Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-11-01
The uth-Virginia Alexandria.

The pubic sale of lois By the North West
Alexandria improvement Company takes
place next month-tbe 11th, II b and 10
The history Of sl such sales IN Virginia nae
been one oe large, aud quick pccfa. Why?
simply because capita. hgains ard energy
comb.bed are az work IN Virginia. Kansas,
Colorado ard r'her western les have
each in turn htd tneir dsy-ihis 10 VIZ
ejnia dey. We are 10 get il the coninG
dsca6e (which We have not bad In the past
our tut share Of the natural increase OF
shout twenty millions Of people In the
United States. Ray, it may be put stronger;
we are to get very much more than our
share. for the currept of immigration and
cspitsl hitherto sst weetward) has already
set southward. This whole country, sid
Europe 80 well, i5 being attracted By the
great Industrial revolution now golpg on 10
the South, and the untold wealth buried
in the mountains of Virginia ia especially
focusing the eye of capital, and OF muscle
as we'll
The following words Of that peerless
southern pstrici, Hsnry W Grady, we're ex-
pressed b. him, only very few years egg,
to the people of Texas. Note how applica-
Bile they are to the State OF Virginia, in the
light of her history now making. Speaking
crop Of the South, he says;
ut is the heritage that God gsve US when he
srched our skies, established our mountains, grit
us about with the ocean, tempered the sunshine,
and measured ths rain-onrs and oar caildTen's
forever"
Speak ng OF her mineral ard other re-
SOURCES
In 1880 the South msde $4,000 tons of iron
1887 S45 900 tone. There is now actually build
Ing, or hss finished this year, furnaces that will
produce moro than her entire proddct OF last
year. Our coal supply is exhaustie5s. In mar
BILE and granite we have rivals, "a 10 qaslity CT
quantity In lumber our riches sre even vaster.
More than fifty per cent. of cur entire area is in
forests making the South the best timbered re-
gion of the world. We have enough merchanta-
Bile yellow pine to bring, in money, 81, 5OO,OOO
COO, sum the vastness OF which can only Dc un'
DEF stood when say it nearly oqusled the sssess-
ed value of the entire South, iIc uding cities. for
ests. farms, mines. factories and personal pro-
perty OF every desc ,lption whatso Yer. Back OF
this are forests # hard woods, and measureess
swamps of cypress and gum. Think OF it.. in
cotton monopoly. In iron and coal establishing
swift mastery. In granite and marble developing
eqasl advantage aud resource. In yellow pine
and hard woods the worlds treasury. Surely the
basis of the South's wealth and power is laid by
the hand of the Almighty God and its prosperity
has been established by CiVlne law which works
neighhor3 through human statutes. Paying tri-
butte for fifty years hat under artificial condl-
tions other sections might reach prosperity i'm
possible under natural laws, it mas grown spsce
Again speaking Of divereiied industries.
hs saye:
With amazing rapidly she has moved away
from tho one.crop idea tnst was Cnce her curse.
In 1870 she was esteemed prosperous Sizes
that time she has add 800, 100000 bushels 10
her grain crops, snd 49,, 0UO,0 0 head to her
live stock. This ha, not lest her one bale OF her
cotton crop, which, on the contrary, has increased
nearly 2O0,O 900 bales. With 'qutl swltness has
she moved away from the fol OF shipping out
her ore at 81 ton and buying it back in implc-
ments from $40 to $lG0 per ton her cotton at
10 cents pound and buyiog it back in cloth at
20 10 so c,nts per pound her timber at IS per
thousand and buying 1t back in furniture at ten
to twenty times as much. In the past a thb years
$3.50, 100000 have been invested in new shops
and factories in her states 22o 600 aTtlZtns arc
now working that eight years ago were IDLE or
work. cd els where, and these added SET ,OOJOOO
to the va ue Of her raw materia-more than half
the value OF hor cotton. Add TO tn the value of
her il creased grain crops aid stuck, and in the
past eight ytacs she has grown IN her fields or
created iii her sh0ls and manufactures more
than the value of her cotton crop. the inco@ing
tide has b gun 70 rise. Every train brings manu-
facturers from the E, st snd W ST. seeking TO estab
terisl and in this growing market.
We are getting, and are to sc. III mote
10 the in;urs, both the mouec snd the popu
isiioD, which IL TO mske Of Virginia great
manufacturing Safe, and wy not? With
nuggets of wealth sal ing we come Oh its
very surface, with law and order. sS guar
antee 10 Investors, with a fdultlesl climate,
aud IL reliable rein-fsil, shy should not Fir-
ginin he more attractive TO settlers, ss to
capital, than the awtets, blizzard c'nsumed
and uarohed @astfs Of tne !ar west ?
There is a larger reward awaiting energy
and nerve in the n :nr future, IN The State Of
Virginia, than in any spot Ia this great
country. as the American yankee is already
proving this to be true
There has beeD great deal OF soecua-
ton 10 pew towns in Virginia Cities have
been ooro and grown to full ci'ybnod in q
day, but it is observed that the shroWdest
dealers are turning theic e.teution now
more TO the exteneon and developement OF
the older and we'll established ciiiea, where
thera is more reality, and les paper; where
trade and business channels are already
fixed located by natural trade lave, and
backed up By substsnte! population, church,
school, market and other facilities. Such
city Ia ours, and the initial movement of the
North West Co, to invite attention, and in-
Vestment here, is but the picket Griug, pre-
ceding the great engagement. There are
other movements to follow, which. each 10
turr eau but make the property CT the early
investor double and treubs In bis hands.
Make NO mistake, secure your lot, or lc,s
early, II necessary, bagin now to arrange
your finances SO as to compass one Or more
of these desirable lots; visit the property,
get upon its heights and take in the mag
o. Fl cent views which present themselves
for miler, and you will be convinced Of the
real go Id merits of this Offering. The
| terms OF sale are made essy to suit the
masses-one filth cash. and the balance
in monthly iDssallmente of FIVE per cent.
OF the many lots 10 this property there may