The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-26
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pace tO-udy III Cuc OPOrd IouSc. men
the drawing opened at 10 o'clock, the
house was crowded. Asiarge number of
persons from distance were present.
At this hour, p. M, 100 lots have been
was No. 5, block "a. and was drawn
by Loeb Bros. Staunton and Augusta
county people in the drawing were
Wayt and & Bro, Gordon & Patrick, w.
R. Tyree, Prof. Myer, D. A. Kayser, Jno.
j. s. Collins, C. H. Cochran,
C. A. Conner. Caldwell & SPOTS. Burke
& Croghan, z. H. Rawlings, Prof Ha-
mer B. F. Eakle, J. H. Picker, E. l.
Jones, R. E. McAleer, G. C. Thompson,
Jonas Hageman, Phil Knapp,J. A. Fau-
Der & Co., L. E. Eisenman, A, M. Vaultz,
NJ. A. Hope, J. A. Wise, E. s. Lambert,
C. p. Hanger; John s. McCorkle.
Drawing will be completed tonight.
From our Special Correspondent at Shendun
THE GRoTToEs, VA, July %, 1890.
To-day your correspondent heads his
letter from The Grottoes, as that is now
the official name of this station and its
pOstoffice, but next week he will write
from ''Shendun," for ON the first of July,
as the postmaster, as they are Off
fair and popular damseD has been mott
fed that after that date the name of the
postoffice here will be Shendun instead
Of The Grottoes.
This change has been made, l learn,
at the instance of The Grottoes Compa-
nv, so that the postofflce name may cor
respond to that of the great embryo
city that Company is now laying out on
the "Long Meadows" as this great South
River of the Shenandoah plains was
called by the sturdy Scotch Irish pio-
neers of this region.
Upon inquiry at the Company's Office
I ascertain that it was originally intend
ed by 1.-THE Grottoes of the shenandoah
Co.. which was organized May 10th,
1888, to call the city that it then had in
view, Shenandoah" which was part of
it's corporate name, but during recent
session of the Virginia Legislature a
charter was granted by which Mines, a
station on the Shenandoah Valley Rail
way, was changed to Shenandoah, :"
thus capturing the name intended for
this coming city. Equal to any emer
gency, as the men at the head of this
enterprise have always been, it was
promptly decided to have name at
once distinctive and new, and SO, at the
instance of Major Hotchkiss, the Presi-
dent of the Grottoes Co., the name
of Shendun was adopted, word formed
from "Shen," the first syllable of Shen-
andoah, and dun" the Gaelic for city,
as used in Dundee, Dunbar, Dunedin
&c.-so, after all, this is to be the city
- ho Ghonon6noh Thi0 n11ah
liked at the Postoff1ce Department be-
cause of it's shortness and newness.
President Kimball, of the Norfolk &
Western, says 'sit is a beautiful and APP
prOpriate name"
Wheat harvesting is now in progress
on the thousands of acres of magnificent
plains belonging to the GrottOes Co, and
the engineers, ably directed by Prof. D.
G. Humphreys, Professor of Engineering
at Washington & Lee University, are
following the reapers and stalking out
the city of Shendun amid the wheat and
corn-fields and meadows and pasture
fields of what heard Engineer Donald
Allen, who has seen with the keen eye
of an experienced engineer most OF the
great West and Southwest, say, when
overlooking it last Monday, "ls the
grandest city site ] ever saw"
learn that Eutsler Brothers have Sc
lected whole city block, 500 feet long
by 26O wide, Immediately on the Shen-
andoah Valley r. R., on which they in
tend to at once put up, of brick, one OF the
largest and most complete carpentry es-
Establishments in this country. These
gentlemen now employ large number
of carpenters, but they propose to get
ready to have from 70 to 100 constantly
at work. They are skillful and energet-
ic builders the villa OF Operator snapp,
near the Grottoes Hotel, ia a fine sample
of their workmanship it shows how
cheaply good houses can be built at
Shendun.
On an adjacent block the company is
providing for great wagon and carriage
factory to use the unlimited materials at
hand for such an industry.
Negotiations are pending for a large
Touring mill and elevator, to use the
grain of this great and sioia os, ioulturai
region.
One of the largest manufacturers of
railway supplies, bolts, bars, &e., in the
Union, spent two days here last week
and went home to make estimates for a
plant to employ from 500 to 800 opera
tiYes, saying, after going all erthe
city site, II have inspected all the new
towns along the Shenandoah Valley road
and consider that this presents more at
tracttve inducements for great industries
than any others have seen."
The Shendun Brick Company has been
contracted for and Mr.. H. Jordan, of
Eddyville, KY, one of the most success
fufand experienced of brick-makers, who
will be the superintendent, has taken
samples of the brick clays, from large
block of land along the 8. V. r. R., and
gone with them to Ohio to test them in
different brick machines and find which
one is best suited for working the abund-
ant brick clays of this property. The
company will do all it can to have it's
city built of brick and stone.
The photographs made by Landes,
Main street, are easy and natural in pose,
yetstylish and beautifully finished.
je-26-4t.
We learn from private letter that the
present term of the U. 8. Court, at Dan
VILE, has been the busiest held for years.
A larger number of cases have been
tried than at any previous term, and all
connected with the court have been
pressed with work.
Basic City Aduamce The finest Lithia
and Arse mic Springs in America are To-
Gated at Basic City. The waters from
these springs have been analysed by the
State Chemist, and the result revealed
the highest standard of excellence in
every respect,
We have not the remotest idea that
Federal election law will be passed at
this session of Congress; and we have
not the least idea that it would do any
good in the direction intended, should
such law be enacted. 1t would create
strife and bloodshed, probably, and the
class it would be designed to benefit
would be the sufferers. There have
been enough of colored people sacrificed
to appease the ambition of pestiferous
deMagngues to call halt to that kind
of politics. The theoretical statesmen
who are engineering this movement
know nothing of the conditions about
which they propose to legislate, and
furnish remedy for the wrongs
about which they talk so much. Let
the South alone, and the Republicans
themselves will meet all the emergencies
successfully after awhile, when the cor
rupt scoundrels who have thrust them
selves to the front have been retired.