Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-11-12
New ENTERPRISES in Staunton.
A NEW COMPANY FoRMED-NEw MANU-
FACTORY sTARTED-MANUFAcT OF

FACTORY sTARTED-MANUFACT OF
DRUGS.
&C., &C., sc.
Fifteen months ago two enterprising
gentlemen of Ssaunton, Messrs. Geo. W.
May and L. l.. Sagendorph commenced the
manufacture of the Iron Side patent ire
and water proof paint and iron roofing Of
Mr.. SageDdorph's invention. The paint
and roofing has given the highest satisfac-
ton wherever it has been used and bust
ness of 5000 has been done with limited
capital without the loss of a dollar. The
success met with has seemed to justify OPP
erations on much larger scale and stock
company has recently been formed under
the style of the Virginia Iron Roofing &
Paint Company" with a capital stock of
not less than SIS 900, the company to hold
real estate with assessment value of $lO,-
600. On Monday last a charter as gran
ted the company by Judge Mclaughlin.
The Directors for the present year are Geo.
W. May, P. H. Trout, G. Sagendorph.
J. N. Ryan, g. Z. Cooke and e. S. Wal
ker, with Mr.. Geo. w. May, President.
and Mr.. P. H. Trout, Secretary and Treas
urer.
The company have opened in the large
four-story store in the Stuart block, for
merly occupied by L. Bumgardner u Co..
which is admirably adapted and situated
for the business. The first floor is used
fol receiving and storing the heavy ma
terials-ores, iron and paint machinery;
second fioor-iron roofing machinery; third
foor-store-room and office aud manufac
tured goods ready for shipping; fourth
foor-twO large rooms, one for the i'm
proved timing machinery and the other
for lightning rod machinery, where the
rods, which are of copper, and the first
ever manufactured in the South. will be
made. tipped and furnished with insu-
lators. THE first supply of stock is arriving
and consists in part of two carloads OF
sheet iron. one carload of paint, one car
load of tin, 1000 gallons of oil and the
machinery for timing, roofing and manu-
featuring lightning rods and paint.
1t will be seen that the gentlemen en-
gagged in this enterprise are cutting out the
work for large business, and those who
are best acquainted with the corporators
will understand that they mean business.
The work already engaged shows that the
enterprise will be pushed with an energy
which must ensure success. Contracts
have been entered into for roofing for the
Etna s Belfont Works, New York u Ohio
Steel and Iron Company, and lronton Nail
Works, at Ironton, Ohio; for two furnaces
at Ashland, KY; two at Portsmouth, O.:
the New River Coal & Coke Company,
Elm. W. Va, and the Coal & Coke Com
pany, at Stone Cliff, w. Va, while they
are completing the work already COM
menced at Lowmoor. Ferroll, Quinna-
mont and Williamsons'. The company
employ 10 hands and Is statesmen and will
have to increase their force.
RIM AND HANDLE FACTORY.
MIR. c. 81. McN lgnr, late of Charles
town, West, Virginia, commences OPP
erations to-day in the brick factory
building at the lower end of Church street,
near the C. & o. Railroad.
He will manufacture oak and hickory
rims for wagon. carriage and buggy wheels,
handles for axes, picks and hammers, and
shafts and bows for buggies. wagon and
carriage poles, etc. He has saw mill
also in operation and IN connection with
his factory run by the same power-a Is
horse power engine. This will be great
To ho oit fhoro 10 M VI
mill here or in the neighborhood. Mr..
Mcknight has for the last twelve years
beer manufacturing sash, blinds and
doors in Charlestown, West Va, and for
eight years been employed in the rim
and handle business, but the supply of
hickory suitable for their manufacture be-
coming scarce in that locality he decided
to go elsewhere and though great induce
ments were offered him at Hinton, West
Va, he decided on settling here. He says
the quality of hickory to be had IN Angus
ia is first class. He has force of hands
now employed in cutting hickory on the
land OF Mr.. Beard, near Mint Spring.
This enterprise promises to succeed well
and Mr.. Mcknight. who brings with him
the reputation of skilled mechanic and
first class business man, has been heartily
welcomed by this community and will re-
ceive the encouragement he so well de-
serves.
MANUFACTURE OF MEDICINES.
The laboratory of Mr.. W. r. Tyree
which he has within the last six months
built in the rear of his drug store, is an
other busy place. Of the several medicines
which he compounds for the Wholesale
trade, he is pushing particularly the Cham
momile Bitters. Cough Syrup, Worm
Syrup and Magic Liniment. Having sent
dozen bottles of the first named to an
Ohio town recently, he shortly after re-
ceived orders for 100 dozen and his sales
are increasing every month.
Mr.. Tyree Is travelling more than half
his time and has already established a
trade in Virginia, West Virginia, Ken
lucky and Ohio. Besides medicines he
deals largely in tobacco and cigars which
he ships in quantities to points in all the
States named. He deserves the success
he has achieved and will still attain to-
SUPPLY STORE.
Another enterprise is that of Messrs
Gibbs & Creigh, who open to-day in the
large room OH the first floor of the Hurley
building, lately the Headquarters Of the
Staunton Hancock Il English Club.
This firm will deal in builders and far
mers' supplies, including sash, doors,
blinds, lumber, tomb stones, lime. cement,
fruit trees, &c., and will meet a want