The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-25
can,,a,ists Looking 70 Virginia.

Every day brings visitors from the North
.,d elsewhere to this city, for the purpose
Of looking upon the country and seeking
,rh.t ,nsncements there are to make invest
men.s. They are unanimously Of one
or;n;on--that for the just, middle tempera-
,nre which avoids distractions to labor in
w;nter and summer, Virginia enjoys the
hest climate on the continent-that for mi
neral wealth and water power she is the
most beautifully endowed State in the
Union-that her lands are fertile, and that
for the great facility OF communication with
the best markets in the Union, they afford
the finest field for farming in the Atlantic
States.
We noticed few days since the organize
ton of company Of Philadelphians, in
connection with our enterprising townsman
Mr.. H. L. GALLAGHER, to quarry granite at
the fine quarry heretofore known as that
eentleman's. The James River granite was,
under Mr.. FILLNoRE's administration, and
through the agency of Mr.. STUART, OF
Augusta, then Secretary of the Interior,
subjected to rigid comparison by scientific
men with the northern GRANTEES, especially
the Quincy. The result was that the
James River granite was decided to be
superior to any then known and used. The
quarries opened above Richmond exhibit
almost inexhaustible supplies. Large en-
gagements are already entered into by the
new company that has taken the Gallagher
mines. The corporators are confident that
they will find market for their granite very
readily in all of the large northern cities
and that when it is better known and up,
preciated, the demand will rapidly increase
1t is o remarkable fact that while we had
here in ear-shot of the city this superior
granite, that article was brought from
Quincy, Mass, to build the front Of the Ex-
change (now First National Bank and the
basement wall, steps, &C., of the Exchange
Hotel. 1t is not at all improbable that at
day near at hand the traveller in Boston
will there be surprised to see fronts, pill
lars, &c., of james River granite.
A northern company has purchased
most valuable marble quarry in the Valley,
and will ere long proceed to work it On
liberal scale. This marble is represented
nv those who use it as superior white,
with delicate veins, and translucent.
Strangers are astonished at the extent
and variety of our mineral wealth, and
especially the extent and quality of the
iron ore in Virginia. The tests that have
been made show that there are some Of the
finest ores in the State that have been dis
covered. There are none superior to them,
and rarely are there any equal to them.
Some purchases have been made by CAPT.
talists of large bodies of mineral lands;
and but for the vexed and unsettled condi-
ton Of our political affairs, the number OF
these investments would have been many
times multiplied.
AS soon as the State is restored to the
Union upon even tolerable basis, an i'm
petns will be given to immigration, and
capital being reassured, will be freely in
vested amongst us. Bad as our situation
is, so far as concerns our own comfort and
thrift, capitalists would run no risk by buy
ing land now. 1t may be now had cheaper
far than it can be had after the resto-
ration of the State, unless it were restored
under some such Constitution as the one
now before us. The advance in the price
of lands will, after that time, be rapid, and
the opportunity for great speculations will
he very much diminished.
However, let's be patient. A few months
may bring about q great change for our ad-
vantage. Order and good government once
restored, and Virginia win rise up with the
yigor and spirit of youth.