Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-31
The south-Virginia Alexandria.

The public sale of lois By the North West
Alexandria improvement Company takes
place next nonth-tte 11Sh, II b and IL b
Toe history OF elisuch sales IN Virginia nss
been one Of large, suG qaiok prof.. Way !?
Simply because capita, hrsins and energy
com o!ned are at work In virginia. Kansas,
Colorado aud oiber western states have
each in turn I'D tbeir day-thi- is Va
gipia dsy. We are to get ia tia coniE
decade (ghch We have not had In the past
our full share CT the natural increase OF
about twenty millions OF people In the
Uoited States. Nay, it may De put stronger
VIZ are to get very much more than our
share, for the current OF immigration and
CO ptal (hitherto set westWatd) has already
Sci southwark. Tnis whole country, and
Europe as well, is baiug attracted by the
great industrial revolution nov going on IN
the South, and the untold wealth buried
In the mountains OF Virginia ia especially
focusing the eye OF capital, and of muscle
as well.
The following words Of that peerless
southern petriot, Henry w. Grady, were ea-
pressed by hin, only very few years age,
TO the peoE lie OF Texas. Note how applica-
bic they are TO the State of Virginis, in the
light OF her history now making. Speaking
crop Of the South, he says;
SIT is the heritage that God gave US when he
arched our skies established our mountains grit
us about with the ocean, tempered the sunshine
and measured the rsin-our3 and or caildren's
forever"
Speaking of her miaeEsl ard other re-
Sources
In 1880 the South made COO tons of iron (;
1887 S45 900 tons. There is now actually build
ing or has finish ed this yesr, furnaces that will
produce more than her entire proddct OF last
Year Our coal supply is exhaustess. In msr-
Bile and granite We have no rivals az 10 quality or
ousntity In lumber our riches are even vaster.
More than fifty per cent. of cur entire area is in
forests making the south the best timbered re-
gion of the world We have enough merchsnta-
Bile yellow pine to bring, in money, 81. oOO OoO,.
COO, sum the vastness OF which can only De I'M
derstood when I say it nearly oqualed the assess.
ed vane of the entire South, inc uding cities for
ests, farms mines factories and personal pro-
perty Of every desc iption what:o YER Back OF
this are forests # hard woods and measureiess
swsmps Of cypress and gum. Think OF it In
cotton monopoly. IL iron ard ccat establishing
swift mastery. In granite and marble deve ooins
ea1al advantage aud resource. In yellow pine
and hard woods the worlds treasury. Surely the
tasis of the Soltbs weslth and power is laid By
the hand Of the Almighty God, and its prosperity
has been established by divine law which works
neighbors through human statutes. Paying tri-
butte for fifty years that under artificial condi.
tlons other sections might reach prosperity i'm
possible under natural Jaws, it has grown apsce.
Again areakng OF diVersifisd industries.
he says:
With amazing rapidly sho has moved away
from the one.crop des that was cnce her curse.
In 1870 che WAS esteemed prosperous. Since
that time she hiss add 1913 600 Geo bushels TO
her grain crops. ana 49,, 5000 head TO her
live stock This has not losf her one bale OF her
cotton crop which, on thu contrary has increased
nearly 20O 600 bales. With 'qu j swiftness has
che moved away from the TO ly o, shipping out
her ore at 81 ton and buying IL back In lmple-
ment5 from $50 to SlCO per ton her cotton at
10 cents pound and buying it back in Goth at
20 to so ints per pound her timber at IS per
thousand aud buyirg 1T hack in furniture ut ten
to twenty times ss much In the past ei shs years
S25O,O0U000 have been invested in new SHOPS
and factories in her States 225 600 srtiz ms
now working that eis hit years sgo were iole or
worked els where, snd these sdded S22I ,OOJ,OOO
to the va ne If her msterial-nore Ihsn ha
the value of her cotton. add 10 tn the value of
her il creased gain cr2ps aid sttcI and in the
pact eight years che has grown in her fields or
crested in her shoEs and manufactures moro
than the value OF her cotton crop. Tne inco ming
tide has b gun to rise. Every train brings manu-
facturers frt IN the L st and w St seeking cstab
/
terisl and in this growing market.
We ere getting. AMI are to ge sill more
;n the future, both the mouey aud the popu-
la,ion, which is to make Of Virginia great
manufacturing State, aud why not? With
ouqgets of wealth smiling welcone OF Its
yery surisce, with law and order, as a guar
antee TO investors, with feutless climate,
and q reliable rainfall, why shcu!d not Vir-
gnia be more attractive to settlers, as to
csni.sl, thsu the !ewlees, blizzard consumed
and parobeG yates Of the far ives
There ia larger reward awaiting rar2y
and nerve 10 the nesr fu ute, in the State OF
Virgins, then In any spot in tbs great
country, as the A nerican yankee is already
proving this 10 be true.
There has bsen great desl OF saecuis-
tiop In new towns In Virgicia Cities have
been born and grown to fol cityhood 10
dsy, hut t ia observed that the ehreHdest
dealers are turning their attention noW
more TO the extension and deyeiopement OF
the older and we'll established cities, where
there is more really, and less paper; where
trade and business channels are already
fixed located by natural trade laws, and
back ed up By substantial population, church,
school, market aud other facilities. Such
city is ours, end thu initial movement OF the
North West Co, to invite attention, and it
vestmeus here, is but Tia picket ting. pre-
ceding the great engagement. There are
other movements to follow, which, each in
turr, can but make the property of the early
investor double and trouble in his hands.
Make DO mistake, secure your lot. or lcls
early. Il necessary, begIu nov to arrange
your finances so as 20 compass one or more
Of sese desirable lots; visit the property,
get upon ia heights and take In the meg
q 4 cent views which present themselves
for mile, and you will be convinced of the
real sold merits of this offsrlpg. Tnc
terms OF sale are made ess5 to suit the
mssses-one ifih cash. and the balance
IN monthly insisllments OF FIVE per cent
o. the m any lots 10 this property there may
be found something to please all tastes as to
location and to suit the purse OF every in-
taudiug purchaser Imagine yourself the
purchaser of an elgible lot on the lib Ct
November for. say, $500. upon cash pay
msut OF oniy $50. It is not m lch Of stretch