Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-11-13
n RoANoNE AND NoRroE1i.

euce to the industrial activ-
I Is shown in our state dur
exciting political contes !,
}f Virginia in the next
( e Aany doubt. will wit
& "a unprecedented growth
Il e, but there will be no Sec
Rthe advancement will be as
). the southwest, for the
! pn that its advantages are
any other section.
Gt from agricultural lands,
.ral lands bear crop all the
S. found, and this section has no dull
son. Everything is active and the
are busy and enterpr;siug. II
= million or q half million dollars Is
wanted to starta new industry the
peopls 90 ahead and raise it. They
don't stand back and remain satisfied
with nero talk, and they can always
get plsnty of outside capital to help
them whan they desire it. That's
what's making the section.
1.-The value Of this language can be
more readily understood when we re-
member that it is uttered by paper
published in city which had 30 ex-
istance ten years ago, bot which last
Tuesday polled 2,415 votes. Mines
and factories lave produced the change,
and as these nuItplY-as they assrr-
eddy wil-the state will be greatly the
gamer thereby. We have no mines id
this vicinity, but we have All lie ad-
vantases for m2sshaufacturiag which q
rcon2e.a.Trr7s market affords, and it ap.
:, pssaSs to Gs reasonable to suppose that
sucN advantages will result 10 the es-
tablishment of numerous Industries ID
onr midst in the near future. =
The Ledger is undoubtedly right in
its conclusions. Norfolk and tie sec
ton Immediately around it has runner
Gus advantages, which cannot hut cause
the establishment Of many new indus
tries in few years.
As Roanoke will be the great ;nlaad
mining, manufacturing end railroad
centre of the state, so Norfolk will be
tho grea. commercial city of Virginia
The circumstances and conditions
which have retarded tie growth anG
progress of Norfolk so long have passed
away with the new era OF things, and
the census OF next year will show a
much greater Increase iii its wealth.
population and industry over that OF
1880 than 1880 exhibited over 1870.
Since 1880 a number Of railroads
have made Norfolk, and the country
which, looks to it for business, their
terminus. among these are the exten-
sion Of the Chesapeake and Ohio to
Newport News, the construction
of the New York, Philadelphia and
Norfolk road 10 Charles City and the
building OF the Norfolk Southern to
Edenton, \. G. The Atlantic and
Danvillc aad other roads Gin TO North
Carolina are in course of construc-
ton and the Sea5oard and Roam
oke and Norfolk and Western
have beth largely Increased .heil
traaic aad are extending theiI
lines. Many factories too, which prior
to 1850 were particularly conspicuous
By their absence. have been constructed,
aad the next ten years beyond doubt
will witness The addition o. many
more.
With The advantages possessed by
Norfolk, its safe harbor and the depth
Gifts water, there is no reason con-
ceivable why it should not, in few
years, be the largest and most impor-
tant railroad terminus and Atlantic
seaport shipping town south of Balti
more. In its cotton trade it already
occupies this position now, but both Sa-
vannah aud Charleston probably con
tam more IN. habitants.As new railroads
TO the south and west con-
tinue TO be constructed to Nor
folk, however, in few years i
must eventnally outnumber them both
The Norfolk and Western is already
pouring thousands Of tons Of coal intt
her market every year, and when the
proposed extension is completed
through to the louisville and Nashville
it will empty much larger quantities o
freight there for shipment than th:
large quantities at present. Roanoke
aud Norfolk both have great future;
before them, and wise capitalists are
perceiying it.