Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-05
TIE TOWN OF Low MOOR.
TIE BULLS EYE OF THE ALE.
GHANY IRON ORE CIRCLE

Its Pretty Situation The Good Fortune OF
the Allegheny Mining and Improvement
Company-The Immense Investments
Around its Town Site Its Natural Lake
The Compapy's Ore Banks-A Solid Penn
sylvania Mining and Manufacturing
Town of 1000 People IN Sight.
+ Editorial Correspondence of the otaunton Vlndi-
Low. MooR, November Is.
The new town of the Allegheny Mil.
ing and Development Company located
here took ne somwhat by surprise. Like
many others, I bad formed mental
picture of Low-M DOR without having seen 1t,
aud always imagined it as craggy In
dustrial nook in the hollow OF a mountain
where So improvements company would
naturally present each purchaser OF 8 lot
with a rope ladder and toboggau slide
This morning it appeared to me that the
end Of t,ain had hardly cleared the magnih
cent array of shops and round-houses the
Chesapeake and 0 lio has erected ut west
Clifton Forge, before we turned hill and
dashed into level, sun-lighted plain, at
the foot of watch runs river :! That was
Low Mool--a very different thing from
what had pictured it.
THE NEW TOWN PROPERTY.
The property ia a perfect horseshoe,
around the toe of which runs Jackson g
river, and directly across the centre OF
which, between the toe and heel, runs the
chesapeake ADD Ohio railway. The half
touching on the river Ia dead level Of
oeautfai meadow land, and the upper half
is genil +, ascent until you reach the foot
of tbe hiile. There is not single lot on a
hi |, which was altogether contrary TO my
expectations In this horseshoe there are
$40 acres Ifyou stand at the broad end OF
the shoe the view is very pretty. In front
of GU is the plain, bordered on the north by
the river, aud beyond the river rise noun
tain after mountain. All around you rise
the moon IS which enclose and make O
frame fer the scene. at your feet the
heavy burden trains of the railway are
dashing across the plain, while lit
tie to your LETT are the blazing stacks
of the Low-Moor furnace. and the
firts rising from hundred and fifty
coke ovens. Back of that is neat
lItle village in which live the WorkmeD
of ths furnaces, while scattered oV,r
tie plain are the handsomest residences OF
the men who manage the WORKS. Ii ID haro
10 think of prettier place for home. But
the landscape will be much prettier before
ANY of your readers see it. Already, as
stand I can look down new seventy foot
broad avenue which the workmen are Just
| inishlpg up, end everywhere over the plan
I zee gaIg5 OF workmen making sixty foot
cross s.rerts ard other avenues. The avenue
of which I sneak, runs from the point where
the oote. is TO b., down to the river, dis
;arce Of half mie and it will have shade
rees pan;ed on each side of it by the time
| you ssg it. The company proposes to make
the property attractive, q purpose l may
add frc;n my experience with the new towns,
that vii! yisd them thousand per cent
on the COST required TO carry out.
a. NATURAL LAKE.
Aud while talking of the attractiveosss
Of the pace it follows that l should speak
of the natural lake which commences about
hundr. yards from the hotel site. VI all
The places have visited have never seen
such luck as this company has bad In get
ting somethirg for nothing. l suppose the
lake am about to tell you OF would nave
cost the company just 500 O0O or more to
make it. When the general manager and L
mounte cur horses for this part of the in
spection he said II am going to show you
tns p1as.iest thing you ever saw In your
Iife.n had heard that remark from gener-
al managers hsfore, 80 l made no response.
But when the "prettiest thing" came In
sight I rust coofess 1t broke up my ret
cence. Without question it is the most ex-
ouisitely artistic thing have seen in Vir-
Sinia. l. is lake twenty feet deep, of pure
sprine water, half mile long and 10 lite
centre sre TWO beautiful islands. Tue back
prouud of the lake is an almost perpendicu-
lar height covered with trees OF small
growth, end ct the foot of this runs road
way which is to be widened 10 sixty feet.
o. the other side OF the lake runs the rail-
road, aud on that side there will also be a
eixty foot NaV, which will make circular
drive around the lake, II there Ia any pref.
tier lake in any public park or at any water
ing place in this country, l have not seen
T.. And it il all here for nothing and
oanuot..ss have said, be duplicated for q
hundred Thousand dollars. Ga one eide OF
the lsk Ike, running out Of the precipice, Is one
of the strongest of alum springs, above
which you can see the sparkling crystals of
alum glisteniug through the rocks. The
lake itself is fined 10y spring of free stone
water about Two hundred feet of, and which
furnishes water enough for population OF
5000.
FORTUNATE LOCATION.
While am on the subject Of getting
something for nothing. may as we'll fur
Their illustrate the good luck Of this compa-
nv. Without dollar of cost to themselves
they have next to. and touching on their
own site, an iron furnace In full operation,
turning OUT 500 tons of pig week and en-
blowing about 700 mep. suppose that the
Interests of the L,w-Moor Furnace Com
pany, including their works and mines here,
must be over 81 100000. Indeed the pro.
jectors of this new town have settled down
in nest OF industries ready made to their
hand. Draw a circle around the town of
Low-Mo DOR and you will see what you en-
close. Ga the DoFth it touches the great
D u hat iron ore tract. which was bought by
Peter McLnren for 100000 last year and
for which. am informed be has been offer.
ed oy Eaglish investors ST 600 900. but re-
fusei it, To the west of that you see the
famous Rich Patch iron tract, which is Gl-
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