Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-11-19
How the Great Valley" looks to Others.

How the Great Valley looks to Others.
An intelligent correspondent of the Rural
Neac Yorker, a Pennsylvania, who has been
many years in the Great Shenandoah Valley"
as he TRULY calls it, thus speaks of it, and our
people: The Virginians have within them
selves the elements of Empire. No country
possesses superior advantages for agricultural
pursuits. No States in the union are more
varied in their productions none richer in ma
tural resources none more abundantly supplied
with readiest and best channels of communities
ton; none afording greater facilities for manu-
featuring operations of every sort, and none, it
may be said, which exhibit, over the broad sur
face, such variety cf the widest and most love-
ly scenery" But still! he thinks it behind the
less favored North and West, in industrial en-
terprise, though under their OWN governments
and rulers, he sees these people throw off the
depression of defeat and prepare to invite 9TH
ers, from less genial chimes, to aid them in
civil and material recuperation.
He notices the vast advantage enjoyed here
over other Southern States, from having our
State Governments under our owa central, and
speaks, particularly. of the Shenandoah, "the
Great Valley, for such," he says, sit most
empbatically is. There is no such Valley in
the known world, lying as it does, between two
mountains ranges, with climate SO healthy and
salubrious with soil so rich and diversified 4;
producing ali kinds of cereals, vegetables and
fruits; with springs and living streams of the
clearest and best water everywhere; timber
and stone for fencing and building, enough to
last for ages to come and mineral wealth sur
passing everything that has yet been discover
ed" He further notices the railroads through
out and crossing this great country, and says
lands can be had equal, ifnot superior, to lands
in the same Valley Ia Pennsylvania at for $40
to $40 per acre, while there they sell for from
$75 to $500.
Such is no extravagant picture of the Val
ley we love so well, aud which is endeared tc
US by its sufferings, its courage. its glory, az
we'll as by its beauties, fertility ard inexhausta
bic resources. And still we are panied t.
chronicle, each week, an exodus of its best anC
most energetic young men. who go to the in.
hospitsble vest, to make Virginia the mother
of still larger brood OF ungrateful daughters
while she is crying out to all the world 'come
in and help me-" This is the great problem
for our large landowners and capitalists t.
solve quickly if we would save the present pop
uIation Of the State. Let them unite and b.
liberal to our own brave boys, give them farm
On fair terms and cease the deg in-the- man
GER policy OF refusing to use and beautify, anc
keeping others from doing So Some will &c
the spite of erything, for the NirRinians anG
their descendants have ever been The pioneer
on this continent, who open upsthe wilderness
that the hordes OF other lands may come IL
and settle 10 peace but this daily departure
in parties of ten, twenty and thirty, from al
parts of the State, can bechecked, and it be-
hooves those who own the lands, upon which
they can now barely pay taxes. to show lib
crafty worthy Of Virginians, and check it, fo
every enc knows that the sane inducement
that are offered to foreigners; the same welcome
Z and help given, will keep our boys here anG
soon Gil the State end Valley with choice and
ooDgenial settlers from all parts of the South
Ii the language of the Fredericksburg Herald
cordially endorsing former article of ours OF
this subject, give our own folks the same
chance and all will be well With Us and ours
forever