The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-12

ana western railroad boast oil Il better
and more healthy locat ton than Wythc-
vile.
Situated as it is at an attitude of a.36O
feet above sea level it enjoys an atmos-
phere unsurpassed and rarely equaled
by that of any other town for its purity
all the year and for its GOODNESS and in
MIGRATING powers in the summer and
fall seasons.
Ever since the war it has been the re-
sort of those who seek place of rest
during the summer, and is now known
to thousands as the Saratoga of the
South
TIMES preventative has spent sew
eral days in Wytheville during the past
week and what he saw going on and
what is expected he has iotted down on
the spot.
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wYTnEvILIE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
The pioneer company has done n
grand thing for the town and has CON
tribucd $50, 900 to new enterprises. while
the other improvement companies have
been backward in the good works.
Designs have been perfected for the
immediate erection of a $4,000 hotel
(now being built in the west end, and
$4,000 hotel on Body's hill. while
third one is being seriously considered
for the northern side Of the city. A
$4,000 cotton mill to employ rs opera
tors, Ito be increased to $500 900 capital)
is being built. Tho Wythcville Foun-
dry and Machine Company, to employ
SO operators, capital stock $50, 900: and
sash, door, blind and planning factory,
capital stock 100000 to employ 30 opera
tors, have organized for work, while the
building for an ice and dairy factory,
capital $4,000 is doing good business.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany, has secured ground for the pur-
pose, of immediate erection of n new
100000 passenger depot the designs of
which is said by the officials of the road
to be the most beautiful on the whole
line.
Among the many recent improvements
of the town is complete telephone sys-
tenn, two electric light plants, incandes-
cent and arc, costing $4,000, new pub
lie school building, $4,000 Roller flour
ing mills $40, 600. Beside the foregoing,
a boot and shoe factory to employ three
hundred operators, will, it is positively
promised, be removed here at the close
of the present season from New England,
WHllc Vic money IL mostly Ill SlpnJ lOf
the erection of Il hundred ton furnace
with "A capital of two hundred thousand
dollars, and several minor enterprise.
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A telegram dated Ohio, Sept "a, to
w. l.. Yost, president Wytheville De
velopmcnt Company, says contract has
been signed for removal of plant to
Wytheville. The company removes
their plant of 900 and the Develop
ment Company takes $4,000. making
total of S125, 900. The firm is a we'll
known stove and range foundry of TWEEN
ty years standing, and the plant is to
pany's Trinklc tract, in which lots will
be offered for sale September 30.
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The real estate firm OF Parker. Yost
sS Co., sold Wednesday TO Mr. o. l..
Stearncs, of Salem, over seven thous-
and dollars worth of lots of the Wythc-
Vile Development Company. lying on
Main street. Mr.. Stcarncs has made
over one hundred thousand dollars in
real estate since last January, and his
investing thus in the Wythcville lots is
a sure sign that there is big money in
them.
There were about So. 900 worth of the
Boyd Land Company's lots put on the
market Wednesdays over $4,000 of
which have been sold.
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Mr.. ID. S. Pierce. president of the Nir-
ginia and kentucky railroad. arrived in
Wythcville on Monday from Danville
and Patrick county, where he has been
for several days on professional bust
ness. Mr.. Pierce brings very hattcr-
ing report from the Virginia and Ken
lucky railroad people, to the effect that
everything is in good shape for an early
construction of the road after the en-
gineers shall have completed the sur
vey, which is now being pushed as rap
idly as possible by two corps of cngin-
GERS. The intersection of the Virginia
and Kentucky road with the Norfolk
and Western will be at or near Wythe-
Vile. EARLY work upon the construc-
tion of this road will make Wytheville
town lots go like hot cakes
The Development Company's lots on
Main street advanced from twenty-five
to seyenty-five dollars within twelve
hours after they were put upon the
market.
The Roxboro (Mass.) Reporter, in Civ
ing description of Wytheville, among
other things, says: Wytheville, Va,
is rightly called ''Thc Saratoga of the
South" and it is certainly one of the
most beautiful spots which the writer
has ever visited AS will be seen by
reading tho descriptive lines in another
column, it holds up its hands and pro-
claims itself as being one of the leading
and wide-awake tow MS in this section Of