Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-08-15
ITS NEWSPAPERS.

IT'S NEWSPAPERS.
1t has four weekly newspapers, among
which are represented political and mol
political journals, ALSO railroad journal, witt
five OF six job printing Offices. The daily
papers from the Northern cities are re-
ceived here a little after noon in the day.
ABREAST OF THE BOOM IN VIRGINIA.
Staunton besides furnishing nearly a
half million dollars to build up the
new towns of Iron Gate. Basic City,
Waynesboro, Goshen, Clifton Forge and
Kanawha city, has development companies
of her own engaged in extending her own
borders Among them are the
Staunton Development Company.
West Staunton Land Company.
Staunton Land and Improvement Com
pany.
Sta,lnton Park Addition Company.
Not less than six building companies have
been organized here.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Staunton is the headquarters for Life
Insurance. She has the following COM
panies:
The Valley Mutual Company.
Staunton Life Company.
Interstate, Company.
Equity Company.
HER INDUSTRIES.
Staunton is a busy Industrial centre and
among her factories are:
A Bark Extract Mill.
A Shoe Factory.
A Furniture Factory.
A Sash, Door and Blind Factory.
Two Brick Works.
Two Marble and Granite Works.
An Ice Factory.
A Foundry and Machine Shop.
A Carriage Factory.
A Wagon Factory.
Six Cigar Factories.
A Mineral Water Mandatory.
A Mattress Factory.
\ Steam Roller Flour and Grist Mill.
A Plaster Mill.
Two Fertilizer Factories.
A Steam Corn Mill,
A patent Medicine Mandatory.
A Barrel Factory,
A Cannery.
Three Planning Mills.
ADJUSTMENTS.
The city has one of the handsomeSt Ope-
Ia Houses in the country, the season at
which runs from the middle of August to
April, and brings high class Of profess
sional troupes here.
1t has the famous Stonewall Brigade
Band which frequently gives concerts. 1t
has amateur talent which in two years has
produced four new operas complete, with
orchestra music, costumes and all other ac-
cessories.
The Y. M. c. Association building has a
fine gymnasium, lecture hall, and bowling
alley attached to it, and during the year
the Association gives frequent entertain
ments with vocal music, elocut1on and so
forth. Its reading room is always open to
the public.
INCORPORATED COMPANIES.
Stallnton has the following companies
incorporated and doing the business they
were organized for:
Staunton Building Association.
Mutual Building, Loan and Annuity
Company.
Augusta Perpetual Building and Loan
Company.
Virginia Land and Loan Company.
Staunton Dressed Meat Company.
BANKS.
1t has two banks, the National Valley
with 100000 Of capital, and the Au-
gusta National with $4,000 of capital.
A SUMMARY.
Staunton's advantages may be summed
up thus:
1t is a good place to live in. It has
pleasant society, churches, schools, amuse-
ments and every modern facility fol- MAX
ing life enjoyable.
1t is good place to buy in. No place
of its size has more OF better merchants,
and as aproof Of it shoppers come here from
all the adjacent towns.
1t is a good place to sell in. 1t is the
best wheat market in the United States
accepting none, and the prices paid by its
merchants for all produce are equal to those
Of any city, large OF small, and in many
cases better.
1t is good place to do business in. 1t;
two banks are solid in condition and have
the spirit Of accommodation, and it has tw.
competing lines of railway to every quar-
ter, which gives incalcucable advanta
ges to the products put out here.
Its health is unsurpassed and it can offe
!, to all q long as well as busy and success
full life.
!; 1t well deserves the name of "The Queel
: City Of the Valley" whether to live in
: trade in, OIL invest in.
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