Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-24

found that the original space set apart fol
industrial Sites was not enough and will
have to be enlarged. The belt line of rail
road which runs from the G. & O. along the
industrial front to the iron furnace (oi
which the first story is up will be finished
in few days; the ties have been put down
and the rails are being laid. 1t is a mile
and an eighth long.
THE FACILITIES OF THE TOWN.
The company has also been active in push
ing ahead those important facilities for a
city-streets, water works and hotel.
The streets are broad, well graded and
are being kept in good condition by q large
force OF workmen, who are also engaged in
opening and establishing thoroughfares.
Augusta Avenue is magnificent street
which, starting from the Lithia Spring,
runs the whole length of the city. An
ornamental arch will be made under the
G. Il o. road for it to pass under.
The water works will be in operation in
few days. The great Lithia Springs,
which have an output of 100000 gallons
day, have been walled in and the pumping
engine is being erected.
AS for the new hotel, the s'Hotel Bran
don," of which l gave you description
while it was building, it is only awaitin 6
the finishing touches, and will be finished
and opened for guests by November Is.
Its royal dining room. royal in size and fin
lSh; the long eighteen-fOot wide colorado On
which its windows open; thestriking porte
cOchere at the entrance Of the building; the
airy and handsome chambers in which no
window is alike; the gas and electric lights
all over the house; the toilet rooms and
baths Oh all the floors; the broad stairways;
the antique wood-fire places in the recep-
ton hall and parlors; the electric bell-calIs
in short everything attractive and mod
ern, make it worthy of city of $4,000
inhabitants.
IT WILL BE A LARGE CITY.
And Basic City will in due time be a
city of many thousand inhabitants. When
the steam whistles of it's new factories first
blow it will be, even then, city of 5000
LID lUCtt1Ol ID
Looking down this Valley from Harper S
Ferry, one sees a gently rolling sward check
cred by fields Of grain, along which two
parallel iron tracks, the Valley and Shen-
andoah Valley roads, run from N orth to
South. They run so close to each other
that at many points a cannon shot might
cover the intervening space. The
first point at which YOU see a cross made
by iron tracks is Basic City. There you
first see an iron track, the Chesapeake &
Ohio, running from East to West. There
you first strike the competing lines. 1t is
but natural that eddying in and around
the arms of that iron CROSS you should see
manufactures, and stores and population.
1t is the home of traffic. If you change
your point Of view and look up this Valley
from the South, still the first iron cross OF
competition that meets your eye is at Basic
City. At Roanoke there is an angle, but
no cross; there is 10 outlet to the South
there. The great tide of trade that sweeps
South, UP and down this Valley finds no
competing roads that touch until it comes
to the eddy at Basic City. 1t is favora-
BILE location for town that it took
$50,000.00 to make. for that much money
was spent on the two railroads that cross
here, and it gives it a tremendous adj
vantage for trade.
With the advantage of its ready-made
back country teeming with wealth, it's com
peting lines for transporting that wealth
it's healthfulness of location, its industries
established, and the practical management
that has characterized the conduct of
its affairs, it is not surprising that it cal
easily bear comparison with older towns
OF indeed that it should seek such com
parison. This city of the iron cross is IL
my belief destined to be one of the busiest
that can be found in the future along the
great path from Hampton Roads to the
Pacific, and that other great trades patti
from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico
ii. G.. T.