The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-28
SOUTH! YOUNG MAN.


| President Harrison. ON his tour through
6he South, after having seen the Won
derful growth of Lynchburg, Bedford
City, Roanoke, Salem, Radford, Pulaski
Wytbeville and Abingdon and the indus
trial development in progress along the
| line of the Norfolk s. Western Railroad'
and viewed the country of Southwest
Virginia, said in hissspeeehsto the people
of Bristol, Vs.:
"Mv Fellow Citizens:-I have found not
only pleasure, but instruction in riding
to-day through the portion of the State
of Virginia that is feeling in very strik-
ing way the impulse Of new development.
1t is extremely gratifying to notice that
THOSE hidden sources of wealth which
were so long unobserved and SO long un-
used are now being found, and that those
regions, once so retired, occupied by pas
toral people, having difficult access to the
center Of population, are now being rapid
| " transformed into busy manufacturing
and commercial centers. In the early
settlement of this country emigrants
poured over the Alleghanies and Blue
Ridgesulike waters over an obstructlng
ledge, seeking the fertile and attractive
farm regions of the great West Ihey
passed unobserved these marvellous MD
| den stores of wealth which are now being
| brought into use.
"Having filled those great basins OF the
| West they are now turning back to IT
| GINA and West Virginia and Tennessee
to bring about the full development and
| production for which time is ripe and
which will surprise the world. 1t has not
been long since every implement OF lron'
domestic, agricultural and mechanical,
was made for you in other States. The
| iron point of the wooden mold board pillow,
with which the early farmers here turned
the soil, came from distant States. But
now Virginia and Tennessee are stirring
! their energies to participate in large
degree in mechanical productions ana III
the great awakening of American COM
| merce and American influence which VIII
| lift the nation to place among the ma
| tons of the world never before attained.
"What fs to hinder us when we. have
| secured the markets of our own States
that we shall reach ost and enter into
successful competition in the markets OF
other parts of the world: / say what is
to hinder this people; possessing by the
Providence of God, all the elements OF
material wealth; endowed with genius
and energy unsurpassed among the ma
tions Of the earth, shallagain haveon the
great seas merchant marine flying the
| flag of the common country and carrying
it's commerce into every sea and uphold
ing its honor in every port?
II am glad to-day to stand for this mo-
ment among you and to express my sym
pathy with any and every interest that
tends to develop you as people. am
glad to stand with you on one common
platform Of respect for the constitution;
differing as some Of us may do in our
opinions MS to what the law should be and
how it should be applied; having in view
one common devotion of obedience to the
law as the majority of our people, by
their own representatives, make it.
! 81 shall carry away from here q re-
newed impulse to public duty; new in
spiration as u citizen, and that too, Of II
4 country whose greatness is only dawnins
land now let me express to you the
pleasure shall have in every good that
can come to you as a community and to
each Of you as individuals. May peace,
prosperity and social order dwell in all
your families, and the fear and love OF
God in every home"
CONE TO VIRG1N1A.-The coming wool
growing; agricultural and iron producing
section of the United States.
Come via Merchants aud AinQrs
! and sylvana II. r., via Norfolk, or Wash
| New England, ington, or Harrisburg: Baltimore 4
| Ohio Il. r., via Shenandoah Junction.
| From n. Y, Come via Old Dominion Steamship
Z" n. j. Line, via Norfolk, Pennsylvania Il.
! &c Penn. r., via Norfolk, Washington, or
&C Del. Harrisburg; Baltimore IL Ohio X. t.
{" Nd. via Shenandoah Junction.
From the Come via Pittsburgh, via Chat.
West ltanooga, or via Columbus and Ashland
For all information, maps, reference
books, pamphlets, ETC.. descriptive of the
wonderful mineral and agricultural re-
sources of the States of Virginia and
West Virginia, apply to Agents OF the
Norfolk g. Western railroad, 900 Wash
ington, Street, Boston; 3O3 Broadway,
New York; l, 433 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D. c.; 81 East, State Street,
Columbus, Ohio, or General Office
Roanoke, Va.