Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-08
RAPID BUILDING
Of the New City Of Goshen on the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

{, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.
CHANGES AT GOSHEN-THE ROLLING
MILL BUILDING RAPIDLY--THEs STREETS
LAID OFF-INDUsFRIES SECURED FOE
THE NEW CITY-THE OLD GOODLOF
HOTEL HANDSOMELY RENOvATED-A
= PENNSYLVANIA IRON MANS OPINION
J OF GOSHEN.
&C.. &C., sc.
[Reported for the Staunton VINpIcAToR.l
GOSHEN. Aug. 4th, 1890.
When one remembers that the Goshen
Land and Improvement Co. was organized
but little over sixty days ago, the results
of the energy and enterprise OF it's officers
already to be seen here are astonishing. The
progress made in point of rapidity must
have been the result of unceasing devising
and working of the officers. Where Istum-
bled through the burrows of field eight
weeks ago, there is now going up an i'm
mense rolling mill, longer than any block
of buildings in Staunton. I cautiously
wrote then that the rolling mill was ''ln con-
temptation, (" but little thought in eight
weeks I should see more than hundred
men at work on it, the stone foundation
piers up, the erection of the superstruc-
ture about commencing and the ma
chinery alread bought. The fact is,
surmise, that this company is going to
have little trouble in getting any manufac-
turing plants here that it wants. The COM
pany itself has a well filled treasury, but,
even more important in this regard than
that, it has among it's members large
number of wealthy men largely engaged in
manufactures in the Northern States, who
have exceptional facilities for securing
manufactures. This rolling mill compa-
ny is a Philadelphia enterprise and has
$500, 900 Of capital. of which 100000 will
be spent on the building and machinery,
the latter like the former being entirely
new and of the most improved pattern. 1t
will commence operations with 200 work.
men, a large majority of whom will be
skilled labor, and the pay roll will be from
| 81 900 to So 900 week. In less than a year
| it is believed the force will be increased to
500 workmen. The site of the mill is on
the level facing the old Mccormick house,
and it is but few hundred yards from the
| Victoria Furnace, which is turning out
100 tons of pig metal daily, and which has
gathered around itself a small town filled
with 400 laborers. The President of the
Rolling Mill Company is MI. H. Stephen
| of lodi yrhn hac 70 in,
the manufacture and sale of iron. The
! Manager of the mill Mr.. w. H. Nevigold
from Pennsylvania, is man of long eX-
perience in his business and is superin-
tending the erection of the building of
which he is to be the manager. The Sec
rotary and Treasurer of the Rolling Mill
Company is MI. j. Il. Hickman of Bristol,
Pa, who has long been connected with the
Reading Iron Works.
OTHER INDUSTRIES.
| There are other industries-I was going
to say Sin contemplation, but as the enter
prise shown here got ahead of me so far
about the rolling mill, suppose I'll leave
this expression out and say that they are
assured for the city. can use the express
sion with safety for I inquired into all the
details about their coming.
The fact that great iron furnace like
Victoria stands on one side of a fence and a
big rolling mill on the other, makes it ma
tural and certain that other iron industries
must follow.
! An iron-pipe factory is the next industry
in the line that will be started. 1t will be
erected next to the rolling mill.
Next to that, will be erected nail factory,
the second in operation in Virginia.
Works for the manufacture Of passenger
and electric cars will be built, the Goshen
company giving the car company one of the
best sites in the city.
A large foundry and machine shop will
occupy place on the same level.
A plant to manufacture woodworking
machinery-saw mills, planning mills, and
the like will be put up.
A box factory which the projectors esti-
mace will consume 5000, 900 feet of lumber
the first year, is to be erected. Its projec-
tors are, like those of many others of the
new works, from Pennsylvania.
A sash, door. and blind factory is to be
put up and will be one of the earliest COM
pleted, as the clamor is now for buildings.
There will be three brickworks. One of
them is already on the ground and is to be
superintended by Mr.. Moses Stricken Ct
Bridgewater, who has come here with his
family. Mr.. Carpenter, the Manager of
the Brick Manufacturing Company, has
ordered machinery which will turn out
10000 bricks day.
HOUSING THE POPULATION OF THE NEW
CITY.
: OF course with these Industries being Ia
pidly put up-three of the largest will be
completed and put in operation about the
same time-the demands for buildings are
pressing. General Manager G. P. Ehrman
late of Birmingham Ala, is pushed hard and
had to revamp and put in repair old buildings
, enough to accommodate the workmen that
are here, and the town Of Goshen is literally
5 filled to it's utmost capacity. Arrangements
have been completed to form three Build
ing and Investment Companies for this
place. One of them was formed in Staunton
The projectors Of these companies guar
antee, in consideration of the facilities
given them by the Company, to erect moi
less than $3.50, 900 worth Of buildings herr
within a year. Two more Building and In
vestment companies, in addition to the thre'
i, named, are now negotiating with the Com
pany, and within thirty days will also be a
work.
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