The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-13
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.


mus, and material is now on the ground
at Roanoke for three miles of track
The work of grading is progressing ra-
pldly, and tracklaying will be pro-
ceeded with from both ends of the line,
so that the road may be opened for
traffic between WinSton-Salem and Roa-
noke by Decemberl. The engineering
corps which is making up a preliminary
survey of the Southern extension of the
| Roanoke and Southern has reached a
! point about half way between Winston
Salem and Monroe and find very feas-
IDLE line. The work will proceed with
| out interruption, and will be completed
at as early Il date as is consistent with
the Importance of the undertaking.
The work of putting in the iron trcst-
ling on the Maryland side of the Nor
| FOLK and Western railroad bridge across
the Potomac ut Shcperdstown was com
| plcted on Tuesday of last week, and the
| same night the workmen ga, hcred up
their tools and machinery and shipped
them to Rileyvillc, where the next
work will be done. Tho entire bridge
and its approaches at this point are now
OF iron, and the crossing as safe as it is
possible TO make it.
a public meeting of citizens of Shen-
andcah and Rock bridge counties who
may be interested in the building of a
new bridge across the Shenandoah river
on the road from Newmarket to New
market depot will be held in that town
this evening, at 3 o'clock.
The Masonic lodges of the thirty
ninth district. embracing Tazewell,
Pocahontas. Graham and other towns
along the New River and Clinch Valley
railroads, in Virginia, will hold cele.
bration at Graham on June ~ Past
Grand Master Il. Il. Craighill, Grand
Lecturer George w. Wright and other
distinguished Masons will be present.
Mr.. Il. +. Suthers, Of the Graham Head
light stall, has been chosen to make the
address OF welcome.
Basic City.-Work has begun on the
arched way under the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, over Augusta avenue.
a large force Of hands is now en-
ploycd on the $40. 600 opera house being
erected here.
The Methodist and Presbyterian con-
grcgations are building churches 10
cost $4,000 each.
Plans have been made for the hand
some depot to be built by the Norfolk
and Western people. A half Il block
was purchased by them some timo ago
Tor the purpose. a recent telegram
from Mr.. Sands says that work will
begin just as soon as arrangements can
be made, and that S25 900 has been set
aside for that purpose.
The large iron works building, over
800 feet in length, is now ready for ma
chinery. The Cochrane mills, of Michi-
gan, are now getting ready for an immc-
date occupany of the building. 1t will
require two solid freight trains to bring
their machinery to Basic City
Over Il hundred hOuSpS arc now md Or
contract in Basic City.
Southern visitors are now pouring
into the mountains Of Virginia. Wythe-
vile is receiving goodly share of
them.
The proposed extension of postal
telegraph lines from Richmond to New
/ port News Hampton and Old Point, he's
been abandoned, owing to the excessive
| charge asked by land owners. In some
cases they asked 500 and $50 for the
planting of few poles. In a great
number of cases the average price asked
was from $3.50 to 81 per pole.
Tho second of the great cylinders
now being made ut the Richmond Loco
motive Works for the ships building at
Newport News was cast last Saturday.
and now that it has been taken out of
the sand it is found to be perfect in every
respect and will be shipped soon to is
destination.
NASHVILLE, June 10.-Judge Jackson.
of the United States Circuit Court, to-
day heard a motion for the appointment
/ OF Il receiver in the case of George r.
Bosworth against the Cardiff Coal and
Iron Company. The suit, which origi-
mated in the United States Circuit Court
at Chattanooga, is general creditors
bill. Judge Key was incompetent in
| the case; therefore the papers were sent
here for the matter to be heard by Judge
jackson. The latter granted tho motion
for receiver for the Cardiff Coal and
Iron Company, and Boyd Ewing, of
Chattanooga, was appointed to wind up
the concern.
Mr.. j. j. c. Browne has closed his
connection with the boyd Land Com
pany as manager of the Hotel Boyd,
! going TO the Lake Springs Hotel, Salem,
| Va.
The new passenger depot at Harrison
burg seems at last to be on the verge of
Undertaking.. 1t is understood that
the contract for the building has been
let in Baltimore, and that work will be
commenced on the foundation as soon
as the stone can be delivered.
The monthly payroll of any town is a
Soou Iesb ny which 10 Judge ltS progress.
Shendun claims to make n creditable
showing in that line, as her payroll for
the month of May will reach a little
over $4,000. This is no guess, but an
accurate statement compiled from a
canvass of all our industries. The paw
roll for the month of June will be in
creased to $50, 600, as within two weeks
the Plumbers Supplies Works, the Val
ley Pipe Works and the Virginia Plaster
Works and the Pressed Brick Works