Clarksburg Lumber & Planing Mill Company, organized in June, 1909, is the successor of the Clarksburg Planing Mill Co., and are manufacturers of interior finishes for buildings. The raw material is obtained mostly from the State of West Virginia, with the exception of yellow and white pine. The officers of the company are C. E. Prunty, president; J. J. Connell, vice president; V. L. Highland, treasurer; W. B. Robbins, manager and gives employment to 26 men. Clarksburg Casket Company, established in 1906, are manufacturers of cloth-covered caskets, robes and linings, and is the only factory of its kind in the State of West Virginia. Such raw material as lumber is obtainable in the State, and the finished products are disposed of in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia. The company is composed of F. L. Wilson, president; J. H. Cuffett, treasurer; A. Brown, secretary. Parr Lumber & Planing Mill Company, composed of A. D. Parr, president, and C. E. Parr, secretary, treasurer and general manager, are manufacturers of all kinds of high-grade interior finish and building materials. About 60 per cent of the raw material used is obtained from the State of West Virginia. They give employment to 30 men and 2 women, with a payroll of $25,000 to $30,000 annually. Their business was seven times greater in 1909 than in 1905. Clarksburg Foundry & Casting Company, established in 1907, is represented by E. T. Weir, president; W. B. Osborn, vice-president; C. G. Jewett, general manager; V. L. Highland, secretary and treasurer, and manufactures gray iron and brass castings, with a capacity of 1,500 to 1,800 tons per year. About 50 per cent of the raw material is obtained from the State of West Virginia. They give employment to 20 men, with an annual payroll of $12,000. Tuna Glass Company, manufacturers of glass products, was established in 1907 and is one of the largest manufactories of its kind in the State, giving employment to 235 men, with a payroll of $148,353.41 for the year ending July 31, 1910. The greater portion of the raw material used, sand, lime and lumber, is obtained from the State of West Virginia. The total output for the year ending July 31, 1910, was 138,810 fifty-foot boxes. The company is represented by Felix Steinberger, president; Chas. S. Smiley, vice president; W. C. Harding, treasurer; Chas. H. Harding, secretary and general manager. Travis Glass Company, manufacturers of milk bottles, was established in 1908, and is composed of H. E. Travis, president; R. S. Travis, vice president; John L. Robinson, secretary. This company is now making extensive improvements and after October 1st will have a capacity of from 15 to 16 carloads per week. The raw material used, chiefly sand and limestone, is obtained chiefly from the State of West Virginia. The number of men employed is 175, with a payroll of $12,000 per month. The A. Radford Pottery Co., established in 1903, are manufacturers of art specialties and faience wares, giving employment to 43 men and women, with a payroll of $2,500 per month. The officers of the company are John Koblegard, president; John L. Ruhl, vice president and treasurer; H. E. Marquand, secretary and manager. The abundance of cheap natural gas obtainable at Clarksburg was an inducement and an asset to the firm. Southern Pine Lumber Company, composed of J. H. O'Neill, president, and A. H. Cundell, vice-president, was established in 1900. They are wholesale and retail jobbers in lumber, giving employment to 25 men, with a payroll of $1,200 per month. The raw material is obtained from the States of West Virginia, North Carolina and Southern States. Star Rig, Reel & Supply Company, manufacturers of rig iron outfits and manila cables, was established in 1900 and has a capacity of 2,250.000 pounds of rig iron outfits and 7.000,000 pounds of manila cables annually. All lumber and iron used in the manufacture of these articles is obtained from the State of Virginia, while the manila fiber used is CLARKSBURG, W. VA. obtained from the Philippines. The finished products are shipped to all parts of the globe where the oil and gas industry is known. The officers of the company are Chas. S. Smiley, president; J. J. Mead, vice-president, and Hugh Downs, secretary and treasurer. They employ 32 men and 1 woman and have a payroll of $35,000 annually. This firm considers Clarksburg the best central location in West Virginia for natural gas and oil. The Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., established in 1900, are manufacturers of jelly glasses, beef jars and snuff bottles. The company, with W. S. Brady, president; J. C. Brady, vice-president and treasurer; A. B. Paxton, secretary, and G. G. Oliver, general manager, put out 1,200 cars of their finished product annually. Their payroll approximates $125,675 annually. The Hope Natural Gas Co. is represented by Jno. G. Pew, president, and Jno. B. Tonkin, treasurer. Their product-natural gas-is the essential inducement to the manufacturers. General Information-Miles of paved streets, 7. Glass factories, 8; men employed, 1,400; annual payroll, $1,000,000. Zinc spelter plants, 2; men engaged, 500. Tin plate mill, 1; men employed, 1,100; annual payroll, $650,000. Wholesale houses, 9; territory, West Virginia, except extreme southern section, Western and Southern 9 Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, Western Maryland, and Eastern and Northern Ohio. Department stores, 12. Retail stores, 70. Leading office buildings, 16. Churches, 20. Hotels, 13. Newspapers, daily, 4. Hospitals, 2. The Grasselli Chemical Company are said to be the largest manufacturers of zinc spelter in the world, their plant covering sixty acres. They have twelve blocks now in operation at Clarksburg, starting with two