The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-20
GREAT SALE OF LOTS.
IN srAuNroN NOVEMBER AZ, 1890.
The staunton Improvement Companys Mag
nihcens PToperty-A Good Chance to
Invest at the Population Centre
of the Valley of Virginia.

Invest at the Population Centre
of the Valley of Virginia.
An adequate realization of the bright
and substantial future now dawning up
on Stanton is afforded by view of the
property owned by the improvement and
development companies, view taken
with an intelligent understanding of
what these corporations are doing to ac-
complish the objects of their organiza
ton. Natives of Staunton. as well as
strangers, are moved with enthusiasm
when they behold the slopes and valleys
now marked with the beginnings of the
work that is to multiply Staunton's area,
population, business and Importance.
Ours has been a goodly land all along.
The glory of this generation is the bring
ing forth for the enrichment of the peo-
pie, what nature conferred upon our
ancestors.
The $50 acres of land upon which are
based the operations of the Staunton Im-
provement company adjoins the city of
Staunton on the northeast, between the
Valley pike and the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad. 1t comprises the farms recent
ly owned by E. T. Dudley, Mrs. j. p Asst
and Gait s. Wilson. No land more fer
tile, or more attractive and desirable for
building purposes, can be found within
sight of the city. 1t consists of large
level plateaus, gentle slopes and broad
level valleys, divided by picturesque
knobs and wooded ridges. Its general
inclination is toward the southeast, the
sunniest and friendliest portion of the
horizon. In that direction the clear, cold
water from its seven perennial springs
flows in little brooks upon the land of
the neighboring corporation. the Staun-
ton Development Company.
These seven springs, one of which af-
fords a stream sufficient to fill a six inch
pipe, will supply an abundance of water
for the improvement Company's addi-
ton after it has been closely built up;
and without the springs, all of the COM
pany's land can be easily supplied with
water from the present reservoir of the
surface, inclination and water, the I'm
proyement Company addition is all that
could be desired. The Valley pike
bounds it on the west, and the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad on the east Winchester
avenue, a stately thoroughfare eighty
feet wide, is now being graded about one
mile through the middle of the company's
property. 1t is an extension of Winches-
ter street, which is the upper portion of
North Coalter street. The approach by
Winchester street is to be improved by
lowering the steepest grade above the
curve on North Goaltar, work already
begun by City Engineer Hancock, and
by removing the summit of East Beverly
street on Gospel Hill, work that will un-
doubtedly be done in the near future.
The southern boundary of the company's
land is the road leading down over an
easy grade by the Asst residences, from
the Valley pike to the Hartman road.
The city street car line will reach the
addition by means of short extension
down the Valley pike and another short
extension from it's East Beverly line.
These extensions are to be joined by
line passing from east to west through
the middle of tho Improvement Com
pany's addition. Both EXTENSIONS will
reach large tracts owned by the Develop
ment Company.
The land reserved by the Staunton
improvement Company for industrial
sites comprises seven acres of Level
| residence, and twenty-five acres of
smooth but undulating land along the
B. & o. track. opposite the residence
formerly occupied by Captain J. N. Opie.
Good-sized streams of water traverse both
these industrial re servations. The round
wooded knoll just east of Mrs. Ast's res
idence is to be enclosed and improved
as public park. This knoll, for the
purpose to which 1t is to be devoted, was
particularly admired last week by a gen
tleman from Boston. The land to be oc-
cupied by the recently organized Staun-
ton Live Stock and Dressed Meat Com
pany lies pear the northern extremity of
the property, The various industrial
sites will be connected by short side
tracks with the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road and by longer side-track with the
line of the Chesapeake & Ohio. A part
of the land reserved by the Development
Company for industrial sites lies along
the east side of tbs B. & o. track, oppo-
site the land reserved for the same pnr-
pose by the Improvement Company.
The Staunton Military Academy, of
which Captain W. Fl. Kable is principal,
is to be opened next fall ON the beautiful
level plateau upon which the Improve
ment Company's pavilion is now being
built. Commodious buildings for the
school are to he erected next spring and
summer. The buildings now occupied
by the school are too ANAL to accommo-
date all the boarding students that des |
sire to enter
The work of opening and grading the
streets of the Improvement Company |
and OF erecting necessary buildings, |
was begun about four weeks ago with |
small force of men. Two weeks later the |
force was increased to about so, and last |
Monday to about 65. w, N. Wilson, a |
director of the company, is general su-
perintendent of all the work now going |
on. John Blackburn, who was superin-
tendent of construction of the Y NJ. G. |
A. building, has immediate charge of the |
Improvement ompany's building work.
He is now engaged with about ten car
penters in building a shop, aOx5O feet, in
the meadow below Mrs. Ast's house, and
a pavilion, 5ox1o0 feet, on the high
plateau further north. The shop is to
be fitted with planning and other machin-
cry. for the extensive house building in
which the company purposes to engage.
The pavilion is a temporary structure
for the accommodation of the crowd ex-
pected at the lot sale next Thursday.
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