which is even now being
poured through Chesapeake Bay ports:
vest as II Is. IS but an indication OF
: me almost lin1itlcss extent to which
: this trade can be carried in the future.
-. When we take into account the navy
and army activities now existing and
I developing on the Chcsa peale Bay, we
can easily grasp the truth that be-
: tween Baltimore and the mouth Of the