Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-07

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! forty-three years of age and leaves a wife
| and four children. He was member OF
| Fulton Lodge. Order OF TOnti, Virginia
! Council, Legion Of Honor, and OF the
| Royal Arcanum.
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One Of Ou- Virginia Towns. Gordonsville'
in Orange county. he's within tho past six
| months caught the spirit OF enterprise
! which is reyIvifying most OF the towns OF
| this State. A land and development com
! pany, under the special guidance and o.
| rectiou Of Nr n. ". BOwe. Of Richmond,
as president, with several substantial and
enterpTislng d sociates, u now engaged ln
| the work necessary TO develop the great
natural advantages of this particular ioc2i1
| ton, and present them in such form az VIII
| best attract the attention Of those seeking
| desirable investments. The company has
| had a competent corps of engineers tor
several months engaged IN trlangulatlng
! their lands laying of streets, and Locating
! lots. They are about bringing these labors
| to a close and will soon be able TO lay before
| the public an accurate Typographical map
| Of the Gordon Land COmpany's property,
! which embraces some 800 acres lmnedi-
ately surrounding the old town of Cor
| donsville, and is admirably located for resi-.
! deuce and business sites. The town OF
| Gordonsville occupies nearly a central po-
sition in the State and lies ut the foot oi
| the Southwest mountains, the most easter
| ly range of Virginia, and ls on the crest oi
| the divide between the South Anna ana
! Rapidan rivers. This IS the highest point
| on the Chesapeake and ONO railway De-
! tween the seacOst and the Blue Ridge,
| being some fifty feet higher than Char
| lottesville. which IS twenty-one miles
| further west. The town has a bOuntltul
| supply of pure spring freestone water,
| which is piped from the mountain reser-
voir 10 our doors. The mountain range
sweeps around the northern and western
! sides Of the town and affords great prOtec-
| ton from the cold blasts Of winter. The
winters here are remarkably mild, even Tor
| Piedmont Virginia.
The health of this special section ia pro,
verbal. In ITS exemption from malarial
| diseases and from typhoid-leverI presents
! a marked contrast to Otner portions Of our
| State.
Malarial diseases prevail generally
| throughout the tidewater sections, and
| svphOid diseases are as generally prevalent
| beyond the Blue Ridge, and to a hardly
less extent in many portions OF Piedmont
Virginia. After n residence Of eighteen
wears in GordOnsville | have not known q
case of typhoid-fever % originate hnre. d
The fine agricultural counties Of Madison
and Greene, lying north of Gordonsville
and cOntrlbutaTy TO 1t. comprise class OF
| thrifty, industrious. steady yeOmen who
by their farm products have made GOrdOns-
Vile the second heaviest shipping point on
| the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The
| late discovery of coal oil in one OF these
counties, which has been found oozing
| from the surface Of the ground and
percolating through cellar walls in form
sufficiently pure to be used In lamp with
out being refined, Is likely in the near
nsa oh i alg.s,T 20.
| No efforts have yet been made 20 search
| for il below the surface.
Gordonsville, from its central positionand
| the topography of the surrounding country,
must at no distant day become q great rail
| road centre. IL has at present the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad running east and
west from the Atlantic Seaboard to trans
Mississippi connection with the Pac!nc
| railroads. and by a late trackage arrange
ment with the Richmond and Danyllle
| railroad trains running at short intervals
| between Gordonsyille and Washington
city. On the south of Gordonsvllle the
| Keysville and Orange railroad ls now. III
| course of construction. This road when
| completed will connect Gordonsyille with
| North Carolina by nearly an airline. This
road will in all probability ultimately be-
| come part of the Pennsylvania Central
| system. This company now owns the road
running south from Washington City to
Ouantico. a distance of some thirty-four
miles. BY divergng slightly to the south
| west at this point Gordonsville may be
reached at q distance of less than sixty
miles, through country admirably suited
| for railroad construction and over a
route already surveyed, aud where
| by the testimony of the chief engineer
a railroad can be built at the minimum
cost per mile. With southern connections
4 10, ksn N
| distance between Washington city and
| Jacksonville, Fla, by ut least one hundred
| miles as compared with the present route
| between these two points. The PennsYl-
| yania Central has several formidable COM
| petitOrs for the passenger traffic between
| the North and Florida. and having heavy
| amounts to paw for trackage facilities over
| its present route will scarcely fail to avail
| themselves of the advantages which this
| line offers. But in any event the railroads
! we now possess and the one under con-
struction will give us speedy and direct
| communication with every portion or
| our country-North, South, East, and
! West.
The Gordon Land Company contemplate
soon the erection of their new hotel the
Gordon Inn which will occupy high
eminence overlooking the town and COM
manding one of the most extensive and
| Dehulltul Views any WHcIb 10 De iOuhu.
| Standing on the site OF the hotel and cast
| ing your eyes east, south, and west. you
| have Wlde-extended view of q gently un-
| dulating country, only bounded by the
curvature of the earth, and unobstructed
| in all this wide expanse by o single noun
tain. Turning your back upon this view
and looking towards the north and north
west, you have the grand sweet of the Blue
Ridge stretching ont towards the north un-
q So b lNaf In 4 lat
| whilst the nearer range of the Southwest
mountains Is in plain view for its whole
| length until its cliffs abut on the james
! river.
The Gordon Land Company have already
secured some twelve or fifteen manufac-
turing plants; several of these will employ
q large number of operatives. One plant
| this day (4th OF March, secured will work
| three hundred operatives. The necessary
| buildings for these plants will be IL course
of erection during the next thirty days.
The company win push to rapid COM
| pletion the grading of its streets. the erec-
| ton of its hotel, the establishment Of an
electric plant. the building of large num-
ber of tenement-houses, and other contern-
plated enterprises, and will at an early day
| be prepared 10 assign TO it's stockholders
entities them 10 draw. Immediately after
| this drawing of lots the company VIII
offer for sale by public auction its re-
! served residence and business lots.
hardly think one IN search of pleasant
| and healthy home, or a remunerative IN
vestment. or a desirable location for busi-
ness enterprise or manufacturing plant,
need look beyond Gordonsville.
A section OF the State that has furnished
TO the country q jefferson. Madison, q
Monroe. the Riveses. the Barbours, and q
| host of other men and women of marked
| distinction, has at least furnished some
| guarantee that refined and cultivated So
ciety will not be wanting, whilst churches
| OF all denominations and our ample facili-
| ties for the education of the rising genera
ton will afford all the inducements that
could be desired in this direction. And To
oil, from whatever section they may come,
| who may be disposed to cast IN their ios
with US, we extend cordialinyitation ana