The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-27
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

Improvements ~ prSSeHI terminals,
$3.50. 900; belt line, S225,0OO; engine
Point, SI25, 200; total, s6On.O
Armour s. Co., of Chicago, the largest
meat packers in the world, have ar.
ranged with the Graham Ice Company
to refrigerate all their cars of meats at
the Clinch Valley and Ohio extensions
for Eastern, Southern and foreign
markets.
The grip has tackled the crews of the
lifo-saving stations along tho Virginia
and North Carolina coasts, and many
are down..
1t is stated that the Allegheny Min
ing and Development Company of Cliff
ton Forge has authorized it's executive
committee to close contract for the
erection of rolling mill and nail mill
in Clifton Forge.
The shipment of pig iron by the
Buena Vista Iron Company for last
week amounted to Twenty-Five carloads
of about eighteen tons to each car.
The Wythe Lead and Zinc Company
will shortly erect plant fer washing
iron ores at Austinville.
The assessed valuation of railroads in
the State in 1889 was S3s,351, 665.75,
and in 1890 s4o 500, s43.55.
Preparations for building telephone
lines through Radford are nearly com
pltte, and the work of setting up posts
will begin In a few days.
From $4,000 to 900 lambs will be
shipped from Rockbridge county to the
New York market this season.
a number of artesian wells arc being
jointly sunk by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Hallway Company and the Con.
struction and Loan Company at West
Clifton Forge.
The wheat crop of Augusta will be
the largest ever produced in the county
and of an equal quality to any other
former product.
Work at the Norfolk Navy-yard is
affected by the exhaustion of the general
appropriation.
Bird &c Peters, of Big Stone Gap, are
erecting 100 ton blast furnace on the
Gallagher iron ore property, three
miles southeast of Abingdon.
The Virginia association for the ad-
vancement for higher education will
meet July z Mt Virginia Beach.
1t is reported that tho Norfolk and
Northwestern to give an outlet from
Portsmouth to Cincinnati.
a company has been organized in
washington city. with a capital stock
of 100000, for the development of the
Massennetta or Taylor Springs, near
Harrisburg, Va,
The supreme court of appeals at
Wytheville has issued an opinion de-
claring the Virginia sta tut to forbidding
the running of freight trains on Sun
day unconstitutional, inasmuch as it in
terferes with the right of Congress to
regulate inter state commerce.
Col. R. j. Berkoly, who has decided
ability both as as writer and as an
orator, has retired from the editorial
management of the Farmvillc Herald,
and has been succeeded by Mr.. j. M.
Crute.
The charter for tho Lexington Chair
Factory Company has been granted.
The following are the officers: Presi-
dent, j. Il. Wilson; general manager. ].
W. Day; secretary and treasurer, II. w.
Shelton. Directors: l.. Il. GLASGOW. ].
w. Day, II. III. Myers. a. l.. Kooncs, II.
s. White j. f. Heck and r. II. Agncr.
Capital $4,000 to $4,000.
The Lexington Building Company
and the Highland Building Com pany
cach let So, COO house to contract this
week. Mr.. j. e. Heck has the contract
for both. These houses will be erected
on the land nearly fronting the Null
berry Hill house. These companies
have selected during the past week. a
number of nice lots in this locality and
In the field about tho hotel. Contracts
for other buildings will be placed in the
next few weeks.
Excavations are being made for the
erection of wing to the Blueficld
Inn, extending south from the west end
of the building. The inn is now sur
rounded by an ornamental stone wall.
and when the grading of the ground is
finished it will present beautiful an.
pearance.
Ground was broken last Monday for
the addition to the machine shops at
Blueheld Tho shops as enlarged will
cover the ground northeast of the pres.
ent shops, and il tho plans as sub
mittcd are carried out it will be an i'm.
posing structure and most commodious
one 1t Is estimated that the new shops
Will afford work for several hundred
more hands than are now employed. A
large quantity of the machinery for the
new shops is stored under temporary
shelter near the old car shops Much
of the grading has been dono AMI the
indications are that this summer will
see the work very well advanced. 1t is
known that the necessities of the com.
pany Will demand very large addition
to the present. shops and consequent
increase in tho force. The completion
OF THIS work will mark the era of an
other boom in Bluctield.
Hon. Jeremiah Rusk. Secretary of
Agriculture; Thomas Whitehead, of
Richmond, and Hon. Jerry Simpson, of
Kansas, have been invited to deliver
addresses on the first day of the Shcn-
andoah Valley fair.