The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-27
BODILY WAGON FACTORY
srAuNroN AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
4 Concern of the Solid. Desirable Kind, Which
Alone Are Sought by the Staunton De-
velopment Company-About 200
Men To Be Employed.
CONTRACT CLOSED.

by thu Staunton Development Company
was signed Tuesday afternoon. 1t is to
be more extensive than any of those
previously secured, and will therefore
be the
LARGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT
industry ever established in Staunton or
Augusta county.
ing, w. Va, is the concern with which
the contract was made. 1t operates one
of the best conducted factories among
the many prosperous establishments of
Wheeling. and has carried on its bust
ness in that city for fifty eight years. 1t
has decided to move from Wheeling be-
cause its land there is insufficient for an
enlargement of its manufacturing capac-
ity made necessary by the growth of its
business. The land occupied by it's
buildings and lumber yards has been en-
croached upon by concentrations for
streets and railroads, and the value of
mat which remains has become SO great
as to be an inducement for moving to
some other place. Arrangements for
selling its Wheeling property have al
ready been made. An the manufactur-
ing of the company will be done at
Staunton.
TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY
of its factory is therefore the Bodily
Wagon Company's chief object in NOV
ing from Wheeling It's business extends
to all parts of the country, including
California, and is especially large in the
southwest. From its depository in New
Orleans it supplies cane carts, a speciality
of its business, to most of the sugar plant
ers of Louisiana. Log carts are another
speciality. Farm wagons also are to be
made at Staunton, and some kinds of
agricultural machinery. Work will be
commenced within a week or two for the
erection of
A FIRsr-cLAss MODERN FACTORY
at Staunton, on a site donated by the
Development Company from it's manu-
featuring reservation east of the city.
Tho buildings will occupy ten acres of
ground, and the lumber yards eight
acres. The most effective and approved
machinery for wagon manufacturing is
to he used. 1t is expected that after this
fine new factory has been put in full OPP
GRAFTON its employees will number be-
tween 900 and
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN.
The Bodily Company, after its long and
successful career in Wheeling, is coming
to Staunton to carry on and build up it's
business with increased energy, in har-
mOny with the industrial development
of the south. 1t is to be a model con-
Germ in every respect, as it has been on a
smaller scale heretofore. The factory is
expected to be ready for the manufacture
Of wagons by the
FIRST OF NEXT JULY.
Mr.. J. w. Bodily, the head of the com
pany. and his younger brother. Mr.. John
Bodily, arrived in Staunton near the end
of last week and remained until Tues
day afternoon, when they left on the c.
& o. O'Clock train to return to Wheel
ing. A younger member of the company
was in Staunton about four week ago,
on a tour of inspection through Virginia.
The Bodily family
STAND HIGH IN THE ESTEEM
and confidence of Wheeling people. The
head of the company is very prominent
in local charities, and in the other pub
lie movements in which active participa-
ton characterizes a good citizen and a
good man. Not long ago his daughters
spent some time in staunton as pupils of
the Augusta Female Seminary. He will
bring his family to- Staunton, and will
settle here permanently. Such a man is
a great acquisition to a community, like
Mr. o. K. Lapham, without considering
the number of men he employs.
sTAUNToN GETS THE BEST.
The Bodily Wagon Company, as did
Mr.. Kroder. the brass manufacturer, ex-
amined thoroughly and compared care
fully the different towns of Virginia and
of the south for which manufacturing
establishments are sought. But Staun-
ton was readily and cheerfully selected
as the location surprising all others,
notwithstanding that from some other
places greater inducements were offered
than those accepted from the Staunton
Development Company. Tuesday after
noon, shortly after the contract was
signed with President M. Erskine
Miller, the Messrs. Bodily received
pressing telegram from Charlottesville,
urging them to come to that city. The
reply was-"Too late. Have contracted
with Stauntoa." Other manufacturers
will follow their example. About two
score of manufacturing concerns have
opened negotiations with the Develop
ment Company for sites at Staunton. AS
remarked last week, the Development
Company can choose the best. as it did
In securing the Bodily Company. Beg
cling and urging are not necessary to
bring manufacturers to Staunton. It's
resources and advantages are recognized
At sight
WHY THE BODLYS CHOSE STANTON.
For its.shipping facilities to the four
points of the compass, over the two
greatest railroads of Virginia, the Bal
timere & Ohio and the Chesapeake &
Ohio.
For it's easy access in every direction
to the hardwood timber of the Virginia
and West Virginia mountains, which is
unsurpassed in quantity and quality by
that of perhaps any other section of the
country. When one of the Mr.. Bodlys
was in Staunton month ago he ordered
a lot of timber from Mr.. j. A. Woodson,
to be shippedfrom here to Wheeling.
For its cheap and convenient supplies
of iron.
For it's social and educational advan-
tages, its general desirableness as
place in which to live, it's superiority in
this respect to any other city in the
South.
For its indisputable position, in the
opinion of the Messrs. Bodily and of
other gentlemen who know, as the city
pre- eminent in the South in its SUM
total of advantages.
Unsettled conditions in the financial
circles of the North, manipulated by
the bulls and bears, will not seriously
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