Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-05-08
FRIDAY MORNING. MAY s, 1891.
STAUNTON,S SPRING OPENING.


Her streets are thronged, her workmen are
busy, her merchants prosperous, her schools
are full, and the mass of her people are in a
better financial condition than was ever
known before. Her prosperity is general
and diffused among all. She has been for
the last two years the centre of all the bus
mess transactions accompanying the start
ing of at least five new towns in this sec
tion, and her people have participated
largely in those enterprises. 1t is fact
and significant one in connection with
the present phase of development in Vir-
ginia. that no man here has lost dollar in
any of them, though the investments of
Staunton men have been large and varied.
Having helped to set the 'baby'' towns
on their feet, Staunton is this Spring look
ing to herself For nearly a year Il ire
mendOus engine has been quietly at work
here 1t has transformed the section of
land East of the city us if l.y magic, the
effect of hard work done during an inclem-
ent and dreary winter, which would have
discouraged the most hopeful. But the
work acas done and tie result is apparent
to-day. This powerful force has been
the Stanton Development Co., Of which
Mr.. M. E. Miller is President and General
Manager, and q sketch of whose work is
given in another column. 1t has brought
some of the most solid industries from
other States that have come to Virginia,
and before the Summer months are gone
the smoke will be ascending from their
stacks. Having spent time, energy and
money in making its property valuable, it
has now fixed on June End and 3rd as the
days for the sale of a portion of it to the
public, and in doing SO it will offer one of
the very best opportunities for investment
that has yet been offered in the history of
Virginia development.
Let what changes and improvements
come that may in this Valley, Staunton will
always he the Queen City of it. She is
just half century ahead of any new COM
petitor that has entered the field She has
a modern outfit of civilization that is the
outcome of the accumulation of the labor
and enterprise of years. Her schools with
their reputation could not be duplicated in
u quarter of a century. Her orderly gov
eminent and law abiding people are the re-
suit of half century of the discipline of
the community. Her excellent society is
the result of the long training of high
civilization. Her Sunday streets thronged
with church goers are the evidence of a
deep and natural respect for religion not
acquired by a new community in day.
To all these fast holding anchorages of
Time, she has added that enterprise that
adopts every modern equipment and selects
the best of its kind. Her electric lights,
public and private, electric fire. alarm tele-
graph, paid fire department, fine street car
lines, good police force, good water works,
are not surpassed by any city in the State.
Such is the city. How does it stand
to the oLtside word. 1t is in the centre
of the great Valley of Virginia and in the
heart Of a back country the richest in the
State. Rich on the snf &c of the cal th
in cereals AMI timber, and beneath it in
minerals. 1t is in the centre of the fat spot
OF Virginia soil. Standing on her hills, one
sees the shining railroad tracks leading from
Staunton to every quarter of the country,
North. South, East and West, and in eight
hours freight loaded here can be unloaded at
the sea ashore. Its locality is the prize sec
ton of Virginia for health and long life.
So there are at Staunton S back, a long life,
the cOnvenienceS to make it agreeable, the
enterprises TO make it busy, the wealth of
products to give every man chance fCr
prosperity, and a civilized and orderly pop
ulation to protect what he earns and leave
him to enjoy it in quiet.
AS a place of investment how would it
be? Well, Us we have said, not a dollar
that we know of has been lost by our peo-
pie in their Investments in the new towns
around here. When they invite others to
invest in Staunton development. they only
invite them to do what they have done
themselves both elsewhere and at home. If
they invite others to invest in a well built
city with shelter and employment ready, and
with great workshops springing up around
it in addition to the large manufacturing
already carried on here, they only invite
them to do in a town ready built and full
of attractions, what they themselves have
done in cOrnticdS without house standing.
with all their future depending on the hon
esty and energy of the men engaged in de-
veloping them. and without losing dollar
of their investments. If u naked field a
few miles from Staunton, lying in precisely
the same position as to railway connec-
ton with the rest of the world and as to
its proximity to mineral and timber, has
proved good investment, as our people
have learned by experience it has, then they
simply ask why place with thousand
advantages which the naked field had not,
and all the advantages which the naked
field had, should not prove a similarly prof.
table point? 1t is simple proposition and
easily mastered.
Our people have faith in their own CITY.
Into every enterprise, from The great S aun-
ton Development Co. with its So ,000,O 600 of
capital, down through all the lesser I'M
proyement companies to the smallest build
ing companies, our people have put their
own money. their own energy and above all
their enthusiastic faith. They do not in
vite the world to a feast of which they
themselves have not tasted. When the sale
of the Staunton Development Company's
lots comes off in June, the strangers
will see Staunton men bidding for all they
can carry, and not waiting for others to
set the example. Their practical faith in
the business of Stanton and its surround
ings is based on its past and their own ex-
perience. two infallible tests.
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