The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-04-17

ment company embrace about s,soV
acres lying in, AROUND ana adjacent to
the City of Staunton. They include
nearly all the available water power for
manufacturing purposes. Excellent sites
for furnaces, factories and industries IN
cident to iron manufacture; for wood
work establishments and every class OF
mechanical skill are comprehended III
its holdings. A large reservation OF
land is made for manufactures, as it is
a feature of the plan of operation to OF
fer liberal donations of sites to encour-
age and assure industrial plants, with
a view to building up an important
manufacturing centre at Staunton.
Such are some of the advantages,
natural and created, upon which the
scheme of the Development Company IS
based The conditions are all substan-
tial. The resources from which to draw
to give life and success to the plan are
unsurpassed and abundant. Augusta is
one of the most intelligent, progressive
and prosperous counties in the common
wealth. All its values and those OF the
bordering counties must naturally con-
tribute to the growth and progress OF
Staunton, which must become the radl-
ating point from which to supply the
demands of the surrounding country
1t is destined to be the centre of the
new industrial life that is dawning upon
the great Valley of Virginia. seat of
learning, of diversified industries, OF
! commercial Importance, of enlightened,
progressive civilization : resort for
health and pleasure and the source from
which will emanate the influences and
agencies to stimulate and inspire the
energies of the people and build up
business metropolis that will dispense
blessings to all the country. The posi-
bilities before the city are indefinite. Ii
the plans of the Development Company
are fully carried out, the future progress
of Staunton and the improvement OF the
entire region, which forms the natural
source of its growth will evidence the
most remarkable transformation that
has ever been offered for the contempla-
ton of the country. Compared with
other towns south of the Potomac,
Staunton may be considered a live, pro-
gressive, enterprising city. Measured
by it's natural advantages, it is a retlec-
ton upon the public spirit and business
sagacity of the people that it does not
now number population treble what
it is, a seat of manufacturing enterprises
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skilled laborers. We have everything
within radius of fifty miles to build up
an important industrial centre. Min
erals of almost every variety and quail
ity; woods of almost every species,
adapted to all kinds of machinery and
all the uses to which timber is applied;
water front of 90 miles, not over six
miles distant, stretching from Swoope's,
on the Chesapeake q Ohio railway, to
Bowling's Mill, on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, which could be easily reached
by dummy lines, besides Lewis creek
passing through the town, and Christian
creek, four miles east of the city. OF
course, with our present channels OF
thought and the circumscriteI limits of
our vision, this suggestion may seem
chImerical But it is not. 1t is within
the range of possibility, if not probabil-
ity, and were the same conditions to OBJ
tain in any Western or MOI them State
it would be a practical reality. With
our own efforts and means actively APP
propriated to improvements, capital
from distance will speedily come to
our assistance to share in the assured
emo,uments that must result. Already
Eastern and Western capitalists have
become interested in the scheme of the
4 Development Company and Others will
join them, as soon as the conditions and
facts are known, and supplemented by
the resources we have within ourselves,
Staunto IN will throw off her Old gar
ments and clothed in her right mind,
move forward under fresh impetus
and fresh inspirations to the command
ing position in the Industrial world that
her natural advantages invite her.
1t is contemplated by the Development
Company to erect large, commodious
hotel, of modern architecture and all
modern improvements. A blast furnace,
rolling MILL wagon factory on a large
scale, a nail factory, and other smaller
industries are among the projects
that will be considered and when
the tide Of industry and development
has once fairly set In. the Staunton and
West Augusta railroad to tap and con-
troll the rich iron, coal, forest and farm
trade and traffic of northwest Augusta
and southwest Rockingham, Highland,
Pendleton, and Pocahontas and adjacent
territory may be vitalized. The Shenan-
doah Valley road can be reached by a
short line at a convenient point, afford
ing direct CONNECTION with another trunk
line of railroad. With such advantages,
the marvellous mineral and timber
wealth of the North Mountain range
on the west, and the Blue Ridge on the
east, will be drawn upon to add to the
; forces which will naturally converge to
this point and empty their riches into the
lap of this highly favored Queen city of
the Valley All that Is necessary to
these ends is determined, brave pur-
pose on the part of our own people. Do
what lies in our pOwer-appropriate our
own energies and minds to the work,
and the close of the year 1890 will bring
with it results which will stir the blood
of the slothful and infuse even into the
old lnossbacks the pqlsation of a new life
and inspire them with vision of the
splendid, affiuent, enlightened promise
that lies right before us.
Basic City.
Basic City seems to be moving forward
with regular steps and by conservative
methods to assured success. The man
agement has acted wisely in securing
the location of several Industrial plants
On their property before their lots are
placed on the market. Having negotia-
ted for 100 ton iron furnace plant, car
works, a paper mil, several blind and
sash factories, and having other plants
under consideration, they will offer
for sale ON the 18th, 9Th and 9th of May,
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