Show WEST VIRGINIA IS THRIVING railroads and other influences en her industrial activity is at the present time more marked in west virginia than in almost any other state in the union west virginia has not kept pace with other sections in population but within the past year there has been a rush of capital and esteir se to its rugged mountains that has add ed thousands to the state states s population and millions to its wealth the open ing of vast coal fields has made it possible to treat graphite ocher and varied mineral products at the mines and railroads are required to ship the products to the markeim the vast timber tracts are in constant demand oil lands are being rapidly developed develop ed fourteen lines of railway are either under way or are to be bault at once in the state numerous electric lines have been constructed and the trolley Is joining the principal towns and linking the suburbs to every city in the state water works gas and elec trie lighting plants blocks of new buildings fine schools hospitals and churches are going up in every diorec tion and the best of it all Is that these improvements do not bear the earmarks of a boom country but are more in the nature of permanent development |