The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-11-20
BUILDING UPSTAUNTON
WORK OF THE DEVELOPMENT CO.
Two Industries Secured, and Promising Ne
gotiations with Many others-The New
500, 1000 Hotel-Some Plain Talk
Z to StaLntons Croakers.

Two Industries Secured, and Promising Ne
gotiations with Many others The New
500, Hotel-some Plain Talk
4 to Starntons Croakers.
The most interesting news that can be
published for the people of Staunton,
especially for those having right to be
selassed as public spirited citizens, is in
formation of substantial progress made
ia the various movements for advancing
the industrial and business interests of
sthe city. The most hopeful sign of the
times in Virginia is the hearty recogni-
-tion by the people, now as never before,
that general prosperity in town is
necessary to the individual prosperity of
each OF its inhabitants. The South has
Wound out, through a good many years
OF wearisome experience, that the pos
session of great natural resources is not
sufficient to build up section or state.
United effort for development, by citi
Zens able to see over their own immedi-
ate interests, must be brought to bear
ION natural resources to change their
potential utility into practical value.
1t is an account of such public spirited
effort for StauntOn, of work effective
aud successful, that the VIRGINIAN here
presents Its readers.
Z The two manufacturing concerns al
ready secured for this city by the Staun-
ton Development Company have been
described heretofore. They are the
Stanton Building Company, which will
Soon employ so men in its new shop near
the furniture factory, and John Kroder's
brass works, which are to be put in
operation next March with force of
employees numbering lot less than 100
persons. Of the large number of other
manufacturing concerns with which the
Development Company is now negotiat
ing, it is expected that contracts will
soon be closed with the following: A
watch factory, to employ 400 skilled
,Sworkmen knitting mill, to employ be-
tween 200 and 300 persons; foundry and
;.machine shop, 100 men; wagon factory,
200men; large shoe factory, with capacity
sufficient to make Staunton the head
.T0auarters of shoe manufacturing in the
South AT an important meeting of the
Executive committee, held last Saturday
evening, President NJ Erskine Miller
y was instructed to close contracts with
'Aseveral of these concerns whose terms
S for coming to Staunton are acceptable
: ito the company. So many manufactur-
e ers desire to locate in Staunton that the
1'Deyelopment Company can close con-
: tracts on terms more favorable to itself
Ethan those often accepted by companies
in building places that are ex
to become towns. 1t can even
8 afford to choose which industries it will
have The favor with which Staunton
acand it's Development Company are re-
garded by manufacturers insures large
of success for the company's
Eagrand plans.
90 The railroad side-track that is to be
-Tbuilt by the Development Company for
t.sthe use of manufacturing establishments
located on its lands will extend from the
c. & o. line near III. E. Summerson's
residence to point on the B. 81 o. line
between Witt & Hollis roller mill and
J. E. Graham's fertilizer factory. twill
! pass around the western side of the
pointed hill beyond the furniture fac
5 tory, and will traverse the long strip of
comparatively level land set apart by
ahthe company for industrial sites. This
a.land lies along Lewis Creek, near the
New Hope road The total length of
1.-THE side-track will be about two miles.
att is 20 be completed by March list,
though no contract for it's construction
: has yet been awarded. 1t will be
"a needed by that time for the Kroder
brass factory. The site donated by the
70 Development Company for the Staunton
~ Building Company's factory is on the
south side of the G. & 0. railroad, to
which it has been connected with short
!. side-track.
The work of opening and grading
-@'streets on the Development Company
4 land lying Immediately east of the city
will be commenced within a few weeks.
- Arrangements have been made for an
~ extension of the city street car line into
: this property. The company's land
: south of Sears Hill and that west of the
- city will remain closed for the present,
- with no division into streets and lots.
Dunlap & Barnett, the company's en-
gineers, are busily engaged in plating
it's lands and in preparing large map Of
its property and of the entire neighbor-
hood of Staunton. They have been oc-
.cupied with this work during the last
) five months. A force averaging about
twenty-five men has been employed in
Z the surveying. Most OF the time has
lbeen spent upon the land east of the
! city. The general plat is being ar
" ranged to obtain the best possible grade
Ii for each street, and the most desirable
+. surface form for each lot. Measure
il ments are to be unusually generous.
Residence lots will be 5Ox150 feet in size,
u streets 80 and 60 feet wide. The COM
pany was quite liberal to its subscribers
In adopting 50-foot front for lots after
it had announced in it's prospectus that
the front would be but 40 feet. The map
is to be particularly fine piece of draw
ing. and will show engineering equal if
not superior to that done up to this
time for any other land company in
< Virginia. The only map yet published
9 by the company is small preliminary
Z Photographic map for the use of agents.
= Dunlap & Barnett's offices and draught-
I ing rooms for their Staunton work are on
4 the third floor of the Y. M. C. A. build
s ing. They are civil engineers of high
reputation. Mr.. Dunlap is well-known
as city engineer of Roanoke. He began
his profession in Staunton with Major
/ Jed Hotchkiss, and was located here fer
= time as partner of Donald Allen.
Plans and specifications for the Devel-
.opment Company's magnificent hotel,
Ahe Altemonte Spanish for high noun
.taan), are almost complete. 1t is safe to
assert that it will he the most beautiful
and elegant hotel in Virginia. It's cost
is. to be about 100000, exclusive of fur
nissase Brick and stone are the ma
teriais of which it's exterior is to be con
structed. 1t wjll stand on commanding
elevation near the eastern extremity of
the city, with an inspiring view of the