Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-05-17
THE ALEXANDRIA MINING, MANUFAcrup
ING AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY

AS.,, ~ wi haHuoipll, SOurtland II
Smith, W. NJ. S. Dunn, Robert portner
John W. Burke, John S. Barbour, Artbur
Herbert, E. L. Daingerfeld James Fl Reid
John B. Smoot and Linden Kent, and tbc;r
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 a capital stock Of not less than
twenty-five thousand nor more than Gy,
million of dollars, divided into shares of ono
hundred dollars each; and for the purnos,
of obtaining subscriptions to the said cari
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 conlcrredas
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.
dria, 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 us 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, as well 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 filrna-
ces 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, ut or near the city of
Alexandria, Virginia wharVcs piers; docks
basins, warehouses, elevators, cotton presses
suitable for the accommodation of steamships,
vessels and boats, and for the convenient
loading, unloading, shipping, receiving and
storing Of all kinds of merchandise and per.
sonal property, for safe keeping, and may
conduct the business usually transacted by
warchousemen, wharfingers and lightermcn.
and may charge and collect compensation
for the storage, dockage, wharfage and
lighterage, and for all labor incident thereto
including the expense of weighing, insuring
keepingand delivering such merchandise or
personal property at such rates and on such
terms as may be agreed upon between it aud
its customers, and for any advances made by
it on merchandise 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 at any
one time ten thousand acres in any one
county. Also to construct, equip and ope.
rate any rail or tramways with necessary
sidings and branches, not exceeding fifteen
miles in length, from any of their mines, fur
naces, mills orstructurcs to connect with any
line of railway in Virginia and has author
ity also to subscribe to the capital stock Oi
any railroad company chartered by thu
State of Virginia, or acquire by purchase or
otherwise stocks or bonds of any such rail.
road company, and to receive subscriptions
to its 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 be
neglected.
The Importance Of manufactures in build
ing up the towns and cities Of the country
Is everywhere conceded and recognized
Even in the most prosperous commcrria
centres manufactures are encouraged.
The City Of Alexandria possesses all the
necessary elements to constitute i favorable
location for manufactures enjoys extraor.
binary advantages of access to supply and
of distribution; is connected with the coal
fields ofthe Cumberland region by the Chcs
eapeake 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 are to be found withnac COM
paratively short distance and convenient
proximity to the city Of Alexandria, ire,
spective of the productions of the fields and
forests which are quite as valuable as can
be found elsewhere.
Apart from these local advantages, the
power exists in the Company to operate Ill
any county or city of the State Of Virginia;
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