The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-06-01

PROF. DUNsMoRE's BUSINESS COLLEGE,
which has been SO successfully conducted dur
ing the past year, will resume its summer ses-
sion on the 18th of June, and the regular ses-
sion on the 4th of September. This is an
eminently practical school, fitting young men
for immediate entrance upon the active duties
of life, and qualifying them to efficiently fill
positions which are regarded as capable of be-
ing filed by experienced business men only.
A marked feature OF Prof. Dunsmores school
has been the readiness with which his pupils
have obtained situations Immediately after
their course was finished. A number of these
young men are now proftably employed in
the counting rooms of StauRtOp, and the sys-
TEN they have acquired and excellent training
they have had render them capable of meet
Gng all the requirements of practical business
HoTcHKIss VtRGINIAs, for May has been
issaed and its table of contents is unusually in
teresting and instructive. fteontains a letter
addressed to Hon. ii. c. Davis, of West Vir-
ginia, by Prof w. B. Rogers, ON the mineral
resources of the region between the Valley of
Virginia and the Upper Potomac Coal Basin,
illustrated by beautiful map prepared by
Mai. Jed. Hotchkiss, the editor of the Vr
gifasas. The region of country described in
the report and the map is that of the upper
portion of the Basin of the Potomac river,
that drained by the Shenandoah, Potomac,
Cacapon, South Branch, and other tributaries
of the Potomac, and portion OF the basin of
Cheat River of the Monongahela. The OBJ
ject of this publication is to bring to the
attention of the country what would be trib-
utsry to the Coal and Iron Railway proposed
to be constructed from Strausburg to the coal
felds, embracing Tucker, Randolph, Grant,
Pendleton, Hardy and Hampshire counties in
West Virginia. and Rockingham, Shenandoah
and Frederick counties, in Virginia. The re-
port of Prof. Rogers, refers to the various
iron furnaces, which have been, and some of
them are now, operated in the Valley and
West Virginia, and gives very fiattering
opinion fthe resources ofthe country to be ac-
commedated by the proposed road for the
manufacture of cheap iron. This entire num-
Der of the Vsytnaas is freighted with valuable
information as to the various iron industries
in operation in the two States those in pro-
cess of construction, and others IN contempla-
ton. The editor is so intimately conyersant
with the geology of the Virginias, the locali-
ties of the various mineral properties and the
topography of the entire country. that each
issue of the paper is mine of information to
those interested in the material development
of Virginia and West Virginia. The accom-.
panying map of this number of the Va1yS,ssas
is a geological report, itself, of the region
touched upon in Prot. Rogers letter, and will
prove of great value to the section tributary
to the line of railroad in contemplation.
Maj. Hotchkjss has done great work for
Virginia and West Virginia through his pa
per, in inviting attention to the wonderful
natural wealth of the two States and familiar
iziHg the public with the mineral sections.
which only await capital for their develop.
ment. This will come in time, but the proper
credit will not be given to the indomitabe en-
ergys the wide range of information and the
exceptional devotion of the e45itor of the Vu-
es.sas to bis State and section,