Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-05

products OF Low Moor ia IS Wsrtsjn to foil Nv
here as it has every %her, else. We have
set aside 25 acres fer =. les for that kind of
manufscture, aud fer the other manufat-
lures that in turn g. ways follow them. We
intend tohave ap attractive town with COM
Portable and az ractive homes for the work
ingmeD, ano, as you have seen, fne sites
for those who wish to build more costly
homer. We intend to put up pretty hotel
here, modern inn, something on the etyle
OF that of Iron Gate, and 1t shall ba kept In
the best style. 30 that summer visitors will
lind it worth while to stop here. Our
drainage into the river is perfect,
and our land is. as you see, without
single lot perched on hill. or at any
point not perfectly accessible. The Dslt
railW way, which will be built from the Ches-
apeake and Ohio, at the eastern point of the
town, will pass all the way around the in-
dustrial part If the town, and join the road
again on the other side. 80 manufacturers
will have no trouble on account of easy ship
ments. We have two gentlemen row at the
North and West to make arrangements
with manufacturers to come here"
THE ORE TRACT.
The iron ore tract OF the company lis
Immediately In the rear of the town.
You approach it through gorge. 1t has
two veins of brown hematite ore, one away
up the side of the mountain and the other
lower. The miners we're at work blasting in
the upper one to.day.ssIt is the same vein, iu
the opinion of those who know, that sup
plies the LowMoor furnaces, and it ia fact
that you may not be aware, that the Low
Moor iron brings 81 ton more than any
other iron made in this region. Througout
this tract and covering the mountain ia pop
lar, white and chestnut oak. aud ash, and
the best of it is we'll located for saving.
THE COMPANY.
When the company was organized ita
capital stock of $250,000 at 500 share,
par value, was speedily taken up
The advantages of the locality were 80
manifest and numerous, that the etock was
sought after. To be frank about it, am
not at all cure that it needed an organized
company to insure the establishment Of
town here. The spot has an environment
that would have made town here anyhow,
no matter whe. her a company had under.
taken 1t or pot-pretty much on the same
principle that when you see an eligible
vacant square in the centre OF busy city
you are sure that 1t must sooner or later be
covered with houses. For that Is just the
situation of the town of Low Moor. II it
had been left alone West Clifton Forge
would have run into it In due time, ard
the operators in the great mining tracts
around 1t would have made it their central
point as they will do now.
The company Ia company of men wol!-
known to the public. The president is
Msjor 8. M. Yost, OF S:aunton, gentleman
who has done as much towards calling the
attention of the country to Virginia as
field for development, as any man in he
State, and who has long been pointing out
the very spo's In the promised land of the
old CommopWs alth, on which enterprise
hes settled iu the last two years. He is
entirely emiliar with all the advantages OF
the locality selected for the new town OF
Low Moor.
The vice-presi6ent and general manager
is Capt. Hamilton Sheppard, of Warrenton,
who is known throughout Virginia as On &C.
tive man of afalrp, and who has been PROM
nent In this development era.
The secretary and treasurer is Capt. JohD
MtQuaide, prominent citizen of Stanton,
one of its most active public men and o
member of its City Council.
The directors besides the above officers,
are James L. Barbour, wel-known mer
chant of Washington city.
dria.
J. W. Perry, cotton broker OF Norfolk.
w, h. Fowle, OF Roanoke, and formerly
well-known citizen of Stanton, and
j. T. Cribbins, of Stauntor, who is largely
interested in the enterprises now going Oh.
THE FUTURE OF LowMoOR.
have long ego expressed my opinion OF
the success of every enterprise that has been
undertaken In this iron region. Their fu.
ture rests on precisely the things that made
Pennsy lVania the Empire State ofthe dion
as far as iron manufactures are concerned.
These mountains are destined to be as full
of manufacturing and mining towns as
those Of Penney lvania, and these town lots
that we see selling to-day at few hundreds
will 10 due time be sold for thousands. In
writing this to-day, am DOT repeating what
Commodore Maury, Prof. Rogers and other
distinguished men wrote nearly forty years
before me. They were the "boomers" and
"writers up" of their day, and it is but fair
to say they had as many doubters as the
writer's OF this day. But for ell that, time
has ahown that they truly told the wealth
that Virginia owsed. and which, but for the
accursed institution OF slavery, you'd have
been developing halt century ago and
made Virginia as far ahead of the rest of
the Southern States, as Pennsylvania is TO-
day ahead Of her. As 60 TO these new en-.
terprses and see what Is being done, trnnf-
fer my gratitude from the great men of forty
years ago who predicted the future to the
broad minded, enterprising men who are
making their words good to-day. And in
the courageous process OF making them
good, you are going to 6ud no more thriv-
ing, more successful enterprise than the Now
town of L1W-Moor. II has struck the bui's-
eye OF the Allegheny ore beds. Fl c. T.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
lis said that another silk mill is to be |
started in Fredericksburg.
Il Ia now reported that the G. & O. r. r.