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Excerpt from Stephen Benton Elkins (Late a Senator From West Virginia): Memorial Addresses, Delivered in the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States; Proceedings in the Senate, February 11, 1911; Proceedings in the House, January 7, 1912
House. During these years of the practice Of his profes sion and his first introduction into politics he did not, however, lose Sight of the business opportunities which presented themselves. So successful was he along these lines that at the expiration of his term in Congress he was able to commence the great work of development which associated him with the State of West Virginia, and led eventually to his becoming a power in the business as well as in the councils of the Nation.
At that time the great riches of the State which he so long represented in the upper branch of Congress were but little known to the outside world. It is true that stories almost as fantastic as fairy dreams were told of the great wealth lying undeveloped in the hills of West Virginia. A large portion of the State was almost a wilderness, traversed only by a few country roads and sparsely inhabited by a home-loving, liberty-seeking peo ple. To develop this wilderness required capital, energy, and business enterprise of no mean degree. To this task mrfelkins, in company with his distinguished father-in law, ex-senator Henry G. Davis, a most noted citizen of our State, dedicated his life. The result in the years that followed more than justified his judgment. The wilder ness was made to bloom and blossom; railroads were built, mines were opened up, towns were erected, and nowhere in this broad land of ours can happier, more contented, more enterprising communities be found than among these mountains and hills which he helped to bring in touch with civilization. Following the line of his railroads came schoolhouses, churches, and colleges, and to-day located within the confines of the once wilder ness are an educated and God-fearing people.
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