The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-05
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NEWS.

for the Grottoes Brick and Building
Company, q corporation recently organ
lied in Kentucky to operate at Shendun.
Application has been made to the
comptroller of the currency for author
ity to organize the Virginia National
Bank of Fredericksburg.
Mr.. u. M. Henry, OF Stafford, has sold
to Mr.. G. Is. Strousc, of Salem, his fine
stallion, Fire Brand" The price paid
was $1,000.
The Alliance Warehouse claims to
have sold over one-fourth of the to-
bacco sold in Lynchburg this season.
The biggest week is reported at $500
and the biggest day at s. 5000.
Railroad men are getting ready to repair
the nine milo track from G%ordonsville
to Orange Court House. New steel rails
have been unloaded all along tho road
to take the place Of old ones. The rails
had to be relaid, as the ones used by
the Jerk Water" were insufficient to
carry the heavy vestibule trains. The
railroad will be entirely repaired soon.
Then the vestibule trains will be
changed from the Virginia Midland to.
the Chesapeake and Ohio.
On the mammoth sheep farm which
it is proposed to start in Botetourt, the
plan is to put up over 100 miles Of wire
AOhOAhB. 4AcI0 ai0 duOuG 1f,OOO dCESS
OF land on the place. This is to be
divided up into 5000 acre lots, each of
which is to be enclosed with wire fence.
If this were stretched in a straight line
it would make over 100 miles.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad Company will double
track their system from Knoxville to
Morristown, from Knoxville to Coal
Creek, and Ooltewah to Chattanooga.
Also that an extension will be built
from Rogersville Junction to Big Stone
Gap, Virginia.
Judge Fl. G. Bond, general manager
of tho Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail-
road Company, of Alabama, in an in
terview in the New York Press, said:
THE Pennsylvania iron furnaces are
furnaces shut down in Pennsylvania
and Ohio which I predict will never be
fired up again. They cannot make iron
in competition with Tennessee and Ala
bama. An instance in our own bust
ness will illustrate what l mean" said
Judge Bond. 1--WE sold iron last year
to an Ohio rolling mill which had q fur
mace of it's own, but could buy our iron
cheaper than it could make it's own pig
iron, and has now shut down its fur
mace. There Is tho whole situation in
one example.
Hon. E. w. Hubbard, of Buckingham,
has recently made a sale of some 200
acres of valuable mineral land. Tho
iron vein found on this land is a new
one and the prospects said to be encour-
aging. The property is situated in tho
vicinity of 'Rosnoy." About $50, 900 of
the stock of the company operating at
Rosney has been placed in Virginia
alono and the terms of tho ri arc
not only liberal but entirely safe, as
they offer to refund the money paid in
by stockholders if they become dissatis-
fed in SIX months.
The Orange and Keysville Railroad
Company has graded seven miles of
very good road-bed through the most
expensive part Of the line they proposed
to construct, and it seems strange they
do not mako arrangements to work on
to Farmville as proposed.
A Northern syndicate, composed of
ten members, has been formed TO build
twenty-five residences at Basic City dur
ing tho next six months.
The walls of the knitting mills at
Basic City arc rapidly approaching COM
pletion and the structure will be ready
for the roof at an carly date.
Curiosities multiply. Tho great Po-
cahontas Colliery, which turns out an
average of $500 tons of coal per day,
furnishes a peculiar geographical com
plication, as it's workers are in two
States and three counties. Tho mine is
in the Flat Top region, which embraces
portions of Virginia and West Virginia.
The opening from which the coal is
taken out is in Virginia, while tho work.
ings are ventilated from an opening in
Mercer county, West Virginia. The
workings also extend into Mcdowell
county, West Virginia, and Tazewell
county Observation-Disclosures Record,
25th.
Living within about five miles of
Wytheville is as great q curiosity as
over travelled with a museum. Madison
Grubb, q boy not yet Is years of age,
weighs 2S5 pounds. There is no hear
say about this: the boy was in town and
was weighed on the scales. He can get
about very we'll and is in good health
Bristol Courier.
Passenger train No. l on the Norfolk
and Western railroad Saturday killed a
horse at Ball Siding, near Elliston.
The animal was attached to a dump
cart, and becoming unmanageable as
the train passed by it, ran in front of
the engine. The cart was demolished
also.
The charter of the Virginia Valley
Land and Improvement Company. of
broadway, Rockingham county, Va,
has been recorded. The capital of this
organization is to be half a million dol
lars. The president is Frank II. Skeels.
of New York; first vice-president, e. d.
Root, of Broadway, Va; second vice.
president, Charles Gallagher, New York:
secretary, w Purh. Rroad UNIV. trooc