The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-10-16
A Great Industrial District.

dering on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, from Waynesboro to- Coving-
ton, he ought to take Etrip4over that
line and see for himself 1T is not neces-
sary to more than mention the improve
ments that are progressing at Waynes-
boro and Basic City. They have been
written up time and again, and the
public is familiar with them. West of
Staunton there has not been SO much
said. Commencing at Goshen, where
the extraordinary sale in two days of
$425, 200 worth of lots was effected, and
proceeding to Clifton Forge, Iron Gate,
and Covington, everything is astir;
everybody is moving; strangers coming
in. property being transferred and great
activity in business prevailing. Iron
Gate is lowering ON the threshold of
new activity; the beautiful and we'll
appointed and splendidly conducted
hotel draws guests from every source,
and we'll it may, for we have never been
within a neater, better furnished and
more complete establishment than the
one presided over by Jos. N. Woodward.
efficiently assisted by John Young-the
property of the Iron Gate Land Com
pany 1t has been well filed during the
summer and fall, and the prospect lis
that it will SO continue during the win
ter The bountiful table, everything
prepared in the most inviting manner,
polite and attentive servants; lithia
water piped through the house, electric
bells, hot and cold baths, and, indeed
every comfort and convenience that
modern conditions could suggest. Then
the scenery is charming. From the
yerandas of the house the lovely valley.
through which winds Jackson's River,
spreads out like an emerald carpet,
dotted over with throbbing industries,
and all alive with life and motion;
busy men pushing their yocations.
Houses are going up, streets being
graded and the foundation of new
industrial city being laid sure, and
steadfast. Iron Gate has come to stay,
and with the consummation of important
projects in hand will make up an impor
tant part of the pulsating enterprises
that are responding to the sagacity and
energy of men who see in the future a
great industrial centre, taking in the
whole district from Clifton Forge to
Coyington, and from Iron Gate to
Buchanan. e-rsa ~in .srg
Clifton Forge is all hustle and push,
and anxious land agents are rs thick as
Autumn leaves and all of them busy.
Lots are changing hands rapidly, build
ings going up dummy railroad being
constructed on the property of the
Clifton Forge Company; industries are
being negotiated for, and soon the shape
and plan of a new city will show its
outlines well marked and its spaces
filled with imposing buildings, among
them a new hotel to crown the hill
over looking the old town and command
ing splendid view of the beautiful
country which spreads out on either side
as far as the eye can reach ada i ii
On West Clifton Forge the immense
shops of the C. & o. r. r.. Co. are
rapidly going up; large hotel is now
! under frame Immediately on the banks
of the river, and residence and business
lots are being improved with neat and
tasteful buildings. an III
Low Moor comes next, with it's coke
| furnaces and furnaces stacks, and its
| thousand busy workinen converting the
crude ore into the material that moves
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world, as it is applied to the various ma
chineryand uses for which iron is adap-f
ted. So large is the demand, and SO
high is the value of the pig metal here
made, that orders are always in advance
of supply, aud the same at LOngdale. a
few miles east, and several miles from
| the railroad. These two successful fur
mace plants are of themselves testimony
of the ruling interests ia that section );
| while Princess Furnace, as we'll as
Goshen, supplement them in iInpressing
the great mineral resources OF the district,
Just west of Low Moor, the Rich
Patch Company have completed the
grading of railroad from the mines to
'intersect the C. y O.. Railway, and
within sixty days ores will be shipped to
all the markets calling for supply. The
Dolly Ann, Iron Mountain and the
Stack mines are sending out train load
after train load of ores to fill contracts
already made, but are not equal to the
demand. sss sai aS .a3 y
1t is right at this busy centre that the
Allegheny Mining and Development
Company has its property. The stock
of this company has already been
placed; engineers are on the ground to
lay the grounds off, and as soon as posi-
bic the beautiful lands which comprise it's
holdings will be plotted and ready for
distributions f@.Htfi 'Hi s'- tf2itN'i
Covington is moving slowly but surely.
A large modern hotel is being erected
upon an eminence overlooking the pie
turesque surroundings from the eastern
suburbs OF the town Industries are
being negotiated for; a furnace and
dummy railroad line in contemplation,
a railroad from Covington to the Heal
ing, Hot and Warm Springs is to be con
structed by next spring, and great
sapitarian established for the benefit
of suffering humanity at all seasons of
the year. ~sii'' @''s ~
Other projects aud plans are in hand
for the development and improvement
OF that rich section, among them the
Charter Oak Company, at Clifton Forge,
now grading its property, and opening
the mines which it contains, with view
to systematic and intelligent develop
'ment. 80 #E Nss%h N' s'4ts
There is no similar area Of territory
in the known world which contains
more natural wealth, and which will,
in the near future, give more tangible
evidence OF it than the region we ARE
noticing. The half it is impossible to
tell, for no one can form an adequate
idea of the wonderful mineral resources
which here abound. 1t is marvel Of
creation, u faint knowledge OF which
is being gradually disseminated. cans
ing attention to be directed there
from every portion of the Union.
! Values are destined to advance at
phenomenal rates all through this dis
trict Additional furnaeesfor making iron