Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-12-12
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The boom at Shenandoah Junction,
or. as it is to be known in the future,
Antietam City, is go. A represen-
tatiye OF the REGISTER visited that
place on Tuesday, and from Col.
Chas. T. Hood, the manager, gained
the information hereinafter set forth.
AS is we'll known, Shenandoah
Junction is near the centre OF Jener
son county, West Virginia, where the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad
through line North and South
crosses the main line OF the Baltl-
more & Ohio Railroad, the great
trunk line East and West. Its really
an ideal location for a manufactur-
ing town. Jefferson county Is fuil OF
iron ore. the celebrated Virginia ore
Bank being only about six miles ais
tant by rail from Shenandoah
Junction. and the great coal fields OF
MARYLAND and West Virginia lying
within hundred miles, to say noth-
inc of the other resources that such
splendid railroad facilities make near
neighbors.
The Antietam Manufacturing and
Land Improvement Company Is al
the head of the movement. Thls cor
poration has been chartered by our
State authorities, the following Of
ficers being named: B. K. Hutch-
craft, Knoxville, Tenn, president;
w. F. NJ. McCarty, Hagerstown' Nd
yice-president; Edward NJ. Mealey,
Hagerstown, Md, treasurer; Coleman
Rogers, secretary. The capital stock
is 81 900, OOO divided into 10000 shares
Of 800 each. This stock is now Oh
the market. When $50 has been
paid on a share the holder will re-
ceive a paid-up certificate for 500
The first payment per share is S2o'
and each sixty days thereafter S1Oun-
til the $50 is paid.
A few months ago Col. Hood ap-
peared at Shenandoah Junction and
started the work Of securing options,
He was successful III a marked degree,
for he has obtained over a thousand
acres of land, In form almost per
feet square, at prices ranging from
800 to $3.50 per acre, as follows:
From R. w Morrow (the old Neill
farm, $50 acres; James w. McGarry,
81 acres; Joseph Engle, about 70
acres: John D. McGarry, 80 acres;
Jacob Snyder, about so acres; }. W.
Barringer, A acres; Charles Aglionby,
27O acres; Jacob S. Melvin, 900 acres;
DIN Beall, 10 acres; George Harris,
/ acre; John Hill, 81 acres; John
Link, 9 acres. This great tract OF
land extends along the b, & o. and
S. V. Railroads for nearly mile and
a-half each way and on both sides OF
both roads The engineers are now
making the surveys-a pretty big
piece OF work, by the way.
Now as to what sort Of a town is
proposed: The Antietam Company
has issued its prospectus, in which 1t
saws that it Will build up "a solid,
compact town, with first-class modern
conveniences." The streets are to be
wide avenues well macadamized and
paved, with fine sewerage. Gas
and electric light plants will be pro-
vided for Illuminating purposes.
Waterworhs are to be constructed
upon the Holly system. The supply
will be taken from the Potomac river
and conducted to the new city by
pipe line about five miles in length.
1t is probable that the pumping APP
paratus, standpipe, etc, will be 10
Gated at Shepherdstown, if present
plans are carried out. This place Of
fers many advantages, as it is on an
airline from river to city, and the
dam below town makes q natural
reservoir that would always be avail
able. The company will spend
500, 900 on this work.
The Antietam Company says it will
put up mammoth steel plant with a
capacity Of three hundred tons OF
merchantable steel per day, the value
Of which per diem at the mills will be
$4,000. 1t is designed to employ
2,500 laborers, most Of them skilled
workmen, with a daily pay roll OF
$4,000 A second plant will be an as
sociated industry for working up a
part OF the steel output-sey hun
dred and fifty tons day-into a new
product called Russian sheet steel, an
article designed to take the place OF
tin in many Of the domestic and bust
ness uses, and to which it is said to be
superior. 1t is expected this enter
prise will employ at the start 1000
men. The third industry will be
plant for processing, by lining or COW
ering, or both, all sorts Of iron pipe,
plates, etc. About 800 men will be re-
quired for this work. In addition to
the above industries, a number Of
lesser ones have been already secured,
it is claimed, to say nothing Of the in
evitable influx of minor establish
ments that follows such movement.
A hotel to cost $50, 900 is to be built at
once
The Antietam Company will utilize
$40 acres of the land for town pur-
poses. OF this hundred acres will
be given for sites of manufactures.
Forty acres now in timber will be re-
served as park. The remaining 700
acres will be cut up into lots-4OO
acres into eighteen thousand business
lots and 800 acres into eighteen hun
dred residence lots. The company
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