Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
Clinch Valley News.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10. 1890
HIGHLANDS.
ANoTHeR Town TO DE- BUILT.

On January 10th, 1856, there ap.
peafed i'll the editorial columns of the
CLIscH VALLEY News an article de
scriptive OF the eastern part of Taze-
we'll county and prophetic of GER
tain activity row going on along the
Bluestone and at Graham.
On January 23d of the sane year
there appeared another editorial ar
ticle in these columns from the pen
of our predecessor, from which we
quote as follows:
"1here is another large area in
Tazewell county most fertile aud
beautiful. The region around Stecl's
Chapel seems never to have enjoyed
the notoriety its good population
and rich soil merit. We doubt
whether any like number of acres in
Southwest Virginia will produce the
snme quantity and quality of wheat.
The milling quality of their wheat
has rare excellence. Leaving this
high plateau of fertile land and turn
ing northward, we soon reach tho
Clinch River, acknowledgement
Kent's Ri'ge in two. For motive
power for machinery no locality on
the globe can excel it's fitness. The
river here, for two miles, is one con-
tinuous water fall AT THE CON.
FLUENCE OF TIE CLlNCH
RIVER AND INDIAN CREEK BE.
GIN TIE SPLENDID AGRICUL
TURAL LANDS, KNOWN AS
RI GLANDS. SWEEPING BACK
UP THE INDIAN GREEK AND
IT'S TRIBUTARIES = THENCE
NORTMWARD TOWARD THE
GREAT WATER SHED, TO THE
OHIO RIVER. LIE UNTOLD MIL.
LION FEET OF FINE LUMBER,
UNTOUCHED BY WOODLANDS
AN. At this point we have encoun.
tered the J;Wlt'-the end Of the
limestone formation, and enter the
same stretch of coal field which is
but continuation of Flat Top vein
-iiow being worked at Pocahontas.
The coal at this point seems to be
come much harder than at Pocahou.
tas mines--AIr. Lathrop, late super
perintendent OF the Southwest Va.
Imp. Co.'S mines. having pronounced
it much better shipping coal on that
account. THE FERTILE LANDS
OF THIS SECTION-THE VAST
NESS OF ITS UNBROKEN FOR
ESTS-ITS SPLENDID WATER
POWER, THE ELEGANT MAR
BILE WHICH IS ALSO FOUND
NEAR BY, AND THE VASTNESS
OF THE NEIGHB0RING COAL
FIELD, WARRANT THE PRE-
DICrION THAT AT NO DISTAN MI
DAI.. THIS Is TO BE THE BEE
HIVE or SOUTHWEST VIR
GINA. Much of the land in this
locality is now purchasable. But
this will not long be go. q
There is too much money to be made
iii developing this region for it to
escape the observation of enterpris.
ing capitalists"
And go there was. Since the above
was written the Clinch Valley Ruil-
road has been projected aud built
through this Richards Valley, the
coal lands lying alongside have been
bought by capitalists and are being
developed, two industrial towns have
been chartered and every effort is
bending to make this the "bee hive
of Southwest Virginia"
One of the strongest and most
promising agencies operating to this
end is the Tazewell Land Improve
= ment Company, company composed
of local and foreign capitalists doing
business under liberal charter,
which owns ono OF the best town
sites in this whole Southern country.
:. Upon this site, which was, last year,
"a rich Tazewell farm, it is proposed
to establish Industries and build n
town, to be called Doran in honor of
well known Philadelphia whose
name has been connected from the
very first with Southwest Virginia
development. Where at this time
one year ago the farmer with plow
and harrow was making ready for
the planting of crops of wheat and