CLARKSBURG, W. Va., county-seat of Harrison County, situated in the north central part of the State, on the West Fork River, a branch of the Monongahela, and on the Parkersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 22 miles west of Grafton. The Short Line, the Monongahela and the West Virginia and Pittsburgh divisions of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also enter the city. The city lies in a section abounding in natural re sources, natural gas, coal and oil being plenti ful; and the farm, grazing and timber lands very valuable. Clarksburg is called the °Fuel City of the Fuel State." The manufactures are many and varied, there being glass, art pottery, chair and cigar factories, chemical and carbon works, wood-worldng plants, machine shops, foundries, bottling works, a brewery and a grain elevator with a capacity of 80,000 bushels. There are five newspapers, daily and weekly combined. There are five banks in the city
with a combined capital of $675,000, and doing an annual business of $90,000,000. Among the notable public institutions are the City, the Kes ler and the Harrison County hospitals. There is an excellent free school system with a public high school, supplemented by Broaddus Classical and Scientific Institute, Saint Joseph's Academy and Elliot Com mercial College. The city has nine church edifices. The city was first settled in 1772, be came a borough in 1785 and was incorporated as a city in 1899. The city is proud of having been the birthplace of the famous °Stonewall" Jackson. Its municipal affairs are administered by a mayor, recorder, elected annually., chief of police and a council of 10 members, one-half of whom are elected each year. Pop. 9,201.