Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-19

THE WONDERS AND WATERING
PLACES OF VIRGINIA.
A Railway Jaunt-The Old AMI New DO
minIon-Epitomized In the Annex to
the Agricultural Bureau.
c.orrernondence eolicitcd.

that cost only SB,UUU or SS,UOO, attracts
az many visitors as the Smithsonian
Institution or National Museum.
Farmers and land buy ers of all nations
never forget the agricultural and
mineralogical annex TO the agricultu-
raj bureau. ] have stood beneath the
roof. practically covering the civilian
ton and riches of myriads of our race
through countless coming years, aud
watched the amazed faces of intelli-
gent foreigners who would hardly be-
iieve that minerals, coal, iron, salts and
metals. contributing most to the
worlds riches and industries, do most
abound even in Virginia. Migratory
populations hurrying west failed to
discover sources of wealth and progress
as these exist here in the Old Domin-
ion along the Midi and d Richmond
and Danville railways, penetrating
East Tennessee and Northern Geor.
gia. such resources of mineral and
agrcu tural riches were discovered
in some remote new state, or
territory, railway and land owning
corporations and spectators would
make the press resonant
o. the wonders and
riches Of new III Darado. Pint-up
tides OF emigration from old To new
wotld's would receive fresh impulse
and populoas progressive communities
bc rapidly produced. The press has
lent its potency To the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
and development OF the west 10 the
neglect and determent Of the older
eastern states, and now, when ire
fragable facts, presented by the agri.
cultural bureau and its wonderful
annex, tell that volume of
energy aud mining skill
should be turned backward from the
remote states into Virginia and East
! Tennessee, we are asked for facts in
pelling us TO this conclusion.
| THE GULF STATES RAILWAY SYSTEM.
The railway system of the Gulf
ianooga to discharge its wealth OF
freight and travel, through E,st Ten
nessee H. IL funnel traversed by single
great railway line from Chatt tnoaga
and Knoxville to Bristol Lynchburg,
Staunton, Alexandria and Woshing-
tom city. Towards this latter city the
travel of the continent converges
while freights from the Gulf states,
over these lines, gravtate towards
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
! York.
TIE CoUNTRN'S WEALTH.
! meteorological specimens gathered
I along the line OF the Virginia Midland
road do most attract strangers In this
4 annex of the agricultural bureau, and,
as | have stated, because visitors least
expect to discover such wundrOus
sources of wealth drawn from such
localities. The specimens ct minerals,
ores, timber and crops, lleeces, tobacco
and the like are numberless and main
ly from counties already historical
when the old Dominion was still Il
colonial dependency OF Great Britain.
Shenandoah, Warner, Wilson, AIber-
male, Culpepper. Orange, Pittsyl.
vania, Amherst, Piince William and
others are penetrated by the Midland
railway and these counties are tspe-
cially rich in minerals and commercial
commodities here enumerated.
Who would have dreamed that pa
triots and statesmen and heroes of
Virginia would have marched back
and fourth over gray and brown and
red hilsides of Shenandoah county
for $50 years and failed 10 discover
manganese hcaped up Mt Powell's
Fork and brown hemiite iron and the
best possible car wheel ore covering
the face of the country. Warren
county also supplies red and brown
hemitite iron ores, manganese, from
Happy creek, and slate from Riverton
quarries. Specimens of excellent iron
ore from Madison station from which
the worlds fair Corliss en-.
glue WAS MAZE, specular ores
from Browns Il Foher's mills indicate
the great source of the future riches OF
Orange county.
Albermarle sends manganese from
Stony Point rivaling that from the
most famous mines from the old
world. Pittsyl,ania sends richest
iron ores from Motl, US S3pti)n. Cul.
pepper exhibits its iron es that are
rich and bountiful TO | e found every
where about Culpepper Station.
When war ragged we knew man at
Culpepper with more brass than Houk
or Dennis ktarney and never before
did we know 1t was absorbed from
mother earth on whose bosom he hab.
ltually reposed. The best and strong.
est steel boiler plates, armor plates
and chain cables are made of magnetic
titan, from ores found in Wilson
county.
WANDERING PLACES.
The Virginia Midland railway. its
branches and collecting lines within
the confines of Virginia and as far
West rs Knoxville and Chattanooga,
locates its depots and pass .nger stl,
tons solely at Watering places.
Dwellers in all the Gllts5l aud
even in Mexico, since American rail-
ways penetrated that land of the sun,
HE away IN spring time from sutry
plains and burning sands and through
four or i've months of each year siun.
ter along the route of the Virginia
Midland from. one to another
resort az health and pleasure.
till frost tell. ihit malaria
has been swept by northern winds far
out 10 sea. Farmers along these rail.
ways vie with one another in the pro-
! duction of deiicacieS flr luxurious Ia
I bles spread by the Nirsinian landlorls
4 at these summer resorts. Melons,
( grapes, fruits of every description. are
/ richer jucier and more abundant than
/ elsewhere on the continent, an the
latest mutton and juciest beer steaks
/ That ever delighted gormanl grow
( spontaneously on the hillsldeS aud
down in deep grassy valleys and in the
sweetest clover fields of Virginia and
! Tennessee.
rus FOR SITS.
RAJ cattle aud pretty farms, in sum
III vale : aud Cashmere ,ats and
SouthuVwn sheep give lie and beauty
and every charm OF eXistenc. To arrl.
cultural life along these RAILWAYS of
the Old Damininn. The very forests
are noted for the variety and value of
htir products. Firs aud pines and ce-