Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-25

Per. which remsinsd - jenG u9ee.
piof-i after che Valley snd The Fvss
shofus had been cassfailf studied hes .
grand future. A Geld fos immiGfnnu
who have capiiaI and intelligence. 70f =
better class N farmers. and foe workers N
mstiI u u unsurpassed. u " an empire IN
isself a every ooneslvabls rcsourcs,'
This Is but one o. the fcw pfcphesies re-
rardine this section that are beng fu'-
Another woll-known northern writer
Here seems o. ~ Tho safety. valve 20 let
OF tho supurhuous steam OF skilled labor
az the North, which Ia rapidly being
crowded 20 the wall and IL meeting with
the reduction in wages inssparable from
the presence OF over-srpply. To our
ambitious young men. therefore. who are
contemplating change. and TO whom the
West seems from this distance to offer so
many allurements, we say. look TO the
Southland. For the next decade her de-
yalopment bids fair TO equal that OF the
West in its palmiest time, and the man OF
sagacity and energy will find highway to
success
THE FUTURE.
II the future Of Salem as great indus
trial csntrs IL not assured then hundreds
These men have not said We will tell You
what TO do, but have set an example, and
the money that has been put into industries
here is only an earnest of what Is TO come.
Money, brains, enterprise, and puobc
spirit are here. The climate cannot De ex-
celled. The railroad facilities are all that
could be desired. There is q prodigaiity
of raw material at the doors of the town
awaiting the ingenuity of man TO turn IL
into manufactured products. IL that does
not mean continued progress there Is
no such thing rs the logic OF development.
Further it means a continued advance In
values.
The law of industrial accretion has been
strikingly illustrated in Salem since the
first step was taken along the road OF
progress that opened up before Southwest
Virginia. Salem did not begin to develop
"a soon as some other places, but when she
did start it was on solid foundation which
precluded the possibility Of collapse.
What she has she will hold and the pos
session Is o magnet that is constantly at
tracing. Any one VINO VIII come 70
Salem and remain a week will concur with
the writer that this extract from recent
magazine article on tho town is a correct
picture:
THE companies are pushing forward
every interest 80 persistently that one Is at
loss TO select the feature Of greatest mo-
ment. Here are groups of neat, modern
cottages for workmen; there is costly re-
sidence Of some capitalist: there S25,oO0
spacious. solid bank building OF brick; there
o $4,000 hotel of modern, picturesque
architecture; there an iron-furnace; there
the site of steel-plant; there and there
iron bridges spanning the river; there q
factory with its busy buzz; there rail-
road depot; there q summer retreat in
shaded seclusion. and there handsome
public-school building Just completed. All
around from any hill one may see town
forming, and though he cannot see it grow
from hour To hour, it is no exaggcratIon TO
say that marked and steady advances may
be observed from day to day."
To see Salem is to be satisfied that no
thing that has been said regarding its pres
ent or predicted touching ITS future Is ex-
sggerated.