Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-02-20
EDINBURG ITEMS.


The intermediate AID PrimarJ depart
ments of the Edlnburg Graded schooi
closed last week.
Mrs. s. L. Murray and family are visit
ing relatives in Rockingham and Augusta
counties.
DENTAL NoTIcE-Dr. T. F. Locke VIII
visit Edinburg on Thursday, February
Goth. Room at Whissen & Bros. store
An entertained for the benefit OF the
band will be held here the first week I'D
March, that is if the send man" dent
slip mp. Fuller particulars later on.
The building of the narrow guage rail-
road from Ednburg to Liberty Furnace
has been of far greater benefit to this Sec
ton than anyone would kaye first sup
posed. 1t has opened up this country to
the inspection of prospectors and inves-
tors that will likely bear good fruit here
after. The building of the road has given
employment at good wages to many per-
sons who were greatly in need of it and
made the winter season of much greater
plenty in many families than they could
have otherwise expected. The money
paid ont for its construction, labor ma
! teriaI, &C., has made itself felt i'll branch
es of business here, our merchants partlc-
ularlv benefiting bv it. Now let MS have
the machine or repair shops here for both
roads. az there can be no better location
in the Valley.
The following article, taken from the
W Washington Post, of Wednesday, shows
the bright future we have before us
Ep1NBuRG, VA, Feb. 17.-This town IS
located IN about the center of the Shenan-
doah Valley, near where Stony Creek
empties into the north fork of the Sbenan'
doad river. The water power that could
he utilized in these streams Is immense.
Six mills are located upon tie same with
in a radius of two and one half miles, and
this town has greater advantage over
others in that respect, being the best To-
cation for tanneries in the valley, and IS
the nearest town to virgin growth OF
timber. A country has been opered up
lately by the construction of narrow
puage railroad from this place on the
baltimore and Ohio railroad to Columbia
and Liberty Furnaces, twelve miles, and
the same will be made n standard guage
and projected into West Virginia and to
the unlimited timber and coal fields.
The furnaces have been lat,ly pur-
chased by Philadelphia syndicate, and
new machinery is being put in that Will
mt ont fifty or sixty tons of charcoal iron
per day. The finest of orc can be mined
for century. Rolling mills, furnaces
tonndries. and iron working establish
ments could be started at Edinbnrg with
great profit to the projectors The conn
try along Stony Creek is very thickly sell
tied. with eleven country stores on twelve
miles of country road, III almost the finest
wheat-erowing section OF the State. one
mile from the town largo deposit oil
ocbre three or four colOrs, has betn dc
veloped.
A Baltimore company has been organ
lied to work the same. Three miles FUR
Their on, Powelrs Fort Valley can be reach
ed. 1t is from one to two miles vide,
foil of iron ore and the mountains covered
with timber. Two iron furnaces nave
been operated there. Que OF them was
burned during the war. The other prop
erty has been lately purchased by Boston
CAPITALISTS. Manganese has been WORKED
in that valley, and has been traced along
the mountains for twelve miles.
There are excellent inducements ior tn'
Norfolk and Western railroad to build II
this town from the contemplated Wash
,ngton extension through Powel.s For
Valley and Ednburg Gap. 1twould CIV
an outlet into West Virginia and its Goa
fields.