Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-03-25

luB Iully q, oUU,UUU, ana Will soon rival the
Cramps, OF Philadelphia in making fine
iror and steel steamships. Basic City is
its nearest source of supply. Norfolk, over
the Norfolk and Western railroad, has also
o great demand for this same product, be-
ing the location of one of the largest Gov
eminent ship-yards in the country, and is
equally accessible to Basic CITY,"
Considering the position of Basic City as
o junction 1t seems inevitable that it must
become in measure railroad city in the
sense OF being the homo of great many
railroad-men. The force necessary to han
die the manufactured products of the City
of the Iron Cross will be little colony in
themselves.
Small fortunes have been made in Basic
City within few months. One firm made
$4,000 in an incredibly short time. One
man bought lot for 5000, paid $50 cash
on it, and realized S2,250 profit before the
second payment became due. Another
made $3.50 in sixty days, and still another
$4,000 profit in seventy-fve days. And vet
1T is confidently asserted, and for reasons
that are based on clear business logic, that
the era of big money in Basic City has just
dawned.
The indications are that when the spring
shall have fairly opened there will be I'M
paralleled activity here in every direction.
That the building can hardly keep up with
the demand for houses when all these
plants shall have gotten into full blast
seems to 60 without saying, and it follows
that there could be no better investment
than in eligible lots and in rows of COM
Portable tenement-hOuses At the sale OF
lots which took place in December-not
by any means q propitious tIme-2SO lots
were sold which brought $3.50, 900. Buyers
were present from a dozen States.
In addition TO the houses that are build
ing and 10 DO built by the building compa-
MES have mentioned the Basic City
Mining. Manufacturing and Land Compa-
ny have contracted for one hundred tene-
ments on the northwestern heights of the
| city.
HARMONY.
All interests work in harmony at Basic
City. The companies and individual in
vestors stand shoulder to shoulder and not
only help one another but help newcomers.
EDUCATIONAL.
The Basic City Normal College has a ca
pacity of 200 pupils, and within half O mile
of the railway station are flourishing fe-
male academy and a fine military school.
Twenty-seven miles east of Basic CITY,
on the main line of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, is located the University of
Virginia. one Of the oldest and most ia
nous institutions of learning in America.
At Lexington, twenty-five miles south
west, are situated the Virginia Military In
stitute (the southern West Point and the
Washington and Leo University. At Sa-
lem, ninety miles due south, is Roanoke
College, and at Staunton-the city OF
sohools-ten miles west, several flourish,
ing female colleges, male academies, and
| military schools are in successful opera
ton. These schools are all of the highest
grade, and their reputation for excellence
has long since been won.
All the religious denominations are repre-,
sented at Basic City, and oil of them will
soon have fine houses Of worship. The
Methodist church will cost $4,000 and the
Presbyterian church $4,000.
A recent publication says:
The South river. in the western portion
of the town, is spanned by three handsome
iron bridges.
Hunting, fishing. boating, and driving
are among the outdoor pleasures enjoyed
here.
Lithia, sulphur, arsenic. chaly beate, and
freestone waters are found ut Basic City
and IN close proximity.
Ten passenger trains and fifty freight
trains leave Basic City daily.
Basic CITY is at the junction OF two great
railways systems.
Theindustries secured will employ nearly
1900 hands.
The streets are wide and beautiful. and
finely graded.
Basic City possesses the raw material In
abundance, close proximity to market, and
unexcelled facilities for shipment.
Basic City offers cheap homes TO me-
chanics, aud opportunities for money
making nowhere equalled.
The busting activity everywhere mani
tested here reminds one of western
town Younglmen should come to BasicCity.
A warm welcome is extended to every
| newcomer to Basic City.
Any one who viii spend 0 day in Basic
City will see that this summarizes the STU
alton. The capitalist. the manufactures,
| the skilled workman who would consult
his own interest would do well 10
study Basic City-past, present, and fu-
| ture-as regards its industries, lot,ssles,
and investment in the mining, naanufsotu-
ring. and Land Oompany's stock. HI