Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-05-16
THE ALEXANDRIA MINING. MANUFACTURE
ING AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY.

- "'i wv WHICH, ptiS>eu lAc ltSt NtllcIGl
Assembly of Virginia l.. W. Reid, II. Graf
ton Dulany. ". II. Marbury, George f.
French, Pcyton Randolph, CORTLAND H.
Smith W., NJ. S. Dunn, Robert Portner,
John W.-Burkc, John s Barbour, Arthur
Herbert, f. i. Daingericd, james II. Reid,
John b. SmOot and Linden Kent, and their
associates and successors, were constituted
and made body corporate and polite by
the name and style Of the Alexandria Min
ing. Manufacturing and Warehouse Com
pany, with Il capital stock of not less than
twenty-five thousand nor more than five
million of dollars divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each and for the purpose
Of obtaining subscriptions to the said CAPT
tai stock, authority was given to any three
of the persons named as corporators to open
books of subscription at such times and
places as they might appoint.
In pursuance Of the authority conferred as
above mentioned, notice is hereby given that
books of subscription will be opened on and
after the 18th day Of May 1882 at the Office
OF Burke & Herbert in the city of Alexan-
dra, Virginia, for the purpose of receiving
subscriptions to the said capital stock of the
Alexandria Mining. Manufacturing and
! Warehouse Company.
In opening their books of subscription, as
above, the undersigned, who have been
designated by the corporators rs commits
sioners to open books Of subscription to the
capital stock Of the company, would respect
! fully call attention to the Importance of the
enterprise to the public, us we'll rs to the
exceptional and most valuable privileges
which the charter conters upon this Com
pany.
The fourth section of the act gives to the
Company the privilege to mine manganese,
IRON or other ores transport and sell the
same to purchase, establish or lease filna-
ce> or mills for manufacturing the same into
pig, bar iron and steel. or otherwise to
build or purchase, Or lease and operate, fac
tories for the manufacture of cotton, wooden
or other goods tobuild. purchase or lease
docks, wharves. and yards for the building
or repairing of vessels to build or repair
railroad cars. or any other manufacturing
purposes, in any Of the cities, or counties of
the State of Virginia, and to purchase lease.
or erect and construct, at or near the city Of
Alexandria, Virginia wharvcs. piers; docks,
basins, warehouses, elevators, cotton presses
| suitable for thcaccOmodation of steamships.
vessels and boats, and for the convenient
loading, unloading shipping, receiving and
storing ofall kinds of merchandise and per-
sonal property, for safe Keeping and may
conduct the business usually transacted by
warehousemen, whartingers and lightermen,
and may charge and collect compensation
for the storage, dockage, wharfage and
liglteragc, and for all labor incident thereto
| including the expense Of weighing, insul'ng,
kcepingand delivering such merchandise or
personal property at such rates and Oh such
terms as may be agreed upon between it and
its customers, and for any advances made by
il on merchandise or property stored or de-
posted with it for shipment, and for all its
charges and expenses incident thereto, the
said company shall have preferred lieu on
said merchandise and property, which shall
be paid before the said company shall be
! required to deliver the same.
The company is authorized TO acquire
and hold real estate, not exceeding ut any
one time ten thousand acres in any one
county. Also to construct, equip and opc-
rate any rail or tramways, with necessary
al,
miles in length, from any of their mines, fur
naces, mills orstructures to connect with any
line Of railway in Virginia and has author
! ity also To subscribe to the capital stock of
any railroad company chartered by the
State of Virginia, OF acquire by purchase or
otherwise stocks or bonds OF any such rail-
road company, and TO receive subscriptions
to it's capital stock from any corporation
chartered under the laws OF the State of
Virginia.
The organization Of this company offers
to the people of Alexandria and tributary
territory an opportunity for the profitable
investment OF capital and the employment
of its working class which ought not to he
neglected.
The Importance of manufactures in build
is everywhere conceded and recognized.
Even in the most prosperous commercial
centres manufactures arc encouraged.
The City Of Alexandria possesses all the
necessary elements TO constitute a favorable
location for manufactures enjoys extraor-
binary advantages of access to supply and
of distribution is connected with the coal
fields of the Cumberland region by the Chcs-
eapeal1e and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad with the West Virginia
coal fields through the Virginia Midland
and the Cheseakeake and Ohio Railways
and is the nearest point upon deep water
for the utilization of the iron ores, mangan-
csc, copper and other minerals lying upon
and adjacent to the Virginia Midland Rail,
way and its branches some of. the most val
liable OF which arc to be found within com.
parativcly short distance and convenient
proximity to the city Of Alexandria, IRE,
spectivc of the productions of the fields and
forests which are quite as valuable as car
be found elsewhere.
Apart from these local advantages. tho
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