The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-04
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

me board OF directors or the Bald
win district fair at Staunton at late
meeting changed the time for holding
the annual fair from the latter part Of
September to August 25th, Goth, eth
and 2Sth. V. W. Sproul, of Basic City
was appointed chief marshal and w.
II. Miller, Of Elkton, Rockingham
county, and Samuel p. Parkins, of
Augusta, assistant marshals.
Fifty houses will BIO erected by tho
Pulaski improvement Company the
tho coming summer.
The receipts of the Pulaski city post
office show an average of 1920 per
month.
The Augusta Mining and Investment
Company, of which Mr.. c. a. Avery, of
New York, is president, is busilY open
ing new mines in Virginia and Georgia.
AT Vesuvius, in Virginia, this company
is developing magancse property, and
has put in machinery for handling 40 to
SO tons day. 1t is reported to have
taken contracts in the South for 500, 600
tons OF iron ore, which will require ac-
tive work on its Georgia properties.
Tho company which now owns the
fino Sulphur Spring in Grayson county
is building commodious hotel and
making other Improvements, so as to be
able to accommodate health seekers this
summer The extension Of the Norfolk
and Western railroad up New river
passes directly ty this spring now, and
within few miles of the Bromo Iodine
and Arsenic Spring, also in Grayson
county. This is another resort which
is beautifully situated in the midst of
most picturesque scenery, and tho water
has performed some remarkable cures
among the comparatively limited num-
,,hn Ian, f,,, 1.
These arc but two of tho many fine
mineral springs
Henry Bulletin: A party consisting
of Roanoke and Southern railroad oili-
Gals and their friends from Winston
''picnicked" at tho iron bridge across
Smith river last Monday. The party
included quite number Of ladies. This
was the first excursion train over run
from Winston to this county.
The Lynchburg cotton mill has re-
ceived an order for 5000 pieces of cloth
to be shipped to the Lowell, Mass,
plcachcrics. 1t will require four months
to complete the contract. This class of
goods is largely made in Massachusetts,
but Lynchburg got the contract.
The New York correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says: "Gen. Sam Thomas
says that Mr.. I'ricc is looking into tho
feasibility OF establishing steamship
line from some Southern port to South
America. 1t is not improbable that tho
line he proposes to establish may be in
connection with the Pacific Mail Com
pany, though q new and independent
company may be formed. No Southern
port has yet been selected, but those he
seems TO favor mostly are Norfolk and
brunswick; though Mobile, Pensacola
and Now Orleans have points worthy of
consideration"
The street committee of Staunton re-
commend tho laying of Belgian block
paving over all the roadway space of
tho following parts of streets: Main
street from Lewis to Market streets;
Augusta street from Frederick TO the
Chesapeake and Ohio depot; New street
from Main to New Court House; New
Court House street from Augusta to
New; Frederick street from Augusta to
Water. The total area of all this street
space, 3, l57 feet long and 90 feet WIDE
is o,S22 square yards.
Tho Embrcvillo Iron and Freehold
Company has disposed of it's town site
on the Chucky river, fourteen miles
from Johnson City, to an English syn
dictate. 1t is understood that tho price
paid will net S350,000. Tho town site
comprises some two thousand acres of
land, lying on the south side Of the
Ch,cky river
Hon. Henry c. Dayis, president of
the West Virginia railroad, says that
arrangements are about completed for
the extension Of the road to Pittsburg,
thus aifording them direct line from
Lynchburg, Va, to pittsburg Pa. The
extension will tap four great systems
of railroads. The West Virginia Cen
trail will then have as feeders the Nor
folk and Western at Lynchburg, and
the Chesapeake and Ohio at Covington
in the South. and the Baltimore and
Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads in the
North. Tho extensions will include
three probable directions in West Vir-
GINA, ono southwark to connect with
Chesapeake and Ohio and Norfolk and
Western, one westward passing through
Buchanan and coming out on the Ohio
river, and third to carry q line north
ward from Elkins to the Grafton and
Grcenbrier road and thence to Pitts
burg via the Morgantown branch of the
Baltimore and Ohio.
Wednesday afternoon II. T. Brown. of
the firm of Brown &c Poindexter, and a
member of tho Virginia house Of dele
gates had occasion to visit the Danville
and Western DEPOT at Martinsvillc. On
the depot platform was 4 case OF sheet
iron which weighed about 500 pounds.
The box was thin one and was stand
ing on end, when by some means it got
overbalanced and fell, catching Mr..
Brown under it, crushing the bone of the
left thigh near the hip. Mr. Brown is
not very robust man and fears are en-
tertaincd that he will not recover.
The people of Martinsville arc pre-.