The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1891-07-02
INDUSTRIAL NEWS.

pany proposes to start q barrel factory.
The Shenandoah Furnace Company
will erect a 20G-ton furnace as soon as /
the rolling mill is completed.
C. 81. Duhring, president of the Flat |
Trop Coal Company, died Wednesday,
the 10th inst, at Bluefield, w. Va.
There will be great sale of lots at
Farmyille, Va, on July 1st, ID and Sd, by
the Farmvile Coal and Iron Company.
The Central Investment Company of
Buchanan, contemplates the expendi-
ture of $4,000 in the erection of builds
ings.
The knitting mills at Basic City will
soon be ready for work. Mr.. Geo. H.
Selb, late of Bridgtown, n. j., is propri-
etor
The Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Company. Of Norfolk, will erect
an electric light plant. Building is now
in course of erection.
Work has begun on the extension of
the Norfolk and Western shops at Blue
field, w Va. When completed they vii!
employ thousand men.
The stack of the Radford Crane Iron
Furnace has been completed and is 1870
feet high Work upon the buildings is
progressing favorably.
w. G. Seagle & Co, of Pulaski City,
will erect building 25X1G0 feet; it is to
have an elevator and W. P. Tinsley, of
Lynehburg. will furnish plans.
The Allegheny Iron Company has
been Incorporated at Iron Gate with a
{ capital stock of $500 900 for the purpose
of mining and manufacturing iron. etc.
The Richards Development Company
has been organized with G. Graham as
president and A. 6. Norris as secretary,
to erect buildings. The capital stock is
100000
The city of Bristol VIII elect a court
house and city hall building at a cost OF
$4,000, and a market and engine house
to cost $12, 600 and school building to
cost So, 600.
Excavations are now being made for
the foundation of the new Basic City
bank building at the corner OF fourth
street and Bayard avenue. The strue
ture will be of brick, two stories high.
The Staunton Binding Company OF
Stanton. has secured contract for the
erection of a number of buildings IN Cor
louisville at a cost OF $4,000 and i'lclud-
ing $4,000 business house.
The Twin City Improvement Compa>
ny has been organized at Front Royal foi
the purpose of erecting buildings, with
James Craig, president, and d. J. Tur
ner, secretary. The capital stock IS $50,
o6O
An official statement of the Harrison
burg Land aud Improvement Company
reports the resources at $3.50, i27.51 and
the liabilities $165 .43, The excess OF
resources over liab tiles being $103, 371.
08.
A charter has been granted in the Cir
cult Court at Staunton to the Basic City
Development Company. The principal
office of the Company is at Basic City
Va W s. Gooch, OF Roanoke, is presi
dent. and w S. Sprou', Of Basic City
secretary The authorized capital stock
of the concern is not less than $1,000 mol
more than 100000.
A syndicate is reported as having
leased the marble and the stone quar-
ries of the South River Mining and Land
Company, near Waynesboro. and as to
develop the same under the management
of f. A. Wise.
The Consumers Phosphate Company
has been incorporated at Richmond with
S. D. Crenshaw, president; J. S. Carr, OF
Durham N. c., vice-president, and /. A
Carr, secretary. The capital stock il
$50, 900.
The Virginia State Engineers Associa
ton will meet at Virginia Beach, July 2;
and "a The rooms of the Association in
Roanoke over Greene Co.'s clothing
store on Jefferson street have been ele
gantly furnished and are now open.
d. P. Bosworth, of Boston, Mass, J. P
Laing, of Marietta. Ohio; Duston Lancy
of Newton, Mass: and others have incor
porated the Ohio Coal and Oil Company
to develop coal mines and sink OF we''s
The capital is not to exceed 100000.
John Diuigie and S. H. Norris, of Phil
adelphia. Pa; w. H. Schmoele and Will
liam Lamb have incorporated the Vir-
ginia City Company at Portsmouth to
deal in real estate, etc. The capital ST ock
is to be not less than $3.50, 900 nor more
than $1.000,000.
The Richmond Wood Company has
been incorporated with P l.. Conquest,
president; b. Il. Watkins, vice-president,
and j. A. Moncure, secretary, to manu-
facture wood, etc. The capital stock is
to be not more than $4,000 nor less than
$4,000.
! The Jefferson Park Hotel and Land
Improvement Company. Of Chan lottes>
vile, has sold half interest of it's props
erty to a sy Indicate composed OF Messrs.
E. A. Handy and F. A. WEIGH, of Phila-
delphia, and John P. Hartman and l..
w. Cox. of Charlottesville.
An Ohio party is corresponding with
the Big Stone Gap Improvement Compa-
nv relative to the establishment Of shoe
factory, foundry and machine shops,
rolling mill, electrical works, iron works,
planning mill and sash, door and blind
factory, two glass factories and other
manufacturing industries.
The engineers who are surveying the
southern extension of the Roanoke and
Southern railroad have reached Gold
Hill. 45.2 miles south of Winston, n. G.
The grades are not over Il per cent On
their return the engineers will run the
route from Charlotte to Winston, proba-
bly, via Concord to Salisbury.
S. w. Rhea, Mayor of Bristol, Tenn,
reports that $4,000 will be expended for
building purposes for the King Presby
.terian College, $4,000 for the South
west Virginia Institute, to be removed
from Glade Springs, Va, to Bristol. and
$4,000 for the erect ton of convent