Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-28
RAPID GROWTH
o. QUA nEApwArER CITY, CLIFTON
FORGE.
orswias Pepslssion-House- Isuilding--A
new Reservoir Of Purest wster-rhs
New Town Of Iron Gate.



CLIFTON FonoE, January Is. 1880.
Al there are hundreds OF Dispatch readers
eagerly watching the developments gong
on in Virginia. ii Is proper to men,ion rev
fscta as TO the advancements that are now
being made in Clifton Forge, Iron cato.
In Clifton Forge there are at this time
some TWENTY-FIVE or thirty dwelling-nouses
going up, while there is not q vacant mouse
In the place. Those who erect houses 70
rent have them taken at once. anu =. pay.
Inc 6gures- A few wears ago. not more
than a decade. there were scarcely dozen
houses In the town. IL was then known as
Williamson. 90 named from en- ola oeotcn
family who settled in Allegheny more than
half century ago.
n population of over $500 and Is growing
with phenomenal rapidity and IS assuming
many OF the comforts snd consenie venue s;Y OF OF
seven places Of public worship. represent
ing Baptists, Disciples, Presbyterians,
Methodists. and Catholic and an Episco-
nal church are being arranged Tor. III nas
4 Masonic Hall, an Odd-Fellows, and 2
Pvtbian society; il has good graded
school and public schools; 1t has haro-
ware store, clothing stores. butchers stores;
bakery, drugstores, millinery. stores. ana
Iyery. &c And besides these. a good Job
printing Office, 10 which will be added q
newspaper 10 be called the Iron.Gd ana
Chiffon Force Hammer. as soon as the Duliu-
inc for its accommodation IS completed ;
II has chartered bank in successful ope-
ration. though only month Old; u mas,
in addition, q complement OF doctors'
real estate agent, and so on. A.
And for the convenience and use OF tne
reop!e. AS well as for their safety. q we'll
Constructed system of watcr-works nave
inst been completed and the water turned
on TODAY. The projectors and owners OF
the plant, f. NJ. NettletoD and captain w:
g. Moody, are receiving the plaudits OF
our citizens for their enterprise IN TINS
matter. The water IS pure and sweet irce-
stone. and is thrown from mountain
stream by n twentv-two-horse-pow tur-
bine wheel into reservoir III feet above
the town. whence it flows into the town
and is taken into dwellings. stores, &c.
THE test of to-day demonstrates that IN
case Of fire the system VIII prove effective,
as a stream with O pressure OF slxty-nVe
pounds to the square inch can be thrown
over the tallest buildings.
Your correspondent is also informed
that in the early spring the chesapeake
and Ohio Railway Company Will erect mere
new depot, q large hotel 10 cost Sio,oOo'
A syndicate of capitalists have Just
closed with Williamson heirs for the pur-
chase of their estate. adjacent to the town
for which sec, 900 is the consideration. Inc
same interest has also purchased some 4OU
acres adjoining the eastern limits or tne
CORPORATION for $4,000. IL is their pIr-
pose 10 lay off into lots and arrange Tor
the erection of factories. mills. and various
kinds of industrial plants.
And while all this is going on at Chfton
Forge the young city of Iron Gate Is loom
ing up with wonderful activity and push,
with her rolling-rnill almost completed and
with her barrie steel-plant projected. her
hotels, her stores. &c. in operation. 1t
must be remembered that the two places
Iron Gate and Clifton Forge-are practl-
cally one town; in other words. while they
are now less than two miles apart they are
getting closer each day as their corporate
limits extend.
La grippe has prostrated anumher OF our
people and many are suffering from 4 now.
Mr.. George Payne. prominent mason
and depot agent here, died last week. His
body was sent to Gordonsvilie Tor inter-
Inent.
A brakeman named McCulloch at Gov
ington to-day fell from his train and was
killed, the whole train passing over HIN.
MoUNrANEER.