The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-10-18
From our Own Reporter.
"DAY AFTER THE FAIR
\ FEW ODDS AND ENDS.
sT.uSroS, October 10, 1869.

STAvSroS, october 10, 1869.
We had intended sending you a luli ae
count If ..tbc day after the Fair" giving
,vn,bor If odds and ends of interest to the
n,,biir but we really have not tune, ana
Won. perhaps, have not space Tor more tii'tl,
= very few items. The friend VINO promised
~ write YOU a full account of the corona
t;o,, hail failed to do so, and unless some
one else does 1t the Dispatch VIII miss
the details of the "brilliant affair. This
viii he n great disappointment to many OF
your readers, and they will abuse you LOT
having a renorter who docs not dance.
Well, we hope that what OF the 6dtt your
readers have lost has been made up in de-
tails Of the great exhibition. 49,.
There was n general leave-taking tniS
morning, but the streets arc still alive WIN
those who linger behind-exhlbitoIs looh ,7
Ing after their animals or other articles, anu
"captive knights" (both Of the tourney
and of the uuilD who cannot tear away from
their fair enchantresSes. :.
Let me correct a mistake or two made In
the premium list. Meyers & Jones took a
scpdrate premium on their " horsepower,
which is a new and very valuable invention,
for which they received q patent only ic"
davsaso. Their "Southern Threshing Ma
chine was patented some two years ago.
A. LaueH, Of Rockbridye, and not" a. La
vella Iockridue," las the telegram made mo
soy Stook premiums for thoroughbred Dur
ham stock: and the premium work-oSeh
were from Bath county. ana not from the
streets of Baltimore. We believe they do
moi run oxen to their omnibuSses or street.
cars. ,;.
In press of other matter we have omit
ted TO mention that the Society electeu Us
new directors Captain +. W. Bailey anu D
Ii. Bell.
tho nroducts of Burk'S Iron Works, Staun-
ton. and of the works themselves. l have
only time now to say that they were estab-
lished in 1866 by Captain William n. Burk,
with small capital and force OF only
three hands, and that they now employ
fifteen to eighteen hands, and turn out an
nuallv one thousand plows ana large
amount of general job iron work, winch Is
unsurpassed by any other FOUNDRY. Ger
tainly the people of this section nave no oc-
casion to send elsewhere for anything III
the line of this enterpriSing house.
And must again mention the collectlon
of maps exhibited by Major Jed. Hotchkiss,
Typographical engineer, OF Staunton, Va,
TO which premiums were awarded: Inc
farm map was of the fine estate OF Wlllllm
H. PevtOn, near Stauntcn, showing III de-
tail the fields, gardens, &c.-ln fact. the
complete topography OF the farm, with
corner map of the surrounding country
lust the thing, we should say, for every intel
ligent, practical farmer To- nave ior Il s'IinE
in cultivating his farm. The estate maps OF
those valuable iron properties Elzabcth
Furnace, IL Augusta, and the Abbott Iron
Company's, in Rockingham, were full topo-
graphical maps of large properties, CIV
ing the details of mountain, valley,
and stream, with contours OF cle-
walton, geological sections, dc. 1t Is only
bv such maps as these, and their &C
companying scientific reports, that such
acres can he fully known by the many i'll
tcrcstcd in them. 4 complete map of Nell
son county, Va, to the scale of one inch to
the mile, was in the collection this, we
learned. is one Of the series OF the Physical
Survey of Virginia by Washington College,
underline direction OF General Lee, ofwhlch
survey Major Hotchkiss is the Topographic
cal engineer. We earnestly hope the State
of Virginia will, as soon as she is tho
roughly reconstructed, establish Il bu-
rcau OF informant on, and provide the
means for giving to the world these Hal,l-
able maps, so necessary every way ior
the use of the tourist, the scientific eX-
pl6rer, the immigrant, and those seeking
investments for capital in the mineral lands
of the State. Let any one reflect Tor mo-
mrnt on the fact that maps OF sixty counties
of the State, from actual surveys, arc ready
for publication, if the means were at hand,
and he will see what Il vast fund OF lntornil-
ton, that costs tens Of thousands OF dollars
TO procure, is living idle and useless when
al the world is calling for Information about
Virginia. There were men from Germany,
ENGLAND, and from several Of the northern
States, at the Fair, all seeking for homes
here, and all desiring information to send
home, Just such maps as these would be
of incalculable value III promoting nnml-
grafton, and ought by all means to be pub
lished.
The sixty maps alluded to above were
prepared by Major HotchkiSS while on the
stats Of StoncWall jackson, EWell, Early,
and Gordon.
How much the brilliant success of Jack
son was due, in the early days of the war,
when comparatively little was known Of the
topography Of the State, to the skllfui and
daring Reconnaissance and accurate maps
of Major Hotchkiss, and how highly the
great chieftain priced his services, only
those familiar with the facts can tell.
But | must really close. Not, however,
without expressing my thanks to the Off
GERS of the Society, marshals, and commit
tccmcn, and especially to the efficient secrc-
tary and his polite clerks, VINO, amidst
pressing work so necessary 10 the success OF
the Fair, yet took time to give the represen-
tatives of the press every assistance.
Our thanks are also due to the Vtndtcdtor
and to the proprietors Of the Virginia Hotel
for polite attentions and tavors.
We had a great Fair. May they have a