The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1871-10-12

A Big SALE-AN IMPORTANT ENTERPR1sE.-
Messrs. r. J. Glendy and W. ]. Nielsen have sold
fifty feet front on Main street, and 100 feet down
Water street, including the water power of Lewis
creek at this point, and the milling machinery in
the Stauntcn Merchant MILL to Isaac Witt and
Chas. A Holt, for 81, 500, equivalent to cash.
This is regarded as a good sale for both parties.
1t certainly is good exchange for Staunton, as
it is the purpose of Messrs. Witt and Holt to at
once erect large Merchant mill on the ground
purchased. The enterprise will be valuable ac-
QUESTION to the manufacturing interests of the
city, and add greatly to its commerce. Mills and
Factories must constitute the greatest source of
our wealth, prosperity and increased population.
If Staunton is ever to be more than what she is
now, it must be mechanical and industrial pur-
suits that will stimulate the growth. We must
have centre of industry. where the money
drawn out of the ground by the sweat and toll of
our farmers con- be invested, and retained in our
midst. Machine shops, for the manufacture Of
agricultural implements, woaleu factories, paper
mills, and rolling mille, could be established here
with profit to the proprietors, which would large
ly augment our population, give employment to
thousands of persons, and constitute Stanton a
srst class market for everything produced on the
farm. The wealth of the county would b: retain
ed here by this means, and enable every branch
of business enterprise to flourish. Let our men
Of capital but make the start-show that they
have confidence themselves in the success of such
enterprises, and capital from distance will
speedily come to their aid.
W e know of no place in the South whose fu-
ture growth seems more promising Soon the
Chesapeake and Ohio Road will penetrate the
coal deposits of West Virginia, and lay that in
valuable adjunct of manufactures at our doors, at
cheap rates. The Valley Railroad will be short
ly placed under contract, and completed by next
Summer, from Harrisonb4rg to Staunton, giving
US direct and speedy communication with the
lower Valley, as well Alexandria and Balti-
more. If our people only true to themselves
they can have concentrated here trade that will
support population of 90, 900 people. Let the
tables of the money changers be kicked out of
doors, and instead of making the poor poorer and
the rich richer, let the surplus capital of cit
liens be directed to the initiation of industrial
enterprises, tLat will spread their benefits
throughout the varffed channels Of society, feed
the poor, clothe the naked, and place all classes
on plane OF comfort and comparative prosperity.
A more general diffusion of educational advanta-
ges will follow-the tone of society will be eleya
ted, art and science flourish, and the walls of ig
norance and sloth be battered down before the
progressive march of enlightened, liberal
public sentiment No people can grow wealthy
aud enlarge their sphere of usefulness, when
the mechanical and laboring elements of society
are not properly appreciated and fully developed
They constitute the basis of all genuine prosper
ity. They the salt of the earth, and the
steady pillars which uphold the frame work of an
enlivened, healthy trade of commerce. Encour- |
age and reward labor liberalize its advantages,
and all the channels of trade, which find their
source here, will swell with vigorous and robust
heali H.