The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-28
VIRGINIA NOTES..

WOO auCnorileu 10 make inc SUBSCRIPTION
recently voted by F~incastle to the Fin
castle and Southern Botetourt Com
pany-that is, to the branch railroad.
The amount of tho subscription is
$4,000. There was entire unanimity
In the action of the council in regard to
this matter.
The officers of the Fincastle and
Southern Botetourt Company are as fol-
lows: Il. Il. Herndon, president and gen
eral manager; O.. III. Vines, ~vice-presi-
dent; r. l.. Housman, secretary; JAS. God
win, treasurer; G. Nj. Lunsford, solicitor.
Board of directors: II. Il. Herndon,
John Lauterbach, John CASTILLO, George
0. Clifton, Henry w. May, p. Il. Duffy,
Henry Rummell, j.. ii. Russell, c. Nj.
Lunsford, c. III. Vines, c. Is. Camper,
Alfred Brecklcy, l.. Housman, Jr., Jones
Graybill and James Goodwin.
There is a project for establishing a
big sheep farm in Boteteurt county,
a New Castle. The idea is to pur.
chase 10000 acres of land and divide it
up by wire fences, employ Scotch shop
herds, and condu ct it on the most i'm
proved plans.-Exchange.
The above has been going the rounds
OF the press, and is o mistake, so far as
Botetourt is concerned. No such move
ment is on foot here that we know of.
New Castle is in the "Free State" and
it may be that such an enterprise is to
be inaugurted there. There, is how
ever, no better county in the State for
sheep raising han Botetourt, and while
we may not engage in it as indicated
above, there is no reason why our farm
ers should not cngage individually in the
business.
Tho Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company has secured an option for tho
purchase of Pigs Point, near Newport
News, tho supposed purpose being to
build a railroad from Norfolk to tho
opposite point in order that a considera-
Ole saving OF time may be effected. 1t
now takes a steamer thirty-five minutes
to run from Norfolk to Newport News,
while it would require but fifteen min
utes to cross the narrow water to the
Point.
The Flat Top coal field of Mcdowell
county, w. Va, from whose mines con-
siderable shipments wero made last
year, will soon have a largely increased
development. An independent railroad
line has been chartered by coal opera
tors to connect that fold with the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, SO that
it will have that system as we'll as the
Norfolk and Western to transport and
distribute its output.
The receivers of the Atlantic & DAN
willie Railroad Company have been en-
powered by the United States Court to
issue certificates Of Indebtedness
amounting to $3.50, 900, to be expended
for betterments and other purposes.
Engineers are on the ground laying
out the bed for a side rack from the
main stem of tho Chesapeake and Ohio
railway to connect with the industrial
nI0 nfQ nm fhn r@,l - 49, DftfI--
Forge Company. The bridge crossing
Smiths creek at Church street, on this
company's property, is nearly finished,
N the one higher up the stream is al
ready in use.
Capt. Jno. P. Shelley has donated q
beautiful plat of ave acres, just south of
Marion, to a joint stock who
propose to built a fifteen thousand dol
Jar hotel on the property.
Col. T. w. M. Draper and Capt. Rogers
OF the Danville and East Tennessee
railroad, were in Marion Wednesday.
In company with committee of gentle
men, Messrs. Ii. b. Hull. A. M. Dick
enson and Geo. w. Richardson, they
went to inspect the proposed route for
the road through Rye Valley-looking
to an outlet by way OF Brushy Gap, INTO
Crooked creek and to Fancy Gap.
1t is quite probable tina the Dan
viAo and East Tennessee road will
cross the Blue Ridge at Wards Gap or
Goodson Gap. though it will not be de-
ternined Upon till next summer. If it
crosses the latter place it will likely
within one or two miles of Mount
Airy, N. c., otherwise it will not go
moro than ten miles from that city.
Movements are on foot to improve
and 6QUnlOn thu npnof Il0nkl4& 1890.
which touches the property of the Cliff
ton Forge Company, the Chesapeake and
Ohio Development Company, and the
~Covington Improvement Company. Eng
!1sh Capitalists, we understand, are
behind it, and an English expert en-
gineer has been, or soon will be, on
the property to examine locations for
furnaces and railroad tracts. This
tract contains about 80, 900 acres, and
as rich In iron ore and timber.
At Iron Gate tho same hopeful aud
assuring feeling prevails. On Thursday
last arrangements were perfected for
the construction of a 75-ton blast furn-
ace, to be supplemented, in tho course
OF time, when this one is fairly under
way by another. The Alliance Agricul-
tural Works are in operation, with 35
men at work, turning out plows and
wagons.
The Clifton Forge Mining and Develop
ment Company has recently, opposite
Iron Gate on the east side OF jackson
river, opened up a forty-foot vein of very
hne brown hematitc ore, and is prepar-
ing to mine and ship ores. On the West
Iron Gate property a good body of hema-
title ore has been discovered which NAV
open up a rich seam. At Rich Patch
mines the railroad track is about laid:
the manager of tho mines, CAPTAIN nj.