. Book of the Royal blue . ural lines running up theOhio, Little Kanawha and Muskingumvalleys. There are three telephone companiesoperating in the city. Parkersburg draws its gas supply from thegreat West Virginia fields, and its gas com-pany furnishes unlimited quantities at lowrates for manufacturing purposes. Thereare inexhaustible quantities of fine coalclose at hand, which are reached by waterin three directions and by rail in five direc-tions. Parkersburg has sixty-five manufacturingindustries, employing 3,500 people andhaving over $5,000,000 invested. Amongthe principal industries are:
. Book of the Royal blue . ural lines running up theOhio, Little Kanawha and Muskingumvalleys. There are three telephone companiesoperating in the city. Parkersburg draws its gas supply from thegreat West Virginia fields, and its gas com-pany furnishes unlimited quantities at lowrates for manufacturing purposes. Thereare inexhaustible quantities of fine coalclose at hand, which are reached by waterin three directions and by rail in five direc-tions. Parkersburg has sixty-five manufacturingindustries, employing 3,500 people andhaving over $5,000,000 invested. Amongthe principal industries are: Artificial stoneworks, barrel factory, boat yard, boilerworks, book binderies, boot and shoe fac-tory, bottling works, brewery, brick manu-factories, brush factory, bread and crackerfactory, carriage factories, chemical works,chair factory, cigar factories, cornice manu-factory, candy factory, creamery, drillingtools factory, fiber works, fishing tools works,flouring mills, foundries, furniture factory. PABKERSBURG, W. (; fOURTnOUSE AND POSTOFFICE electrical sign factory, excelsior works, gran-ite works, hickory-bending factory, harnessfactories, iron and steel sheet mills, ice fac-tories, mantel works, mattress factory, metallath factory, mineral water works, manu-facturing tailoring establishment, oil refiner-ies, oil well supply factories, planing mills,interior finish factory, plaster factory, manu-factory of pharmaceutical preparations, rig-building factories, sucker rod factory, roof-ing tile factory, sanding machine factory,stove pipe factory, steel roofing and sidingfactory, cut stone works, sawmills, shirtfactory, soap factory, upholstering factory,tank factory, wagon factories, vitrolite platefactory, structural tile works, paper bucket,bottle factory, box factory, handle factoryand paraffine wax works. Cheap and abundant fuel, gas and shipping facilities by river and proximity to the hardwood forests ofWest Virginia and the other g
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