Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
FROM THE SOUTH.
WEST ylRGINIAN.
[Published at Minreapolis, Va.l

With the great changes that are
rapidly taking place in Southwest
Virginia, we may feel assured that
she will soon be placed alongside the
richest and most prosperous portion
OF our country. 1t is fact long
since established BY experience and
reason that if the people of airy one
government, how sDnll soever il
may BIO, should conline themselves
to any one employment, they will be-
como shiftless and develop slowly,
because it requiIes diversity of labor
for man to accomplish that which
will bring wealth and prosperity to
him. This is easy to see and the
proof is on every hand. If all should
engage in farming, the first and no
blest calling of man, and one of he.
cessity which must be pursued
through all time, wo could never nc
tcomplish much nor gain wealth. And
SO it would be if we were nation of
manufacturers, traders or follow ing
any one employment, we would only
be stupid and develop slowly. Tie
western farmer, fur out on the from
tier, far from railroads and n market
for his products, or any advantage of
coming in contact with people of
other callings, has always been proof
positive of this. Ho may employ his
time most industriously but eau new
er advance in wealth or prosperity.
But, when, by the agency of rail
roads and the building Of manufacto-
ries labor is diversifedr prosperity at
once surrounds him. So it has been
with the people OF Southwest Viz.
gitiia, and now with the introduction
ef railroads and ths divsYsf6wasr
OF labor, in the opening up OF now
enterprises, we will start on an era
of prosperity unheard of heretofore
in our part of the country.
At suitable distances all along the
line of railroad, largo tracts of land
have been laid out into cities, streets
are being graded, large and costly
hotels are being built, and all neces
sary labor is being done to build
large and enterprising cities. The
mon at the head of these enterprises
aro not Missionaries OF schemers try.
ing to deceive the people and make
great speculation by dealing in real
estate, but are clear headed, honest
gentlemen, who can see the bright
future spread out before the people
OF Southwest Virginia and all enter
prising mon who cast their lot here.
1t is thought by some TINT these
prospective cities are too near each
other to ever grow to greatness. This
idea is born of a narrow and one
sided view taken of the means by
which citios are built, and that the
location for them are at great dis
lance from us. In some parts OF
the country where the building and
sustaining of cities are far inferior TO
that OF ours, cities have sprung up
and become rich and prosperous. 1t
is al erroneous idea to suppose, as
many do, that city is dependent
upon the country by which it is sur
rounded for its support and main.
tenance. The inhabitants of the city
are as independent as are those of
the country. Cities may spring up
all along this liue of railroad and
each be as prosperous as one would
be alone. Besides, there is room for
the employment of million people
along the Clinch Valley and in the
coal mines and forests of Southwest
Virginia. When we consider the va
rious employments of man and his
frugal nature, and soc that every en-
ployment in which man has ever en-
gagged is being opened up here in
Southwest Virginia and the positive
assurance of good market at our
very doors, there is the greatest as
surance that all who wisely invest
here and engage in legitimate bust
ness will meet with success. With
the great resources that nature has
30 layishly bestowed upon us, surely
with the magic touch of labor the
greatest success for her is assured
and great industrial cities will, in
the near future, sit among her hills.