Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-11-03
The south-Virginia alexandria.

Alexandra Improvement CoDpaoy tuheo
place next month-tbe 11tb, 18th and 18th.
The history of all such Gales in Virginia has
been one OF large, and quick profit. Why :?
simply because capital, brains and energy
como.ned are at work In Virginia. Kansas,
Colorado eud other western states have
each in turn he'd their day-this is Vir
ginia day. We are to get In the coming
decade (which We have not had In the psst)
our tuii share of the natural increase of
about tasniy millione of people In the
United States. Nay, it may be put stronger;
We a5e to get very much more than our
share, for the current of immigration and
capital hitherto sat Westwald) has already
SET southWerd. Tnls whole country, and
Europe as well, is being attracted by the
great industrisi revolution now goirg on IN
the South, and the untold wealth buried
In the mountains of Virginia is especially
focusing the eye of capital, and OF muscle
as well.
The following words of that peerless
southern patriot, Henry W. Grady, we're e1-
pressed by him, only very few years age,
to the people of Texas. Note how applca-
BILE lhey are 10 the state of Vireinis, in the
light of her history now making. Speaking
of the wonderful possibilities OF the cotton
crop Of the South, be says;
at is the heritage that God gave US when he
arched our skies, established our mountains, grt
us about with the ocean, tempered the sunshine,
and measured tho rain-ours and our caildren's
forever"
Speak ug of her mineral 81 ether re-
sources
1880 the South made 212 600 tors of iron
1887 S45, 900 tons. There is now actually build.
ing, or hss finished this year, furnaces that will
produce more than her entire product OF last
year. Our coal supply is exhaustless. In mar
bic and granite we have no rivals, as to quality or
quantity In lumber our riches are even vaster
More than fifty per cent. of our entire area is In
forests making the South the best timbered re-
gion of the wcrld We have enough merchanta.
bic yellow Pine to bring in money, 81, SOC, OOO,-
Coo s srm the vastness of which can only be an
del lstood when say it nearly equaled the sssess.
cd value OF tho entire South inciuding cities for-
ests, farms, mines factories and personal pro-
perty of every desc iption whatso ver. Back OF
this are forests If hard woods, and measureless
swamps Of cypress and gum. Think OF it In
cotton monopoly. In iron and coal establishing
swift mastery. In granite and marble developing
equal advantage and resource. In yellow pine
and hard woods tho worlds treasury. Surely the
basis of the South's wealth and power is laid by
the hand of the Almighty God, and its prosperity
has been established by divine law which works
in eternal justice and not by taxes levied on It's
neighbor5 through human statutes. Paying tri-
butte for fifty years that under artificial condi'
tions other sections might reach prosperity i'm
possible under natural laws, it has grown apace.
Again speaking of diversified Industries.
he says:
With amazing rapidity she has moved away
from the one-crop idea that was once her curse.
In 1870 she was esteemed prosperous. Since
that time she has added 393, 100000 bushels TO
her grain crops, and 1872 100000 head to her
live stock This has not lost her one bale Of her
xphi on he has
nearly 100000 bales. With oqul swiftness has
she moved away from the folly OF shipping out
her ore at 50 ton and buying it back in imple-
inents from $50 to $10O per ton her cotton at
10 cents pound and buying 1t back IN cloth at
20 to so cents per pound her timber at SS per
thousand aud buying it back in furniture at ten
to twenty times as much. In the past eight years
$25O,OOU coo have been invested in new shops
and factories in her states 225, 600 artizins are
now working that eight years ago were idle or
work cd elsewhere, and these added 1927 100000
to the vauo of her raw material-more than half
the value of her cotton. Add to th tho value of
her increased grain crops ard stock, and in the
past eight years she has grown in hor fields or
created in her shops and manufactures more
than the value OF her cotton crop. The incoming
tide has begun to rise. Every train brings manu-
facturers from the Esst and West seeking to estsb
lish themselves or their sons near the ra W ma
terisl and in this growing market.
in the future, both the money and the popu-
lation, which Is 10 make of Virginia great
manufacturing State, and why not ? With
nuggets Of wealth smiling welcome on Its
very surface, With law and order, as guar
antee to investors, with fautless climate,
and reliable rainfall, why should not Vir-
ginia be more attractive to settlers, as to
capital, than the lawess, blizzard consumed
and parched waetes of the far west 2
There is larger reward awaiting energy
and nerve In the near future, In the State of
Virginia, than in any spot 10 this great
country, as the American yankee Ia already
proving this to be true
There has been a great deal OF specula
ton in new towns In Virginia. Cities have
been born and grown to full cityhood In q
day, but it is observed that the shrewdest
dealers are turning their attention now
more to the extension and developement OF
the older and we'll established cities, where
there is more reality, and less paper; where
trade and business channels are already
fixed, located by natural trade laws, and
bsoked up by substantial population, church,
school, market and other facilities. Suoh
city is ours, and the Initial movement of the
North West Co., to invite attention, and iu-
vestmeot here, Is but the picket firing, pre-
cedipg the great engagement. There are
other movements to follow, which, each in
turp, can but make the property of the early
investor double and trouble in his hande.
Make DO mistake, secure your lot, or lots
early. II necessary, bsgin now to arrange
your finances 30 as to compass one or more
of these desir sble lots; visit the property,
get upon iis heights and take in the mag
nifcent views which present themselves
for miles, and you will be convinced of the
real eoiid merits of this Offering. The
terms of aale are made easy to suit the
masses-one fifth cash. and the balance
in monthly installments of Eve per cent.
OF the many lots 10 this property there may
bs found something to please oil tastes as to
location and to suit the purse Of every in
tending purchaser. Imagine yourself the
purchaser of an eligible lot on the 11th Of
November for, say, $500. upon cash pay