Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1889-11-19
S0UTHW EST.
WHAT GOVERN0R-ELECT NC
KINNEY THINKS OF 1T.
IT IS BEING RAPIDLY DEVELOPED.
All Virginia Needs is Capital and I'm.
terprise, and This he Intends
to Invite by Judici0us
Administrator.

Governor-elect Mckinney is close
observer. He travelled all over the
southwestern section of the State in
his late canvass, and this is his opinion
of it as given to reporter for the
Dispatch:
SOUTHWESTERN DEVELOPMENT.
From your observation in the
Southwest, ex-governor, does it seem to
you that that section is being rapidly
developed? What do you think of its
future?
think it is being rapidly devel-
oped. There are indications of it on
all sides. There are three railroads
now approaching Big Stone Gap.
When they penetrate those noun
tains and their natural resources are
made available population and
wealth will pour into those counties
in a manner never dreamed of before.
Do you agree with Governor Lee
that Virginia is increasing in wealth.
Yes, do; and more rapidly in my
judgment than any other period in
her history.
what one thing would most adj
vance the prosperity of the Slater?
ut is difficult to say. One enter
prise depends so much upon others
that it is impossible to develop in one
direction alone. l am not sufficiently
we'll informed to say whether Virginia
is richest in her forests, in her climate,
in her soil or in her location. When
you undertake to develop in any one
of these things it necessarily has a
tendency to stimulate the others. All
Virginia needs is capital and enter
prise. Nature has done enough for
her. If we will, by a judicious adj
ministration of public affairs, invite
capital and enterprise to come to US,
our prosperity will then be assured,
and our progress in wealth and popu-
lation will soon surpass the calcula-
tions of the most sanguine."
Will you remove your family to
Richmond on the 1st of January:
Yes, will.
Who will live in the Executive
Mansion with you.
My wife and my little daughter,
frankie Irving, who is named after
my law partner, Judge Irving, whom
| have been associated with in the
practice of my profession for thirty
years
Will there be any parade at your
inauguration?
l hope not. The presidents are
against it, and private inaugural is
more in accordance with my taste.
Speaking further of his trips in the
mountains of the Southwest the gov
ernor continues:
had often been in the ninth dis
trict, and have heretofore at different
times spoken at the principal court
houses along the railroad, but l
never had the faintest conception be-
fore of what the back counties were.
The mountains are magnificent, and
it was at the most beautiful season
of the year to see them. The leaves
had Just been colored by the frost,
though few of them had fallen.
Nothing could have been more sub
timely beautiful than the mountains
arrayed in their autumn dress.
The timber trees were the finest that
ever saw, and when that country is
opened bv railroads there value will
be immense. never met with kinder
people. They were hospitable beyond
their means and generous to fault.
The future of that section, when it is
known to the world, will be a sur.
prise to the people of Virginia, and
to none so much as to the plain peo-
pie who dwell in those mountains.