The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-04-22
South River Items.

reported for the VIRGINIANl
| The colored man, of whose Academia
foot-cutting wrote you two weeks ago
so far recovered as to be able to wall
about, but in trying to perform afull shart
of work irritated the. wound and at las
accounts was in bad fix. His name il
VIM. Ross.
Hay is being shipped in large quantities
from many stations in our district along
the lines of the S. V. and g. & o. roads
John Ellison. the indefatigable hay mer
chant. has done more to secure to oul
farmers fair price for their surplus hay
and straw than has any other man in tht
county. He is ready at all times to take
anything in his line at the highest price
and when he makes bargain stands to il
and pays the cash. He has caused to be
spent i'll Augusta county many thousands
| OF dollars more than our farmers coulG
! have realized in any other way than thrO
his active agency in their behalf. An6
Mr.. Ellison has himself received goo6
return for his intelligent and honest
methods and has climbed TO q position
amongst the leading financial men of the
| section. Such men as John w. Ellison
are indispensable to the growth and pros
perity of the county.
We have just learned that short time
ago, a little child of Joshua Robinson, who
| resides near SherandO. died in singular
manner. Whether the child had, up te
! the night of its death, been sick or not ]
have not learned, but on that night. as we
learn. after the family had retired, the
child awoke its mother and complained OF
a pain in its leg. The mother arose at
once and began the preparation of some
application wherewith to soothe the pain.
While thus engaged her attention was
suddenly called toward the couch of the
child by a strange moan. Putting aside
what she was engaged in preparing, she
went to the child and to her unspeakable
dismay found that her little one had ex-
PRED. Doubtless the cause of this sudden
death was rheumatism of the heart.
That South River district will. within a
year or two become the seat of prodigious
mining operations cannot be for mo-
ment doubted. In order to realize the
greatest amount on the investments that
have been. are being and in short while,
will be made in mineral lands, furnaces
VIII be established il which the ores may
be made into iron and steel on the ground.
All doubts as to the existence of enOr-
nous deposits of manganese along the base
of the Blue Ridge have vanished. The
only question now is who has the greatest
amount on his land. Eighty feet below
the surface at Hiserman's the workmen
found the object of their search. and now
preparations are being pushed for extern
sive operations on that tract. On the
lands of his neighbors. Wagner, Alexander,
Balsley and others, developments are being
made in the same direction. while a little
further down-on the lands of George A.
and Philip Coyner-every day some new
development is made that points toward
fabulous quantities of manganese on that
tract,
Dut, OF ldls WIG WIZ Ul@de lido UCNu OoilD
upon the large tract known as the "Old
Kennedy Tract" together with the indi-
cations that have existed upon the surface
for many years, proves it to stand as "a"
No in the class of manganese bearing
properties. Your correspondent has just
made as thorough examination of that
tract as it was possible to do in the limited
time at his disposal, and from what he
saw is satisfied that the owners estimate
of the property falls far below its real
value as a manganese property.
Now mark the prediction In less than
two years thousand miners will be en-
gagged in removing that precious ore from
the bowels of the earth, and there will,
without doubt, be large furnace in full
blast, putting it into a useful shape, and
this furnace will be but one OF a large
number required in reducing all the ore
that will be available within a radius of 3
miles. And, in the end, large city will
be built on that very tract, affordng a
market for all the products of the fine
farms adjacent, and making it the most
important business centre west of the
Blue Ridge. Old fogies may laugh at the
but in few months they will
be found summing themselves on store
boxes and saying, Il told you so. l knew
it long ago.
On short trip of something over a
hundred miles west of Staunton early this
week. your correspondent saw an Augusta
county man busily engaged in lacking up
cloth advertisements Of Berkeley q Wal
ter-s drug store, and distributing the cir
culars of the Maslin s. Booker hardware
house. Staun ton business men sRe live
fellows. ROVER.