The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-07-17
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Nongos, 81, July l6.,J 3 .Dilngee, Man i.
areg 81 Tue Norton Land 8 Inproyeias1
c., arrived here on ! special train Trsaaays
The i4th, accompanied by MrtS ohnsson,
who wiIlremain at Norton 90 special agent
far the disposal of the Company's proper
~ Mr.. s. {. Mccormack 10 still acting
Sc, e the Company's engineer, and viii
sunerintend the erection of che Morton
Arms Hotel, and the various either build
mrs to he constructed by the Company.
Tho Morton Arms Hotel" will cost from
$4,000 to 100000 II will be magnifi-
cent building, and model OF the sesy
fnest modern architecture.
The Mountain View Hotel is now COM
nleted. and will open for guests in q few
DAYS under the management OF Mr.. T. ;.
sh.nk,in. and his beautiful and accom-
nl;shcd daughter, Miss Burnic. The
travelling public will End comfort and sun
shine in this coy hotel.
Several persons were permitted ny Mr..
D;nree to select lots in tho main business
mart of the town yesterday, among whom
were p. II. Rorer and j. L. Baker Sew
eral large business houses will Ge con-
sttucted. No building will be permitted
n 90 nm in that part of the town, VIZ
y;srinia Avenue and Main street, at less
cost than 81, 500. This means sure ana
Substantial growth. There will be no
boom here. Middlemen and specula'o 10
are knocked out, and the Company Will
only sell to men who will erect suostan-
tial buildings.
will bring up it's wing in the progress, OF
This prospective city. The street grading
in that part of the town continues ana the
work ia being we'll done. P. n. Rorer is
finishing a splendid structure, with .
store and Eve Offices on the first floor and
tcn rooms on the second floor. j. L. Sim
mons s. Co, will occupy the store room
with q first-class stock Of drugs, &c. /.
s. Ross, Attorney, will take the front
Office. While his family will occupy the
second floor. The architecture OF TINS
building is tasteful and it will be an orna-
ment to upper West Norton.
Messrs. Hagan & Co., have now COM
nletcd the foundation for and will let to
contract next week, the building OF two
story block, containing four stores, with
100 feet stone and iron front. lhave seen
the drawings Of this structure ana can
confidently say that there is nothing pref
tier in Southwest Virginia.
Mr.. Levitt, the clothier from foca-
hontas, will be in his new building IN
few days with splendid line of clothing.
E. w. Kilgore, contractor, is now giving
it the finishing touch. :,
L. G. Wells, proprietor OF the Union
Hotel, has been very sick with fever Du'
is now conyalescent.
Mrs. John Davis is at deaths door, ana
is thought by her physicians to .be past
recovery :.
Ournew Sheriff was in town yester-
day inviting some of his friends to attend
County Court with him at its ne1t.term,
but some of the boys, and especially the
devotees of Bacchus, say they don'S care
tr 90 this time. Our Justices Court Is
very interesting one The law is strictly
administered and Justice is dealt out i'm
nartially. With Justice like William
Jenkins and two such resolute policemen
as Enos Hylton and Tom Osborn, any town
can have peace and quietnde. Norton is
remarkably peaceable and quiet, cons4d-
ering its floating population. xr
Geo. NJ. West, of the firm OF west
Johnston L. Co., Richmond, Va, was In
town this week.
F. Stratton passed through Norton
n u. rHnC OfS
this week on his return from the pFoposeu
line of the C. C. c. railroad, through Rus
sell and Dickinson counties. 1t is report
ed here that the c. c. G. railroad will be
built. Anyway, mountaineer down in
Dickinson county told his neighbor last
week that "the c. G. G. railroad was COM
ing this time for certain" that zone y
was coming down Mcclure creek; that one
& was coming down Carnes Nest Creek
but he didn't know where in the nation
the other G would go"
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