Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-04-20

had to be discarded and replaced with new
furniture. The accommodations were en-
tirely too contracted ever to have enabled
the place to pay for itself the high price at
which it was bought by J. w. b.
So after doubling its size the first year,
1 added from one to three buildings and,
OF course, put new furniture into them,
every year thereafter, until my operations
were arrested, in 1861, by the war. Inc
real profits ranged from $4,000 to $50, 600
per year.
The experience of a watering place is
perfectly analogous with that of 9 publish
er of a. Newspaper or Of a book. A small
edition will bring you in debt; a larger one
will clear expenses, but it is only when it
becomes very large that a fortune is made.
But with this difference, that when tue
the type is once set and the proofs correct
ed, the press-work is uniform and easy;
whereas with Springs, the more you Ell
large your operations the more constantly
vigilant and laborious must you be to
guard against the vastly Increased sources
of waste and hazard OF mismanagement.
1 found the sales of Alum water merely
nominal, and so they continued in my
hands during the two years that it took
me to find out that shipments in wood not
only gave no profit, but steadily damaged
the reputation of the water. [ therefore
introduced it to the public in glass, and in
augurated the system, SO far as the Viz
ginla Springs are concerned, OF shipping
mineral water. as an article Of commerce,
in half gallon bottles.
established agencies in all the til g lead
ing cities of the United States shipped
it to Cuba and was contemplating it's eX-
portatlon to England, having had an appli-
cation OF properly an enquiry from Il large
London house as to the feasibility Of ship
| ment in bulk to that city. In short had
the satisfaction Of building up this trade to
very large figure. But Mr.. Editor,
it required good deal of your printers
| ink to accomplish 1t.
! Three Judges have examined into and
| pronounced upon my conduct; [ might
and indeed ought to say four. Because il
| advance Of them all the Master Commls-
| siOner, Judge Hendven had devoted two
winters hard and exclusive work, putting
aside and refusing all other engagements,
J to an exhaustive research into the depths
Of this complex case, embracing two Vir-
| ginia Springs and a dead manS' estate
spread over several counties Of Virginia
and w. Va. He brought to it's elucida-
| ton the best powers of a rare judicial mind
and I am quite sure that all the learned
counsel and the Judges themselves would
say his luminous reports did very greatly
aid them in their own study and mastery
Of this vouminous cause.
might here pause, but considering Mr.
Editor that this has been the chief work
Of my life, INTO whose untried channels
that life was SO suddenly turned from its
prescribed and more congeEial course, yoy
will indulge me with this one further re
Election, that whereas my business conduct
and even my personal character have beer
pretty freely discnsssd before the courts
and perhaps beyond their walls, l claim
? tut this, that l went to Rockbridge will
,|<he one hope and avowed object, to do all
could to rescue my dead brothers estats
from apparent impending ruin. When
saw that end in a fair way Of accomplish
ment my ambition expanded into .1.akine
Rockbridge Alum Springs if possible sec
ond to but one other III point Of capacity
of accommodation, aud second to none
other in tho'two Virglnias in point of com
fort, attractiveness and national reputa
| ton as q medicinal fountain and Q santa
| ~ resort.
With the inaprinaatar Of the Judges il
my favor, do not deem it arrogance to sa'
| that succeeded. And this consciousness
brings with it reward Of which no Sling
nor arrows Of outrageous fortune Cal
ever rob me.
| VIM FRAZIER.
| OakenWold, April II.