The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-01
SOUTHWEST v1Ra1NtA NOTES.


Swift, Of the Swift Powder Company, for
. the building of the railroad up Arnold's
Valley, and work has already COM
menced on the upper end of the line.
Mr.. Swift will hurry the construction on
as rapidly as possible. for he is much
interested in its completion, being un-
able to bring in the machinery Of his
mill until it is finished. He intends to
have the road completed within thirty
days.
There is a large force at work laying
the new rails on tho nine-mile track
between Orange Court House and Cor
louisville. They say the Eagle, tho
Cannon ball, and Flying Dutchman YES
tibuled trains, and four freight trains
will run over the road when it is COM
pleted, which will be early in April.
The Louisville and Nashville road
has reached the depot at Big Stone Gap.
The Post says: The whistle of the
engine and even tho clang of the iron
rails may be heard within the city limits
as the work of the tracklaying pro-
crosses. The freight depot grounds are
extensive. They will occupy over thir-
teen acres. and the company proposes to
construct on them fourteen tracks.
The engineering corps of the Nash
vile and Cumberland Gap railway have
been worry busy tho past ten days (whcn
permitted by the rainy laying out the
final location from Cookville to Thorn
Gap. This projected railway will tap
the e. T., Va. & Ga. at Clinton, and it
is now confidently believed that the
final terminus will be Floyds, where it
will connect with the Morristown and
Cumberland Gap railway.
Bristol News: Tho Bristol chamber
OF commerce had called meeting re-
Gently and adopted resolutions protest
ing against the passage of the revenue
bill by the Tennessee legislator and
sent the same to Hon. Charles A. Brown
Tho bill is paralyzer, and if it be-
comes law will drive many of the
business men of Bristol, Tenn, across
the State line into Bristol, Va. Instead
Of bringing revenue into the State
treasury it would be a blight and q
curse and do more to depopulato the
State than any epidemic of cholera. 1t
ought to be consigned to the basement
of tho capitol.
The movement recently set afoot by
the Equity Improvement Company, of
Winchester, and the Berryville Improve
mont Company, for the building of
railroad between Winchester and Berry
Vile, is filled with lively promises of
important and far reaching results to
tho places mentioned. 1t is only fifteen
or sixteen miles to Round Hill, the
present terminus of tho Washington,
Ohio and Western railroad. West of
Winchester are coal deposits situated
thirty-five or forty miles nearer tide
water than any Other railraid route
movement will be inaugurated in Win
chester to push this railroad limo to the
coal fields mentioned. With the Wash
ington, Ohio and Western railroad COM
pleted to Winchester, seventy miles of
the distance will be covered.
A railroad to connect the Shenandoah
Valley at Shendun with tho baltimore
and Ohio at Weyer's Cave station is be-
ing surveyed This line will run i'm
mediately by the cave, thence by the
Cave Hotel, thence across the country
to North river, and up North river to-
wards the Baltimore and Ohio.
Joseph Hoge, OF Giles, has sold val
liable quarry of marble on his farm for
$4,000.
Big Stone Post: The lands that will
have the Creates development, between
the north end OF Zig Stone Gap and
Norton. on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad belong in their order to the
following parties: The Carolina Steel
81 Iron Company, headquarters, Wash
ington, ID. c.. the Virginia Coal and
Iron Company, Mauch Chunk, Penn,
and Big Stone Gap; William McGeorge,
Jr., Philadelphia, Penn, Jack Kelly,
leased to Ferguson &c Vaughn, of Roam
oke; Interstate Investment Company,
Louisville. Ky. d. j. Lewis, of fremont,
Penn, the Powell River Coal and Coke
Company, in which Gov. Campbell, of
Ohio, is interested; and finally Patrick
Hagan, who was a fow years ago tho
largest land owner in Southwest Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Kelly is said to have leased
his land on royalty, running from 6A
to 10 cents per ton.
Lands about Tacoma have been leased
at 10 cents all around. Other lands arc
negotiating for such accessible lands as
may be left and others arc writing and
inquiring about property. The develop
ment promises to be phenomenally large.
The Louisville and Nashville will be
compelled to extend it's line from Mid
dlesborough or there abouts to some
points on its main line not far from
Nashville so that it may carry this coke
to the furnaces at birmingham and
Chattanooga, which cannot get the best
quality there. Mr.. Lcisoning, presi-
dent of the Virginia Coal and Iron Com
4, pany, says he has no doubt that he will
supply the birmingham furnaces with
coke from his Big Stone Gap plant.
The Rocky Mount Granite Company
has purchased tho Greer & Saunders
and Gambill, Sims &c Co. uuarries, near
Rocky Mount and have subscribers for
the balance Of the capital stock of
$4,000, represented by Martinsville,
Roanoke, Salem, Pittsylvania, Lynch
burg, Franklin and other capitalists.
The fifty-room addition to Maple