The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-08
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

maneger. 1t Is believed that the ma t.
Ger will be amicably adjusted and a reli-
4 able and suitable man selected. Should
~ materialize, 81 ,00O,0 900 will be availa-
) PIE Tor tho construction OF the road.
Tho machinery has arrived for the
sEPuiaski Milling and Manufacturing Co. s.
&roiier mill, and Manager Stone says he
WILL be ready to start by the middle Of
harch. The woodworking machinery
Il tor the lumber and planning mill is ex-
A2ected daily. The buildings are all
Feomplete except covering the roof Of
4tne engine house with steel-which has
Il are all ready to fire up. The company
&already has large stock of sash and
& doors on hand and are selling quite
8briskly.
AT meeting of the Wytheville Real
$Estate Exchange, held lest week, tho
E ollowtng new corps Of officers were
Hsieoted: 7. G. Kent, president; E. p.
marker, vice-president, and Il. e. With
PRS, Jr.. secretary.
The several land com pa MES Of Wythe-
|)l,ille have contributed liberally to the
northwestern Construction Company;
jfhe1r aggregate contributions amount to
|aieventy thousand dollars. We hope our
8sown and county will each subscribe
Hhmounts equal to those formerly voted
#fo the Virginia and Kentucky railroad;
3yhese, added to a number OF individual
subscriptions, will make up tho four
81 hundred thousand dollars asked for by
II lhe company from Wythe county. Tho
flock of the company is being taken
atapidly, and VIC have sanguine hopes
Tfhat work will begin on the Virginia
aYd Kentucky in the early spring.
81 theville Enterprise
IN %lbcock & Wilcox, are now at work
n a,pleting the erection Of the massive
8f Elers to be used at the cars works at
re Sic City. The cnpolos are also being
~ ed, and all of the buildings are
n, der roof. The handsome ohio. of the
81 hpany is nearly and will be ready for
81 iupancy shortly.
The brick work no the match factoryat
II sic City is nearly finished. The roof
IN II be put on during the next week.
a He machinery has been ordered and is
Nv en- route and the manufacture of
III ktches will be commenced within the
IA TT sixty days.
IN Fhe Basic City Bank will be ready for
}siness on the 18th inst. A meeting
"A fthc stockholders has been called for
III Sesday, February 10, at II o'clock III.
8l twill be held at the banking house, in
Il Jordon building on Angus to street,
d8 (l full and final preparations will be-
HI Pm and there made for opening the
III k for business on the date above
Ened. The officers of the bank are:
Hi W. Gooch, Of Staunton, president; j.
Nv Quarles, OF Basic City, vice-presi-
3 mt, and j. "A. Wise, Basic City, cash
daIt. The above named and Messrs
NH ! A. Booker. j. Alex. Bumgardner,
q III 9nuel Forrer, NJ: w. Quarles, 3. II.
iCue, II. w. Crowder, and NJ. D.
;ller compose the board of directors.
MI Jacob Reese, Esq, OF Philadelphia.
39ventor OF the basic process for making
i 4 eel, was here short while yesterday.
MA will be remembered that it was the
BSoi9ion Of Mr.. Reese that no place in
Shmerica was more favorably adapted to
Mn the making of basic steel than Basic
Ety, and from his invention our town
4 5brived It's name. Mr.. Reese promised
III visit Basic City at an early day, when
j III will BIO the guest Of the Basic City
i Pnipany.-Basic City Advance.
SkWytheyille and Max Meadows are con-
aacted by telephone.
The West Wytheville wooden mills
1 Fill soon be ready to go to work; tn,
alfachinery has arrived, and is being
faced in position as rapidly as possible
IN( ldTSO lOICc VI ndnuS.
assOrders have been issued to double the
sprce of carpenters at work on the Vir-
fnia Company's houses north of the
&tachine shops at Bluefield and as soon
~ Those now under contract are finished
saaew lot will be built. These houses
I'VE for railroad employees, and will be
1 DIR sale to them on the installment plan.
asS The Norfolk and Western has secured
dtt1ditinna1 pir IF hn
NH the late Allen Higginbotham, at
and propose to put in large
fIfnount of siding, together with a round
}lpuse, machine shops, etc, for tho use
3Sl the Radford division, retaining the
3$Sfesent shops, etc, for the use Of the
Yiinch Valley and Pocahontas divisions.
3ishFor some time the Valley Land and
Company, at Luray, has
lhten financially embarrassed. A few
I. saii5eks ago meeting was held in Balti-
5tFore and matters were thought to havo
fiRen put in shape. Now, however, a
of Baltimore capitalists ask
3eHat receiver be appointed, alleging
+ at the prospectus, upon faith in which
tslEey became investors, was misleading.
said to be owned by the com
lElbny have been found to be only
.ssftioned, and that at excessive prices.
3Jfk1c company Is aSkeu TO explain its
!hsiness course.
JalEThe Pulaski Land Company will pro-
'Es3fed to cofferdam Peak creek in order to
fllE old further delay in waiting.
sssIEThe four miles of the Abingdon Coal
baihd Iron railroad was let to contract
|EiFere Friday. VIM. Venefick, recently
ByJith the Three C. 50 road, is the con-
SiSactor. Work will begin this week and
ttN i &oJ h., lat 10
of fifteen miles will be completed