The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-08
BATH COUNTY.

THE FIRST FROST-SNOwDALLS AND ICE-A
STAMPEDE FROM THE MOUNTAINs-LARGE
OPERATIONS IN IRON AND CATTLE COLLI-
sION-SEw CHURCHES, &C.
ICorrespOndence OF the Richmond D,spatch.I
MILLBOEO' HOUSE, October 6, 1881.
Last night was the coolest night Of the
season-in fact. the first really cold night
when fire was comfortable to the natives.
Tuesday night the weather changed sud-
denly after II o'clock. II was cool all day,
and last night the guests called Justify for
fire and extra blankets. The thermometer
had reached 40 before o'clock, and this
morning at sun-up it was go; ice on
standing water one eighth OF an inch thick,
and the frost so heavy that ii was scraped
up off Of the platform and made into aver
age-sized snOwballs, which the early risers
pelted each other with in high glee.
1t will take but a few days OF this
weather to reduce the number OF summer
visitors to the minimum. They have, rs
well on account of the superior accommO-
dations as the late hot weather, fingered
unusually long in the mountains this fall.
The writer found on the LIST Of October
nearly two hundred persons ut the White
more than were ever known there before
so late in the season-and l understand
there are now more than forty at the Warm
and about ninety here. The Springs have
not had such season since the war, and
Droprietors and guests have been rarely so
well satisfied.
The celebrity at the White this week
was $50, 900 San Francisco stock
man-the richest man who has visited that
famous watering place this year. His name
is Henry Miller, and in 1919 he was poor
butcher-boy OF Baltimore working for
eight dollars per month. He removed that
year TO California, and soon commenced
operating in cattle, since which his sue
cess has been astonishing. lie now pays
taxes upon 100000 acres of land, owns
10000 cattle, and $4,000 sheep. lie
brands 80, 900 calves every spring, has ordi-
narily in his employ 800 men, and in wool
clipping season 600, and in taking his cat
tie to market can drive them 100 miles over
his own land, some of the finest in the
State. 1t is said that his check for 81 ,000,-
600 will be honored at any time by the
banks OF San Francisco.
was at the extensive works OF Victoria
furnace yesterday, near Goshen, in Rock
bridge county. AS mentioned heretofore
in the Dispatch, an English company, with
almost unlimited capital, has undertaken
TO erect the largest furnances in the coun-
try. The whole work is in charge Of Cap
tain William N. Page, a young Virginian,
only twenty-siX years OF age, of remarka-
BILE energy and administration ability, well
known in your city. There are now about
600 men engaged in the work, and there
will be an additional force OF 200 convicts
put OH next week. The company has pur-
chased the fine Abrams farm, near Goshen,
upon which to erect their furnaces and
improvements. The furnace will have
double the capacity OF Lowmoor, and
large number OF hands are now busily at
work upon the foundation and the houses
Of the employees and operatives. The
stack of the furnace will be 220 feet high
and the whole work will require five mil
lion bricks, which are now being made at
the rate Of 10000 per day. That Is
1,000,000 month. SO IL will take five
months OF steady work 10 make the bricks
alone. A railroad eleven miles in length,
from Goshen TO the mines, is being rapidly
built. The first mile will be double
track TO the furnace, and single track will
extend from there to the mines, ten miles
distant, In the mountains adjacent TO the
Rockbridge Alum Springs. II Is estimated
that the whole work will not be completed
and ready TO go into operation, with all the
expedition that can be made, for eighteen
months yet. Among the gentlemen en-
gagged at the work are DIR. NJ. c. kemper,
son OF Ex-Governor Kcmper, resident ply
sician; Mr. Selden, OF Richmond, assistant