The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-10-01

! ing of a railroad from Rich Hill up Big Reed Is
= iand creek to iron ore property.
Bird \ Peters, of Big Stone Gap. are, it /
l. sIaJed, building 100 ton iron furnace on tn
uallaher iron ore property, near Abingdon.
The Huntington Glass Company was charter
t cd last week ror the purpose of building glass
{ 900. - Nv
The Ghist Lumber Company. which has been
o operated for years at Ceredo, w Va has failed
g WIN Claimed assets of $4,000 and almost an
. equal amount of liabilities
4 The Gazette published the first annual state
: ment of the Front ROYAL and Riverton Improve
+ ment Company, which shows it's assets to be
S709,347.26 in excess of liabilities.
The Norfolk and Atlantic Terminal Company
intends building an electric railroad. A move
ment is also on foot to build an electrical rail-
road from Port Norfolk to Portsmouth.
Work has been begun by the A. F. Withrow
Lumber Company upon the drive and foot way
bridge to connect the manufacturing reserva-
ton of Buchanan with the business section of
the new town.
The trestle work for the Norfolk and Western
link OF the belt line has been completed, and a
train of cars passed over it. The contractors,
Messrs Norman Sullivan have done a SUBJ
stantial piece of work
Explorers in the region around Willis noun
tain, near Farmville, have discovered quanti-
ty of iron ore which, it is said, surpasses any
iron of it's kind to grade and quality yet
known to exist in the county.
The buildings of the Smith and Briggs Brass
Company of Buchanan, are being pushed rapid
ly. The contractors. Messrs Hoover, Hughes &
Co., confident that they will be able to com
plete the buildings within contract time.
All the packing establishments in Botetourt
and Roanoke counties are making active prep
| aratiOQS for the immense n frui xUhi
has just begun to ripen. The great center of
the peach growing region is at Cloverdale.
Thomas ]. Hunter of Roanoke, and connect
ed with the Norfolk and Western Railroad, has
| been appointed auditor of the Atlanta and West
| Point Railroad, also of the Western Railway of
Alabama, with head quarters at Atlanta. Ga.
| Workmen from the Rarig Machine Works at
Shendun are busily engaged in putting in the
large boiler and engine, at the Electric Light
and Power House on Roanoke Avenue. The
poles on the street have nearly all been planted.
| The Board of Directors of the Buena Vista
! Company in session June 27th, considered the
matter of declaring dividend of three per cent
on the LIST of July, and issued circular letter
announcing that it was inexpedient to declare
a dividend.
The Lynchburg Investment Company of Buena
! Vista, has been Incorporated with R. L, Miler,of
| Lynchburg, as president, and r. c. Turner, of
Buena Vista, secretary, for the purpose of deal
ing in real estate, mineral lands, etc. The au-
thorized capital stock is $4,000.
I Work will be commenced on knitting mill In
South Norfolk. 1t is expected that it will be
| completed by January |, and the building and
machinery is to cost 100000. It is to be under
the same management as the Chesapeake mill
and will employ about It's hands.
| At a meeting of the stockholders of the Shen-
|
| rangements were made for an immediate COM
| mencement of operations The machinery is in
| position in their large factory and the enter
/ prise will be pushed forward with energy
A one-story extension is planned by the
Franklin Brass Company of Buchanan 1t will
| be twenty-five by sixty feet, and be utilized as
buffing and dipping room for which it had
| been intended to use a portion of the second
story of the main building of the company, but
| for which other uses have been found.
| The two large coke blast furnaces erected at
MiddleSborough, KY, by the Watts Iron and
Steele Syndicate, Limited, under the manage
ment of John L. Refs, are reported to be COM
pleted and will be ready for operation in July.
Work is also being pushed the basic open
hearty steel plant which is being built by the
same syndicate at that pls CO.
The Norfolk Vlrgintan states that it is report
ed on good authority that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad has purchased about 400 acres of
land at or near Newport News and will build
piers, wharves, ETC., there for handling foreign
business. The Virginia,. is probably in error.
Newport News will doubtless soon have anoth
er Important railroad, but we do not think it
| will be the Baltimore and Ohio.
| The Richmond and Chesapeake Railroad Com
paDy has, it is stated, arranged for securing
funds to build it's road from Richmond to Wi
n tha
peake bay. Work will, it is said, be resumed at
once on the tunnel under the city E. N. Reed,
of New York, is president of the company, and
Charles E. Belvin vice president.
| The foundation for the large round house of
the Norfolk and Western at Shenandoah is be-
| ing pushed rapidly forward. 1t will be an i'm
| mense structure, as the parts of the foudation
already up now show. The old shed heretofore
used for housing the engines has been torn down
as it occupied part of the ground needed for the
foundation of the new round house.
The Buena Vista Plaster Company are making
extensive Improvement on their property near
Saltville Their water power has been greatly.
increased by the erection of costly dam, and
large barn is being built on the site of the one
recently destroyed by fire. A force of hands are
employed in unearthing large quantity of the
plaster to supply next seasons demand.
The Pulaski Land and Improvement Compa
ny have contracted with the Ola morgan Compa-
ny, at Lynchburg, for the pipes for its system of
| water works. The contract is for seven hun
| dred tons with proviso that it may be increas-
| ed to LOCO tons large part of the pipe is rea-
dy for shipment, and Superintendent McWane
says he can furnish the balance faster than it
can be laid.
| The contract for building the Lambert's
Point Knitting Mills has been awarded to Mes
| SrS TawlOr g. Holmes for 20 OOO The m ain huiId-
ing will be 60x2G2 feet, two stories high, at the
back of which will be One-story building 82x76
| feet. The buildings will be of brick and the mill
be fitted with the most modern and improved
machinery, and be ready October LIST for opera
| tion
The Wythevillee Dispatch says: John III.
| Crockett, of the firm of Brown g. Crockett, the
largest sheep dealers in this section, told us
| Monday that the number of lambs which will
be shipped from this county this year will reach
1900; and he added that they will average at
least 81 .25 per head, making total of not quite
ST., 600. A right nice little sum for the farmers
from one source. We learned from Mr.. Crockett
that a number of sheep raisers in Tazewell coun-
ty have already sold their 1892 lambs.
The annual report of the Goshen Land and
Improvement Company shows that the receipts
during the year were 1919, 1854 and the dis
bursements, including the $100,04z paid to secure
new Industries, S29S,21I.6l, leaving balance on
hand of sci, 96S.S3. The estimates of the assets
and liabilities show surplus of the former of
$1,44S 845. In the report it is claimed that this
company has adhered strictly to it's original
plan of enhancing the value of lands by aiding
the new industries that establish themselves
there
Pulaski City is arranging for the early compile
ton of seven miles of water mains at a cost of
$4,000. The Glamorgan Company, of Lynch
burg, furnish the pipe, in quantity from 700 to
1000 TONS The mains will be twelve inches in
diameter. A storage tank of steel will be erect
ed, which will be thirty-1ve feet in diameter
and thirty-five feet high, with a capacity OF
100000 gallons. 1t is being built by the Camden
Iron Works, Camden, N. j. The tank will be
quite ornamental The engine is being built
by the Gordon Steam Pump Company, Hamil
ton, Ohio. The Erie City Iron Works, Erie, Pa.
: are making the boilers. Loughon Bros will fur
nish %, 900 pounds of lead. The storage tank ii
admirably located, and the water will have 2O
f1y,;