The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-04-24
Come South

North wanting to change their residence
to go South instead of West. Both have
visited the South and have been sur
prised at the wonderful resources of !
this section and the splendid opportu-
mites offered for profitable investment |
of capital and enterprise. The trend of
emigration up to within the past few
years has all been West. The wide ex-
panse of undeveloped and unappropria-
ted territory has lured the immigrant
from across the waters, as well as the ad-
venturous of our own young men, to the
limitless and treeless western prairies,
to Gelve and to dig and to sacrifice in
order to make for himself a home and
worship under his own vine and fig tree.
Neither cyclones, nor drOuths, nor
billiards, nor grass-hoppers, nor the
absence of nearly all the comforts and
Injuries of civilized society, have been
sufficient to arrest the rush of the tide
of human life to the wastes and deserts
of the west The South, with all its at
fractions of climate, of natural resources
in minerals, timber, fertile soil, and gen
ial skies, has been passed by, and not
until lately has there been SO much as a
thought given to it. The conditions,
however, are changing The pioneers
of enterprise in Southern ventures have
spread the news abroad in the marvel
Gus developments they have made, and
the marvellous profits they have realized,
that moneys invested in Southern lands
are we'll located, and that all it requires
is the application of skill and muscle to
bring forth from the bowels of the earth
the riches of Crnsus. A new era has
dawned The theatre OF railroad build
ing is in the South The future of iron
making is in the South; and soon the
manufacture of Basic steel will supple
ment the various industries in cotton,
fax, wool, &C., which have claimed a
practical monopoly.
And old Virginia is coming to the front.
Her wonderful waterpower; her eX~
haustless minerals; her diversified woods,
her prolific soil, her delightful climate,
present a combination of forces un-
full operation of industries looking to
the utilization of all these sources of
wealth, in all the finished forms into
which metal and timber and cotton can
be converted.
And Staunton, in the heart OF the
great Valley of Virginia, is nestled, like
a spoiled child, right in the midst of this
vast material wealth, heretofore com
paratively Indifferent to the stirring in
fiuences that are moving other com
munities, and contented to repose amidst
the conditions in which our fathers
left u.s. New inspirations and new condi-
lions though have come upon her. Her
people have become awakened to a
sense of duty and of opportunity. and
are now determined to reach ont to
gather some of the golden fruits which
await their grasp. A well defined policy
engineered by considerable and well
digested purposes. has been instituted,
and with proper energy and sagaclty,
will be pushed to a success that will as
tonish those who believe in letting well
enough alone. There is nothing to in
terpose to keep from such an inviting
field as is here presented, the skill and
enterprise of the North, to join their eff
forts with ours in utilizing the wonder
full resources and opportunities we pos
sess and are offered. An intelligent pre-
sentation of the advantages that exist
to the people of the industrial districts
of the east will first attract their thought
.a,'rr,--.s-esr~- .eetstr
will be that thousands of them, with
their families, will come amongst US to
share in the bountiful gifts OF nature
and the rewards that follow well applied
labor and skill in the conversion into
useful articles the raw material to meet
the demands of this progressive age, and
progressive civilization. The savings
banks of the east, ladened with plethoric
abundance from the savings of labor
held on d minimum interest, may be emp
tied to quadruple itself by safe and i'm,
proving investments here. We have
everything to invite skilled toilers 10 our
lovely Valley. We have iron ores of al :
most every description, all kinds of cIays.
timbers of nearly every species, marbles,
states, water power, and all the essentials
of manufacturing enterprises which can
be had at nominal prices. We are at
the gateway to the whole South, with
railroads running to every portion of it,
and affording a market to every kind Of
manufactured article, from nail to a
threshin machine. The increasing pros
perity of the South will in proportion
increase the demand for the output of
skilled labor. Not only the South, but
the west may be invaded, and as well
son of our cheaper labor and more abun-
dand raw material, will have to draw
upon this section for their supplies,
when our industrial establishments shall
be in full and active operation.
All we want is visit to our splendid
Valley and an inspection of our natural
advantages, to be assured that the
Staunton Development Company has
inaugurated it's scheme at the right
time, and offers inducements that must
command the attention and influence to
active interest many of the North. who
are looking Southwark for change OF
home and business relations Nowhere
under the sun is health more assured
or returns for investments more certain
than in the projects which will be en-
couraged and established at this point.
We want Northern skill, Northern push
and Northern money, to join with us
in the material regeneration upon which
we are about entering, and to share in
the Fruit ons which await all well direct
ed endeayors.
Montaila's Senators.
The Montana case came to an end on
the 10Th of April when Saunders and
Powers. the Republican claimants, were
admitted to seats in the Senate by
party vote. The vote was first taken on
the resolution declaring that Clark and