Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-02-15
THE STAUNTON FURNITURE MANU-
FEATURING COMPANY.

FEATURING COMPANY.
The Directors of this company have ap-
piled for charter and are receiving bids for
the construction of the buildings. In the
list of subscribers last published, there were
omitted the names of Hon. III. st. Geo.
Tucker, Tinsley & Morton, G. G. Gooch
and I. J. Hoover. The subscriptions are
still coming in, and to show the general
feeling of all our citizens, one of the sub
scribels is Mr.. Frank Ware, prominent
colored merchant of this city. In view of
the deep interest our people take in the fac
tory the following from our reporter des-
cribing the factory at Ronceverte will be
good reading:
FEBRUARY II, 1889.
Being in Ronceverte, w. Va, the other
day, and appreciating the interest which so
many of your Staunton readers now attach
to the furniture factory there, which it is
proposed to remove to Staunton, / went to
look at the plant. / found the business
carried on in a large three-stOry frame
building, 100x48 feet, and in charge of young
MI Luppert, son Of the gentleman of the
same name, who attended the meeting OF
the Staunton stockholders Of the new enter
prise.
A number of men and few boys were
busily engaged in the building when 1
visited it, and Mr.. Luppert very courteous
ly showed me through the factory, begin
ming with the large S0-horse-power engine
which, he said, was fine one, and which
seemed to be moving with great ease and
power, and ending at the finishing room on
the top floor, where painters and varnish-
ers were rapidly putting the finishing touch
es on the work. A piece of undresSed poplar
lumber goes through very rapid transitions
here. Coming in from the large steam
drying kiln, a separate building few yards
off, where the lumber is quickly dried by
the steam from the power engine, a rough
poplar plank passes through the ripping
machine, which saws it into proper widths
and it goes right straight along through
planer, where it is dressed, and then into
the hands of another set of wOrkmen who
cut it into proper length. 1t is speedily
mortised and put together and finds its way
as a bedstead to the painters, where it re-
mains little longer, as the paint must have
time to dry and it is now ready for market.
So it is they turn out one hundred bedsteads
per day there when they try and some of
them, though cheap, are very neat.
They make there three different sizes of
steads, from single to large double, but Mr..
Luppert said that when they got to work
in Staunton they proposed to manufacture
complete chamber sets, and showed me a
very pretty piece of oak furniture which he
said was sample Of what they proposed
making in Staunton. He said the StauntOn
works would be very much larger than
those in Ronceyerte and that they expected
to move to Staunton as soon as they work.
ed up the lumber they had on hand and
filled the orders then in, which would take
about two months. They expected to rent
the building in Ronceverte to another con-
Germ.
1 was glad to find the citizens of Romeo
verte SO reluctant to part with the furni-
ture factory and the factory men. They
feel that the town is suffering by the re-
moval and of course Staunton is that much
gamer. I heard many good words spoken
for the proprietor, his son, and others con-
nected with the establishment, who it was
said would move with it to Staunton, Civ
ing us more good citizens as well as pay
ing enterprise.
VICTORIA FURNACE-ITs MANAGERS.
Coming home, 1 travelled with an intel
ligent Western gentleman who made so
many inquiries about the furnaces and iron
interests Of Virginia, that [ concluded to
ask some questions too, and found that he
was the new mines manager for Victoria,
Mr.. G. d. Brown, by name, from Logan,
Ohio; the same place that Mr.. A. Magoon, the
new Superintendent, halls from. MI. Brown
was on the way to the place and got off at
Goshen. He said that he had been mining
for some fifteen years and thought he knew
how it was done. He succeeds Capt. John
Carpenter, the well-known and gallant old
Commander Of Carpenters Battery, who.
Mr.. Brown understood, did not wish to
remain longer.
Among other new men at the Goshen fur
mace, are Mr.. Edward Orion, Jr., of Co
lumbus, Ohio, Chemist and Foundryman, {
son of the distinguished Ohio State Geolo
gist, Prof. Edward Orion, and MI. jaime:
Wheeler of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Chief Book
keeper, succeeding Mr.. Haskins, who pre-
fers to change his location, and says the last
five years since the furnace went out o.
oh, bo Z,
charge, have been the hardest of his life
Mr.. James II. Oily of Columbus will man
age the stores, one at the furnace and one
at the mines Officials and laboring mel
are rapidly gathering around the Ions
desolate place; business is beginning tt
beginning to move and it is expected b.
the management that by the 18th of Apri
they will be making iron.
The resumption of work at this furnace
OF something else seems to have stimulates
iron operations in Allegheny county. Be
sides the opening of some new ore banks b,
the Clifton Iron Company, near Clifton
Forge, noticed increased activity at Stacl
mines. Dolly Ann and Iron Mountain
Mr.. John Ham of Covington, superintend
all of these mines, and is constantly NOV
ing between the places and pushing his ope
rations with vigor. At the Stack mine
the underground forces in the differen
tunnels are working day and night by re
lays. At Dolly Ann, a large bulk of washed
ore is daily being moved over the compa
ny IS road to the main line of the c. & 0
In one day saw Is car loads-over $780,
pounds of ore, hauled out from the work