The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-17
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NOTES.

The Charlestown Mining Manufaotur-
ing and Improvement Company will i'm
mediately build a bolt railroad at Char
lestown, W. Va, toconnect its property
with tho Norfolk and Western and Bal
timore and Ohio railroads.
e. ID. Swift has secured the contract
for building the belt limo for the Rock.
bridge Company at Glasgow, Va. The
road will be six miles long, standa I'd
guage, and will connect with the Shen-
andoah Valley division Of the Norfolk
and Western at Glenwood and the Rich
mond and Allegheny at Glasgow.
The American Manufacturer says
| company composed of Pennsylvania
coal operators from the Connellsville
region has taken options on 5, 200 acres
of coal land in cambridge county, West
Virginia, paying SO an acre to hold it
for three months. This land is under
laid with wien of coal entirely unique
in character. 1t burns with the soft oily
flame of the most greasy bituminous,
and is at the same time almost as hard
as anthracite. The coal comes out in
angular chunks and is hard to break up,
making it a splendid shipper. This
land is nicely located and the options
are taken from the original owners
A movement is on foot to organize a
cannery at Elkton.
About half the total area in vine
yards in the United States Is in Califor-
mia; next to California comes New York
and Ohio. The South makes an excel
lent showing with 4l,53S acres in vine
yards. In the financial returns, also,
the Southern vineyards make an un-
usually good exhibit. The market
value of grapes is only $40 an acre in
In ifrrpio i'm,
Ohio, Sl0S in Illinois, against sea in
Tennessee, $3.50 in Missouri, SIPS in
Georgia and Sl20 in Virginia.
Last week President Hotchkiss. of the
Grottoes Company, spent day in Balti-
moro and had a long conference with
the officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad in reference to tho early con
struction of a branch of the Valley Rail
road of that system down the north
bank of North River. distance of
about five miles, to come ton with
the Shenandoah Valley branch of the
Norfolk and Western system at Shen-
dun. lie camo back greatly tncouraged
and with the promise that an engineer
ing party would be sent over the route.
The Flat Top coal region is the scene
Of the most active coke making opera
lions this country has ever Witnessed
II WIZ 4 OCodOhIao, DtuCSIOue, anu ELK
horn fields there are now 2,13S coke
ovens in full blast, with CAT in the
course of construction, and $50 to be
built this spring, and now under con-
tract. This indicates q tremendous i'm
pulse in material development, and is
all tho more significant when it is
known shat all the coke produced by
those ovens is consumed in the furnaces
Of Virginia.
A stockholders meeting OF the Basic
City Car Works Company was held al
the Hotel Brandon in that city, Tues
day afternoon. Only routine business
was transacted. Tho same afternoon a
meeting of the directors of the Match
Fac ory Company was held. Consider
able business of Importance was dis
posed of.
w. Nj. Wishart, OF Roanoke, has pur-
chased the Bush farm of l24 acres, near
Basic CITY. The price paid for this prop
erty is said to have been a large sum,
though exactly how much, has not yet
been made known.
Nlcssrs. HUBBARD & kochtitzky, civil
engineers, have completed their map of
bedford City. The work was much de-
layed by the various additions made by
the land companies during the past
year, which neccssitated many altera-
tions.
meeting of tho stockholders Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Development
Company was held at Clifton Forge on
the 18th. VIM. Patrick, Esq, of Staun-
ton, presided. 1t was comparatively a
harmonious gathering. The old board
of directors were reelected with the cx-
ceptioD Of one or two declensions. The
selection of manager for the company
was left with the board, if deemed ex-
pcdient to select one. The surplus
fund. instead of being distributed in
dividends, it was wisely determined
should be appropriated to new indus
tries, thus benehtting tho whole COM
pany and every stakeholder. The
affairs of the company were found to be
in healthy condition.