The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-17
GOVERNOR M'kiNNEY.
Ills Views on Number of Important
Questions.

Ills Views on Number of Important
Questions.
In next weeks issue Of the Religious
Herald OF this city is a long interview win
Governor Mckinney upon number oil SUD
ioct Of GREAT interest at this time. Her,
are some of his sentiments. To question
about Eastern Virginia Doc saio
cit is coming zap now. lti IL heslh al
! Norfolk what an enormous advance has
h.en made of late in all that section. Tho
dream of generations is now coming a.
mass. and Norfolk takcs her place near ia,
head. If not IT the very head Oi the column
| And look how suffolk, Franklin and other
towns lin that direction are lmprON ing,
| Then II sou come across the river 10 New
port News and Hampton yOn will find il al.
most continued city from the one TO the
other. Before the war used 10 20 down
there. and where Newport News city now
stands there was scarcely n house. and
there was nothing inviting. But, look now
what place u is.
"lhc FarmNille people are conservative
! and they are not rich. YOU know. but there
is more hope and huoyancy there than !
| have seen before. The new railroad from
/ keysvillc 90 GordOnsyillc viii help Farm
| willie very much. 10 viii pass through
| buckingham. Prince Edward. Cumberland.
and FluNanna. There il, 40 county IN II
GINA more nllcd with minerals than Buck
/ ingham. All 10 has needed is just such a
/ road. and the other counties through which
the road viii pass viii likewise be greatly
benefited by 10. This route viii shorten the
distance between Atlanta and Washington
/ from scycnty-h,c tO one hundred miles.
Blackstone. CreWe, and BurheNille are
an three looking UP and ot1cr places are
improving. II Won 20 up the DanVillc road
Won find improvement. Halifax has one Of
/ the most entcrprisiug and promising towns
| i'm the state. refer t0 South Boston. and
vet. few years ago. when the conductor
called out south Boston you would
hardly have looked out of the car
there was nothing 90 see; and yet now
| 10 is stirring. busting town. y little
way Oh is Houston, which is also an I'M
proving town, with it- two banks, Nc. As
| Tor Danyille. need not say WOrd--lts lie
| turc il assured. Like Llnchhurg. % does
not depend upon hOOmS. Both OF these
| growing cities have an independent strength
Of their own. and can fight their OWn BAT
ties. You will lind all about in thQse Soc
lions of The state thrifty towns like CHAT
ham, Rocky Mount, MartnsNiile, &C., Nc
] "Ncc0mac is growing rich ont ~ sweet
potatoes. and northampton ont of Irish poo
iatOos. They have beautiful and comfort
able homes. and they owe 10 all 90 ine
nntatn And SOFT viii Doe from Frcderick--
pu ,,''' loTn p' t Nv Nm" cbesaneake. As the
',r.5t cities crow. greater fbe demand will
',,.,,v far .,lr,tbinr tbaf can be- raised I'm
-h1t ra.ion. And The same Vim d.. true of
aU our srcat. beautiful Piedmont region
and of tine Valley. lrs all going 90 develop.
| and- such prosperity 20, Was never before
soon Inn those sections Will come 90 them.
81 tbiuk fh1f we have seen but tho Doe.
Ginning Of the mi.hty movement That is "a
ri,,t tbc attention If the civilized world
upon southwest Virginia. You know We
used 10 think the projectors Of Roanoke
were wild. but now. when wc scc il- great