The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-21
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Correspondence offhe Times
STANTON. VA. August l0.-Ine un-
developed resOurces Of Augusta county
and the section of country between the
Blue Ridge mountains and the North
mountain range are rapidly Attracting
the attention OF capitalists. The Circuit
Court is kept busy granting charters
for new companies. The mineral
SPRING.. coal beds. iron and manganese
DEPOSITS. all combine 10 form great
source of wealth. which. when fully
developed. will make this fair land
blossom as the rose.
The old Crawford SPRING property.
twenty miles west a Stanton ou tine
Ches peake and Ohio railroad. has been
purchased by company. and viii here
after be known as the Augusta White
Sulphur Springs. 4 large hotel with
all the modern Improvements viii be-
built. The grounds will be put into the
hands Of a landscape grinrr. bcAuti
fed and made attractive. There viii
be- no lack of means ror effort f0 make
this pace of T,sori equal 60 any ln tne
country. This is iO be- done Dy 'he Au-
gusta White Sulphur SPRING. C0mpln
which mas Obtained "a charter from
Judge Mclaughlin. Richard IS.
Tyler. PRESIDENT. 70. y. pOf.. vice prcs|-
dent and genera. manager: Robert q.
Rutherford. secretary and treasurer.
with Henry Becker. constitute the
board of directors. The capital stock i-
800 eco, and lhe general office Will bee
at the Spring, property. The parties
named in the charter are from Wash
j gtOn. ID. c.. except r. N Plrl. of
Siauntou. and Herman j. cker. Ol Phil
adclpha.
Judge Mclaughlin hasal.o chartered
the "Iugall 5 CITY aud Investment and
Improvement Company. The jects
Of the company are 10 purchase and lm
prove land. and build a city at Wayne
bOrO junction The location i- "a -pien-
did one. The land Is level. furnishing
beautiful building lots supply OF
water by The gravity system can be bat
from the mountains. and tie immediate
junction Of the Chesapeake and ONO
railway and the shenandoah Valley
railroad furnis- transp Oriati0n in every
direction. The mineral. coal and iron
deposits. together with as fine farm.
ing section as ever the eve rested upon.
furnishes a ground work. rarely found,
for the upbuIlding of au Industrial
city. The officers are Richard W.
Tyler. Lawrence Sands h. g. Rur'her
foid, Chas. T. Spears aud Charlie, War
den. of Washington. ID. g.. and Prot
h n. POr. StluulOn. Va. Capita.
stock. ~ 900 0J0.
The R9selind Iron Company has also
been chartered. the property of which
is IN the same locality. Tine officers are
General W. ) Rasecranz. president; /
Professor r.. y. Porl vice-pre /
Edward Sanders. counsel. John ~ |
Lackey, secretary. and l.. WILDER /
Reid. treasurer.
Judge Mclaughlin has also granted "a I
charter t. a Hotel Company. Tor tLe /
purpose Of erecting commodious and /
elegant modern hotel ln Stanton Va. I
The hotel Will be known as the "uoicl /
Royal. and will be- erected ON them0st +
desirable lot in the city, ON Beverly .
street, and will be- supplied with all the /
modern Improvements
Quite Drccz. has been stirred I'm the /
Democratic camp by tie circulation Of /
a petition for George NJ. Cochran. Ed. /
one of our leading attorneys, tO allow .
his name to be- presented 20 the cauyen-
ton which meets September 80 as % /
candidate for the House Of Delegates.
Il is looked upon as certain thal If Mr..
Cochran consents o. the Use Of his name
that the inlerestso Of other gentlemen are
in jeopardy. Augusta county and the
,Ity Of Stanton are entitled 20 two
delegates and senator. Mr. Echois
rom SlauntOn. is a candidate for sena-
or. and Messrs. j. III Crawford. a B.
-ightner, and William Churchman.
rom the county, are candidates for lhe
House. Mr. COchrau's candidacy et-
ects Mr. Echols as well as the candi-
lates from the county The county
people say Stanton can have only one
nan Out of the three, hence tine tr0u-
,les multiply. aud q lively canvass is
,oiug on. Tho convention of September
III viii settle it,