The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-07
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

SeASJS0 W IeCtuUlY. Inc loss Is
estimated at from $4,000 to $50, 900,
with insurance Of but SIS, 900.
Contractor Normoyle is pushing the
work on the stone wall of Bluefield Inn,
and expects, if nothing prevents, to
have the hotel and grounds enclosed in
about two weeks. The coping will be
OF alternate blocks six and nine inches
and the whole will be pointed up in
black cement. The gateways will be
adorned with massive stone pillars.
The sixth annual reunion and Grand
Lodge meeting of the Benevolent and
Protective Order Of Elks, will take place
at Louisville, Ky, May 18th, 18th, and
10Th. About twenty-five or thirty of
the Richmond Elks will attend the re
union, while probably 1000 members of
the organization from various parts of
the country will be present.
I. Is. Grasty. of Gordonsville, has
specimens of both copper and iron
pyrites, samples of extensive deposit,
on his land These deposits are held to
be exceedingly valuable, and lie dire city
upon the route of the keystone and
Orange railway, now in process of con-
struction.
The demand for carpenters and other
mechanics at Gordonsville is increasing.
A tunnel under Pine Ridge is now the
hobby of the Wytheville Development
Company.
The contractors for the building of
the National boulevard at Frede ricks-
burg are busy getting out the stone and
Will begin work on the roadway this
morning. The work will commence
with TWENTY-FIVE hands, and the stone
for the work will be taken from Hun
ter's Island.
number Of farmers near Reading,
Pa, having successfully experimental
with sugar beet culture last year, in
tend planting this year on more ex-
tensive scale.
The railroad force on the Fincastle
road are in camp about one mile and
half southwest of the place. Tho work
is being done by Messrs. j. b. Powell IL
Co., sub-contractors. Mr.. Thomas Kee.
nan, tho general manager of the Con-
struction Company, is now in Fincastle
experimenting and making arrange
ments for the vigorous prosecution of
the work. number of the teams and
necessary implements have arrived
here.
Major n. II. Hotchkiss died at his res
idence in Stanton last Friday night.
lie will be remembered as the famous
''car tracer" Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
for many years He was a brother OF
Major Jed Hotchkiss. Major Hotchkiss
was over scventy-fivo years old. He
was native OF New York State, but
has been resident of Stanton for
about twenty years. He was the father
of Mrs. Taylor Ellyson and Mr. L. D.
llotchkiss, Of Richmond, Va.
Track laying on the Louisville and
Nashville Is within six miles of Norton.
but owing to the fact that cut or two
is not completed on Winston and Hills
contract the Louisville and Nashville
train will not reach Norton for nearly
two weeks.
Plans are expected daily from Phila-
delphia for the largo Shendun graded
school building lately mentioned. The
building will be at once let to contract
is estimated that it will take 600, 900
brick to complete the building.
Washington and Lee University has
received very handsome donation of
books from Rev. DIR. Cabot D. Bradlec,
OF Boston, Mass.
The machinery of the iron working
part of the Lexington Manufacturing
Company has been sold to Buena Vista
parties, and is being removed to that
place.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company has promised the Charlottes-
vile Land Company to subscribe
literally to the capital stock or to the
first mortgage bonds on any important
manufacturing plant favorably located
on It's line at this place. The Richmond
and Danville has also made promises of
liberal and substantial aid under SINH
lar conditions.
Blair &c O'Brien, of Roanoke, have
taken sub-contract for the building of
the Arnold's Valley railroad.
Coal has lately been sent from Phila-
delphia to Hamburg. Palermo, Cuba.
Colon, Porto Rico, Martinique and St.
Thomas by steamers, and shipped in
sailing vessels to San Francisco, La
guayra and Mexican ports. These ship
ments were not made in ballast, but on
orders for commercial use. Coal is go
ing from the Virginia coal folds to Spain
and Brazil. From this time forth it is
evident that the worlds supply will be
drawn less and less from the deep mines
of Great Britain and more and more
from our own mines.
Thirty-five men on the Pulaski Land
and Improvement Company's street
force struck last week because of
slight misunderstanding between the
foreman and company.
White Thorn, the farm of Colonel
William Ballard Preston. near blacks
burg. was sold recently to Captain
Stockton Heth, of Radford for $50, 600.
The farm is one of the finest in South.
west Virginia; contains 1,40O ocres.
Edward Brugh has on his farm near
Brugh's Mill spring which contains
valuable medicinal qualities. This
spring was discovered fifty years ago