The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-09

Wayne City.
Often and over again has it been pre-
dicted in these columns that the terri
tory embracing old Waynesboro and
extending to the Blue Ridge mountains
would become the site OF a progressive
and populous town. When others ridi-
culed the idea that anything more than a
country store stand could ever indicate
that locality, we have contended that
of Augusta county and the Valley would
be vocal with the music of manufac-
tories and the stir and motion of indus
tries, responsive to the developed re-
sources of this section. We have lived
to see the first steps taken to these
inspiring conditions. A glance at the
surroundings of old Tammany will de-
monstrate how long the strides already
| taken, and a consideration of the plans
of the various organizations existing in
that vicinity, will present the compre-
| hensiye arrangements now inaugurated.
| West Waynesboro, what used to be the
| beautiful farm of John 7. Smith, is now
assuming shape and form as an addition
to the old town, The lands have been
laid off into squares and plotted into
lots, and under the sagacious and ener
getic management of George G. Maslin,
number Of beautiful and tasefuI resi-
dence buildings are being erected-the
most slightly in plan and architecture
that we have seen anywhere They
indicate the character of the improve
ments that will be encouraged, and
further that this picturesque location is
to become the residence part Of Wayne
City in the future
Adjoining this on the east is the
property of the Waynesboro Company
A costly and commodious hotel is under
construction and rapidly nearing to
completion on The old Gallaher farm.
On every side workmen are busy laying
foundations and constructing handsome
buildings for the accommodation of the
future population. Numerous improve
ments are going onin the old town praper.
Residence and business houses are going
up as fast as men and material can be
commanded to construct them, and the
promise is that in much shorter time
than the most sanguine anticipate, an
imposing city will attract the vision. OF
the passer-by as he glanees over the
handsome grounds which reach as far
as the eye can measure.
Across South River, Basic City looms
up in magnificent proportions, with
residence and business houses and manu-
featuring structures springing up in
every direction. An enormous plant for
hardware establishment another for
car works; another for a paper mill
another for an iron furnace; another for
a match factory, with others we can not
call to mind as we write, added to which
isssan imposing building for the Normal
College already completed and in oc-
cupancy by professors and students.
These various enterprises illustrate the
wonderful energy that has been dis
played in the management.of the Basic
Company, with results that must at
tract attention and command common
dation
One of the sights that most interested
us was the brick machine, which turns
out 10000 smooth brick every day. It
is a marvel of mechanism and shows
how the inventions of man economist
labor, as well as time and contribute to
the material advancement of the coun-
try.
This all means that WestWaynesboro,
Waynesboro and Basic City will one day
become concentrated town, with thous-
ands of population and hundreds of
industries, responding to the local advan-
tages and the enterprise that has been
shown in appropriating them. 1t would
indeed, be a fitting compromise for all
these companies and their. projects, for
them to unite on Wagaae City as the
designation for the throbbing life that
will soon pulsate through hundreds of
avenues to testify t. the energy and
public spirit which have come upon our
people under the new dispensation which
is now dawning upon the old State
We wish all the projects and their
projectors the success which the natural
advantages they command will bring,
and hope to see, in the near future,
thousands of busy people where there
are now only hundreds.