Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-11-12
From the Rushville Qnd.) Jacksonian.l
Gone to Basic City, Virginia.
THE RUsHvILLE sCHooE DESK COMPANY TO
BE TRANSFERRED TO BASIC CITY, vIeIN-

THE RUSHVILLE SCHOOE DESK COMPANY TO
BE TRANSFERRED TO BASIC CITY, vIeIN
IA.
The true friends of Nashville will be sorry
to learn that the Nashville School Desk
Company will, in the next ninety days, be
located at Basic City, Va, in the beautiful
Shenandoah Valley. Tins Nashville loses
iss most promising industry-an industry
which now gives largo force of new en-
ployment, and with just little encourage
ment from the moneyed men of our city,
would have, in the not distant future, given
employment to three or four hundred men.
But enterprising capitalists of Basic City
heard OF the Adjustable School Desk Com
pany, put themselves in communication
with the Directors of the Company, and
week before last Lon Link, who had au-
thority to act for a majority of the stock
holders of the company, and Noble Brann,
Mike Nolan and George s. Mcgee, Direc-
tors of the Company, quietly took the cars
for Basic City. When they came back
Rushville people were startled, gIieved, to
learn that the School Desk factory was 60
ing to leave Rushville-was going to Vir-
ginia. These Nashville gentlemen say that
capitalists there took deep interest in the
plant. gave them substantial and material
aid in money and in lots in their promising
city, and assured them of the moral support
of the city. Mr.. Nolan, the iron man Of
the company, says they will get their iror
out Of the mountain near by. Mr.. Branr
says lumber will be cheaper there than
here, and Lon Link, who, while he looks
after the dollars pre- tty closely, says the
people there are the best and most hospita.
Bile people he ever met. George s. Mcgee,
the Secretary, is good deal of Southern
or, and wants to move there in the next
| two weeks, and he will. The company here
will proceed at once to erect its buildings,
put in the machinery, and commence man.
ufacturing 10 their new location by the 1st
of April.
Within the next three weeks several of
Rushville's best mechanics will be in Basic
City erecting buildings for the company,
laying foundations, and setting up machin-
| cry. We greatly regret to lose this indus
| try, and these good citizens who will go to
| Basic City, but assure the Basic City folks
that while we are losers they are gamers.
The gentlemen of the company who went
to Basic City are highly pleased with it.
They say it is located on the beautiful South
river, at the base of the Blue Ridge noun
tains, at the crossing of the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Shenandoah Valley railroads
two of the large trunk lines of the Ameri,
can railway system, leading to all points of
the compass.
Mr.. Link informs us that several large
manufacturing establishments are going up
in Basic City, a large hotel is almost COM
prospect for Basic City, with its iron, coal
and lumber, is decidedly bright. MIR.
Mcgee, Brann and Nolan have visited the
boom cities of the south and west, and con-
slider Basic City as the most promising of
any they have seen, and they regard the
president of the Basic City company and
General Manager Quarles, as the most
urbane, competent and accommodating
gentleman they have met in their travels.