The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1890-06-19
A Manufacturing Centre.

Mr.. Thos. P. Grasty, staff correspond
ent of the Baltimore Manufacturers
Record, has very interesting article in
the last number of that publication on
Staunton as central location for man
ufacture. Mr.. Grasty has been close
observer over a large field of material
development In the Southern States He
has written great deal about the en-
terprises in different localities. and
among them all he is of opinion that
Staunton is not surpassed for the facilii
ties and advantages presented for the esI
Establishment of industrial plants. From
his article we take the following extract !:
'Show me town with a good start in
the way OF industries, with craftsmen of
dOmiciled, with an established social sys
tenn of their own, and will show you a
town possessing tremendous machine
for the acceleratiOn of it's industrial
progress. With the other factors of sue
cess equal, such town will easily out
strip its competitors, provided always it
be not hampered by lack of organiza-
ton for in these days of almost fever
lsh competition to make the most of the
movement of industries from the North
to the South, every edge must be made
to cut.
''The consideration of the labor ques-
ton from this point of view was sug-
gested by a cursOry examination OF some
of the factories now in operation at
Staunton, in this great, rich, prosperous
Valley of Virginia, where are found sudl
enormous wealth producing clemens
that investigation forces the conclusion
that Industrial development here has
barely reached it's crystals. 1t will grew
and grow for half a century perhaps he
fore its wings are fully unfolded.
Eat Staunton there are dozen estab-
lishments each employing from 10 to 40
hands, mainly white Moreover, there
are no fewer than $50 white skilled wok-
ers in score of minor industries from
bakeries to cigar factories. Careful a.
vestigation discloses the fact that every
industry in Staunton, big and little, is
prospecting. There is shoe factory
great fannie acid plant, two furniture
factories, a canning factory, a wagon
factory, a couple Of carriage factori.s,
shop, q Touring mill, four establishments
Tor making sash, doors, blinds and the
like, and other smaller concerns too NJ
merOus to mention, every one of whith
is running at full capacity, and in m0st
cases with orders ahead for the OUTPUT
of many months.
"Such satisfactory state of things
would be impossible at town where Ia
Dor was discontinued. But far from be-
ing discontinued, the skilled workman vt
Staunton has everything he wants, aid
the members of his family have every
thing they want that may be had any
where in the Union. With a few moe
Industries, or even by increasing the ca
pacity of those already in operation,
there would gladly come to Stauntm
working people of a class whom no Pc
cuniary proposal, no matter how temp
ing, could induce to locate in the midst
OF isolation. For here are to be found
all those social and other requirements
that workmen demand for themselves
and for their families and here are
found, likewise, places for girls and boys
to earn their share OF the fund necessary
to make the home comfortable and
cheerful
A Novel Case.
A case was before the Mayor of Lynch
Virginia, and is of interest to the legal
profession generally. Max Guggenhei-
mer and w. W. Larkin, trustees of Ans
paugh & Cobbs, dry goods merchants
who failed some time ago, was called be-
fore the Mayor charged with doing bust
ness without license, inasmuch as they
were selling off the stock of goods be-
longing to the said firm and had taken
0nf 1i0onoo hos oil ta
opinion among the lawyers that trustees
In settling the fiduciary trust were not
required to take out license. The case
was continued until the 14th and then
decree rendered in favor of the city-that
is, that the trustees had to pay license
to sell the goods.
President M. E. Ingalls,, of the Chesa-
oeake and Ohio Railroad, who was in
Richmond last week, speaking of the
great prosperity in this State, said
Virginia is making rapid advancement.
n few years Clifton Forge, Iron Gate,
3asic City, Goshen, Staunton, Char
ottesville, Buchanan. Glasgow and 9th
r places along the line of the Chesa-
'eake and Ohio system will be flourish
ng manufacturing towns. Capitalists
rom the West and North are being at
racted to Virginia, and are making large |
Investments in mineral lands, and are
aging out immense sums for the erection
I furnaces, coke ovens, ETC."
About eighteen months ago the Office
t purchasing agent Of the Chesapeake
nd Ohio was removed from Richmond
D Cincinnati. President ingalls, said
hat it will be brought back to Rich
lond, as orders had been issued to that
feet.
The most important event of the
resent session of Congress was the
1option, on the 18th, of the Plumb
nendment to the silver bill, favoring
osolutely the free coinage of silver.
fifteen Republicans and all the Demo
ats but three voted for it. The vote Z
God 43 to 49, The bill will now go back
the House. r
On ho Ill l..