Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-04-16
OUR SISTER CITY
A BIG SALE OF LOTS In SA-
LEM YESTERDAY.
4 WAGON FACTORY TO Be STARTED
PunGent Personalities. Industrial
Items. Tho IL. and d. Lnnd CHmpa-
Aboui tho Great Lot Sales.
TIMEs BUREAU, HoTEL LUCERNE,
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A joint stock company was formed
here today TO purchase the plant OF
the Flynn Wagon Manufacturing
Company, now located Mt North Dan
Vile All details have been arranged
and the entire works will be moved
t, this city ut an early day. The CAPT
tai stock will lie $50, 900 and the out
put of the works about four vehicles
per day. About one hundred skilled
wor.lnnen will be employed and Mr..
K. ID. Flynn, the founder of the orr
ginaI company, will be the superiu.
trndent. The works will be located
on Alabama street on the property OF
the Salem Improvement, Company
Mr. Flynn and Captain Ham Shep-
pard leave tonight for North Danvile
TO make the necessary arrangements
for having the transfer made.
Mr.. Edgerton S. Rodgers, the Rich
mond architect, is in the city.
Messrs. Mosby Fl Payne, George w.
Fleming and w p. Miller, prominent
business men of Lynchburg, are here
looking after investments.
Hon. Patrick Fl. McCaull, of Lynch
burg, internal revenue collector of
the Sixth district, is in the city.
Hon. w. p. Dupuy, representative
of Prince Edward county in the
House, accompanied by his brother,
Mr. H. W. Dupuy, of Richmond, is
stopping at Hotel Lucerne.
Messrs. John w. Woods, Oscar D i.
Derr, II. r. Clement, w. S. Pole,
Charles Lyle, F. b. Kemp, j. Hamp-
ton Hoge, A. S. Asberry. William H.
Fry, of Roanoke, were in the city to-
day.
Messrs. II. S. Staples, and William
j. Brand, capitalists of Richmond,
are in the city making investments.
The Baltimore and Ohio Land COM
pany was formerly organized today
by the election of the following OFF,
GERS: H. g. Brown, president; Hon.
John Il. Johnson. of Christiansburg,
vice-president; w. E. Brown, secre-
tary and treasurer: Rush u. Derr,
Esq, of Roanoke, attorney; N. a..
Lovett, of Roanoke, II. b. Watts, of
Lynchburg, w. p. Francis, of Ma
rion, and Lewis c. Arthur, of
Liberty. The capital stock of
the company is $4,000, divided
into shares of ten dollars each.
The property of the company lies
north of Roanoke College, fronting
on Red lane and Craig avenue, and
embraces 227 acres of very valuable
land. 4 meeting of the stockholders
will be held at the Office of Oscar d..
Derr & Co, in Roanoke, on Thursday,
the "A inst.
The store room in the Critz build
ing, formerly occupied by +. w.
Brown 4 Co., is being handsomely
relittcd and painted.
President s. NJ. Schindel, president
of the Hagerstown silk works, left to-
night for his home. TO the TIMES
correspondent he said; All arrange
ments for the new .ilk mill to be
@. tlbished here have been completed.
The main building will be 800 by 100
feet, constructed entirely of brick,
and the building, with all machinery,
will cost $50, 900. We will have forty
looms TO start with and they will turn
out about $4,000 worth Of goods II
year each. We will also run a spin
ming plant with over 1000 spindies.
The annual output of the mill will
amount to about 100000, and our
market will be mainly New York.
Work will begin about May LIST on
the buildings, which will he situated
on Water street, and in order to guard
against any delay on account OF a
lack of brick, have purchased the
brickyard formerly owned by George
Noies. This yard has q capacity of
so, 900 bricks per day and the build
ings can be completed without delay.
have secured the services of one OF
the finest silk operatives in the coun-
try to act as superintendent. | AIN
very much pleased with Salem and
believe her boom is substantial
The property of the Hickman Land
Company was placed on the market
today at 9 o'clock. Mr.. w. NJ. Nelson
sold ten lots by o'clock. He also
disposed of eight in Lake Spring Ad-
dition and seven on Alabama street.
The sale of lots took place today at
noon in the Opera House, only thir-
teen had been selected by two OF
more parties: these were auctioned
off and the amount realized was
S7,563.