The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-10-18
stauntons Industries Where are
They Q

thu Vitdicator opened its columns for
others to speak, it opened not its mouth
to INTER word OF defence al our city or
It's eledit which was again and again as
sail-d through the columns Of the Fjnd'cd-
4 tor Not satisfied to have keptas silent as
the dead, - in the spring election, he now
in the ardor Of his zeai hammers away
week after week. to convince tbs ieaders
OF his journal ,hHt our city is thirty years
behind Tie times in all industrial pursuits.
| Il is q sad day when {. cause is 50 weak
THAT i6 needs to be tostered up by depre-
eating the values of the city we
live in, and that, too, based upon state
ments which will not bear investigation.
The Yiqd;cdfor has for several weeks 'at
tie fisk of icing tiresome. pub iShed
list Of q manufactures hat were car
ried on within her limits i'll The ten years
preceding 1860.
Wegiyeth them as stated il the lSadic0t0r:
Wool-n factory. Tobacco factory,
Shoe factory, ChHFn factory,
Tannefy, PAPER mill.
Leather currYing, fulllng mil,
| Horse collars. Rope walk.
! Hat factory FlGW factory,
Saddle tree factory. heat fan factory,
Last factory. RI}e factory
Stove foundry, Chair and Spinning
Tbrtshine Machine wheel factory,
factory. Pottery,
Brewery.
Ii adds, where are they now" We
state upon the authority of 4 citizen born
f,f ton ~
who is familiar with its history III these
THINGS. that / / Or u Of the above list did
not have al existence in Stanton between
1850 and 1860.
There vas nc tobacco factory, 10 churn
factory, no paper mill 40 fulling mill. no
rope walk, no low factory, no wheat fan
factory, 10 rifle factory, no horse collar
factory, no saddle-tree factory, 10 pottery.
no threshing machine factory. The brew
cry started in 1889 just before the war.
and outside the wooden mill ard shoe fac
tory. Whiah started il 1859. there were not
% m chanics employed. as an lHustra
fiou Of The fairness with which the Vindt-
c7for uraas its free trade fallacies. we
need cnlY refer io the "R0pe Walk, as
one Of Tie industfies btiWeen 1850 and
1860. given III its list. The memory OF
very few OF the citizens Of our city, run
back to the time when Diekie Williams
5wistetl two or three ropes in twelve
month, on part 81 what is now known as
the CARRIER lot, owned by Augustus Gal Der,
| Esq D.ckie died in 1916 or II. and il is Ger
tain he did DOT die Of oyerWork for lie had
only himself to manage, and made two CT
three ropes q year. with the exception of
| the WOODEN mill shoe factory 1851 ,tanneTy,
stove foundry, and brewery 1850, tie
list as published by the Findjcator, never
had an existence more than in name, and
the whole of them did Lot pay out So q
week in cash. OF the best Of them named
in ;he list. the wages we're paid in store
orders Paying in money was an exeep
tion. aud not the rule.
In contrast with The published list Of
tne FjadcGto purged of those Industries
named winch never existed. OF if thFy
ever existed. existed only in name, we
present list, gotten from The owners and
propfet0Gs CT the. various Industries, as
they stand to day in our city.
Bark Ex' ract Works, Mr., Cooling 81
perlntendent, employs IS hands, weekly
pay roll 81 500, has 900 men getting bark,
150 Of them employed in Augusta county.
making from SIS to $26 per month.
| J. e. Graham, fertilizer Holi>s ] hands
pay roll $50 per week, present production
900 tons per annum.
Reeves Gait, Fertilizer Works, Is hands
pay roll $3.50 per week, present production
1 800 tons per annum; pays to railroads
for freight So. 0Q9 or S4 900 per annum.
| s.Lushbaugh Bros s. Co., furniture, mat
tresses, upholstery, Sc, employs hands,
weekly pay roll $40.
Lashbaugh Bros, bbsders, machine
shop. employs Il hands; weekly pay
roll 500.
Hardy's Carriage shop employs hands:
weekly pay roll. $50. Keeps on hand the
finest and largest stock of any house in
! The Valley Of Virginia,
! j. NJ. Wilson, builder, machine shop, s
hands; weekly pay roll $65.
Geo. Greayer, plasterer, hands, weekly
pay roll $50
j. 4, Hanger, Steam corn and feed mill.
3 hands, $40 per month; large city and
shipping trade. Business growing and
will soon be double what ii now is.
B. z. Bagby s Co., buldere, MACHINE
shop, 10 hands; $50 weekly pay roll.
| B. Z. Bagby, brick mason, 25 hands:
weekly pay roll $500,
j. n. Lickilter, wagon-maker and black
smithing, IS hands; $50 weekly pay roll
| Manufactures farm and spring wagons,
carts. and wheelbarrows; trade extends in
| the Valley, East and West Virginia, and
Kentucky.
STANTON Steam Cannery Company, 95
hands; weekly pay roll $50, S. w Thomas.
| superintendent; new enterprise; has Ca
paci5y of 20 eco cans. The business will
be largely increased the next year, and
capacity doubled,
Geo. II. Haines Il Son. hands; weekly
pay roll $50. cigar factory,
Chas. &. Haines, i hands; weekly pay
roll $40 cigar factory.
Tobe Peace, one hand, $40 cigar factory.
Nj. +. E9eleriisi, hands; weekly pay
roll $25. cigar factory.
I Barkman & Pemerton, 2 hands; weekly
pay roll $40. cigar factory.
WITT & Holt, roller process mill; large
capital invested; Il hands in mill, 6 hands
| in cooper shop; weekly pay roll $lGQ.
WITT s. Holt, plaster mill business
large and Increasing; Z hands; weekly pay
roll $25.
Stanton Iron Works, 10 hands; weekly
pay roll $40.
! We have four plumbing and steam fit
| ting houses, employing from to 10 meb,
and paying weekly, say $75.
Stockton Bros, iron works; II hands,
weekly pay roll, $780,,
Timers. roofers. &c., 4. &. Grubert d
/ Son, c. E, Tanner, T. w. Hager, G. A.
CARRIER, Sandy Points, employing about 10
hands: weekly pay from $75 to 800.
| Plunkett 8 Clarke, 80 hands; weekly pay
roll $l50
These industries mn nber Of pmnlov over