The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-27
L0WM00R, VIRGINIA.
a CITY THAT HAS FOUNDATIONS,
And Wells Of Beauty Also Iron Gre Without
Li.asb or Every Side The Lowmoor Iron
Cosnpanys Zines and Furnace.
IA tjas EEidst Of Prosperity.


risk enough left after he has done all ia
his power FORTS elimination. In seeking
out among many possible courses the one
aifording for him the greatest degree Of
certainty, he fixes his choice where Is
ture and AL other conditions beyond his
control will operate most efectually III
his favor He knows that his own lln-
man energy, however great it may be
viii be thoroughly occupied in his strug
gle for existence against the army Of com
petitors that every man has sooner OF
later, and he exercises the better part Of
valor by choosing the strongest position
within reach. In looking over the scores
of southern towns ana town sites at
which lie is earnestly pressed TO locate
he quickly narrows his selection field
down 10 q few possessing unquestionabIe
resources, and then from these Few he
deliberately singles outthe one affording
the surest advantages Cor bis own par
ticular business. After he has arrived
at the deciding point, the representa-
tions of interested persons have little
effect upon him. He examines each place
for himself, and determines its advant-
ages for his business with unfailing accu
racy. Thus the wise man makes his Sc
lection. How others do is a matter OF
10 interest.
WHERE CITIES Will RISE.
The generalization Of the preceding
little essay makes net only the concll-
sions OF its writer, but also those Of
many other persons whose good opinion
is vastly more valuable With human
efforts practically the same for each com
peting town, as may now lie depended
upon, great resources do not insure sue
cess for any one place when those of
neighboring place are still greater. In
vestors and manufacturers are looking
for the solidest towns, and will find them.
From a start on a sure basis such places
will grow Oh into continuing cities. 9th
ers less favored viii perish out of sight,
according to the universal law of natu-
raj selection.
THE TIDE OF DESTINY.
The Karnes tract Of 55f acres owned al
Lowmoor by the Allegheny Mining and
Development Company constitutes the
property for whose description the fore
going paragraphs form a lengthy yet
appropriate Introduction. It is land
upon which there will be a eli y-a noun
tain-girt level with destiny as sure as
that which transformed a Syrian oasis
into the Damascus Of all ages. 4 prop
er examination OR discussion OF Low
moor involves nothing bat cold facts.
No personal consideration for the com
pany's stockholders is asked for, no men
tai reservation in receiving or making
statements. Lowmoor stands On its
merits.
IRON ORE,
on the Allegheny Mining and Develop
ment company OWE land. and on DION
ing tracts, is the chief basis Of the con
fidence with which the future of Low
moor is regarded. The supposed miner
al value for which the Frank L. karncs
tract was purchased by this company has
been proved within lie last two weeks
by the discovery OF the great vein OF
brown helnatite iron worked fer twenty
years on an adjoining tract by the Low
moor Iron Company OF Virginia. -Four
test openings, drifteG horizontally into
the mountain side to an average depth
of about twenty feet each, show that
this vein extends diagonalIy across the
Allegheny Mining and Development
Company ESQ acres Of wooded mountain
slope, passing out to the leve! land near
the company eastern border From the
experience on the Lowmoor Iron CON-
pany's property and elsewhere, such a
well defined vein may be considered
INExHAUsTIBLE
for all practical purposes. This vein,
as worked by the Lowmoor Com pany in
creases in width with the mountain as
openings are deepened toward the base.
and at the greatest depth yet reached,
about 200 feet below the surface Of the
Level land, it is the same body Of ore,
with no indications OF narrowing down
or giving out. Searching for ore has
been an easy and pleasant task for the
Allegheny Mining and Development
Company. Two or three men, with their
picks and shoveis and q few sticks Of
dynamite, penetrate to the vein in sew
eral days. The simple fact is that the
ore is there, awaiting the development
that of itself will build a town
OF equal Importance with the settled
question Of abundant quantity is the
richness Of this ore. That encountered
in the test openings Will yiel2 On an av-
eraga
So PER CENT. OF 4IHTAL1Ia IRON.
This Is extraordinary ricllaess for
brown helnatite ore. and above the av-
efage for any kind Of iron. For such
high grade ore there is always & strong
demand, at good prices, from furnace
men. 1t yields to them the largest GUAM
THY ofpig iron from any given quantity Of
ore handled; and in mining it yields
a still wider margin of profit, being ia
ken from the earth at the same cost in
volved in mining ores containing far less
metallic iron. 1t seems that the richness
Of the vein increases towards the east
On the J.owmoor Iron Company's adj
joining property it produces on an aver
age about forty-five per cent. of iron in
the furnace. Though lower in richness
it is worked by this company, as viii
hereafter be shown, on large scale and
with great success.
A third important feature of the iron
vein possessed by the Allegheny Mining
AMI Development Company is lis
HIGH QUALITY.
Iron ere is found SO plentifully in these
times that unlimited quantity and high
degree Of richness are sometimes nos suf-
ficient to render mining profitable when
the ore market is dali But when pos
sessed with abundant quantity and rich
ness. superior quality, being compare
lively rare,
ENSURES GOOD PROFITS
through any period of depression that
is likely to affect the iron industry. The
high quality OF the Allegheny Mining
and Development Company's ore is prov
ed by the almost unequaled quality and
reputation Of the Lowmoor iron Com.
pany's pig iron, which is made princi-
pally from ore mined by The latter com