The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-26
Coming South.

The tide is setting in towards Virginia.
The remark of Vice President Eddy, OF
the Norfolk and Western Railway, that |
Virginia was all the talk now in Massa-
chusetts, and that capital and enter
prise are looking this way, is only veri-
fication of what Chancery Depew and
Cornelius Vanderbilt recently predicted
They had travelled further South and
observed, to Il limited degree, the won
derful natural resources of the States
through which they passed. and were as
tonished at what they saw and the pos
sbiities which await well directed CAPT
tai and energy. They had not stopped
in Virginia, nor have they the least
conception of what the great Valley of
of Virginia contains. Had they extend
ed their journey to this section and
made even a superficial examination OF
the marvellous natural wealth here
found on every hand, they would have
been even more extravagant and SAN
gune in their expressions of the future.
Mr.. Eddy has had more enlarged oppor-
/ tunities His connection with the great
corporation which he in part represents,
has famliarized him with the advantages
here to be found, and it was natural that
he should give approval to the concern
manifested in Massachusetts for Vir-
ginia. Not only in Massachusetts, but
all through the North is the same inter
est being manifested in this State.
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necessarily meagre and superficial, it is
that much better for us. When they
become more familiar with what nature
has done for this portion of the South,
the wonder will grow that it has been
so long neglected, and that eastern CAPT.
tai is permitted to lie idle while such a
prolific and inviting field is offered for
its profitable investment. The iron and
timber and coal of Virginia and West
Virginia, yet in the virgin state, is
enough to protitably command every
surplus dollar the East can contribute.
Not only this, but the capital invested
in industries there could be much more
satisfactorily appropriated here, includ-
ing the cost of running present plants,
than they can be operated there. We
have the iron, the limestone, the coke,
the coal, the timber, the clays, the
water-power, the climate, and the cheap,
reliable labor which united with CAPT
tai would create an empire ia wealth.
Furnaces for the manufacture of iron,
and industries for all the finished pro-
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less cost and greater profit than any
other place in the known world. The
conditions existing, in the elements we
have named, are combined no where
else in such completeness and abund-
ance. Virginia is the gateway to the
South, where the great development OF
| the future is to be made. 1t is virgin
) country, industrially speaking. 1t is to
be the great consuming market OF the
country 1t is in the infancy of itl
railroad construction. The mines and
forests will necessitate the construction
of new lines in every direction. The
mountains and valleys will be penetrated
and the crude wealth brought forth to
/ employ diversified machinery Enlight-
ened population will pour in; market
f for every form of industry will be crea-
ted; the farm will double its capacity
5 labor will be employed, and every ave
nue. of human endeavor will be stirred
with nav life. The whole Southland
: will be opened to accommodate the
products of the multiplied enterprises
: that must grow up when Eastern capital
f and skilled knowledge join to utilize
the hidden wealth which nature has
L placed here for the uses of man and the
: advance of civilization.