Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-05-16

THE GOSHEN LAND AND IMPROV EMENT
CoNTPANY-A STRONG TEAM OF Off
GERS AND DIRECTORS-WHO THEY ARE
A VISIT TO THE COMPANY'S PROPER
TY-DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CITY
sITE-ITS ADVANTAGES-THE INTER-
SECTION OF TILE PITTSBURG, VIRGINIA
AND SOUTHERN RY. AND THE CHEsA-
PEAKE " OHIO RY.-THE IRON WEALTH
OF THE LOCALITY-yICTORIA FURNACE
MINERALS AND MINERAL WATERS.
&C., &C., &C.
Reported for the Staunton VINDICAToR.1
GOSHEN, May 10.
When the bill chartering the Pittsburg,
and Virginia and Southern Railroad, of
Which ex-Gov. Fitz. Lee is the President,
and which is to cross the G. &. O. here,
was signed, the speedy founding of a city at
Goshen became inevitable. Though the city
would have come in time any way, for the
village is literally surrounded by mountains
OF iron ore, and long before the railroad
named was projected, the chimney of one
the largest iron furnaces in the United
tJotlSo 1lS3lVCU UlC OUlCCt0 ttU ulSQU Will
its flames, and along one of them
clattered the engine and train of
the furnace bringing it's output to the depot
for shipment. 1t is interesting to note
the men who first saw the great opportu-
nifty and snatched it-for to snatch it in
a hurry was needed, seeing that the very
day after the Goshen Land and Improve
ment Company secured it's property here,
another powerful company appeared on the
ground for the same purpose, but just
twenty-four hours too late. The official
body of the Goshen Land and Improvement
Company contains the names of the men
who first saw and seized the valuable op-
portunity, and remarkable to say nearly
every one saw it from distance. for none
are residents of the place.
Col Robert P. Chew of Charlestown, W.
Va, the President, is widely known
for the famous record his bat
terry, in the Confederate army,
made during the civil war. But since
that event he is equally as widely known
in West Virginia as a public spirited man
of affairs. He has been for several years a
member of the House of Delegates of that
State, and with some of it's citizens has
made some very profitable ventures in the
development of the far Western States.
J. Fred. Effinger, of Staunton, the Vice
President, is well and favorably known tc
our people as a successful and public spirit
ed business man. He is President of the
Rush Run Coke and Coal Company of West
Virginia, and has recently organized another
company.
c. P. Ehrman Of Birmingham, Ala, is
the General Manager. He has been the
manager of mining interests in Mexico and
the Western country for Boston and Phila-
delphia capitalists, in which he was largely
interested, and was connected with the de-
velopment Of the successful city of Biz
mingham, Ala, where he still has large in
terests. He is a man of the extended knoWl-
edge and indomitable energy which the po-
sition requires.
Chas. L. Cooke of Staunton, the Secreta-
ny and Treasurer, is widely known as
the founder of one of the most successful
and solid insurance companies our city has.
He was so impressed with the possibilities
of Goshen as point of development, that
be resigned the position of Secretary of
one of the strongest insurance companies
in the South, to embark in it.
These are the officers. The Directors
are body of men likely to inspire perfect
confidence in the fortunes of any under
taking they become interested in.
NJ. b. ingalls, who heads the list, is the
President of the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. and
the Manager of the Vanderbilt system of
railways. While he has been favorable to
and encouraged every development enter
prise along the line of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Ry., this is the first with which he
has personally connected himself. His
interests in this enterprise are large,
both present and prospective.
The Judge A. B. Fleming of West Vir-
ginia, somodestly put down in the list of Di-
rectors, is Governor Fleming Of that State,
whose namea few months ago was ringing
throughput GIle COtlllIy.
Gen. G. Fl. Smythe of New York, is the
President and principal owner Of large iron
works in Oneida Co., N. Y.
Nelson Thomasson of Chicago, is mil
lionaire and large real estate owner and
dealer in that city, and is prominent in all
the enterprises for the development of Chi
cago's interests.
Franklin Osburn of Pittsburg, Pa, is a
wealthysman, practically retired from ac-
tive business, but largely interested in gas
companies.
Holmes Conrad Of Winchester, Va, is
another name too well known to need an
introduction in Virginia. He is promi-
nent man in the politics of his State, and
since the period Of material development
begun, has become equally as prominent in
affairs.
THE MINERAL WEALTH SURROUNDING
THE NEW CITY.
Standing on the crest of one of the eleva-
lions on the company's property, and look
ing over the beautiful scenic panorama, the
spectator sees the edges of the picture COM
pletely hemmed in by mountains containing
iron ore in ineXhaustible quantities. 1t
was written seventeen years ago of this
wealth in the LAND Of Goshen that
''within o circle of twenty miles, having
Goshen for it's centre, there is ore sufficient
to keep constantly in blast as many as fifty
firstclass furnaces This is confirmed
to-day by the fact that Victoria furnace
whose smoke rises just across the hill from
where you stand, is turning out 10 tons
of pig metal a day and has hardly made an
on the ores in it's mines. Before
the civil war there were nine furnaces