Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-23


works. rolling-mills. iron-fufnaces, car
works. and shoe-factory. Various other
industries have been secured.
Following the North-Biyer division, the
traveller comes to bayernake. whose list OF
industries Is caDning-factory, manganese
mill. tin-plate works, cemcnt-works, &C,
and next IA Ruena Vista, with us blast
furnaces. paper-mills. pulp-mills, harness.
factory, tannery. brick-works. engine and
boiler-works. hotels. woollen-mills, furni-
ture-factory, egg-crate factory, &C., winch
are only the nucleus OF host OK other iii-
dustries :, ~.
Lexington, the terminus Of the division
and Is previously indicated one OF the
great educational centres Of the State, has
recently secured upon the basis OF a nun
Der OF old-established industries us
MAGNIFICENT climate, and the wealth OF raw
material accessible, various new and SUP
atantiai enterprises. Values have rapidly
advanced here, as they have In all the
cities and towns along the road. and great
activity in building obtains. Here inc
Chesapeake and Ohio again strikes the Dali
timore and Ohio.
BUCHANAN.
Buchanan. 1875 miles from Richmond, is
the gateway for o mammoth mineral area,
and this fact has been turned TO sp,ehuid
account by capitalists. a hne hotel WIN
specious backgrounds is feature OF the
improvements. and around tins are gam
ering substantial iron, canning. and otner
indnstries Buchanan is naturally one OF
the most beautiful places in the noun
tains.
Eagle Mount (Bessemer), where the
Craig-C Creek extension joins the James
Riyer division and connects it with New
castle ICraie City. has large lime mite
rests. and is destined 20 be the seat not
only OF a large blast-furnace, but OF de-
pendent iron and steel and other interests
At Newcastle hotel and furnace are pulid-
ing, and the whole line OF the Cralg-CIe;ek
extension will ere long pulsate with active
mining operations.
Glen Wilton is one Of the most success
ful furnace properties in the State, and Is
a striking illustration Of the magnlhcent
ADVANTAGES of the whole section around
Clifton Forge. 1t represents large Tor
time made In few years. The iron from
this furnace-and il is but specimen Oh
what the ore of the entire area Will pro-
duce-has no superior in the markets'
IRON GATE.
Iron Gate. a mile and half east of Clif-
ton Forge and Just around the bend OF
Jackson river from that place, IS not only
an ideal industrial location. but an ideal
location for residences. Here are already
established spike. and rclllng-mllls OF the
Richmond Standard Spike and Iron Com Con
panv, which are being greatly enlarged;
the Farmers Alliance Co-Operative Manu-
featuring Company's plant, with capacl-
tv of 5000 plows and 500 wagons an
nuallv, a bank, several brick plants,
and a planing-mill. A double furnace
with q capacity of 100 tons is in process OF
erection, about forty houses for employees
of the several industries are under con-
struetion, and various other improvements
are in progress. The ore and limestone
for the furnace are within 200 yards or the
plant and the coke haul is comparatively
so short as to be hardly worth consider
ing. The population of Iron Gate Is be-
tween 900 and 1900. but with the COM
pletion of the improvements now actually
Ia progress will be more than doubled.
The Iron Gate Inn, a model of conye-
nience, comfort. and beauty, Is already
favorite stopping place with travellers
seeking recreation and rest, but the gene
raj attractions of the place Will, IL IS sa1e
to predict, render the erection OF anot !sp
modern hotel an absolute necessity In the
immediate future. At iron Gate IS one OF
finest lithia springs in the State. g,
In these what may be termed hurried
runs over the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way many minor points that are exhibit
incsubstantial signs of industrial and other
development have been necessarily
omitted. Indeed along the entire length
of the road, both on its main stem and It's
divisions, there is hardly location that IS
not taking on fresh vitality. The road as
a whole trayerses the richest agricultural
sections of the State, and there are none
of its cities and towns and few If any OF its
hamlets and villages that do not afford
good educational and religious advantages.
The locations along the road suitable Tor
blast-furnaces, in respect OF ore ana lime;
stone supply and to which the coke maui
is a matter of only few hours, can be
counted by the score.
AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK.
To recur more specifically to those I'M
portant interests-the agricultural and the
iiye-stock-the section of country through
which the line runs is for the most part
well-adapted to farming, more particularly
as noted the James-Rlver Valley between
Richmond and Lynchburg and between Bal
cony Falls and Clifton Forge, and on the
main line between Richmond, and Buffalo
Gap, taking in the Shenandoah valley,
across which the roads run for about
twenty-five miles. This section Is noted
for the character of wheat raised as well as
hay. The James-River Valley produces
the finest wheat, corn, tobacco, dc. The
whole territory is also adapted to raising
fruits of every description.
The Cincinnati division between Ash
land and Cincinnati, for 145 miles along
the Ohio river, is dotted with well-culti;-
waited farms, producing corn, wheat, and
tobacco.
The Shenandoah-Vall section and also
the counties tributary to the Chesapeake
and Ohio in West Virginia, between the
Wbita Gulnhur SnrinQs Greenbrier
county. and Charleston, West Virginia,
Kanawha county, have shipped to eastern
markets over this road as fine specimens
of fat cattle, sheep, and lambs, and
horses, and were ever raised in the blue
GRASS fields of Kentucky.