The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-20
VIRGINIA AEs.

Work was resumed abe6t three weeks
ago by the Staunton Improvement Com
pany, after cessation OF several months
for the winter. AT present operations
upon the company's fine property north
east of the city are confined to brick
making. A kiln of $4,000 brick has been
burned and sold, and another kiln will
be fired next Monday. Fifteen thousand
brick per day are being made.
w. e. Reed, Esq, of Pocahontas, who
is now in Boone county, w. Va. pros
pecting upon coal lands in which he is
interested, informs us that he has ship
ped to the Headlight box of fine
specimens of camel and bituminous
Goals found on the lands lately pur-
chased in that county and held by Mr..
a. ST. Clair, trustee for himself and
others.-Graham Headlight.
The Abingdon Virginian says Wash
ington county subscribed $40, 600 to aid
in the construction of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, sold the stock for
$4,000. and has since received in taxes
from the company 100000, making
clear gain of $4,000, to say nothing of
the benefits resulting from the road.
w. f. Rhea, trustee. sold at Big Stone
Gap Saturday to the highest bidder, the
Kelley Moon tract of land, containing
1,47o acres, for ,495, the purchaser
being Col. j. G. Haskell.
At the Staunton shoe factory during
last week 2;700 pairs of shoes were
made. Heretofore the weekly product of
the factory has ranged between 1000
1880 pairs. superintendent Asher SAYS
the increase is due principally to the
rapid acquisition of skill by his en-
ployes. They are learning to do their
respective parts of the work with adj
mirable efficiency. A part of the cause
of the increase Of product has been the
addition of about fifteen persons to the
working force, raising the total number
to about seventy-iye.
The parties who recently purchased
the valuable iron lands at Riverville
and Stapleton, on James river, twenty
six miles below Lynchburg, have Sc
cured a charter, organized the company
and put prospectus before the public
Among the charter members, in addi-
ton to the above, are Gov. Mckinney,
j. billiard, of Lynchburg; Edgar White
head, of Amherst; George w. Mayo and
j. r. McMurdo, of Richmond. The
name is the James River Steel and Iron
Company, and the capital stock is to
500, 600 minimum, and $1,000, 900 max
imum. The company proposes at once
TO erect, or assist in erecting, steel
plants, furnaces. foundries and manu-
factories, and lay the foundations of an
industrial community.
Rev. Father VIM. Fallon, who is the
assistant of Father McVerry of the
Catholic Church at Stanton, has been
i'll with typhoid fever for about five
weeks. He is still in precarious con-
ditiop. not having passed the crisis of
the disease, but his attending physician
thinks he is about going through the
critical period of his spell now His
cousin, Father Murray, of Winchester,
has been by his bedside portion of
the time since he was first taken ill.
At commissioners s. sale at Charleston,
w. Va. Saturday, 1850 acres of min
eral land in Fayette county were sold
to the Gauley Mountain Coal Company
for Sl24,0o0. The property sold en-
braces the land operated by the Hawks
Nest Coal Company and LOGO acres on
Gauley river.
DR.. M. c. Wallace. of Scott county,
was recently attacked with la grippe,
and subsequently became insane lie
has been sent to the lunatic ayslum