Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-10-24
AN INDIANA BANK PRESIDENT
GIVES HIS VIEWS OF THE PRESENT AND
COMING PROSPERITY OF VIRGINIA.
(Stauaton Vindicator.)

Llnh VI AAuoufll lHust lOoiuCub VI bnC
Rush county National Bank; Noble
BranD, lum herman, the largest stockbold-
er in the Nashville School Furniture Co.,
in which Mr.. Link is largely interested ;
Geo. S. Mcgee, Secretary and Treasurer
of the Company, and NJ. Nolan of the firm
of Nolan, Madden q Co., manufacturers
of Tile and Brick Machines at Rushyille,
and a stakeholder aud director in the
Nashville School Furniture Co. They
were Western business men, typical rep
resentatives of the go-ahead people of
that section of the country, and were
courteous and communicative as to their
mission in this section. Our representa-
tive 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 Vindicdtor
representative, of Mr.. Link.
A FARMING COUNTRY ALREADY BUILT UP.
"Oh," said he laughing, "you people
down here haven't had any boom yet to
speak of. Wait till next Spring and you
will see one. You are new to the rapid
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towns located 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," as you call 1t, 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,
yon see, that isn't the case. The trouble
DOT there Is that you start q town in a
section where the farming country isn't
Duiltup 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 long time to come. The only wonder
to us is that you were 80 long finding out
how to build up and improve your coun-
try, aud how little of 1t has been done.
Now that you have taken it up, 1t is so
new that you think you are going hun.
dred miles an hour, and l don't suppose
it will do any harm to let you think you
are"
How came you 10 turn your eyes to-
wards 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 do
ing the manufacturing for your people Of
the South, and we believed that the time
bad 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. II a
man wants to make an axe helve he don't
TAKE the sapling up out of the woods and
carry it two or three hundred miles to get
a man to cut it and dress it for a helve |;
he Just cuts and dresses 1t right in the
woods where be finds it. That's what
the Southern people are going to do here
after-thoy are going 10 dress their OWL
helve right in their own woods wi @
they cut the sapling, and we are here
with our money and labor to join IN that
business with them. There is big reason
for what is going on in your State! The
time and the conditions have come when
the manufacturers have got to get nearer
the raw material, and TO the new con-
6umers that have their homes in the
South. That is the big round reason
and these lot speculations are flies
OH its surface that have been Matched out
by the prosperity. 1t Will not be long
before the boomer will give way to the
man with the overalls on who brings per-
wealth with him wherever he
goes. The Southern country is the COM
ing 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.
"Well, because it was the best site for
a manufacturing city that We were able
to find in the South. We didn't select il
in hurry. Some Of us went over the
route clear from Hagerstown down this
Valley on to New Orleans, and some of
us went over the ground from San Fran
cisco to the Atlantic, and we found no
place which combined everything fac.
tory wants, as Basic City docs. A factory
on a single line of railway making a
large output, has hard time. Its like
running business and having another
man 70 have the veto power on it. One
railroad may be fair enough to you, but
two railroads competing with each other
will be certain to give you a fair show.
It sort of puts the veto in your own hand
and helps to get good rates. No man
who hasn't tried manufacturing on a
single line of railroad can half appreciate
,he advantages Of being at the junction
If competing lines. They wont make
,ou wait for cars often tell you. Basic
Iity ia at the junction of two competing
ines that will take your products to
very part of this land and to deep water
md that is worth lots of money to a man
lfaGturer.
Then again, Basic City is the best site |
ye have found for q manufacture that |
ses both iron and wood. Everything is
D easy reach Of 1.-THE cheap coal, the |
heap coke, the cheap iron aud the cheap |
1mber. That is important to all fscto-
les, but especially to us because we run
U iron foundry in connection with our
lctory.
Then we found there the cheapest
roperty on which to put houses for
'orkmen. You can't keep good workmen
] a skilled mandatory like ours unless
ley have nice homes, and they can't
ave nice homes if the lot is so high as to
Ike all their money before they build.
killed labor wants to own its home.
There we found it a healthy place,
it'll pure water, and good drainage, and
10 mountain air. A man working a
rye force of men knows that health
cans money and sickness loss of mon
z. III o. is no malaria at Basic City
ke we have in so many places out West.
good healthy location like Basic City
cans no trouble with sick men, and
at means a good deal in the way of
oft and absence of worry where you
Q working skilled labor.
The way things are managed at Basic
ty attracted our attention TO it too.
me of us have been through there from.
70 to three times since last February,
ID the sort of growth it is making
ught our eye. 1t is putting up big
anufactOries and after all that is the
ly way to make a city sure. We have
atched the town pretty closely since we
our eyes on It, as we have done Others
the mean time, and the way things
ere managed suited us, and so after all
us compared notes We determined to
Dyo our factory down there. The man
ers of the corporation have treated us
business meu should, fairly, and 10