The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-05-28
Virginia.


Ihe Richlands Water, Electric LIGHT
: gas and Power Company has been or.
! ganized. "
J a copper and sulphur mine is -beino
ported. ~ 81 - Is re-
The glass sand in Tazewell county 10
SAD TO be equal in quality to anv dis
covered in the United States.
It is said that 1000 pounds of oxide Of
h h,mu ale pe1ng made at the West Lynch
II is reported that the bottline. works
ana ice factory of ]. F. Liedig. Of Steel
City. '0 " Dasic
The. Norfolk Brick Company has been
incorporated, with r. F. Baldwin. Sec
tiles. az" ofoin
Ine track on the Clinch Valley Exs
tension has been laid to Norton and
| VIII at once be ballastea and put in con-
dition for traffic
The Inside Property Comnanv todooJ
in real estate, has been formed at Roar
oke by j. 8. Simmons, P. L. Terry. s.
W. Jamison and others.
Inc real estate exchange at Lynch
ourg reports that improvements to the
value of 81, 1876, 700 are in progress or ms
Ger contract in Lynchburg and suburbs.
The earnings of the Chesapeake and
ONO Road for the month of March show
an increase OF $SS, 259. 01 over those for
ohe corresponding month last year.
1t is reported that A. j. MiIiken. of
columbus, Ohio, has purchased land
near Fort Mitchell on which he proposes
10 establish stock farm and also erect
lumber mill, etc.
An effort is being made at Roanoke to
form company to operate portable
electric motors and electric light plants
according to the patents of the Carpen-
Ter Electric Light Company, of Denver,
Colorado.
Messrs. Warren 4 Woodward have
sold their planning mill in Luray to the
PIedmont Manufacturing Company,
which will run the same in connection
with it's broom factory soon to be estab-
lished there.
The Peninsula Electric Light and
Power Company has been organized at
Newport News with a capital of $780,
OOO The company proposes to begin at
once to supply Newport News with
electric light and also furnish power to
run an electric railway.
The Northwest Bnena Vista Building
and improvement Company has been
organized with a capital of $125, 900. The
company has purchased about 200 acres
OF Hand adjoining Buena Vista on the
northwest The officers are President,
J.. I. Dunlop secretary and treasurer,
T. f. Arnold.
FINAL arrangements have been made
to erect glass works at Buena Vista.
). w. Collins of Martins Ferry, Ohio.
mas been made permanent secretary of
the Buena Vista Glass Company. and
Thomas J. Irwin, general manager The
works will make a speciality of flint glass
bottles such as are used for mineral
water.
Contracts have been closed whereby
the Essex Yarn Mills, of Newark, N. j.,
will be removed to Roanoke. The COM
of the Virginia Blanket Mills with $780,
900 capital. The plant will be located
On the Roanoke Development Cons
panys property, opposite the West End
Rolling Mills. 1t will manufacture a
fine quality of house and bed blankets,
yarns for rugs, etc. The mills are ex-
pected to be in operation in July.
The double track of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad has been completed
from Roanoke to Elliston, distance of
twenty miles. The bridges and every
thing are done, and trains have a clear
run to Roanoke. The section of road
from Elliston to the top of the Allegheny
Mountains, eleven miles, is not yet let to
contract. 1t is very heavy work and
will doubtless be commenced in the
early spring. 1t is absolutely necessary
to accommodate the heavy traffic of the
road