in 1903. They employ in the neighborhood of 1,000 men. Natural gas is the fuel used. The National Carbon Company operates one of their numerous plants at Clarksburg in the manufacture of electric carbons for machinery. There are two gas companies in Clarksburg, The Clarksburg Light & Heat Company and the Monongahela Gas Company, both of which are operated and controlled by local people. The present domestic gas rate is 10 cents per thousand feet and for manufacturing purposes 4 cents. The price of gas has always been kept at a uniformly low rate, and is lower than adjoining towns. As Clarksburg is the center of the largest gas field in the world, it can supply any demand for fuel, there being over 1,000,000,000 cubic feet provided daily within a twenty-five-mile radius, and less than one-fourth of the territory developed. N Judge Nathan Goff And His Benefactions to Clarksburg O better opportunity to pay tribute to one of Clarksburg's foremost citizens who has been so instrumental in the upbuilding of the city, than the present; and the following short biography of Judge Nathan Goff, accompanied by illustra participated in the battles of McDowell, Port Republic, Winchester, Droop Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Rocky Gap, Cross Keys, Rappahannock Station and a number of minor engagements. In recognition of his services on the field he was promoted to major of his regiment, and later, at Moorefield, W. Va., January 20, 1864, was taken tions of his beautiful building, is most apropos: Nathan Goff, son of Waldo P. Goff, was born at Clarksburg, Va., February 9, 1842, and educated at the Northwestern Academy at Clarksburg and at Georgetown College, District of Columbia. He was still a student at Georgetown when the Civil War broke out in 1861, and without waiting for his graduation enlisted as a private soldier in Company G, Third Virginia Infantry, being promoted to the post of lieutenant of the company in a short time. He prisoner and confined in Libby Prison, where he was held four months. At the close of hostilities, Major Goff was made a brevet brigadier-general, receiving his commission at the age of twenty-three. He was honorably discharged from the volunteer service in March, 1865. Shortly after his discharge from military service, he entered the University of New York, and graduated as a bachelor of laws two years later, at which time he began the practice of law in the courts of West Virginia at Clarksburg. He was chosen to represent Harrison County in the House of Delegates of West Virginia in 1867 and re-elected in 1868. He was appointed United States district attorney for the District of West Virginia by President Grant in 1869, which position he ably filled for thirteen years. On January 6, 1880, General Goff was appointed secretary of the navy by President Hayes. He accepted the portfolio, and continued in President Hayes' cabinet until the close of his administration. In 1882 he was the nominee of the Republican party for Congress in the First district of West Virginia, and was elect-. ed by a safe majority, although the district was nominally Democratic. He was re-elected in 1884 and again in 1886. In 1884 he was elected chairman of the national Republican congressional executive committee, and was re-elected in 1888. For a number of years past he has ably and faithfully filled the position of judge of the United States Federal Court, and at present is being prominently mentioned for the position of associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Chief Justice Fuller. To Judge Goff, Clarksburg and West Virginia owe much. The Hotel Waldo and New Goff Building are structures which would grace any metropolitan city in the world. To the clear judgment and perception of Judge Goff and his associate, Judge Morris, of the comprehensive plans of Receivers Cowen and Murray for the reorganization of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, securing the co-operation of the court as it proceeded, was largely due the prompt and successful accomplishment of the rehabilitation which placed the road in the forefront of the trunk lines, and has been such a factor in the development of West Virginia resources. T HE Clarksburg board of trade, which is most energetic in advancing the interests of this thrifty city, is composed of V. L. Highland, president; John B. Hart, vice-president; C. E. Lamberd, secretary; W. A. Vance, treasurer; C. B. Alexander, E. B. Deison, J. M. Francois, C. H. Harding, V. L. Highland, John B. Hart, Robert Morris, B. F. Robinson, L. K. Richards, C. S. Smiley, A. K. Thorn, H. E. Travis, W. A. Vance, James M. White and J. C. Williams, directors. It Clarksburg is situated on the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, midway between Baltimore and Cincinnati. is the most centrally located city in West Virginia, and owing to its accessibility to most of the important cities of the East and Middle West it has already developed into an important manufacturing town. Its shipping facilities are excellent, as Clarksburg is practically the hub of the wheel of the Baltimore & Ohio in West Virginia. To the east its lines extend through Cumberland to Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York; to the west through Parkersburg to Cincinnati, Louisville and St. Louis; H 5 BIRD'S-EYE VIEW CL Clarksburg and I to the south into the virgin forests of West Virginia to Richwood, Pickens, Belington and Elkins; to the northeast through Fairmont and Connellsville to Pittsburg and connecting lines to Buffalo; to the north to Cleveland, Lorain and Fairport on Lake Erie through Wheeling, with another route WISCONSI ST. LOUIS S FLORA OTTAWA BEACH BENTON MAD ACROSSE SHAWNEETOWN FT WAYNE O UNION CITY INDIANA KENTUCKY MARIETTA |