New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-21

distant furnaces in Pennsylvania. Five miles
from Basic City, q new town laid out on the
Shenandoah River opposite WayneSbOrO'. where
the Shenandoah Valley and Chesapeake and Ohio
roads cross are the CrimOra mines. said 10 be the
greatest manganese mines IN tine world. The
capitalists of the Winchester boom are developing
rare manganese beds right on the " foughten field
of Cedar Creek, and "A railroad VIII shortly DC
built across this battle-ground. In Manassas
Gap, n short distance from Front Royal. copper
smelling works are being erected. and the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad is locating branch
route through The Gap 10 Washington. This road
Is 10 be sold in September, and the general I'M
preston is that it viii be bought by the Norfolk
and Western, in which case the work of develop
ing these growing towns Will De greatly accelerated
il the past policy of that road Is any indication
Of its future course Near Lexington, on tho
BEeEa Vista ore property whence iron was mined
ana made into cannon used IN the Mexican war, y
town of 1000 people has grown up within two
years. and its future is painted i'm cO0rs as roseate
the dawn OH the Blue Ridge summit. Al Glas-
Cow. on the Richmond and Allegheny Railroad, q
company AT the head Of which Is Ex-Governor tltz-
hugh Lee, is building city with the aid of New
York city ana English capitalists. There are
vast beds If iron ore IN the vicinity. Capitalists
frin York, Boston, Maine and New-liamp-
shire organized last week the Salem Car and Ma
chine Company. with capital of 100000, an en-
terprse winch will give employment 10 400 hands,
party Of Boston capitalists are interested in the
Development Of the lldiTston iron property in
Patrick County. and expect 10 build a railroad 10
il. These mines We're worked by the Con.ed-
crate Government during the War. The station
County, formerly called Mines, is now known as
Shenandoah. Here the shenandoah Furnace Com
pany OWNS and operates the Gem blast furnace,
which has an annual capacity of $4,000 tons OF
foundry and mill iron OF superior quality, CIV
inc employment - 400 men. The capacity Of
this plant is to be doubled shortly, so profitable
has the enterprise proved. lere in Winchester
Judge IIandley, of Scranton, Penn. Mr.. Kennedy
president OF tine Cumberland Valley RAILROAD,
which has recently been completed u this place.
and other wealthy and enterprslng men are put
Ifp nj np a
not grown any since Washington represented it
i'm the Virginia House of Bur-csscS. New houses
going up on all sides and the grass Is no longer
permitted 10 grow md furnish succllent pasturage
Tor the town Arrangements have been
completed 10 build a hotel here costing 100000,
and the people talk as clibiy Of options as the
brokers Of the metropolis discuss stocks, grain
and futures.
\ page of The Tribune would not suffice TO con-
tain a list Of the nnumerable industries that are
projected in the booming little embryOtic cities ot
this part Of Virginia, but the instances noted above
give some idea of the new and healthy order
of things among these people That the tarlt IN
the main inspiration ami protection Of these in
veshnentS the of their hcing. is pretty gem
orally acknowledged, and while the farmers still
cling to the old frec-trade theories propounded
10 them by courthouse lawyers, their convictions
being rudely shaken by the evidences all
around them OF the practical working Of ProteGG,
lenefting by the much-abused policy of the
Republican party it is this same stiT-necked and
stubborn commonwealth of Virginia.
In the work of removing the scales from the
eyes of the people too much credit ca'S)t he given
To the railroads. especially the Norfolk and West
crn. which in the WY of building branches and
opening ND the marvellous resources Of this conn
Try leads al the rest. Scores Of new routes have
been prOicctel-mOre than fifty in Virginia since
the wear bcGan-and # per cent Of these char
tered roads re built the result will BE- vastly
couragng Anyway the " boom in the Shenan-
doah Valley is a study for the political economist,
for the reyer Of the tariff and its partisan alike.