Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-17
Stauntot! Sptftator.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IL. 1890.
Stanton.

Stanton.
The interest in the progressive develop
ment of Staunton is much more than local.
The Staunton Development Company as
the largest organization at work in for
warding such interests, formed its plans
judiciously, and has prosecuted them
with fine ability, and favorably impressed
capitalists, manufacturers and others at
distant points to aid the work in hand. In
this reference, it is not to be understood
that the Staunton Improvement Company,
the Park Addition, o. the West Stanton
Land Company have not been valuable CO.
operating forces in the objects stated. On
the contrary, all the organizations named
have and are contributing to the fullest ex-
tent in the spheres mapped out by them
for service, so, in time, the completed ef-
forts of each will secure peImanency to
expansion and advantages to our aggre-
gated growth and development.
The quantity and location Of all the
lands acquired by the companies engaged
in introducing manufacturing and other
enterprises as well as to prepare the way
for settling increased population, presents
an interesting subject for investigation
Expansion is absolutely necessary for the
introduction of business and population,
and the extent to which it has been done
will bring about approving conclusions to
all who will choose to study the situation
and opportunities, not only as they are
presented in connection with local interests,
but to the degree they are capable of at
tracing foreign capital and population.
When it is considered that for almost
every industrial enterprise in eontempla.
ton of organization, or the management
looking to change of place for those in ex-
istence, with hundred, moro or less, OF
invitations and propositions to accept loca-
tions accordingly, the success already &C.
complished on that line by the Staunton
Development Company is extraordinary
1t should stimulate the city government
and the people to full sense of the share
they have to bear in the forward movement.
The Development Company has provided
superior space. accommodations for every
variety of industrial and commercial
growth; and if it had not, then unfavorable
comment would have been the result. More
than this will be accomplished. Interior
railroad transportation, so to speak, which
puts every one of the locations for all
grades of business which are Immediately
promoted by belt-lines and side-tracks in
the possession of such facilities, is de.
gree of progress which does not favor all
towns and cities, or the new, for that
matter, to the same extent that it will at
Staunton. This provision for the future is
of the thoughtful and carefully-advancsd
work of the Development Company.
The large map Of the property of the
Development Company will soon be is
sued, and then the public will see the ad-
ditiops to the city and their extent and
know more of the complete system and
plans by which the progress already COM
menced is to be accomplished. The small
or birds eye map is the only one we have
seen, and giving it a casual examination
we observe many things which will adj
vance the substantial interest Of the peo-
pie and please the taste which in these
times associates establishment and orna-
mentation with thrift and commerce.
A water-supply sufficient for the largest
expansion and the accommodation OF q
largely anticipated population, is, we may
say, the first thought that should enter the
minds of those in charge of enlargiDg the
old or building new towns. The map
locates the great reservoir, and the springs
from which the supply is to come are
dotted on its surface The grand "Alte-
monte Hote' and parks are also located
The latter are more numerous than the
generally informed observer of the topog
raphy might suppose, and this remark is
equally true in reference to the water-sup-
ply.
As all these matters are the subjects OF
conversation and speculation, various
shades of opinion are expressed. Some
conclusions are discouraging, some hope
full, and others sanguine. The latter are
the most reasonable from every point of
view in which the mind, open to the full
scope of reasonable expectation, Gan con-
slider the matter.
Proceeding with remarks, as the map
before us suggests, we find that justice to
the subject would run this article to an un-
reasonable length. AS in the opening
when the Company was formed, we sought
to aid its enterprises to the extent We
could, so now, in the advance which has
been made, several efforts in this way are
required to keep pace with its progress,
and much we could say now must be de-
ferreG for the reason assigned.
There is one fact, however, we have all
along endeavored to impress upon the pub
lie mind, and that is, the city government,
and the people must keep up full share of
the public spirit of improvement and
progress, which should be here in good old
Staunton as it is elsewhere in all our
Southland, if we would win and held fast
foreign capital and population in our COM
mon pursuits and united prosperity
Otherwise the best of efforts might fail or
weaken in realization. We say that We
have the most favorite of locations for
great progress, and it is true. We affirm
that the very best resources for tran
scendent growth and profitable investment
are at our doors, and that is equally true;
and now if We are to realize, concerted and
t1n ,nyf of oil
agencies shaping the public policy of the
city are required. This we confidently
believe is coming to pass-indeed it has
been in progress, and complete coopera-
ton is assured. The foundations of Staun-
ton have been widened out and her great
and full prosperity as realization step by
step elevates the conception of her future
will not be work to accomplish. The
Oldest will modestly wear the laurels