Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-07
he thanked God he was native of the
United States, amid great applause.

he thanked God he was native of the
United States, amid great applause.
REMARKABLE GROWTH.
Mr.. Will Simpson and his brother Ed.
ward are civil engineers on the employ oi
the Norfolk and Western Railway Com
pany, and are engaged laying out utseveral new
towns on this line. In fact, new towns are
springing up its entire length, and with the
good feeling prevailing among blacks and
whites and the progress in the matter OF ed
ucation, Virginia bids fair to take her place
in the sisterhood of Republicanism and the
pyramid of rich and prosperous States OF
the country.
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, are
seven miles from Christiansburg. A drive
to this spot and its lovely environs is grand.
The site contains 1, 542 acres of ground, and
it is two miles from Big Tunnel station on
the n. & W. Railroad. A horse car con-
meets with every arriving train. The
Springs Hotel should have remained open
until October 1, but closed two weeks
earlier on account of the wet, cold weather,
of which there has been an abundance.
Nearly 800 guests were registered during
August, and the season was about as pros
porous as that enjoyed by summer resorts
generally. Mr.. Fagg, one of the managers,
was on the grounds, and your correspondent
and friends were allowed every courtesy at
tine various springs and over the grounds
generally.
SOME FAMOUS RESORTS.
Yellow Sulphur Springs property contains
about 800 acres, lies higher in the mountains
and is a beautiful and healthtul place. 1t
was still open on September 20, but the
guests were rapidly thinning out. The
water at both springs is exceedingly health
full, and about all the guests do is eat, sleep,
drink and bathe. Pennsylvania quota of
guests came from Philadelphia principally.
Allegheny Springs, on New river, is IL
miles distant. 1t is the most recently de-
veloped summer resort, but was quite popu-
lar this season.
When Generals AveriIl and Crook were
at Christiansburg during the war, raiding
and burning stations and bridges, their OBJ
iective point was Saltville, so miles south Of
here. At this point were obtained the entire
salt supplies for the Confederate armies.
They were unsuccessful, however, in cutting
off this place, but were prevented from any
well-dehned effort by the close of the strife.
One other point worthy of mention, and
which visitors from the North all desire to
see, is Salt Pond Mountain, "a miles south.
On the top Of this peak is this strange pond.
1t was once deer lick, but in time it be-
came enclosed, and beautiful lake adorns
it. The lake is more than a mile long and
OF GREAT DEPTH.
A summer hotel has been erected on the
mountain, but it closes early in September.
Riding over the lake in small rowboat,
one can see in the clear water the tops of
the trees, growing from deep down in the
ravine. A few miles below the waste of the
lake forms the most beautiful cascades, and
every visitor to the mountain views these
wonderful falls and amuses himself or her.
self "killing rattlesnakes."
A sojourn in the delightful mountains
and valleys of Virginia is indeed healthful,
and your correspondent will return to bust
ness, after three months enforced absence,
very much invigorated, and with strong
hopes for the rapid development of the Old
Dominion. Her mountains contain mag
nifcent lumber in great abundance, and
abound in the richest minerals, and her
valleys pour forth the rarest medicinal
waters, while the slopes and valleys have
been and are being rapidly converted into
fine producing farms. A little more North
ern energy and capital and the future of
Virginia can easily be predicted. 1t is
freighted with immense possibilities.
PERCY f. SMITH.