Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-10-17
An INDIANA DIIk
PRESIDENT
GIVES His VIEWS OF TIE PRESENT AND
COMING PROSPERITY OF VIRGINIA.

GlYH Ills VlEWS Ut THE PRESENT AM
COMING PROSPERITY OF VIRGINIA.
he BRINGS A LARGE PLANT TO BE LOCATED
AT BASIC CITY.
WHAT BRINGS MEN WHO HAVE LOOK.
ED OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY BE,
FORE DECIDING--TIE PROSPERITY
IN STOKE FOR vIRGINIA-THE ADvAN-
TAGES OF THE SIZE THE VISITORS HAVE
sELECTED-GoING TO WORK RIGHT
AWAY.
&C, &C, &C.
On Wednesday evening, learning that
there was a party Of Western manufactur-
ers at the Virginia Hotel On prospecting
tour in this section Of Virginia, repre-
sentative of the VINDICAToR called there
to get their views about the era of progress
which is now prevailing here. He found
the party to consist of Messrs. L. Link of
Rushville, Ind, President of the Rush
county National Bank; Noble Brann, lum-
herman, the largest stakeholder in the Rush
vile School Furniture Co., in which Nh.
Link is largely interested; Geo. S. Mcgee,
Secretary and Treasurer of the Company,
and M. Nolan OF the firm of n olan, Madden
& Co., manufacturers of Tile and Brick
Machines at Rushville, and q stakeholder
and director in the Nashville School Fur
niture Co. They were Western business
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ahead people of that section of the coun-
try, and were courteous and communica-
tive as to their mission in this section.
Our representative found that they had
already decided on locating, and had that
morning made a contract to remove the
School Furniture Works to Basic City.
What do you think of the boom we are
having in Virginia asked the VINDICA-
TOR representative, of MI. Link.
A FARMING COUNTRY ALREADY
BUILT UP.
''Ch, 'said he laughing, 'syou people down
here haven It had any boom yet to speak of.
Wait till next Spring and you will see one.
You are new to the rapid growth Of a
J
and lots selling at high prices you think
the end Of the world has come. You have
got the finest country here in the world,
and what is more you have got everything
else added to it. Your ''boom, F" as you call
it, ought to be greater than it is, for, you
see, you had got the bulk Of the work done
before any booming was started. You had
your country built up already. Out West,
you see, that isn't the case. The trouble
out there is that you start a town in a Sec
ton where the farming country isn't built
up and the town grows faster than the
country. Here you've got fine, rich farm
ing country, thickly settled and far ahead
of any town building that you may do for
a long time to come. The only wonder to
us is that you were SO long finding out how
to build up and improve your country, and
how little of it has been done. Now that
you have taken it up, it is so new that you
. think you are going a hundred miles an
hour, and [ don't suppose it will do any
harm to let you think you are.'
How came you to turn your eyes towards
this section to manufacture in? was
asked Mr.. Link.
GETTING NEAR TO RAW MATERIAL.
"Well you see up North, especially in the
East, the people have grown rich doing the
manufacturing for your people of the
South, and we believed that the time had
come, and you people Of the South showed
by your spirit, that it had come. for the
South to have it's manufactures located
right among its own people. If a man
wants to make an axe helve he don't take
the sapling up out of the woods and carry
it two OIL three hundred miles to get a man
to cut it and dress it for a helve; he just
cuts and dresses it right in the woods
where he finds it. That s what the South
ern people are going to do hereafter-they
are going to dress their own helve right
in their own woods where they cut the sap
ling, and we are here with our money and
our labor to join in that business with them.
There is big reason for what is going Oh
in your State The time and the conditions
have come when the manufacturers have got
to get nearer to the raw material and to the
new consumers that have their homes il
the South. That is the big round reason
and these lot speculations are flies on its
surface that have been Matched out by the
the prosperity. 1t will not be long before
the boomer will give way to the man with
the overalls on who brings permanent
wealth with him wherever he goes. The
Southern country is the coming country Of
the world"
How came your party to select Basic
City for the location to which to remove
your factory?
THE REASONS FOR THE SELECTION OF
BASIC CITY.
swell, because it was the best site for
manufacturing city that we were able tt
find in the South. We didn't select it in
hurry. Some of us went over the route
clear from Hagerstown down this VALLEY
and on to New Orleans, and some of Us
went over the ground from San Francisco
to the Atlantic, and we found no place
which combined everything factory
wants. as Basic City does. A factory Oh
single line of railway making large out
put, has a hard time. Its like running
business and having another man to hav
the veto power On it. One railroad may be
fair enough to you, but two railroads com
peting with each other viii be certain t.
give you fair ST. t of puts til
veto in your own hand az .lelps to ge
good rates. \ lasn't trie
manufacturing On a single line of RAILROAD
can half appreciate the advantages of bein
at the junction Of competing lines. The