Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-01
Clinch Valley News.
FRIDAY, FEB. l, 1859.

E0lDA4, FEB. i, 1861.
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The next few years will be mem.
orablo rs the err OF town building
in Southwest Virginia Tbi, has
become so evident that tho more
wide awake communities are strain.
ing every muscle to have the adj
vantage OF being first to attract the
elements that insure growth Eoa
noke is Mt present in the lead, but
She has furnished an example for
Ra,ltord, Bristol aud other pI0nis-
ing towns. Wytheville has caught
the idea, an J HE county surerviS
ors have just appropriated $3.50 To
pay for IN advertisements in 4 news
paper by way Of II starter. The
town also gives II 5000 lot to any
one who will build Il $50 ,O01 hotel
thereon. The Wythrvillc enter
pris" on the subject quotes the let.
der OF IL Nirginian in Kansas City
"A few years ago, the city Of st
Joseph, Il short distance up tie
Missouri river, was considered the
metropolis Of the Missouri Valley
hy so safe Il lead that he aapir;l.
tons of Kansas City were laughed
10 scorn. But Kansas City got hold
OF Il few men like Morrison Muntor,!
fH L.. I
vertiSing and who pracliccd what
they preached, until Kansas City
lett st, Joseph "clran out of sight
1T WAS advertising that made the
State OF kaus..S what it is. and
that has built mp Wichita. Arkansas
City and dozen ether towns. In
deed there is scarce n,svillagc of IL
thousand inhabitants that has net
spent money during the past yea,
advertising It's adv antages The
consequence ia that every train
bringing brains and muscle and
money to Kansas, while, am about
10 say, every train takes brains and
muscle and money out of Virginia
If all the VirSlnanS in Kansas and
Western Missouri could he pacLr,
up aud sent home to morrow, there
wuniu be Il boom in the old STATE
that would rcsountl from ocean {,
ocean, aye, that would MAZE itscl
fell in every land where people
read. And why Because thrs,
Westeinized Firginians, as soon Il,
they got back to their native hill,
and valleys, would at once begin tt
do what they have seen done 81
well and wisely here
1.-The people Of this city have
spent morc money advertising tn,
town during he past ten years than
has been spent on ANY other ter
towns in the Union put together
But every dollar of it has cam,
back to them increased IN huntrc,
fold. In the first place the tow
grew, then millions an millions %
dollars worth of real estate wa.
sold and the money staid here, ant
Is still staying here, and millions q
it every year are going into build
ingS that would adorn New York.
Indeed / am ucrsuaded that til,
tide of speculative activity nd mi,
terial development has reached tn,
limit Of it's Westward flow. and i:
now cbhing from whence it came
back from the West to the East
How soon il will get to Virginia dc
pends upon the people OF Virginia
1t is evident that they now have IA,
opportunity. The question is, vii
they make the most OF it y
There is no richer county in Viz
ginia than farewell and no NOR,
favorable place for thriving tow
than this, the county seat Tn,
topography is such as to afford ex
cellent drainage from Clinch live
tn the foot of the mountain. 1t.
contiguous territory is large anc
fertile enough to support city, i
has good water power, material i.
mt hand for many kinds of indus
tries, the climate is delightful, til,
scenery beautiful.
The place has hopcfulness fo
the future which, if backed up by
liberal and determined movement
i'll time, will give it Il rapid ant
healthy growth.
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