The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-22
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

weather has greatly impcded the work.
The Norfolk and Western bridge below
Cercdo will be of iron and steel, "Bow-
string" pattern, 1871 feet long, five
spans; center or thannel span, sci feot,
two spans on either side of channel
each 304 feet; next two, each 3O1 feet;
base of rail. 1Ol feet below extreme low
water. The bridge when completed
will be one of the best and strongest in
tho country. The approach to the Nor.
folk and Western bridge through
Kcnova is by an iron viaduct ., $50 feet
long. carrying two tracks. The viaduct
crosses the main line Of the Ches cpeake
AMI Ohio Railway at an elevation of 20
feet above the tracks, at which point
there will be a ~commodious union pas
senger depot, built of brick and of mod
ern and tasteful design.
The deposition of Col. w. ii. Case was
taken at BERTHA on Thursday last to be
read in an important suit, involving
$40, 600 damages, against the Knoxville,
c.. &. e Louisville Railroad Company at
Knoxville, Tenn. The suit grew out of
the accident at Flat Creek where the
rear coach jumped the track and
tumbled into the creek and killed half
a dozen or more and wounded and in
jured a number of persons. The suits
broughtagainst the company aggregated
S24O, OOO.
In tho proposed new Arlington sus-
pension bridge at Washington the clear
height above the water at mid-channel
is to be los tect, the river span to be
1.l00 feet, and the two shore spans 652
feet each. The approach ut each end
will be on masonry arched viaducts, and
entertainments Of earth. suspension
cables of steel will pass over two gran
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pierced with arched openings for road
ways, and be anchored into masses of
masonry at the outer end of each ap-
proach.
Picket Camp of Confederate Veterans,
of Richmond, last night adopted resolu-
lions in c-ommemoration of the death of
Gen. Joseph e. Johnston.
Capt. w. Trustrow, for many years a
steamboat man on the Kanawha and
Ohio rivers, died at his home, in Charles
ton, w. Va, yesterday, from a stroke of
paralysis. Deceased was seventy-two
years old, and las been engaged in bust
ness in Charleston since leaving the
river some years ago.
In Dickinson county last week Aaron
Gibson was killed by 4 man named Can
dill in a drunken row.
Edward Major, for many years treas
urel of Charles City county, died Tues
day.
The Mansion House, together with
two and one-half acres of land, part of
the Belmont" estate, adjoining Char
lottesville, formerly the property Of the
late Slaughter w. ticklin. has been
sold to MIR. w. j. Ficklin for SIS, 1000.
The new steel bridge assumes shape
and substance rapidly under the skilful
labor of it's builders. The long and diff
fcult to construct span of los feet in
length, spoken of in earlier issues, is in
the final stages of completion. One
truss has been erected and within q few
days the false work beneath can be re-
moved. The work will then proceed
with great rapidity.
The Irish Creek tin mines in Rock
bridge will prove a source of wealth.
The steps now being taken for the de-
v%elopment of the Cash tin mines by
their ~lessees, the Boston Tin Mining
Company, are the reasons in which this
conclusion is based. This company is
composed OF Northern men, some of
whom have large means. After an in
vestigation carefully made they leased
for two years from the Circuit Court of
Rockbridge in March, 1890, these mines.
They paid for thom as a minimum
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the sum of SIP, 900, and secured the
option of making a purchase of tho
property at the n Of two years for
S1SS, 900. Tho Bostin Tin Mining Com
pany is now preparing to erect on the
Cash tin property works for the reduc-
ton of the orc, which will cost not less
than $50, 600, and which will give en-
ployment to one hundred and moro
hands. The site is now being prepared
for tho works. The machinery to be
used has been ordered and is daily ex-
pected to arrive at Vcsuvius depot.
These works will not smell, the ore, but
it will be crushed, washed and the for
eign substances largely removed from it.
Radford's material development is
we'll instanced in the solidity of the new
plants in course of erection. The Pipe
and Foundry Company ,are sparing no
expense in pushing forward their enter
prise, and a large force is at work. Tho
erection of the machine foundry build
ing, which is to be Of iron, has bcon
under way some days; the s~toncmasons
are at work in the casting pits, which
are Il complex mass of masrony: the
brick plant is ready for operation and
other branches are receiving attention
as fast as possible. Two locomotives
for use on the narrow guage railway
have arrived, and the company has als o
received several spans of mules and
horses for use on the works.
John Il. Watts, in company with 9TH
crs interested in the iron properties on
Clear Fork, passed through Graham
last week with a view to meeting parties
in correspondence with them in tho
eastern cities. All that is necessary to
make this property valuable is a rail
road opening up tho valley OF Clear
Fork. ~ road should be constructed
from a point on the Chesapeake and